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TURNER AND THE RIVERSIDE
Chelsea, like other villages around London, always had its share of artists living there, attracted by its charm and its cheapness compared with more fashionable areas near central London. The most famous of these was Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), but the fame he brought to Chelsea was posthumous, since hardly anyone knew he was living there. He kept his house and gallery in Queen Anne Street (St Marylebone), where he had lived since the end of the 18th century, but when his companion, Mrs Sophia Booth, moved to London in 1846, they looked for a house by the river and took a 21-year lease of no. 6 Davis's Place, at the western end of Chelsea's riverside. Turner spent most of his time there, concealing his private life from his friends and acquaintances; he was known in the neighbourhood as Mr or Admiral Booth. The house, 3-storeyed but only one bay wide, was one of a row of seven small cottages which stretched westwards from the King Arms public house. It had a small garden in front bounded by a low wooden fence, and Turner had the roof flattened and added a railing to make a balcony from which he could observe the river. (fn. 2) Their neighbours included a boat builder and shops selling beer, wine, and ginger beer, and across the road were steps down to the Thames foreshore. Turner died at this house in December 1851; it was later incorporated with its eastern neighbour into a larger house, now nos 118-119 Cheyne Walk.
A very attractive, small pub on Old Church St, popular with the more upmarket local crowd. Good enough place for a drink, and they have Deuchars IPA on, as well as another bitter with the same name as the pub itself. Since renamed as The Chelsea Pig, and then back to The Pig's Ear.
Address: 35 Old Church Street (formerly Church Street).
Former Name(s): The Front Page; The Black Lion.
Owner: Star Pubs and Bars (former).
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Pubs History (history)
Victorian pub building houses a gay pub just off the King's Road. Looks fine, but sadly since closed.
Address: 25 Tryon Street (formerly Keppel Street).
Owner: Stonegate Pub Company (former); TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former); Courage (former).
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In POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
By Michael Craig-Martin at the Saatchi Gallery
Pricks, 2000
Acrylic on canvas
213.4 x 142.2 cm
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165 people in distress on a rubber boat are located during the night around 80 NM north from Al-Khums, Libya.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
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Old Swan House, Chelsea Embankment - a gem of architecture by Norman Shaw
detail of Swan on the first-floor bay window
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Until some three years ago there was near Cadogan Square London SW1 a pub called "The Australian" which sadly had closed down to become an interior design shop. It had inside 19th c cricket memorabilia including a portrati of Grace.
Its name derived from the fact that nearby was a cricket field, before the famous "Oval Cricket grounds" was established where the first cricket match took place "between the Gentlemen of England and the Australians" (sic) - this is not a pun it is an accurate quotation (...).
Since that event the cricket pitch was long gone and built upon and the sole witness to it - the pub has also vanished.
Delta RHIB distributes life jackets to people on a wooden boat in distress. In the background, the Sea Watch 3 vessel observes the rescue and waits for the transfer.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
A large former pub, now an upmarket bar. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as The Roebuck.)
Address: 354 Kings Road.
Former Name(s): Babushka; The Roebuck.
Owner: (website).
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Beer in the Evening (Babushka)
Pubs History (history)
The Swearingen Merlin or the Fairchild Aerospace Merlin is a pressurised, twin turboprop business aircraft which has been used as a military plane for maritime patrol, reconnaissance, anti-surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare. There are currently two planes of this type in charge.
Currently deployed MPRAS: eunavfor.eu/deployed-units/mpras/#news-tabs
STARS
By Barbara Chandler
The Platform Gallery, Habitat, 208 Kings Road, London SW3 5XP; www.platform.habitat.co.uk
From Tuesday 20 November to 5 January 2013
Open Monday – Friday 10am-7pm; late night, Wednesday 8pm; Saturday 9.30am – 6.30pm; Sunday 12 noon – 6pm
A filmic installation of over 70 colourful seasonal photographs projected onto the end wall of the gallery, with images from all around Europe, including London (of course), Paris, Sicily, Venice, Barcelona, St Petersburg, Greece, and Warsaw. Setting the mood is an innovative soundtrack by London’s cool DJ Wongtom. Here are starry pictures of street decorations observed all around Europe – London (of course), Paris, Sicily, Barcelona, St Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw and more. To this stellar line-up are added joyous images of street musicians, carol singers, shoppers and shop windows – sharply-observed yet affectionate, often witty and a touch surreal.
On the walls: mounted and framed signed prints of winter scenes in town and country (many in black-and-white), including Tower Bridge in the fog, Hampstead Heath on Boxing Day, Stonehenge, and the Northumberland and Lancashire coasts.
Also a supersize Christmas card (probably the biggest in London!) – with images for all the family to explore. There is also an “image trail” for children around the gallery, and Christmas family workshops by [re]design.
Photography from STARS is also on exclusive textiles at Habitat, including three tea towels (£8 each), two cushions (£25 each), two tote bags (£10 each) and an apron (£15).
About Barbara
Barbara Chandler’ s previous exhibitions include Visions of Poland (three shows in London, and one in Warsaw, 1992-2009); Street Music, The Crush Bar, Covent Garden Opera House, 1996; The Hidden Heart of Hackney, 1999-2000; Love, Battersea, 2004.
The Love London collection was first exhibited in Habitat on Regent Street in the heart of the West End in 2008. The book Love London was published by Batsford in 2011; £9.99
CURATOR: Jenny Granger, info@grangergallery.co.uk
PRESS for Stars by Barbara Chandler: Sahra Gott, 01243 816611; 07889 448058; sahra@lovelondon.uk.com
PRESS for Habitat: Ciara O'Connor, press officer; 0207 427 8042; Ciara.O'Connor@habitat.co.uk
* to buy my handmade Christmas cards each with a genuine photographic prints go to
www.barbarachandler.co.uk/CHRISTMAS/christmas-1.html and click on images for larger views.
A posh looking bar in Chelsea, which had recently closed as of this photo, it seems. Since renamed as Zinnia, and then Mimosa, but still closed. (It was in the Good Beer Guide as The Rose.)
Address: 86 Fulham Road.
Former Name(s): Cactus Blue; The Rose.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former).
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Henry JAMES (1843-1916)
American-born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy. James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and a number of literary criticism. His models were Dickens, Balzac, and Hawthorne.
Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy family
In his youth James traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna and Bonn At the age of nineteen he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but was more interested in literature than studying law. James published his first short story, 'A Tragedy of Errors' two years later, and then devoted himself to literature
After living in Paris, where James was contributor to the New York Tribune, he moved to England, living first in London and then in Rye, Sussex. "It is a real stroke of luck for a particular country that the capital of the human race happens to be British. Surely every other people would have it theirs if they could. Whether the English deserve to hold it any longer might be an interesting field of inquiry; but as they have not yet let it slip the writer of these lines professes without scruple that the arrangement is to his personal taste. For after all if the sense of life is greatest there, it is a sense of the life of people of our incomparable English speech." (from London, 1888) During his first years in Europe James wrote novels that portrayed Americans living abroad. In 1905 James visited America for the first time in twenty-five year, and wrote 'Jolly Corner'. It was based on his observations of New York, but also a nightmare of a man, who is haunted by a doppelgänger.
Between 1906 and 1910 James revised many of his tales and novels for the New York edition of his complete works. His autobiography, A Small Boy and Others (1913) was continued in Notes of a Son and Brother (1914). The third volume, The Middle Years, appeared posthumously in 1917. The outbreak of World War I was a shock for James and in 1915 he became a British citizen as a loyalty to his adopted country and in protest against the US's refusal to enter the war. James suffered a stroke on December 2, 1915. He expected to die and exclaimed: "So this is it at last, the distinguished thing!" James died three months later in Rye on February 28, 1916.
King's Road shoppers on a rainy day in September 1983. This shot was taken on the north side of the road looking sort-of east towards Sloane Square. Opposite you can just see the edge of the famous Chelsea Drugstore, which was still very much in business when I took this photo. Today the iconic building houses a McDonald's. How times change.
Location: Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, SW3 5AZ
Description: This house originally stood in Bishopsgate, where it was the Great Hall of the 15th century Crosby Place.
Shakespeare was familiar with this former city mansion, and wrote it into 'Richard III' as the scene of Gloucester's plotting. The building was occupied by Richard while he was Duke of Gloucester. Later it was owned by Sir Thomas More.
The Hall was moved stone by stone from Bishopsgate to Chelsea in 1910 in order to rescue it from proposed demolition. It was then incorporated into the buildings of the British Federation of University Women and used as a dining hall. It is now a private residence.
A modern banking house stands on the original Bishopsgate site, and it bears a plaque to mark the hall's existence.
Antonio Malta Campos
Figures in Red #2
2004
Oil on canvas
230 x 360 cm
Saatchi Gallery, London
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