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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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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".
London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, in Chelsea. The standard sign these days, with slender serif letters and dots.
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A bar/restaurant in a former pub building. Since renamed as E&O and now Mestizo. (Older photo of it from 2008.)
Address: 392 Kings Road (formerly at Park Terrace).
Former Name(s): The Man in the Moon.
Owner: Ricker Restaurants (former).
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Chelsea SW3
This corner shop was a very useful household harware shop with lots of goodies for the DIY enthusiast - it was bound to cave in under the pressure of the competition from the big builders supermarkets.
now we have instead Fifi Wilson... Fancy that?
Fifi Wilson's corner shop on Chelsea Green sells hats that look like lamp shades and lamp shades that look like hats - this reflects the British art of understatement - showing off is for the vulgars - we prefer the sedate - like in a movie of Agatha Christie!