Maida Vale

Maida Vale is a residential area in the north of the City of Westminster (formerly in the borough of Paddington. It contains many large blocks of mansion flats, as well as the "Little Venice" area on the Grand Union Canal.

LGBT history

Alan Turing was born in 1912 at 2 Warrington Crescent, where there is a blue plaque to him.

Siegfried Sassoon "met Edward Dent who had a flat in Maida Vale which was a popular area for gay men at the time."Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Mary Portas lives in Maida Vale.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/mary-portass-my-london-6448869.html Hannah Nathanson, "Mary Portas's My London", Evening Standard 30 September 2011

[1] ttp://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/mary-portass-my-london-6448869.html Hannah Nathanson, "Mary Portas's My London", Evening Standard 30 September 2011

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