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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.
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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.
London Borough of Chelsea & Westminster,
Park Walk & Paulton Square,
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades & Streetscapes,
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.