Ebury enjoys an unrivalled location in the heart of Westminster, close to the fine restaurants and designer boutiques of Belgravia, Pimlico and Knightsbridge, and the easy connections that come with Zone 1 living.
This is a prime central London location renowned for its culture and creativity with the world-class art gallery, Tate Britain, and many of the capital’s most iconic and historic landmarks just a short walk away.
Ebury is perfectly placed to benefit from the many leading nurseries, schools and world-class colleges and universities nearby.
Eccleston Yards
Sloane Square Tube
King’s Road
Battersea Power Station
Victoria Station
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Enjoy incredible retail and dining experiences in every direction, including the reimagined Battersea Power Station, featuring a mix of over 100 shops, bars, restaurants and leisure activities.
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Ian Bennet
Bespoke Milliner, Ebury Bridge Road
“I love having my shop here. Ebury Bridge Road feels like a small village high street surrounded by a town, it is so close to Victoria but it feels quite removed from busy central London. There is a lovely local pub opposite and there’s the Farmers’ Market on the weekend.”
Ian Bennett’s shop reveals an eye-catching display of beautifully crafted hats and head pieces and his workshop downstairs is filled with all the necessary tools of his trade and his intriguing collection of heritage hat blocks and hat stands.
Ian has been a milliner by trade for over 30 years, first studying sculpture at The Royal College of Art before applying these skills to the art of hat making. He worked at Buckingham Palace for ten months in the run up to the Diamond Jubilee tour helping to craft hats for the Queen, including the purple hat she wore to unveil the new plaque naming the Elizabeth Line in her honour. He also created the feathers that embellished the Queen’s hat for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. “We had to make two hats, one for the Queen and one for her stunt double who dived out of the helicopter.”
Alongside his bespoke award-winning creations for weddings, races, television and theatre – Ian made all the hats for English National Opera’s My Fair Lady – he has single-handedly revived the heritage craft of men’s black silk top hat making. “It’s taken five years to research – no one else has carried on the tradition – they are heirloom pieces, made completely to order. They take up to ten weeks to make as each hat has 26 layers of fabric and each layer is steam ironed separately.”
Reviving this traditional labour intensive art form has encouraged in Ian a particular fondness for making top hats, although he thrives in the variety of his work and the impact of every creation. “The great thing about hats is that they transform people – people act differently when they wear a hat.”
Local History
Ebury through
the years
With its central London location Ebury has had a front row seat for vast cultural changes in the capital from the 1800s onwards and has equally experienced several significant and remarkable events that could never have been predicted.
1800s
Manor of Ebury becomes Pimlico
The areas of Pimlico, Belgravia, Mayfair and Knightsbridge were all known, during the 16th and 17th centuries, as the Manor of Ebury. This changed in the late 17th or early 18th century, as today’s names were adopted. The residential streets of Pimlico were designed by the architect Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s and today form the ‘Pimlico Conservation Area.’ A highly disciplined structure of streets known as the Pimlico Grid.
1930s
Quality housing created in Pimlico
The Ebury Bridge Estate was largely built in the 1930s in response to a lack of good quality housing in Pimlico. Part of the estate was built on reclaimed canal land following the reconstruction and partial filling in of the Grosvenor Canal. The beginning of World War II meant the remaining plans for the scheme were suspended. The Estate is now the site of Ebury – the most significant regeneration project in Westminster.
1940s
Buckingham Palace is saved
A little-known story outside of Ebury is the heroic action of a pilot who saved Buckingham Palace from a German Dornier bomber. Sergeant Ray Holmes makes a head-on attack and prevents a German bomber from reaching the palace, then makes his own parachuting escape. He falls into a dustbin on the Ebury Bridge Estate and is hoisted into the air by locals who take him to the pub to celebrate!
1960s
King’s Road and the Swinging Sixties
Anyone with an eye for fashion made their way to the King’s Road in the Swinging Sixties. Mary Quant, the defining designer of the era, opened her first boutique, Bazaar, here in 1955 and just a few years later her miniskirts and hotpants – the ‘Chelsea look’ – were manufactured on a major scale and worn across the world.
1980s
Social and political change in London
London in the 1980s was a politically charged era and a time of significant change. Many of the events making London what it is today. Positive local change included the opening of the Chelsea Physic Garden to the public for the first time in 1987 since its origins in 1673.
2020s
Thriving net zero carbon community
In a short space of time Ebury is set to become a landmark thriving community, known for its homes achieving net zero carbon in operation, incredible garden squares and creative calendar of events. While residents will also enjoy an exclusive 12-hour concierge service, technology enabled shared work and collaboration spaces.
