Walton Street, London
Street in London, England
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Walton Street is a street within west London's Chelsea district, bordering Knightsbridge. It runs south-west to north-east from Draycott Avenue to Walton Place, parallel to Brompton Road to the north.
It is known for its boutiques and restaurants.[1]
On 18 November 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing took place, when an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen.[2]
Notable residents
- Jahangir Hajiyev and Zamira Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani banker and fraudster, and his wife[3]
- Edwin La Dell (1914–1970), artist[citation needed]
- Berthold Wolpe (1905–1989), printer, at No. 102[4]
