Tag: chelsea

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, revolutionary, meet Jerome Klapka Jerome, writer. Another London juxtaposition.

Despite being painted bright green and standing out like a sore thumb in a row of white fronted buildings, the Albany Hotel on Tavistock Place is a tired…

The Thames from Chelsea Embankment on a winter’s afternoon

The late afternoon light transformed the Thames and its neighbours. There are shades of Monet’s paintings of London at the turn of the twentieth century, with mist in…

Art wars and nesting boxes at Cremorne Gardens

I went for a wander through old Chelsea yesterday, poking my nose into various nooks and crannies, taking photos and trying to imagine what Chelsea must have been…

Charlton House

James I, the King Of Scotland, who also took over the crown of England when Elizabeth I died childless, had this house built for Sir Adam Newton who…

Cyril E Power – going down the tube between the wars and a visit to ‘Appy ‘Ampstead

What a cracking image! Sleek and modernistic. Very 1930’s. It’s called Whence and Whither – a great title to boot! – and was produced by Cyril E, for Edward, Power in 1930….