Walton Street, London

Walton Street is a street within central London's Chelsea district, bordering Knightsbridge. It runs south-west to north-east from Draycott Avenue to Walton Place, parallel to Brompton Road to the north.

It is known for its boutiques and restaurants.^[1]

On 18 November 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing took place, when an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen.^[2]

Notable residents

Jahangir Hajiyev and Zamira Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani banker and fraudster, and his wife^[3]
Edwin La Dell (1914–1970), artist^{[citation needed]}
Berthold Wolpe (1905–1989), printer, at No. 102^[4]

References

^ "The London Magazine". www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1975". Retrieved 15 June 2016.
^ Neate, Rupert (10 October 2018). "'McMafia' law: woman who spent £16m at Harrods is jailed banker's wife". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
^ "The Gazette" (PDF). 22 August 1947. Retrieved 14 November 2019.

External links

Media related to Walton Street, London at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] "The London Magazine". www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

[2] "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1975". Retrieved 15 June 2016.

[Guardian-3] Neate, Rupert (10 October 2018). "'McMafia' law: woman who spent £16m at Harrods is jailed banker's wife". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2018.

[4] "The Gazette" (PDF). 22 August 1947. Retrieved 14 November 2019.

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