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The 1949 Obelisk in memory of the fallen soldiers of the 2nd Siks 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.
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
St Saviour's, Walton Place, Chelsea, SW3
This picture was taken not so much for the contrast between this exquisite Victorian church and the 21st c contraptions parked alongside it as to illustrate an economic phenomenon where cars are discouraged in central London by huge restrictions, high taxes and draconian parking penalties, but also and mainly by the exorbitant price of fuel.
Until now the Italian Vespas were regarded a purely peninsular phenomenon - not it has reached the (British) Isles....
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
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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?