ABSTRACT
On the edge of North Kensington is a strip of land that nobody wanted to know-no-one in authority, that is. Physically, the Freston Road area was part of Kensington, but, because of a quirk in the borough boundaries, it was actually in the London Borough of Hammersmith. In the 1960s much of the land became owned by the GLC and it met a fate that will, by now, be familiar. On part of it the GLC built an estate of tower blocks. Down the edge they built an urban motorway that was intended to be part of the London motorway box. The new road severed the area from Hammersmith completely and it became a forgotten land. Much of it degenerated into marginal uses-small-scale industry, yards and depots guarded by ferocious dogs, a large and unsightly scrap yard. Part was taken over as a gypsy encampment.
