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Picasso Bar in King's Road "reincarnation"... new facelift and new identity...
The previous Picasso, a small Italian coffee shop boasted the same decor as when it opened 50 years ago. It served everyone from rock stars Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones in the Sixties to recent regulars Bob Geldof and Gordon Ramsay. TV chef Ramsay, who often visited with his children, raved about its lattes and fried egg on toast, while Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole was a regular visitor with his new wife Carly Zucker.
But the café closed in 2009 after serving a final breakfast crowd. Owner Alberto Barbieri said dwindling passing trade on top of a recent rent rise, competition from nearby coffee chains and the congestion charge had killed his business, which has been in the family for half a century.
London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
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The scandal of Marks and Spencer's pricing system:
1. The weight of food, to make it look cheaper, is packaged in the old half-pound system, equivalent to 225 grams
2. The equivalent price per kilo unit is marked in small characters which are barely legible
3. Instead of calling the fruit £ 9/kilo, they chose instead less than a quarter kilo that is 225 grams instead of 250 grams per packet to make it look cheaper 1.99 pounds per packet, equivalent to 8.84 pounds per kilo, call it 9 pounds per kilo.
Who wants to pay 9 pounds for a kilo of tasteless strawberries, artificially ripened after harvesting?
But why be so confusing and underhand?
This should be a matter for the Ombudsmen, to keep the culprits in line.
London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades &Streetscapes
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Bricks and more bricks: what is so extraordinary in this wall is not only the variety of different coloured-bricks, varying from pale yellow to dark grey/black, but also the various laying-out method and the mixture of industrial-made bricks with hand-made bricks. Often a building's side elevation is more telling of the construction history, affected by demolition of the adjacent house, or maybe restoration or even bomb destruction, during WWII. All these required part reconstruction with new or reclaimed materials, not entirely but limited to a minimum, for lack of money: a kind of make-do compromise. Mind you, the street main elevation is always treated with greatest attention to the unifying look of the brick colour and texture.
Set back from king's Road on a redevelopped site belonging formerly to York Barracks this deli shop is more expensive than Harrods.
But it stays open til 10PM and has a captive clientele locally.
Taken at the Sheperdswell, East Kent Railway Museum. It is right next to Sheperdswell Train Station, didnt even know it existed until today was a chance visit, also great for bird photography.
Not a family outing to be honest but if you want some peace and a nice cuppa pay them a visit.
Visit our site bsi.turnerweb.co.uk/
The Sutton Estate, Chelesa. A neaby plaque reads - These dwellings were erected under the charitable trusts of the will of William Richard Sutton of Golden Lane E.C. carrier who died 20th May 1900.
Part of the Walking the District Line set.
A Victorian pub, now closed. (Photo of it when open.)
Address: 25 Tryon Street (formerly Keppel Street).
Owner: Stonegate Pub Company (former); TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former); Courage (former).
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