Jimi Hendrix and musical links to Ace!
Jimi Hendrix was brought to 11 Gunterstone Road after landing at Heathrow in September 1966 to jam with Zoot Money and Andy Summers, who would later be in the Police. Kathy Etchingham close friend of Brian Jones and Keith Moon was living upstairs and apparently said 'You've got to come and see him; he looks like the Wild Man of Borneo.'
Mahatma Ghandi
Lived in West Kensington for a year as a student
King Juan
Who possessed Irish, Scottish and French blood, was born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong at 97 Gunterstone Road, Kensington, on 29 June 1912.
Titanic
Mr Ralph Giles was born in Newton Abbot, Devon in 1887. Giles was lodging at 10 Gunterstone Road prior to boarding the Titanic at Southampton, as a 2nd class passenger (ticket number 248726). His reason for travelling on the Titanic remains a mystery. Giles died in the sinking, his body was recovered by the MacKay Bennett.
Henry Rider Haggard
Lived for several years in Gunterstone Road and wrote King Solomon's Mines and She while living there.
The Sweeney
Two episodes of TV show 'The Sweeney' were filmed in Gunterstone Road in 1975
