[This is a work in progress online posting intended to eventually present a full Chelsea Blitz timeline narrative. More detailed narratives of large-scale incidents with
Category: Chelsea History and Studies
Sloane Square Underground Station
Sloane Square was one of London’s first underground stations constructed for the Metropolitan and District Line in 1868. When the trains were powered by steam
Seaton Street (adjoining Cremorne Road)
Seaton Street is one of the lost streets of Chelsea, but certainly not forgotten. It was erased and eliminated from the map of Chelsea in
Bramerton Street
Bramerton Street has several strong historical resonances in the human and social narrative of Chelsea. It runs from Glebe Place to the King’s Road and
Battersea Bridge
Reginald Blunt’s evaluation of Battersea Bridge in 1900 ‘The horse ferry – Royal property, apparently – existed here from the 15th century (and probably much
Isaac T. Lloyd Chemist and Pharmacist King’s Road Chelsea
It is not very often that a shop and service so familiar in my childhood and time of living in Chelsea 50 to 60 years