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Places of interest in W14
Perham Road - his wife
Charleville Road - his cousins, the Earls of Charleville
Gledstanes Road - his mother
Barton Road - his grandmother
Challoner Street - his great-grandmother
Fairholme Road - his married sister
Vereker Road - his married aunt, wife of Viscount Gort
Comeragh Road - after the family estate in Ireland
Castletown Road - after the Baronets Pallisers' estate in Ireland
The station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) on 9 September 1874 as 'Fulham - North End' when it opened its extension from Earl's Court to Hammersmith. At that time the next station west was Hammersmith - Barons Court did not open until 1905. It was re-named West Kensington in 1877.
The station appears in some National Rail maps and timetables as Kensington Olympia. However, on London Underground maps and the London Overground-maintained station signage it appears as Kensington (Olympia). The name Kensington (Olympia) is also used on the latest National Rail "London Connections" map.[10] The variant with parentheses (brackets) is the name given to the station in the London Railway Atlas, published by Ian Allan in 2009.[6]
St Mary Axe was a medieval parish in London whose name survives on the street it formerly occupied, St Mary Axe. The church itself was demolished in 1561 and its parish united with that of St Andrew Undershaft, which is on the corner of St Mary Axe and Leadenhall Street. The name derives from the combination of the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary and a neighbouring tavern, which prominently displayed a sign with an axe image.
30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London's main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004.[2] With 40 floors, it is 180 metres (591 ft) tall,[1] and stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, which was severely damaged on 10 April 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.[2][3]
Information by Wikipedia.com
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