House in Melbury Road
House in Melbury Road
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Record No
85252
Title
House in Melbury Road
Description
View of front elevation of Grade II listed semi-detached house at 16-18 Melbury Road, Kensington. Listing number 1225643. Built by Chelsea builder William Turner in 1877. Number 18 was the residence of Pre-Raphaelite painer William Holman Hunt, as commemorated by a blue plaque. Parked cars.

Cetshwayo (c.1832-1884) King of the Zulus stayed at 18 Melbury Road in 1882. During the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Cetshwayo experienced defeat, imprisonment and restoration at the hands of the British Empire. He met Queen Victoria and the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, during his stay in London in 1882. In an interview given while at Melbury Road, Cetshwayo said that he regarded the war as ‘a calamity’. He had made it clear that the purpose of his visit to England was his restoration to the throne, reasoning that his people wanted him and that there would be another war if he didn’t return. His reinstatement was agreed and his stay has since been commemorated by a blue plaque.
Date of execution
1960
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_223_60_4162
London picture map location
Exact
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