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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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Chelsea SW3 Chelsea Embankment is reminiscent of the history of old Chelsea when this was a mere village. The reference to the "Old Ferry" was none other than a 200 year-old ferry which was replaced in 1771 by a wooden bridge which appears in the paintings of Turner and Whistler. This wooden bridge eventually was demolished to make room in 1890 to the Battersea Bridge. the Chelsea Embankment was built after Bazalgette undertook the massive engineering works along the river Thames which placed a huge collecting sewer under what is now the Embankment flanked by Victorian grand houses built during 1870s.
A bar/restaurant in a former pub building. (Older photo of it, showing whole building.)
Address: 392 Kings Road (formerly at Park Terrace).
Former Name(s): The Man in the Moon.
Owner: Ricker Restaurants (website).
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London Borough of Chelsea & Westminster,
Park Walk & Paulton Square,
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades & Streetscapes,
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!