Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• THE INEVITABLE FOREWORD
• PART ONE
• SOME OLD KENSINGTONIANS
• PART TWO
• BOROUGH SURVEY
• PART THREE
• RED SKY AT MORNING...
• CHAPTER I
• From pillar to Post 23 - I mast North Kensington - Playing at Bombs in Warwick Road - Fire-fighting in Kensington Square - The incredible nuns
• CHAPTER II
• Two bombs a minute in Adam and Eve Mews - The end of 'The hold in the wall' cinema - Tragedy of Long's Terrace
• CHAPTER III
• The Fly-by-nights - the Tubist Colony - The Malteasers arrive - War are Not Amused
• CHAPTER IV
• Damage in Kensington - South Lodge and Violet Hunt - Our Baedeker raids - Holland House - Borough vandals
• CHAPTER V
• Food in two wars - The most hated scheme in the world - Belowstairs at Broadcasting House - Two nights with The N.F.S.
• CHAPTER VI - IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER...
• The Bensonian Age v conditions today - Book drive outside Barker's - Posters wasteful and idiotic
• PART FOUR
• PEACE LTD.
• CHAPTER I - CHANDELIER STREET
• The nicest shops of all - Campden Grove days - Our local Lord Haw-Haw - The mystery of Rabbit Row - Sherlock Holmes in Kensington - Bullingham House
• CHAPTER II - MAINLY HOOLIGAN
• The children's Cinema Club - Squatters on Campden Hill
• PART FIVE
• AS WE ARE
• CHAPTER I - CHRISTMAS WINS ON POINTS
• CHAPTER II
• Our latest Dame - Fun Fair - The Ideal Homes again - A strange Exhibition
• CHAPTER III
• Mayoral Reception - Some Thackeray parties - The Derry Gardens - Ponting's and Old Scarsdale House
• CHAPTER IV - KENSINGTON'S GARDENS
• The Kensington Gardening Guild - Gardens pleasant and unpleasant - Ruth Draper in Kensington
• CHAPTER V - OUR DAM' FRIENDS LEAGUES
• Animal Flag Day - The Animals' Aid in North Kensington - The Kensington Cat and Kitten Club
• CHAPTER VI - DORCAS
• 'Wednesday at Eight' - The St. Cross Players
• CHAPTER VII - PLAYBILL
• The Mercury Theatre - The New Lindsey Theatre - The 1930 Players - The L.A.M.D.A. Theatre - The Chepstow Theatre - The Boltons Theatre
• CHAPTER VIII - SUPERNATURAL KENSINGTON
• The voice on the telephone - The vanishing Warden A local Elemental - The Green Lady of - Court - The pictures on the wall - Apparitional drawings in books
• CHAPTER IX - VELVETEEN JACKET
• The Kensington Art Gallery - Female frights - The July Sales
• CHAPTER X - BUCKET AND SPADE
• The elusive seaside - If an atomic bomb falls on the Town Hall - Guy Fawkes in Pembroke Square
• CHAPTER XI - COURT AND SOCIAL
• Kensington Palace in the news - A Princess sells up - An odd discovery - A new museum
• CHAPTER XII - THE THREAT TO CAMPDEN HILL
• CHAPTER XIII - SOMETHING HIDDEN