LONDON ROYAL KENSINGTON CENTRAL LIBRARY WALKING TOUR BRITISH LIFE STYLE 2025 4K UK

LONDON ROYAL KENSINGTON CENTRAL LIBRARY WALKING TOUR BRITISH LIFE STYLE 2025 4K UK

Join me for a little walking tour around the Royal Kensington Central Library in London. It is a Grade II listed building on Hornton Street and Phillimore Walk, Kensington, London. It was built in 1958–60 by the architect E. Vincent Harris on the site of The Abbey, a Gothic house which had been constructed for a Mr Abbot in 1880 and destroyed by bombing in 1944.It was opened by the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 13 July 1960. The building was designed in a traditional, English, renaissance-style.There were demonstrations against the project by those who advocated for the building to be in a modern style.

The public library is within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is managed as part of a tri-borough integrated library and archive service, alongside those of Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham.

On the south side of the library, facing Phillimore Walk, are two statues of a lion and a unicorn, both holding the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom. They were sculpted by William McMillan in order to reflect the “Royal” status of the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (often known by its initialism as RBKC) is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the United Kingdom. It includes affluent areas such as Notting Hill, Kensington, South Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge.

The borough is immediately west of the City of Westminster and east of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It contains major museums and universities in Albertopolis, department stores such as Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, and embassies in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens. The borough is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest, and contains many of the most expensive residential properties in the world, as well as Kensington Palace, a British royal residence.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Central_Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Borough_of_Kensington_and_Chelsea

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