[4] On the night of the 29 August 1975, Joseph O'Connell and Eddie Butler, members of the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang placed a bomb in the doorway of a shoe shop.

The bomb exploded at 10:12pm, killing Roger Goad, a Metropolitan Police explosives officer who was attempting to defuse it.

[11] From 1966 to 1969, Barbara Hulanicki's influential fashion shop Biba was located at 19-21 Kensington Church Street.

[12][13] The antique dealer Eila Grahame had a shop on Kensington Church Street from 1969 until her death in 2009.

[14] The Rowley Gallery, a picture-frame makers, has had premises at several addresses in Kensington Church Street since 1898.