Aldgate Police section house was erected on the site of the Commercial Street Baptist Chapel in 1910-11 to the designs of the Metropolitan Police Architect, J. Dixon Butler. 1 It was of unusually spartan design, two shallow parallel six-storey blocks joined at the south end by a curve-ended staircase block. It survived war damage, and a timber clubroom and gym were added on the adjoining bomb site to the south.2 The section house closed in the autumn of 1964 and was demolished c.1966 for the New Holland estate.
The name ‘Kensington’, as with Sloane Apartments, with its desirable West End associations, was presumably chosen in order to boost sales to overseas buyers unfamiliar with the East End. It was built on the site of Bradbury House, a four-storey block of flats built over ground-floor parking garages, a rectilinear concrete-framed block faced in dark-grey brick, with strips of expressed concrete floorplates, part of the New Holland estate.