Pembroke Gardens

Pembroke Gardens is a street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.

It was developed in the 1850s and 1860s, largely by Richard Albion Holliday of Newland Street.

[1] On 29 September 1933, Ernest Holloway Oldham was found dead at his home, 31 Pembroke Gardens with his head in a gas oven.

[2] Oldham was a cipher clerk in the Foreign Office, but from 1929 until his death in 1933 was a Soviet spy for money, rather than some ideological motivation.

[2] His wife Lucy King was found dead in The Thames in 1950.