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The paving slabs in this patio garden are known as "York Stone" quarried in Yorkshire and much favoured in Victorian times. We find it in London on sidewalks, eventhough now the silly Council bureaucrats are in the habit of digging it out to replace it with awful concrete slabs: somebody must make a good buck out of this act of vandalism.
Yorkstone is a tight grained, Carboniferous sedimentary rock. The structure of the stone includes minerals such as quartz, mica, feldspar, clay and iron oxides.
Yorkstone is popular in both new construction and restoration. Many quarries are still being worked in Yorkshire to provide new Yorkstone. The colour of Yorkstone depends on the minerals within its makeup and differs throughout the quarries from which it is mined.
A back street pub that I need a better photo of. Some rather ornate decoration. Since closed but then reopened.
Addresss: 1 Lawrence Street.
Owner: Butcombe Brewery; DM Group (former); Cirrus Inns (former); Star Pubs and Bars (former).
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Pubs History (history)
Decent pub on the King's Road. Back then it had pool tables upstairs and decent beers on pump. It's since been refurbished (having become part of the ETM Group), so it's very much gastro now, though still retaining the pool tables.
Address: 298 Kings Road.
Owner: TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former).
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Pubs History (history)
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades &Streetscapes
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I have come to lament "the world we live in"... amongst others noticing how things changed in London, for the worst, with contractors as well as honest denizens being compelled to secure their property by chaining it: large plants in their containers, wooden benches, plastic containers (see above) and surprisingly even scaffolding... "This scaffolding is alarmed" is the ubiquitous warning to potential marauders. What next? Back to the chastity belts!
Aboudia
2013
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
125 x 200 cm
(Not sure if it's Enfants dans la Rue 1 or 3!)
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Houses in Swan Walk, London SW3 seen from the grounds of the Chelsea Physic Garden - the oldest Botanic garden in London
The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673, as the Apothecaries' Garden, with the purpose of training apprentices in identifying plants. The location was chosen as the proximity to the river created a warmer microclimate allowing the survival of many non-native plants - such as the largest outdoor fruiting olive tree in Britain - and more importantly, to allow plants to survive harsh British winters. The river was also important as a transport route that linked the garden to other open spaces such as Putney Heath, facilitating easy movements of both plants and botanists. In fact the garden has always sought to achieve good communications with others working in the same field: by the 1700's it had initiated an international botanic garden seed exchange system, which continues to this day.
Some years later, Dr. Hans Sloane, after whom the nearby locations of Sloane Square and Sloane Street were named, purchased the Manor of Chelsea from Charles Cheyne. This purchase of about 4 acres was leased to the Society of Apothecaries for £5 a year in perpetuity.
Environments for supporting different types of plants were built, including the pond rock garden, constructed from a variety of rock types, namely stones from the Tower of London, Icelandic lava (brought to the garden by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772 on a ship named St. Lawrence), fused bricks and flint. This curious structure has been listed Grade II* and is the oldest rock garden in England on view to the public. It was completed on 16th August 1773.
In 1848 Robert Fortune used Wardian cases, which are rather like miniature greenhouses, to transport seedlings of Camelia sinensis (tea) from China leading to the establishment of the tea industry in India.
In 1876 the Garden enlarged its educational aspirations by deciding to run a lecture course for young women who were training as botany teachers. At the end of the 19th century the trustees of the City Parochial Foundation agreed to take over the running of the Garden from the Society of Apothecaries. In 1983 The Garden became a registered charity and open to the general public for the first time.
The Chelsea Physic Garden has developed a major role in public education focusing on the renewed interest in natural medicine. The Garden of World Medicine which is Britain's first garden of ethnobotany (or the study of the botany of different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples) is laid out together with a new Pharmaceutical Garden.
In the middle of the row of houses is the former residence of American painter John Singer Sargent
Studio houses on the eastern side of Tite Street
The studio houses at Numbers 31 and 33 Tite Street shown here were designed by Robert Edis and erected in 1880. Number 31 was built for Frank Dicey and purchased in 1901 by William Singer Sargent. Since 1886 Sargent had lived in the ground floor flat of studio flats next door. The architects were embroiled in disputes with Metropolitan Board of Works over their designs. The end result was a compromise. The last house just at the edge of the photograph was built on the site of Whistler's White House.