Kensington Village walk

On Saturday, took a guided walk around "Old Kensington," which is around Kensington Palace obviously. Very expensive part of London to live in, 4th most expensive in the city. A small townhouse will cost about 2 million pounds. A very pretty part of the city, I hadn't really been to this part of the city since I've been over here, so I was glad to be able to look around. Lots of famous people have lived in the area.

St Mary's Abbot Church, the parish church of Kensington. Charles Dickens' actress-mistress, Ellen, got married here after he died (to a clergyman no less)
The closest brick house was where Winston Churchill lived after WWII

Flat where T.S. Eliot lived and where he died

Home of John Stuart Mill, philospher, early women's rights advocate, friend of Thomas Carlyle (Mill was in that book, Parallel Lives, about Victorian marriages because of his relationship with a married woman whose name I can't remember)

Home of the actress who debuted in the role of Eliza Doolittle in the play Pygmalian by George Bernard Shaw, was also his mistress

View of St. Mary's Abbot from the Kensington Roof Gardens (on the sixth floor of an old department store, free and open to the public)

A typical Street, the tall house furthest down the road on the left was where Virginia Woolf was born.

The "Spanish Garden" of the Kensington Roof Garden

The "Tudor Garden" of the Kensington Roof Garden

Flamingos that live in the Roof Garden (remember on the sixth floor, which is really the seventh floor for Americans)