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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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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.
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
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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.
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)
Royal Hospital Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road,
Chelsea SW3
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There are actually two separate museums - the one seen here is within the precincts of the Royal Chelsea Hospital itself , it is quite small and is limited to only three rooms, on of which displaying only medals and badges. It also reflects the history of the Hospital founded by Charles II and whose patron is HM the Queen.
Not to be confused to the other museum is called the "National Army Museum", which is separate from the perimeter but adjacent to the Royal Hospital. This is situated in a modern extensive building and covers the military history from the earliest times to the present.
Smith Street, London SW3.
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St Simon Zelotes, Chelsea, SW3
Victorian Gothic
Promenades and Streetscapes
London SW3, Chelsea
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Church consecrated 1859, Milner Street .
Bldg of Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings designed by Jos. Peacock 1858–9, built by White of Pimlico, in idiosyncratic Dec. style. Shallow sanctuary, aisled and clerestoreyed nave, with higher E. bays of aisles forming transepts galleried until 1896, W. bell turret. Polychrome interior with much naturalistic carving by J.L. Jacquet, and rich E. end with glass by Lavers & Barraud and furnishings by Hailand & Fisher. Organ by Walker.
London Promenades & Streetscapes,
London SW3, Chelsea
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This is the 'hidden face' of respectable Victorian buildings, built before drains were invented: there was no need for drains or water taps because the servants will have brought in drinking water in containers and will have taken the 'slop' or the "used water' to dispose of it in the street, below.
When, much later, bathrooms and toilets were installed and kitchens with running water, all those drains had to be installed on the outer walls, at the back of the building and sometimes even at the front...