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A long walk down Walmer Road 1969-1971 Part 2
I left you last week at Dulford Street facing south. Those two women are staring at you so we’d better move on. This section of Walmer Road is where there had been most changes since the 1930s. Here is...
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Lots Road 1972: the L-shaped street
Lots Road is that rarest of street configurations, an L-shape so it has a north side, a south side an east side and a west side. So where do we begin? Here? This is the view looking south from Stanley...
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Lots Road south to north:1972 and 2013
I left you last week at the Balloon Tavern which looked a bit bleak and isolated in 1972. But a couple of days ago, more than forty years later it looked like this: The south to north arm of Lots Road...
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Side streets of Chelsea: part one
Most people have heard of the King’s Road, and when these photographs were taken it was at the height of its cultural / historical significance, Chelsea was one of the fashion / youth culture centres...
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Bignell at the pub
Last week’s pictures took us back to a time when there were still dozen of pubs in Chelsea. It’s true that they were changing in the early 1970s. The Lord Nelson in the King’s Road changed its name to...
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Side streets of Chelsea: part two
We took a look at the Cross Keys in part one, and I was pleased to hear it would be opening again. So let’s start with another look at it down one of the side streets of Chelsea, Lordship Place. All...
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A short stroll down Westbourne Grove 1971-2
1971. A bright day, in November possibly. On the right of the picture 120 Kensington Park Road,a branch of Finch’s Wine. The start of our little walk. These are the high numbers of Westbourne Grove....
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Building site 1972-1975: Kensington Town Hall
I was talking to a meeting about blogging the other day and I showed the group a couple of pictures from the post about the Red House, like this one. They were interested so I decided to take the story...
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The Chelsea Murders: fiction in Kensington and Chelsea 2
Lionel Davidson was a famous writer in his day, although not much mentioned these days. Many of his books are still in print though. He was big in the 60s. He wrote what you might call international...
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Forgotten streets of Chelsea
I’ll have to start by qualifying that title. Chelsea people have long memories so I should really say streets forgotten by some people. For others the streets demolished in 1969/70 to clear the area...
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Fiction in Kensington and Chelsea 3: Offshore
When I do these posts about fiction set in Kensington and Chelsea I’m normally scrabbling around for pictures to go with the text but this post came about because there were plenty of pictures of the...
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Along the Promenade: Kensington High Street
Kensington High Street October 1961. The corner of Wright’s Lane. The photographer has noted on the back: midday. It’s good to know that now. The street is busy. A shop called Hope Brothers...
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Cheyne Walk: heading west 1970
I was looking for a picture of 120 Cheyne Walk, where Arthur Ransome lived for a while in the period he describes in his book Bohemia in London. Number 120 is right on the edge of the World’s End...
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Chelsea stories – your Granny, your Junk, your Cave
This week we continue looking at the western end of the King’s Road, using the photos of our new friend JW “Blll” Figg. and a couple of others. And we’re going to take a look at a few buildings over...
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Up Clarendon Road: 1970
Clarendon Road is another of the streets that converged at Lancaster Circus running roughly north to south. In 1970 it ran from the junction with Lancaster Road all the way down to Holland Park Avenue....
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On the border 6.3: road and canal
We left off our trip down Kensal Road before Christmas and we were round about the Lads of the Village pub on the corner of Middle Row. You could just make out the petrol station a little further east....
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Car spotting in Oxford and Cambridge (Gardens)
The content of this post arises from the use of an occasional method of mine to stimulate inspiration. Start scanning with one picture you like and keep going until a theme emerges. I don’t know if it...
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