Vanished Knightsbridge with Dr Pamela Taylor
Join us online to discover the original boundaries of Knightsbridge and the story of how most of it vanished over the years.
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Historic Knightsbridge covered an area which included Kensington Palace and almost half of South Kensington. So why has so much of it been lost to memory, becoming thought of only in terms of Westminster, Hyde or, until 1900 entirely wrongly, Kensington?
This talk by historian and archivist, Dr Pamela Taylor, breaks exciting new ground by recovering Knightsbridge's original boundaries and explaining why so much of it was lost. Then, we shall look at three once famous but now forgotten features - the leper hospital, the chapel notorious for clandestine marriages and downmarket life along the main road.