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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! :)
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.
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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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
Rose in the road, Upper Cheyne Row, London, Chelsea, SW3, Wednesday 6 April 2011. This one definitely works best in large size.
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.
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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(Mountain Goat) 2008
By Steve Bishop at the Saatchi Gallery
Taxidermied goat, concrete, chalk
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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.
Arriva Garston Garage wirth Wright Streetdeck LK16 BYC (SW3) and Wright Cadet GK53 AON (3948) parked in the exit road. Sun 08.04.2018.
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.
Chelsea Glimpses,
London SW3,
This blonde... well... she was wearing an intriguing top, with embroidery motifs which I thought had a whiff of Matisse's 'Blouse Roumaine'... I was hesitant about asking, lest she thought I was making a pass: perish the thought!
Classic Chelsea. Apart from the cars and colour schemes, very little has changed in this side street off the King's Road since I took this photo one rainy day in September 1983.
In POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
By Tom Sachs
2001
Mixed media
243.8 x 188 x 182.9 cm
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
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Arriva London/The Shires (SW3, LK16 BYC, Garston/St Albans Road (GR)-based) at Harrow Bus Station, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London. Body no AN193, delivered new 30/06/2016 via Heysham Docks. Apologies for the mark on the left hand side of the photo, caused by a clump of sensor dust that got into one of the filters in my camera lens.
National Army Museum,
London, Chelea SW3
Royal Hospital Road
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Marengo The Myth of Napoleon's Horse
The moving story of Marengo, ‘Bonaparte’s personal charger’ and ‘favourite horse’, whose career spanned the whole of the Napoleonic Wars.
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With a bullet lodged in his tail and the imperial cipher of a crowned letter 'N' burnt on his left flank, a diminutive Arab stallion drew crowds to Pall Mall, London, in 1823. Sightseers came to gaze at the horse advertised as 'Bonaparte's personal charger', whose career had spanned the whole of the Napoleonic Wars, who, to the sound of marching songs, drums, pipes and gunfire, had trotted, cantered and galloped from the Mediterranean to Paris, Italy, Germany and Austria, and at the age of nineteen, had walked three thousand miles to Moscow and back.
Since then, both dead and alive, this horse with the same sonorous name as Napoleon's great victory, Marengo, has been a star exhibit in Britain, At London's earliest military museum his articulated skeleton was seen by Queen Victoria and displayed as the horse that had carried his master at Austerlitz in 1805, at Jena in 1806, at Wagram in 1809, in the Russian campaign of 1812, and at Waterloo in 1815. For over 150 years one of his hooves has stood on a gleaming sideboard in the Officers' mess at Saint James's Palace. Today his skeleton, described as 'Napoleon's favourite horse', is the sole equine exhibit in the vast Waterloo Gallery at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.
Marengo (c. 1793–1831) was the famous war mount of Napoleon I of France. Named after the Battle of Marengo, through which he carried his rider safely, Marengo was imported to France from Egypt in 1799 as a 6-year-old. The grey Arabian was probably bred at the famous El Naseri Stud. Although small (only 14.1 hands.) he was a reliable, steady, and courageous mount.
Marengo was wounded eight times in his career, and carried the Emperor in the Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Battle of Wagram, and Battle of Waterloo. He also was frequently used in the 80 mile gallops from Valladolid to Burgos, which he often completed in 5 hours. As one of 52 horses in Napoleon's personal stud, Marengo fled with these horses when it was raided by Russians in 1812, surviving the retreat from Moscow; however, the stallion was captured in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo by William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre.
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ADDENDUM: 2008
Since rgis pgoto was taken seven years ago, in 2011, this extraordinay exhibit was resembled in a very different way which does not do it justice: the new exhibit is crowded among various parafernalia which distacts the visitor's eye.
The museographers ought to think again, for what really is a uique piece of Napoleonic and British history.