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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!
Zheng Chelsea, 4 Sydney Street, London SW3.
On the outside wall is the sign 'Zheng Restaurant'. On its website, Zheng affects 'Zheng Chelsea' which, indeed, is where it is and self describes as a Malaysian restaurant. It goes on to state 'Many of our dishes represent what is known as Malaysian Cuisine, supplemented with speciality dishes from other parts of Asia' and this is evidenced from the menu which includes a substantial number of Chinese dishes.
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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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Chelsea, London SW3
Streetscapes and promenades
Artists Studios, Victorian architecture
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This street developed from the third quarter of the 19th century in what was at the time Chelsea village, outside London - in the 19th c it became the centre of attraction for Bohemian artist painters and writers including the American Sargent and the Anglo-Irish Oscar Wilde.
This is an example of a house built with an artist studio on the top floor. It faces East which is not always good for a painter...
The style with a Dutch-style gable was dubbed as "Pont Street Dutch" after the name of a street in London SW1 almost entirely built in this style
P1000257 River Thames seen from Albert Bridge. The Cadogan Peer has a history related to the Cadogan estate of the Earls Cadogan, a property acquired by marriage to the daughter of Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane owned the Manor of Chelsea which he devided between his two daughters, one of whom married a Cadogan.
This view looks East showing to the right of the picture the South Bank with the extensive Battersea Park (Wandsworth), and the North Bank to the left of the picture (Left Bank) showing the tree-lined Chelsea Embankment)
The Ranelagh Gardens
Royal Hospital Chelsea
London SW3
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.
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This Youngs Brewery pub in Redesdale Street has survived the onslought of "market forces' (read speculators' greed), which turned other public houses nearby into residential accommodation.
It has a steady local clientele, offers better-than-average food and service is polite. The "happy hour" is much frequented by the denizens of nearby Council Estates.