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Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
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E.M. Foster's "Howard's End" (1910) Margaret Schlegel meets again Henry Wilcox whilst she is walking on Chelsea Embankment and eventually marries him.
Chelsea London SW3
The 1849 Obelisk in memory of the fallen soldiers of ther 2nd Sikh War in Punjab: the names read like an irish parish church register.
The victory of General Gough in Punjab brought him a title and a place in the House of Lords, the Crown the Kohinoor and the Irish soldiers an obelisk.
Chelsea, London SW3
promenades & Streetscapes
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"Black & Blue" was opened in King's Rd, SW3, on the premises of what was before for several decades an iconic establishment, "Picasso", frequented in the '70s and early '80s by the "hip" crowd. It entered Chelsea and indeed London history.
I surmise that at the beginning the new facelift and new owners wanted to keep the name, but for copyright reasons, I suspect this was no longer possible.
Sadly the effect of the economic slump took its toll on Black and Blue which finally shut down at the end of 2012, after just over one year, maybe a little longer?
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Christ Church was built by architect Edward BLORE (1787-1879) as a chapel of Ease for St Luke's. It hwas consecrated in 1839 and It became an independent church in 1880.
It was servicing a congregation of working class and lower-middle class parishioners.
Today the parish is a residential area for professional people and the houses are pitched to seven digits prices towell over 1.5 million pounds
Edward Blore was previously commissioned by William IV to take over from Nash in finishing the work on Buckingham Palace: Blore was responsible for building the East wing of the royal palace, thus enclosing the courtyard.
Blore is also famous for his work on Lambeth Palace and Westminster Abbey, as well as the building of Alubka Palace for Prince Vorontzov in the Crimea.