Earls Court

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Earls Court (Greater London)
Earls Court
Earls Court
Location of Earls Court in Greater London

Earls Court is a district in London's Bourough Kensington and Chelsea with just under 10,000 inhabitants. The district is located in west London around Earl's Court Road . Originally located outside London, Earls Court is now on the outskirts of central London: Earl's Court underground station is on the border of tariff zones 1 and 2, the western border of the inner city area affected by the London Congestion Charge runs through Earls Court.

Administratively, Earls Court is represented by the Earls Court constituency. This is more clearly defined than the district, but is also subject to greater changes over time than the one.

Surname

Signs with and without an apostrophe in the district

While the district is generally - and except for the Ordnance Survey - written as Earls Court without an apostrophe, numerous derived spellings such as that of Earl's Court underground station or Earl's Court Road usually contain an apostrophe. The Earls Court Exhibition Center, on the other hand, is written without an apostrophe. The original spelling was Earl's Court.

location

Historic Earls Court Village is on the northeast side of Earl's Court Road. The constituency of Earls Court extends from it to the southwest, over Earl's Court Road and Warwick Road to the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham , on the border of which tracks run. Abingdon is bordered to the northwest, Courtfield to the northeast, and Redcliffe to the southeast by Earls Court.

history

Preview of Warwick Road and Philbeach Gardens, circa 1875

Originally Earls Court was a manor court that belonged to the Earl of Warwick and Holland around 1700 . The nobleman got it through marriage and leased it to a middle-class farmer. The Manor House and its usual outbuildings stood on the southwest side of Earl's Court Road. Before 1700 there were hardly any other buildings in the area. By 1800 the property was still over 190  acres , with around 130 acres remaining in 1835.

In the middle of the 18th century a few buildings had been added east of Earl's Court Road to the south, behind which large gardens stretched. A group of other buildings was added to the north of the gardens by the middle of the 19th century. By 1880 the entire village and a much larger area on the other side of Earl's Court Road were built up.

In 1871, the original Earls Court train station opened on the east side of Earl's Court Road and burned down in 1875. In 1875 the Manor House and its outbuildings were also demolished. Earls Court station has been located elsewhere since 1878. The cul-de-sac next to the train station is called Old Manor Yard .

From the 1930s onwards, wealthy Londoners increasingly moved to the suburbs. The spacious apartments were divided up, the population poorer and more numerous.

The Earls Court Exhibition Center, which ran until 2014

From the 1950s onwards, young people, artists and gays began to discover the district. In the first decades of the post-war era, Earls Court was a well-known meeting place for the London gay scene. Numerous clubs and venues were established there at times. The Troubadour was one of the most influential clubs of the Neofolk revival and still exists today.

Earl's Court Road, 2015

Numerous artists and celebrities lived in the district, for example Alfred Hitchcock , Freddie Mercury and Diana Spencer . In July 1979, for her 18th birthday, Spencer was given an apartment on Brompton Road by her parents, in which she lived until her engagement to Prince Charles in 1981.

The district is known nationwide, among other things, for the Earls Court Exhibition Center of the same name , which comprised two of the largest event halls in London and has hosted numerous exhibitions of international importance in its 80-year history.

population

At the 2001 census, Earls Court had 9,659 residents.

Between 1981 and 1991 no other borough in Kensington and Chelsea changed its composition so much. While condominiums and cheap rental apartments have declined sharply in this decade, the proportion of temporary living space - hotels, hostels and bed and breakfasts - has risen sharply, so that today the majority of those living in the district are either tourists or homeless from the city in an inexpensive hostel. Kensington and Earls Court are now home to most of the borough's residents who were born outside of the UK.

At times, especially the influx of was Australians for Earls Court particularly striking, making the district the name Kangaroo Valley ( Kängurutal received).

In the late 1970s, the area around Earl's Court Underground Station was the UK's most densely populated square kilometer. This has changed due to the population change in the district, as the now numerous tourists are not part of the resident population. At the time, residents were mostly male, and mobile, meaning they moved very often compared to other Londoners.

economy

Earls Court is home to numerous restaurants and shops that are primarily aimed at visitors to the Exhibition Center and tourists. The numerous guesthouses, hostels and hotels have led the Rough Guide to speak of a “backpacker ghetto”. The planned demolition of the Earls Court Exhibition Center after the 2012 Olympics created great uncertainty for the local economy.

Earl's Court Underground Station with the District Line 's two directional platforms. The Piccadilly Line platform is below the northern platform in the deep

traffic

Earls Court is connected to the local public transport network by two underground stations. Earl's Court Station ( Piccadilly Line and District Line ) is in the middle of the borough, while West Brompton Station (District Line and London Overground ) is on the south-western edge of the borough. In the 2001 census, 62% of households stated that they did not have a car. The district is thus far above the intersection of Borough and London.

Web links

Commons : Earls Court  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Councilors . Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Earl's Court Ward (PDF; 1.36 MB) Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. May 22, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c Kensington Square to Earl's Court (=  Survey of London . Volume 42). 1986, The Edwardes Estate: Introduction, pp.  239–248 ( Online , University of London [accessed October 5, 2014]).
  5. ^ The Kensington section from the Environs of London by John Rocque, 1741-1745 . Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  6. ^ Map of the Parish of Kensington, 1848 . Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  7. ^ Map of the parish of Kensington, 1879 . Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ Matt Houlbrook: Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 19,181,957th University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-35462-8 , S. 117th
  9. ^ No takers for Diana's flat . In: BBC News , August 19, 1998.
  10. ↑ a b Census 2001: Key Statistics Earls Court
  11. ^ A b Kensington and Earls Court in: The Kensington and Chelsea Partnership: Towards a Neighborhood Renewal Strategy. Area Profiles ( memento of September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). July 2002, pp. 48-65.
  12. ↑ Stephen Alomes: When London calls: the expatriation of Australian creative artists to Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-62978-0 , p. 16.
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  15. ^ Rob Humphreys, Judith Bamber: The Rough Guide to London. Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 1-84353-093-7 , p. 452.
  16. ^ The Royal Bourough of Kensington and Chelsea: Ward Boundaries .

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 25 "  N , 0 ° 11 ′ 34"  W.