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
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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,
The only Luftwaffe pilot to bale out over Chelsea during WW2
His life was saved by a Chelsea artist who disarmed an outraged bombing victim who had grabbed the pilot’s pistol and was threatening to shoot
The Star: Fifty years of London’s forgotten evening newspaper
This feature explores the rise and fall of a campaigning evening newspaper now long lost to history. It was January 17th 1938, and one of
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