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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.
former Harrods Depository (completed 1911), now 60 Sloane Avenue apartments, offices and retail space, Sloane Avenue SW3 (redeveloped 1997), Chelsea, London.
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.
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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!
London Borough of Chelsea & Westminster,
Park Walk & Paulton Square,
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades & Streetscapes,
In POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
By Oleg Kulik
Deep Into Russia, 1997
Installation, metal, plastic, video displays
190 x 300 x400 cm
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London SW3
Promenades & Streetscapes
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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.
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
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)