Kensington Roof Gardens
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The Roof Gardens is a private roof garden covering 6,000 square metres on top of the former Derry & Toms building on Kensington High Street in west London.
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The Kensington Roof Gardens are barely visible from Kensington High Street.
99 Kensington High Street entrance on Derry Street. The street-level entrance to the roof gardens
One of the windows in the walled garden
Biba
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Biba was a London fashion store of the mid 1960s to mid 1970s. Biba was started and run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon.
Kensington Roof Gardens
…donated to local hospitals and £120,000 was raised during the next 30 years. The building housed the department store Derry and Toms until 1973, and then Biba until 1975. In 1978, the garden's Art Deco tea pavilion was redeveloped into a Régine's nightclub, in 1981 Virgin Limited Edition bought the lease to…
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A Biba mini-dress, c. 1967-70
The Derry & Toms building, the former "Big Biba"; photographed in 2013