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Elystan Street, London SW3.. Previously known as the Red House.
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Chelsea London SW3
promenades and pereambulations,
Streetscapes
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This mid 19th century terraced house on a street just off King's Rd Chelsea, was initially built for artisans and humble folk at the time when the area was a separate village from London. The houses are not so solidly built,. often only with one skin of brick, the facade showing ony one door and a window to the street, like this.
During the last decade even the tiniest of such cottages were turned into 'desirable' properties for first-time buyers of the better-healed professions: extension at the back, open-plan living room, new basement dug out, loft conversion and all mod cons are de rigueur.
here is a rare example of an 'unmodernised' house, probably lived in by a retired denizen not yet wheeled to an old-foggies home; the sharks are waiting!
London Borough of Chelsea & Westminster,
Park Walk & Paulton Square,
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades & Streetscapes,
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3,
Ranelagh Gardens
treescape
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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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