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Kings Road, London SW3. - 2024
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Some woman and her children leave the Sea Watch 3 vessel during Disembarkation in Messina, Italy on the gangway. The Italian red cross awaits them at the quay for the registration process.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
50 Glebe Place SW3, a modern confection (completed 1987) by ad man Sir Frank Lowe for himself, Glebe Place SW3, Chelsea, London. The house to the right (49 Glebe Place) is an artist's studio by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (completed 1920).
King's Road shoppers on a rainy day in September 1983. This shot was taken on the north side of the road looking 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.
Haidi shows people on a wooden boat in distress how to put on their life jackets.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
A private members' club of some standing it seems. It also looks from the Pubs History site as if this address was once a beer house a long time ago.
Address: 287 Kings Road.
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Pubs History (history)
101 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, London SW3.
The home of ex-football hooligan Steve (Marc Warren) in a very exclusive part of Chelsea. Steve has obviously turned his life around with this very desirable property, only a couple of minutes north of posh Sloane Square.
Distribution of foods and drinks to guests on board the Sea Watch 3 vessel on the afterdeck. One guest helps the crew during the distribution. Guest coordinator Alex and Haidi collect identity from the guests.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
Royal Hospital Chelsea
London SW3
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The Royal Chelsea Hospital was founded by Charles II being inspitred by the "Invalides" in Paris, therefore intended as an Asylum for war veterans. It is modeled after the Oxbridge colleges, and as such the Hospital is provided with a Master, Chaplain and carers, It has its own (dining) Hall, Chapel, and bedroom accommodation, a small post office and huge park-like grounds. Most inmates are provided with individual electric vehicles to zip around.
Some guests look out to the Italian shore during the morning light while heading to Disembarkation to Messina, Italy.
Credit: Marcus Wiechmann // Sea-Watch e.V.
A cocktail bar and club. Since renamed as Callooh Callay, and then The March Hare.
Address: 316-318 Kings Road.
Former Name(s): Babushka; The Pitcher and Piano.
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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.
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Blue plaque, Queen Ann style
This is george Eliot's former residence in the elegant Cheyne Walk in Old Chelsea, only yards from the River Thames.
George Eliot came to Cheyne Walk with her new husband John Cross but died three weeks later having caught a chill while attending a concert.
A pub on busy Kings Road. Since taken over by Greene King.
Addresss: 119 Kings Road.
Former Name(s): The Commercial Tavern.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former)
Links:
Pubs History (history)
King's Road shoppers on a rainy day in September 1983. This shot was taken on the north side of the road looking east towards Sloane Square, more or less opposite the iconic Chelsea Drugstore, which was still very much in business when I took this photo. See others in this set for images of the Drugstore.