Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alice's Present. It has been growing ever since. Late in the 19th century, the Natural History section was moved to Kensington, and today the Bloomsbury institution consists of two main parts:' the Library, with its Reading Room, and the Museum. The library, Britain's national bookshelf, contains between seven and eight million volumes on 64 miles of shelves. It receives everything published in Britain and its colonies, from poetry anthologies to comic books (about 37,000 new volumes a year, plus 162,540 single copies of newspapers). Among the treasures: eight copies of the first folio...
...fresh as the morning dew, drove in her Daimler through the dingy streets of London's East End and was cheered by crowds that were ten-deep. Next day, with blowing of trumpets and banging of brasses, she showed herself and was cheered in middle-class Chelsea and Kensington. She conferred knighthoods on Colonel John Hunt, organizer of the British expedition that conquered Everest, and on New Zealander Edmond Hillary, who made it to the top. At week's end, the Queen watched England's greatest jockey, Gordon Richards, newly knighted, win his first Derby (see SPORT...
Here and there, a hairdresser rushed to a stately town house for a 5 a.m. appointment to arrange a peeress' coiffure. Special trains shuttled underground from South Kensington to Westminster Station to take dignitaries to the Abbey in time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...
...Peter and Paul's Church New Kensington...
London's Notting Hill is a down-at-heels section of shabby streets and seedy tenements close by fashionable Kensington. In one of its dead-end streets sits a mouldering Georgian house that holds a distinction all its own. Three years ago No. 10 Rillington Place became known as "The Murder House." Beryl Evans and her 14-month-old daughter were cruelly strangled there; her husband, Tim Evans, went to the gallows for the crime. Last week, with a decisiveness that sent shivers of fascinated horror down the spine of London, No. 10 Rillington Place renewed its lease...