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Chelsea, London SW3: this bladder senna genus Colutea is a decorative bushwhich had been identified by OPHIS, a flickr botany enthusiast from Old England (MA) whose stream is certainly worth a visit.
Thank you OPHIS.
For more information about this Colutea Arborescens see:
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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In this house in Tedworth square Chelsea, london SW3 lived for one year Mark Twaine (1896-97).
He came on a lecture tour to earn some money and pay the debts incurred in New York by his Publishing House, Webster's. The idea of a lecture tour in England came to him from Charles Dickens' lecture tour of the USA.
It is whilst in this Chelsea flat that news spread in America about the death of Mark Twaine and it is from here that he sent the cable: "News about the death of Mark twaine have been greatly exaggerated".