District within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London

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Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside after B. Sly after R. Kerr, 1864.

Living without cruelty exhibition 1992 : Kensington Town Hall ... June 12th-14th 1992 / organised by Animal Aid.

Drop-in afternoon for women affected by HIV & AIDS.

Men and women wearing clothes that are exaggerated in size and style. Etching.

The Natural History Museum, South Kensington: plan, above, and the street elevation, below. Photo-lithograph after M. B. Adams, 1879, after A. Waterhouse.

Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after R. Kerr, 1864.

Mr. Lambkin out walking in Kensington Gardens hoping to bump into his loved one, he discovers her on the arm of another man which causes him much jealousy. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

The site of the 1862 Exhibition, as designed for the Horticultural Society: aerial view, looking north. Wood engraving, 1859.

John Tyndall demonstrating a fog-horn to Queen Victoria and her entourage. Wood engraving by T. B. Wirgman, c.1876.

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1898.

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington].

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough].

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901.

Some observations on the bill now pending in Parliament, for the better support and maintenance of the poor. Prepared for the use of the Trustees of the Poor of the parish of Kensington, And Published BY Their Direction

To the inhabitants of the parish of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, a bill of christenings and burials, in the said parish, from December 28, 1785, to December 28, 1786, presented by your obedient Servant, Francis Brothers, parish clerk

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Some observations on the bill now pending in Parliament, for the better support and maintenance of the poor. Prepared for the use of the Trustees of the Poor of the parish of Kensington, And Published BY Their Direction

To the inhabitants of the parish of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, a bill of christenings and burials, in the said parish, from December 28, 1785, to December 28, 1786, presented by your obedient Servant, Francis Brothers, parish clerk

Kensington

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Some observations on the bill now pending in Parliament, for the better support and maintenance of the poor. Prepared for the use of the Trustees of the Poor of the parish of Kensington, And Published BY Their Direction

To the inhabitants of the parish of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, a bill of christenings and burials, in the said parish, from December 28, 1785, to December 28, 1786, presented by your obedient Servant, Francis Brothers, parish clerk

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