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THE BATH ROAD 



varieties, were not so plentiful years ago as they arc 

 now. So, after some years of forlorn waiting for the 

 occupier who never came, Kensington House, never 

 once inhahiterl, was at last demolished, and its 



Thackeray's house, youxg stkeet. 



materials sold. It is said that the grand marble 

 staircase went to grace the gilded salons of JMadame 

 Tussaud's waxen court, and certainly the spiky rail- 

 ings, with their gas-lamps, were sold to furnish an 

 imposing entrance to Sandowu Park Racecourse, 



