Gore House was shortly afterwards purchased by the Royal Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The whole estate comprised about twenty-one acres, added to which were Gray’s Nursery Grounds, Park House, and Grove House, and various market-gardens, the grounds of Cromwell House, and other lands belonging to the Earl of Harrington and the Baron de Villars. Acts of Parliament were passed legalising the plans of the Commissioners, and in accordance various old footpaths, &c., were stopped, and houses removed. A complete revolution has been effected, two magnificent roads leading from the Gore to Cromwell Road at Brompton have been formed, and at length Gore House itself was doomed. Its materials were sold by lots on July 17th, 1857, and soon after the building was removed. Grove House, adjoining Gore House, was for many years the residence of Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, widow of the celebrated statesman. With Gore House it has, since 1852, been used for schools and offices of the department of Science and Art. Beyond this spot our description does not extend: the district of All Saints and manor of Knightsbridge stretch much further, but such parts have been already described by Mr. Faulkner. Ere, however, I quite leave the Gore, it must be mentioned that, among others, Carrington Bowles, the celebrated printseller, had a house, and died here June 20th, 1793. The Rev. Thomas Clare, vicar of St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, and an author of some repute, also at one time resided here. KINNERTON STREET is so called from an estate belonging to the Grosvenor family. Here is a dissecting school and anatomical museum attached to St. George’s Hospital. KNIGHTSBRIDGE GREEN, formed by the junction of the Kensington and Fulham Roads, was formerly of greater extent than at the present time. It was formerly the village green in reality, and its last Maypole was preserved as lately as 1800. At its east end was, till about 1835, a watch-house and pound, and Addison, in a humorous paper in the “Spectator,” alludes to it. Proposing to satisfy by home news the craving for intelligence occasioned by the just concluded war, he writes,—“By my last advices from Knightsbridge, I hear that a horse was clapped into the pound on the third instant, and that he was not released when the letters came away.”—(_Spectator_, No. 142.) The greater part of the Green is now covered by Middle Row, a medley of very inferior houses. On the north side is an old inn (rebuilt in 1851) called after the bluff Marquis of Granby. The soldier has been dethroned, and Sir Joseph Paxton promoted in his stead. Vernon, the Butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppell, Howe, Evil and good, have had their tithe of talk, And fill’d the sign-posts then as Wellesley now.