Portobello Road

The Sun in Splendour was built by William Chadwick in 1852.

This way to Portobello Market!
Here’s a view of the beginning of the beginning of Portobello Road c. 1905,
looking back towards Notting Hill Gate, along Pembridge Road.

Portobello Road c. 1905.
The view from the junction with Elgin Crescent and Colville Terrace shows
the Henry Hobson Finch public house, The Duke of Wellington, on the left.
May of these shops had been built as private houses in the 1850s but were expanding with shops over the front gardens.

Marks & Spencer, 233, Portobello Road, c. 1926.
The company began with a Leeds market stall in 1884,
acquiring outlets in London in 1914, when it bought the London Penny Bazaar Co., selling household goods.
The front of the shop was always open to the elements.

Portobello Road, in 1924.
Alfred Symons’ newsagents and confectioners at no. 281.
Billboards for The Daily News record Gene Tunney’s historic defeat
of the former World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion,
Georges Carpentier.