A Victorian Gem: Wander through the extravagant Sambourne House Museum

A Kensington residential side street contains a house so amazingly Victorian that a TV costume drama would think it’s a bit over the top. It’s also open to the public to visit.This is 18 Stafford Terrace, formerly home to the Punch magazine’s illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne, from a time when being a cartoonist for a magazine paid well enough to buy a decent middle-class house.
Linley Sambourne died in 1910, and fortunately, their son retained the interior untouched. When he