Kensington Market on High Street Kensington is now a PC World. (Actually I went in there to buy a USB hub when I was in London last weekend). The striped brick effect in the building next door is clearly discernable in both photos. In the 2010 photo a scooter is about to disappear down a street that leads directly to Kensington Square, where The Greyhound pub is. (Freddie Mercury was a regular there together with others from the market like Alan Mair, Nigel Chappell and Sue Johnstone).
In the opposite corner of Kensington Square is the Maria Assumpta building: now Heslop College, once a teacher training college where the other members of Queen first met John Deacon and where Brian and John met their wives...The picture below is how it looks if approached from Kensington High Street. Maria Assumpta was an all women's college run by nuns.
Very cool. And john and veronica Deacon's son is studying for a Divinity degree
ReplyDeleteDo you know where he is studying his degree? I am still trying to get in touch with veronica
DeleteSo cool to know. I stayed at the hostel run by Maria Assumpta in the 80s and actually been to the Greyhound pub, but never knew this history. I always wondered what became of the Kensington Market as well. I visit later this year for a few days after 30 years
ReplyDeleteI was at that college and knew Veronica Deacon and Roger and Brian's girlfriends at the time. I lost contact with Veronica after we both gave birth at Hammersmith hospital in 1975.Used to love Kensington Market and the Biba store that was there then.
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