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Follow the Kinks through the dark alleyways and  passages of

L O N D O N

 

Place of interest

Underground Tube  Station/directions

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Victoria

Main line station, Underground station and Area of central  London.

Kinks link : Song title  "Victoria".

Note: There's also a statue of this prominent queen in front of  Buckingham palace. See the "Savile Row" map for more info...

Victoria (V, Ci, D)

victoria-station buckingham_palace_london


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Pimlico

Underground station and Area of central London.

Kinks link : mentioned in "Life  on the Road"

Pimlico (V)

pimlico


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King's Road

Street in central London. Centre of the so-called "Swinging  London" 60s thing, when things were really "fab". The Kinks were at the heart of  the swinging  city scene.

Kinks link : mentioned in "Did  Ya"

Sloane Square (Ci, D)

King's Road runs west from Sloane Square.

King's Road


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Bywater Street

Street in central London. Home of Ray's friend, Ned Sherrin, TV  and film producer. director etc.

Kinks link : mentioned in "Did  Ya"

Sloane Square (Ci, D)

West along King's Road, Bywater Street is on right, about 1/2  mile.

bywater street


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Cadogan Square

Square in central London.

Kinks link : mentioned in "Did  Ya"

Sloane Square (Ci, D)

West along King's Road, right  into Cadogan Gardens, which leads  into Cadogan Square.

Cadogan Square


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Chelsea Drugstore

Pub in central London. Very fashionable in the 60s. Now it is a  McDonalds.

Kinks link : mentioned in "Did  Ya"

Stones fans will know it also appears in "You  Can't Always Get What You Want"

Sloane Square (Ci, D)

West along King's Road, McDonald's (formerly Chelsea Drugstore)  on left, about 1/2 mile.

McDonald's


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Chiswick Bridge

Bridge in west London, on the route of the annual Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race.

Kinks link : mentioned in "London"

Kew Gardens (D)

Directions : down West Park, right onto Mortlake Avenue, left onto  Lower
Richmond Road, left onto Clifford Avenue - on to  bridge

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Rotten Row

Horse path in central London

Kinks link : Location for publicity shots in red hunting  jackets and with horses.

Knightsbridge (P)

Right onto Knightsbridge, cross road, left into Hyde Park  through Albert gate, across South Carriage Drive, Rotten Row crosses a few yards  ahead.

Rotten Row


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Albert Hall

Performance Theatre in Kensington.

Kinks link: mentioned in "Session  Man" and venue for several Ray Davies gigs.

 South Kensington (C, D, P)

Walk north on Exhibition Road.The Hall is on Kensington Gore  opposite Kensington Gardens.

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"Went for a walk down the Old King's Road, To see if anybody  was there. But there was nobody home at 3 Bywater Street, And they had sold  Cadogan Square. And I remember myself in my tie dye sweater, And my hipster  corduroy flares. As I knocked on doors, And walked down one-way streets that led  nowhere..." -Ray Davies, Did Ya

Choose a map (each shows a small portion of London): Abbey Road, Archway, Berkeley Mews, Lavender Hill,  Muswell Hill, Savile Row, Soho, Victoria and Waterloo. 

Click here to learn about other Kinks places not shown on  the maps (This is the "Other Kinks Places" page).

We have photos of some of these places. Click here to see them.
Also, click here to learn about other Kinks places not shown on  our maps.

Note: each tube station *name* has a letter (or several  letters) next to it. This indicates which tube line the stop is  on

 B - Bakerloo (brown)

 M - Metropolitan (purple)

 Ce - Central (red)

 N - Northern (black)

 Ci - Circle (yellow)

 P - Piccadilly (dark blue)

 D - District (green)

 V - Victoria (light blue)

 J - Jubilee (grey)

 

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