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Architect: James Savage, in a Neo-Gothic style using Bath stone, 1824. Grade I listed. One of the earliest Gothic Revival churches in London. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.
Only A 145 Year Difference For This One.....There Was Almost Certainly A Church In This Spot By The 8th Century..The Church Was Devastated By A WWII Bomb And Most Of It Was Rebuilt....The Memorial Seen Is To Sir Hans Sloane Who Lived To The Age Of 92 And That Was In 1753!..His Wife Elizabeth Was Also Interred Here In 1724..
My sister once again suckered me out to take pictures of her kids, this time it was only her daughter. One four year old is enough! :)
After my visit to the Freemasons Hall and Hatton Garden, I met up with Michiel at Victoria & Albert Museum. Michiel knows the area of South Kensington much better than I do, so he led the way!
Near 251 Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW3
Closed March 2018 for site redevelopment by the Cadogan Estate, with a plan to re-open a 600-seat triplex in Spring 2022. This building first opened as the Gaumont Palace in 1937, designed by architects William E. Trent and Ernest F. Tully. Although reduced in size over the years, it still claimed the biggest screen outside of the West End until its recent closure. The art deco front elevation is to be preserved. 206 Kings Road, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.
Part of an early C19 terrace, developed by Richard Greene, with four storeys and basement. First floor cast-iron balcony with lead canopy. Side door entrance with canopy. Grade II listed. Once the residence of author Bram Stoker. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.
Chelsea London SW3
Thames Embankment
Promenades & Streetscapes
NOTE: Pargeting (or sometimes pargetting) is a decorative or waterproofing plastering applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.
Grade II listed row of early C19 houses. Painted brick, stucco to No. 117. Mid C19 wooden shop fronts to Nos. 119-123. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.
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BIBENDUM Restaurant
Michelin House - 81 Fulham Road - London SW3 6RD - Tel: 020 7581 5817
The Michelin Building, commissioned by the Michelin Tyre Company Ltd. as their first permanent British headquarters in 1909, has been a favourite London landmark for many years. Its exuberant stylistic individualism has been variously described as an example of Art Nouveau, proto-Art-Deco, Secessionist Functionalism and geometrical Classicism. It has even been described as 'the most completely French of any Edwardian building in London'! Designed by an employee of the company, probably under the guidance of Edouard and Andre Michelin, it owes more to the imagination, vivacity and outrageously irreverent flair for public relations of these two men than to any notion of the architectural taste of its time.
In 1985 Michelin moved out of the building and in June of that year it was bought by Sir Terence Conran and Paul Hamlyn.
It now has a gastro restaurant on the first floor specialising in sea food and on the ground floor it has a more informal bistro - cafe.
The open space facing the street is used as a sea food market.
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The architect behind Michelin House was François Espinasse (1880-1925), who was employed as an engineer in the construction department at Michelin’s headquarters in Clermount-Ferrand. It is believed that he worked on the design of Michelin's Headquarters in Paris (1908), but this is the only other known architectural work of his. The French Order of Architects in Paris have no record of him. Not much else is known about him other than he spent most of his working life at Michelin.
Michelin House is known for its decorative design. What cannot be seen from its exterior or interior design is that it is an early example of concrete construction in Britain.
The building was constructed using Hennebique's ferro-concrete construction system. The ferro-concrete system offered great benefits for the construction of clear open spaces (ideal for storing tyres in the most efficient way). It also offered fire resistance properties which were very important when storing large quantities of highly flammable tyres.
The system also had the advantage of quick construction; Michelin House took only 5 months to build. The original floors were constructed using hole pot tiles. This flooring system as well as being highly durable also offered very good fire proofing qualities.
Other interesting original features in Michelin House were automatic doors into the entrance hall and a weighing bay in the fitting area which weighed customers' cars so the correct tyre pressure could be applied.
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Terraced house with tower, built mid-to-late 1980s on part of a former dairy depot site. An extra storey added in the 2000s. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.
(Mountain Goat) 2008
By Steve Bishop at the Saatchi Gallery
Taxidermied goat, concrete, chalk
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Rose in the road, Upper Cheyne Row, London, Chelsea, SW3, Wednesday 6 April 2011. This one definitely works best in large size.
London SW3 Regency House in a street just off King's Rd and close to Sloane Square.
one of the few surviving independent bookshops in London, founded in 1957, where the owners know their stuff, mix with the litterati and even write fiction - not yet shortlisted for the Booker Prize ;0)
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Arriva Garston Garage wirth Wright Streetdeck LK16 BYC (SW3) and Wright Cadet GK53 AON (3948) parked in the exit road. Sun 08.04.2018.