I found this in the 'Kensington Post' dated 25th April 1969: “...The cause of the residents' complaints is the row of slum houses in Testerton Street, off Lancaster Road, which United Artists leased from the Kensington and Chelsea Council and painted black to simulate a slum setting for their current film.”
Dave Harwood
30 Jun 2025 at 01:04
I found this caption for the b/w photo of Junior's Eyes in front of the graffiti covered house on a Tumblr webpage: Pic and text below from Notting Hill psychographic historian Tom Vague: “Junior's Eyes on the site of the Lancaster West Estate, we think it's Testerton Street, after the filming of 'Leo the Last' in 1969. Junior's Eyes were David Bowie's backing band. Albert Vickers recalls Bowie staying on Lancaster Road at this time. Junior's Eyes' drummer John Cambridge went on to Bowie's Hype group, Tim Renwick and John 'Honk' Lodge formed Quiver, and Mick Wayne joined the Pink Fairies. They lived on St Helen's Gardens and Ladbroke Grove.” ...and this on a 'London On Location' webpage: “The Daily Mirror' noted on 17 February 1969, that Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw and others had been spotted ‘inspecting locations for the film “Leo the Last”’ in Notting Hill Gate. On 25 April the 'Kensington Post' added that filming had taken place in ‘the row of slum houses in Testerton Street, off Lancaster Road, which United Artists leased from the Kensington and Chelsea Council and painted black to simulate a slum setting for their current film’ which the company had spent ‘the last five months filming’.”
“...The cause of the residents' complaints is the row of slum houses in Testerton Street, off Lancaster Road, which United Artists leased from the Kensington and Chelsea Council and painted black to simulate a slum setting for their current film.”
Pic and text below from Notting Hill psychographic historian Tom Vague:
“Junior's Eyes on the site of the Lancaster West Estate, we think it's Testerton Street, after the filming of 'Leo the Last' in 1969. Junior's Eyes were David Bowie's backing band. Albert Vickers recalls Bowie staying on Lancaster Road at this time. Junior's Eyes' drummer John Cambridge went on to Bowie's Hype group, Tim Renwick and John 'Honk' Lodge formed Quiver, and Mick Wayne joined the Pink Fairies. They lived on St Helen's Gardens and Ladbroke Grove.”
...and this on a 'London On Location' webpage:
“The Daily Mirror' noted on 17 February 1969, that Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw and others had been spotted ‘inspecting locations for the film “Leo the Last”’ in Notting Hill Gate. On 25 April the 'Kensington Post' added that filming had taken place in ‘the row of slum houses in Testerton Street, off Lancaster Road, which United Artists leased from the Kensington and Chelsea Council and painted black to simulate a slum setting for their current film’ which the company had spent ‘the last five months filming’.”