Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station, Circus Road West, London SW11 8DD
Battersea Power Station spent 40 years as London's most glamorous ruin — four white chimneys rising from a decommissioned Art Deco cathedral of electricity, famous from the Pink Floyd album cover, visible from half the city, and stubbornly refusing every developer's attempt to do something with it.
Camden Market
Camden Lock Place, Camden, London, NW1 8AF, United Kingdom
Camden Market started with sixteen stalls and a demolition order.
Covent Garden
City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Covent Garden was London's first piazza, designed by Inigo Jones in the 1630s on land owned by the Earl of Bedford.
Notting Hill
Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Before it was pastel-coloured houses and Hugh Grant, Notting Hill was pig farms and race riots.
Portobello Road Market
Portobello Road & Golborne Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W11 1AN, United Kingdom
Portobello Road was a country lane through farmland in the 1700s, named after Portobello Farm, which itself was named after the British navy's 1739 victory at Porto Bello in Panama.
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