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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.
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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 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.
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.) (Photo of it as Eighty-Six.)
Address: 86 Fulham Road.
Former Name(s): Eighty-Six; Cactus Blue; The Rose.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former).
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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.
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.
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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former Harrods Depository (completed 1911), now 60 Sloane Avenue apartments, offices and retail space, Sloane Avenue SW3 (redeveloped 1997), Chelsea, London.
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.
Service garage in SW3, under unother 1930's building of Sloane Avenue. Here the access is through Cadogan street.
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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