Left, the shops on the east side of Ladbroke Grove that have been demolished.(photo:RBK&C)
Right, the parade on the west side as it is now and is described below.
LADBROKE GROVE
At the junction with Ladbroke Grove, we stood at the top of the steps of the recently closed pub ‘The Cowshed’ and looked south down Ladbroke Grove, comparing the view with a photo taken at the turn of the century and photos taken in the 1960s.
D.M. remembered the terrace of shops on the right hand side of Ladbroke Grove (still there).
To the right of the junction stood a parade of shops, about six or seven. This brought back memories of my childhood. I remember two of the shops quite clearly. The corner shop was demolished to make room for a wider road on the corner was a baker’s run by a German family. The other was an Italian ice cream shop about two doors up run by Polo Lisi. His granddaughter Margaret, was in the same class as me at St Charles School. The ice cream was made on the premises – vanilla, strawberry, chocolate – there were few flavours at the time, but they were all delicious in a cornet or wafer. Sadly the shop closed down sometime in the fifties. Looking at a photograph taken in 1870 brought back memories.
D.M. 2008
Across the road from these shops, the street layout has changed with redevelopment. There is no longer any road access from Ladbroke Grove to Portobello Road and Wornington Road. All that is left is pedestrian access through the northern edge of the Wornington Green Estate built in the 1980s
I used to live in Chesterton road went to Oxford gardens school my grandparents lived at 268 Lancaster road and my auntie rose Grinham lived in southam street best years of my life living in w10 Visited portobello road last Saturday where have all the characters gone had lunch at the Elgin always thinking of old friends wonder where they moved to I moved to Sutton in 1973 before then I lived at roehampton 1958 to1973 anybody still in w10 remember me would like to hear from you
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