Kensington, Notting Hill, and Paddington

Kensington, Notting Hill, and Paddington describes a set of locales in England that have historical and cultural importance, while also providing humorous depictions of local habitants known to the author. Excerpt: «There lived Mr. Burden, who kept a rag and bottle shop, and who was an orator and a great man on the Kensington Vestry, also a proprietor of Bayswater omnibuses, whose wife kept a greengrocer's shop. Poor woman, she was of such proportions that when she died I saw the coffin lowered from the bedroom window into the street by ropes.»