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Interestingly this is a double sided box so mail can be posted from both inside and outside the gates of the Royal Hospital. Is this unique?
this is a 'cul-de-sac' in 'village Chelsea' with 19th c artisan houses which have been gentrified in the second half of the 20th c. Surprisingly all houses have four levels 9to include basement and attci) and a small gardn at the back.
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Interestingly this is a double sided box so mail can be posted from both inside and outside the gates of the Royal Hospital. Is this unique?
SW3 (LK16 BYC) is seem without any back blinds. This bus has transferred to Palmers Green and from my assumption it’s being reblinded to have other routes from the grave to be able to use this bus
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this was a wonderful pub full of charm especially because it was not tarted up and had genuinely local patrons and a friendly atmosphere. The chorister of St Luke's church opposite were reputed to use the Wellington as their watering hole.
Walton Mews
Chelsea SW3
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Intermission, in the parish church of St Saviour's, London SW3 1SA, has a variety of dynamic spaces for worship, performances, exhibitions, workshops and meetings.
Intermission is a faith community that goes beyond the walls of St Saviour's. It is a community of Christian performers, writers and artists committed to the deepening understanding of God through Arts Media.
Within the space they are invited to worship, inspire and entertain through the creativity of God.
Intermission hosts a rolling monthly exhibition as well as inviting others from the world of theatre, music, media, dance and the visual arts.
We warmly welcome any Christian within Arts Media interested to participate in the life of Intermission. Please contact the Acting Vicar, the Rev'd Ed Olsworth-Peter.
The Rev'd Ed Olsworth-Peter is also the Acting Vicar for St Simon Zelotes Church in Milner Street. You can visit their web site by clicking here.
Chelsea SW3.
The confusing bit about orientation in London is typical in this area: not only Cadogan Gardens runs in all azimuths without changing the name, but at this point, as indicated on the sign post, but quite unexpectedly and without changing direction Gadogan Gardens changes name half way through to Cadogan Street.
Had the Germans invaded Chelsea, they might have got confused.
Chelsea Physic garden,
Chelsea, London SW3
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John Lindley, (born Feb. 5, 1799, Catton, Northumberland, Eng.—died Nov. 1, 1865, London), British botanist whose attempts to formulate a natural system of plant classification greatly aided the transition from the artificial (considering the characters of single parts) to the natural system (considering all characters of a plant).
In 1819 Lindley arrived in London where, with the help of the botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, he obtained a position as an assistant librarian. In 1822 he became garden assistant secretary at the Horticultural Society for which, in 1830, he organized the first flower shows to be held in England.
Photo: Thomas Hegna
Photos from Stevie Wonder's concert is the property of Kongsberg Jazzfestival and cannot be republished without permission from the performing artist.
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.
London SW3
Promenades & Streetscapes
Reading this trash tabloiid in a pub, at lunchtime...
It covers a recent TV documentary about Romanian gypsy gangs exploiting beggar children in Britain/ With the proceeds from the beggary they build ridiculous-looking palazzos back in Romania... they are abusing the social system in Britain whilst everywhere else they are a law to themselves.
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
former Harrods Depository (completed 1911), now 60 Sloane Avenue apartments, offices and retail space, Sloane Avenue SW3 (redeveloped 1997), Chelsea, London.
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just yards off King's Road in Sidney Street Chelsea SW3
A buch of flowers could set you back easily ten pounds (eighteen bucks) in Chelsea: it is obscene!
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
King's Rd Chelsea SW3
A fresco representing literary and historical figures from the borough is decorating the Town Hall. Amongst these worthies is also Oscar Wilde.
In 1912 a Councillor proposed the removal of the portrait of Oscar Wilde because the poet was "a criminal" convict... Another Councillor aptly pointed out that Henry WIII committed regicide and that George Eliot was an adulteress. The motion to remove Oscar from the fresco was adopted but never carried out because of the intervening WWI.
Presently if you wish to see this fresco, do not bother to ask any of the clerks of the Council because they have not got a clue about it - they will even mislead you by saying that you are in the wrong building and that you should go instead to the main borough council in W8.
If you are adamant and insist that the fresco in question is indeed in this building in Chelsea then a porter who is the holder of the keys to that particular reception room will tell you that you have to ask the borough council in Kensington by letter and that you will be given an appointment for two officers of the Council to come all the way from W8 to accompany you whilst you look at the fresco in Chelsea...
Bureaucracy gone mad but also hand in hand with ignorance at the expense of the tax payer: think of how much it would cost the wages of two clerks to come from Kensington to Chelsea and back again to keep an eye on you whilst you look at a work of art which should be readily available to be admired by the public?
Moravian Tower (Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, completed 1971), King's Road SW3, Chelsea, London. Now in private hands, but originally a council block.
John Lewis Direct (originally warehouse and offices for the John Lewis Partnership and Peter Jones Department Store, completed 1930s), Draycott Avenue SW3, Chelsea, London.