Here are all the updates for the research and writing of Chelsea History and Studies. As should already be clear all of this work is
Category: Chelsea History and Studies
Chelsea’s Lady Mayor who went up in a Hydrogen balloon in Coronation Week 1953 in high winds from the Royal Hospital and ended up in a field in Sussex.
The “Henri Dunant” hydrogen balloon was the biggest in the world and 65 year old Miss Mary Katherine Cook undoubtedly Chelsea’s slightest and smallest elected
The gentleman’s valet from Chelsea who survived the Titanic disaster
He was only 19 years old. He had been a sales assistant selling trunks and luggage at the John Pound store in the Brompton Road,
Chelsea Old Church between the wars- an Illustrated guide published in 1932
This was probably Chelsea’s most famous tourist location between the Great War of 1914-1918 and the Second World War of 1939-1945. Its history dated back
Chelsea’s deadly V2 strike- 3rd January 1945
Wednesday 3rd January 1945 At 8.44 a.m. in the morning the mobile German V2 battery unit 444, operating in the Hague area of occupied Holland
Ships called ‘Chelsea’ during the Second World War
Two ships bearing the name of “Chelsea” gave service during the Second World War. H.M.S. Chelsea was a destroyer and had a long, extensive and