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,
Tag: Knightsbridge
The Special Operations Executive house in Chelsea wrecked by bombing in WW2
Three SOE agents specially trained to work behind enemy lines and among the first to be sent to France were killed in the bombing of
Church of the Holy Redeemer and Upper Cheyne Row disaster- 14th September 1940.
It was Saturday 14th September 1940 and the eighty or so Chelsea people packed into the crypt of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy
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
Basil Street- Chelsea’s northern boundary in Knightsbridge
Basil Street in Knightsbridge is the northern boundary of Chelsea and a kind of frontier to Kensington and the City of Westminster. At one time