More photographs of old Chelsea that you can still see many of the places in Hedderly’s pictures, Rossetti’s house, Belle Vue House, the embankment, a reasonable facsimile of the Old Church. But the remarkable thing about these pictures is that almost everything you see in them is now gone.
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North side of the King’s Road from Paultons Square |
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King’s Road north side near Beaufort Street |
King's Road south side corner of Beaufort St demolished |
King’s Road north side from corner of Edith Grove |
Wesleyan Chapel Sloane Street 1901 |
This was Camera Square, off the northern section of Beaufort Street. |
Camera Square |
King's Road north side from Sydney Street to Upper Manor Street - site of theatre and PO dem 1902 |
King's Road south side and Manor St during demolition of old property |
Manresa Road from Wentworth Villa to Trafalgar Square |
Manresa Road opposite Library Daniel's Brewery Stores, 1896 |
This picture from October 1900 shows the previous incarnation of the Peter Jones store, a building gone but definitely not forgotten |
Sydney Street east side and King's Road north side |
This is D’Oyley Street, and that is the Woodman Tavern before 1897 |
D’Oyley Street 1897 |