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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.
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3,
Ranelagh Gardens
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Ranelagh Gardens (alternative spellings include Ranelegh and Ranleigh, the latter of which reflects the English pronunciation) were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, then just outside London, England in the eighteenth century.
The Ranelagh Gardens were so called because they occupied the site of Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the first Earl of Ranelagh, Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital (1685–1702), immediately adjoining the Hospital; according to Bowack's Antiquities of Middlesex (1705), it was "Designed and built by himself". Ranelagh House was demolished in 1805 (Colvin 1995, p 561). Fulham F.C. played on this very site for home matches between 1886-8 when it was known as the Ranelagh Ground.
In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year. Ranelegh was considered more fashionable than its older rival Vauxhall Gardens;
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Service garage in SW3, under unother 1930's building of Sloane Avenue. Here the access is through Cadogan street.
A posh looking bar/restaurant in Chelsea, since closed and renamed as Mimosa, but closed again. Reopened as Hunter's Moon in 2019. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as The Rose.) (Older photo of it as Eighty-Six from 2013.)
Address: 86 Fulham Road.
Former Name(s): Eighty-Six; Cactus Blue; The Rose.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former).
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Pubs History (history)
London Chelsea SW3, Cadogan Estate,
King's Road, York Place, York Barracks
Saatchi Gallery, Russian Art 1960s-1980s
St Simon Zelotes, Chelsea, SW3
Victorian Gothic
Promenades and Streetscapes
London SW3, Chelsea
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Church consecrated 1859, Milner Street .
Bldg of Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings designed by Jos. Peacock 1858–9, built by White of Pimlico, in idiosyncratic Dec. style. Shallow sanctuary, aisled and clerestoreyed nave, with higher E. bays of aisles forming transepts galleried until 1896, W. bell turret. Polychrome interior with much naturalistic carving by J.L. Jacquet, and rich E. end with glass by Lavers & Barraud and furnishings by Hailand & Fisher. Organ by Walker.
Promenades & Streetscapes
Chelsea SW3. The Thames Embankment,
& Wandsworth - Battersea SW18
Soon after WWII the oiks of the Kensigton & Chelsea Burough Council proposed to replace the old Albert Bridge (above) with a concrete structure....
Thanks to the effort of an old Chelsea resident and conservationist - the Poet Laureate John Betjeman (1906-1984), who rallied the residents against the sham, uneducated plutocracy the plan of replacing the old bridge was dropped and the old structure restored.
London Chelsea SW3, Cadogan Estate,
King's Road, York Place, York Barracks
Saatchi Gallery, Russian Art 1960s-1980s
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Thames Embankment SW3 near Albert Bridge
Derwent Wood better known for the bronze of David for the Machine Guns Corps Memorial, Hyde Park Corner.
London Chelsea SW3, Cadogan Estate,
King's Road, York Place, York Barracks
Saatchi Gallery, Russian Art 1960s-1980s
The corner of Swan Walk with the Chelsea Embankment.
In the distance the trees of Battersea park, across the river Thames,
On the right hand side the fence of the Physic Garden.
The location was chosen as the proximity to the river created a warmer microclimate allowing the survival of many non-native plants - such as the largest outdoor fruiting olive tree in Britain - and more importantly, to allow plants to survive harsh British winters. The river was also important as a transport route that linked the garden to other open spaces such as Putney Heath, facilitating easy movements of both plants and botanists. In fact the garden has always sought to achieve good communications with others working in the same field: by the 1700's it had initiated an international botanic garden seed exchange system, which continues to this day.