Kenilworth Court

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Kenilworth Court

Putney Bridge with Kenilworth Court to the right
Location Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15, England
Built 1903

Kenilworth Court, in Putney, London, consists of eight purpose-built blocks of flats. Built in Edwardian style, the blocks were completed in 1903-1905. Kenilworth Court contains four postcodes, SW15 1EN, SW15 1EW, SW15 1HA and SW15 1HB.

Kenilworth Court contains 150 flats, with a garden in the middle. The court is portered, and there is residents parking inside the court.

With 100 Mbit/s fiber optic internet access (through Hyperoptic), Kenilworth Court currently has one of the fastest residential broadband access in the UK.

History

Kenilworth Court was built as rented family accommodation.

In a series of transactions between the mid-1950s and early 1970s, residents were able to acquire individual leases and eventually, as a body, the residents secured the freehold of the overall property. Since that time, Kenilworth Court has been run by the controlling company, Kenilworth Court Co-ownership Housing Association Ltd (or KCCHA). This company is wholly owned by leaseholders.

The current garden contained a tennis court prior to World War II, and was used for growing vegetables during the war.

Famous residents

  • Cyril Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) was an English artist who co-founded The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art in London.
  • William Cooper. Harry Summerfield Hoff (4 August 1910 – 5 September 2002) was an English novelist, writing under the name William Cooper.
  • Gavin Ewart (4 February 1916 – 25 October 1995) was a British poet.
  • Jaroslav Drobný (12 October 1921 in Prague – 13 September 2001 in London) was a former World No. 1 amateur tennis champion
  • Carol II (15 October 1893 – 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. He lived in Flat 113 Kenilworth Court (using Flat 112 Kenilworth Court for his retinue) while in London.
  • Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney (27 July 1908 – 26 January 2004) was a British politician, campaigner and Labour Party member of Parliament and the House of Lords.
  • Fred Russell OBE (born 29 September 1862 – 14 October 1957) was an English ventriloquist. Usually credited as being the first to use a knee-sitting figure, he is known as "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism". He lived in Flat 71 Kenilworth Court 1914-1926.[1]

Popular culture

Kenilworth Court has featured in a number of movies, TV series and adverts

  • New Tricks: Season 9, Episode 9 Part of a Whole (22 Oct. 2012).[2]
  • Tutti i colori del buio (English: All the Colors of the Dark) (1972) movie.[3]
  • Sky Advert for the Queen's Jubilee .

References

  1. ↑ "RUSSELL, Fred (1862-1957) a.k.a. Thomas Frederick Parnell". English Heritage. 2009-09-21. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2128052/
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069390/

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Coordinates: 51°27′58.01″N 0°12′56.85″W / 51.4661139°N 0.2157917°W / 51.4661139; -0.2157917

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