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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.
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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Swampy is a good guy I chat to on the Net. He's a geologist and he's currently somewhere in the wilds of the old USSR looking for oil. These are his photos and he's kindly allowed me to put them here.