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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.
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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Taken on a wet September day in 1983, when Chelsea Drugstore, seen opposite on the corner of Royal Avenue, was still very much in business. Clearly I wasn't aiming to capture a specific image of it in this photo, but then it gives a better impression of how we saw it in those days - just as a normal part of the Chelsea street scene. The bookies isn't there any more, by the way.
Between May and September 1999 Armchair Passenger Transport operated London bus route 49 on a temporary contract using new Alexander-bodied Dennis Darts.
Here T143AUA is in Sydney Street, London SW3, passing the Royal Brompton Hospital en route for Clapham.
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.
these can be seen quite regularly..........though the models change, last time I saw NOT 2B it was on a Mercedes.
Chelsea - an affluent area in central London, bounded to the south by the River Thames. Its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station. The modern eastern boundary is Chelsea Bridge Road and the lower half of Sloane Street, including Sloane Square. To the north and northwest, the area fades into Knightsbridge and Brompton, but it is safe to say that the area north of King's Road as far northwest as Fulham Road is part of Chelsea. The football club Chelsea F.C. could reasonably be considered to be based in Chelsea, despite being located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The district is part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. From 1900, and until the creation of Greater London in 1965, it formed the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea in the County of London.
The exclusivity of Chelsea as a result of its high property prices has historically resulted in the term Sloane Ranger being used to describe its residents. Since 2011, Channel 4 has broadcast a reality television show called Made in Chelsea, documenting the "glitzy" lives of young people living there. Moreover, Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside the US, with 6.53% of Chelsea residents being born in the US.
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..This Small Stretch Was Known As Lombard Terrace...It Is Now Ropers Gardens Which Were Created As A Public Amenity On A Bomb Site Following Destruction Of The Buildings In 1941. The Name Recalls The Fact That The Land Was Part Of The Gift Of Sir Thomas More To His Daughter Margaret On Her Marriage To William Roper.... The Gardens Were Laid Out In 1964...Also Seen On The Left Was The Famous Maunder`s Fish Shop..
Artwork by Kirstine Roepstorff in the Known Unknowns exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery
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