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14 | STREETS & SIGHTS |lived at number 16 for 20 years from1862, and kept a menagerie of animalsthere, including armadillos, kangaroosand peacocks – much to his neighbours’distress.He was particularly fond of wombats,which he described as ‘a joy, a triumph,a delight, a madness’. He even lamentedthe death of one in a pen drawing and averse: ‘I never reared a young wombat,to glad me with his pin-hole eye, Butwhen he was most sweet and fat, Andtail-less he was sure to die’ – a parodyof Irish poet Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh.Algernon Charles Swinburne andGeorge Meredith also lived with himat the house at various times.• Victorian author George Eliot (1819-1880), who wrote novels includingMiddlemarch, Daniel Deronda, SilasMarner and The Mill on the Floss, movedinto number 4 with her new husband in1880. She died there later that year of akidney infection. She used a male penname rather than her own name, MaryAnne Evans, because she thought itwould help her work to be taken moreseriously.• The American artist James AbbottMcNeill Whistler (1834-1903) lived atHenry VIII’s Chelseamanor houseRoyal Borough of Kensingon & Chelsea, Family & Children’s Serviceseveral addresses in Chelsea including 96Cheyne Walk, where a plaque bears hisname. He was known for his wit and wasfriends with Oscar Wilde. A sculpture ofWhistler by Nicholas Dimbleby stands onCheyne Walk near Battersea Bridge, at apoint affectionately known as Whistler’sReach. He signed his works with a butterflyimage and painted scenes around thearea, including Nocturne: Blue and Gold –Old Battersea Bridge, and Nocturne inBlack and Gold – The Falling Rocket(see Art).• Number 10 housed one of the 20thcentury’s key politicians, David LloydGeorge (1863-1945) – the only Welshprime minister and the last Liberal to holdthe office. He was PM between 1916 and1922, and was one of the ‘big three’(along with France’s Georges Clemenceauand US President Woodrow Wilson) whofinalised the Treaty of Versailles, signed inJune 1919, that ended the state of warbetween Germany and the Allied Powersafter the First World War.• Scottish sculptor John Tweed (1869-1933), known for statues including LordKitchener at Horse Guards Parade, thepeers’ war memorial at the House of Lordsand Joseph Chamberlain in WestminsterAbbey, lived at 108 Cheyne Walk.• Poet, essayist and historian HilaireBelloc (1870-1953) moved to 104 CheyneWalk in 1900 and lived there for five years.He worked closely with the writer GKChesterton, leading George Bernard Shawto call their partnership ‘Chesterbelloc’ -a name that stuck. The house hadpreviously been occupied by artist WalterGreaves (1846-1930), who lived therefrom 1855-1897 and painted the riverextensively.• Mathematician, logician and philosopherBertrand Russell (1872-1970), lived atseveral Chelsea addresses including14 Cheyne Walk. He wrote the landmarkmaths tome Principia Mathematica withAlfred Whitehead, who lived at 17 CarlyleRoyal Borough of Kensingon & Chelsea, Family & Children’s ServiceSquare, while living in Chelsea.• Women’s rights campaigner SylviaPankhurst (1882-1960) lived at number120. She was the daughter of EmmelinePankhurst, founder of the Women’sSocial and Political Union, and, like someof her fellow suffragettes, enduredimprisonment and force-feeding for hercause – to try to win rights for womenand be treated as equals to men.• Carlyle Mansions, on the corner ofLawrence Street and Cheyne Walk, washome to several wordsmiths, earning itthe nickname ‘the Writers’ Block’.Residents in the flats through the yearsincluded Henry James, TS Eliot,Somerset Maugham and Ian Fleming,among others.• Sir Jacob Epstein, the sculptor whocreated the memorial to Oscar Wildethat stands in Paris’s Père Lachaisecemetery, lived at 72 Cheyne Walk.The site of his studio, which he usedbetween 1909 and 1914, was bombedin 1941 and is now known as Roper’sGarden.• Other residents of Cheyne Walk haveincluded composer Ralph VaughanWilliams, artists William Holman Huntand Philip Wilson Steer, designer andarchitect Charles Robert Ashbee andRolling Stones members Keith Richardsand Mick Jagger.GeorgeEliot’shouse onCheyneWalk, byW BurgessCheyne Row• Artist William De Morgan (1839-1917)lived at 30 Cheyne Row and 127 OldChurch Street. He worked with WilliamMorris and is best known for his glazedpottery, but he also painted anddesigned stained glass, and wrote anovel that became a best-seller in 1906.• Margaret Damer Dawson (1875-1920), the founder of the Women’sPolice Service, is remembered in aplaque at number 10 Cheyne Row. Theorganisation started out as the Women’sPolice Volunteers when the First WorldWar began in 1914, paving the way forwomen to enter the police service.Danvers Street• Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955),discoverer of penicillin, lived at 20aDanvers Street.Draycott Avenue• Pioneering plastic surgeon SirArchibald McIndoe (1900-1960), whohelped airmen who had been badlyburned in the Second World War, lived atFlat 14 in Avenue Court.Draycott Place• John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859-1935), 1st Earl Jellicoe and Admiral ofthe Fleet, lived at 25 Draycott Place.He commanded the Grand Fleet at theBattle of Jutland in the First World War,and there is a bust of him in TrafalgarSquare.Duke of York SquareDuke of York Square has become sucha part of Chelsea that it’s now difficultto imagine the King’s Road without it.It used to be the Duke of York’s armybarracks, which had been inaccessibleto the public for 200 years, and beforethat had been a school, the Duke ofYork’s Royal Military Asylum, set up in1802.
15 | STREETS & SIGHTS |Cadogan bought the site from theMinistry of Defence in 1999 and began a£120 million development which included100,000 sq ft of shops, cafés, officesand flats.Architects Paul David & Partnersworked with English Heritage to makesure the new buildings complementedthe historic ones around them, and workbegan in April 2000. The area was landscapedby Elizabeth Banks Associatesand was designed to create a havenfrom the bustle of the King’s Road, withpale stone, fountains and shrubs. It wasthe first new public square in centralLondon for more than a century.The development was opened by HRHPrince Andrew, the Duke of York, onMarch 19, 2003. A sculpture of childrenplaying commemorates the school thatstood on the site, and a statue of SirHans Sloane links it to both Chelsea andCadogan’s past.Today, Duke of York Square featuresthe Saatchi Gallery and a variety of fashion,beauty and food shops, as well asrestaurants and cafés. There are regularevents, including the Saturday Farmers'Market, the annual BADA Antiques &Fine Art Fair and concerts. For more,visit www.dukeofyorksquare.com.Elm Park Gardens• Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps(1889-1952) was born at 32 Elm ParkGardens. He served in several posts inthe wartime coalition in the SecondWorld War and was Chancellor of theExchequer from 1947 to 1950.• Entertainer and writer Joyce GrenfellOBE (1910-1979) lived in Flat 8 at 34Elm Park Gardens between 1957 and1979. She is best known for her onewomanshows and monologues, includingher role as a nursery teacher with thecatchphrase: “George… don’t do that.”She had also lived in the King’s Roadand St Leonard’s Terrace.Dukeof YorkSquareopeningKing’s RoadThe King’s Road started life as just that –the King’s private road. It was built byCharles II in the 17th century as a routefrom Whitehall to Hampton Court.Because not everyone could use thethoroughfare, Chelsea was based morearound the riverside.However, locals were allowed to usethe road, and when George I looked setto take away this right, Sir Hans Sloaneand the local rector organised a petitionand saved the custom. It remainedclosed to the general public – only thosewith a special token could pass – until1830, when it was opened to everyone,helping to invigorate the area.The King’s Road’s reputation as afashion hub and key scene in theSwinging Sixties really began with theopening of Mary Quant’s shop Bazaarin 1955. She railed against traditionalfashion and launched cutting-edgedesigns including mini-skirts and plasticraincoats. Iconic boutiques such asGranny Takes a Trip, Hung on You andthe Chelsea Drugstore complex alsosprung up in the King’s Road.The road was the epicentre of punkculture in the 1970s, as a new era sweptaway the idealism of the 1960s.Vivienne Westwood and MalcolmMcLaren opened their shop, Let It Rock,at 430 King’s Road in 1971. It reopenedas SEX in 1974 and changed its focus toS&M-inspired anti-fashion that challengedthe establishment.McLaren had been helping a bandcalled the Strand – soon to be known asthe Sex Pistols – and spotted JohnLydon, who auditioned at SEX andbecame the band’s lead singer, JohnnyRotten. McLaren managed the band andThe Pheasantry onthe King’s Roadhelped them gain notoriety.In the 1980s, the King’s Road becameknown for ‘Sloane Rangers’, after thepublication of Ann Barr and Peter York’sOfficial Sloane Ranger Handbook in1982. ‘Sloanes’ was a term for the caricatureof the young, upper or upper-middleclass men and women often seen onthe road.Today the King’s Road is known for itsshopping, nightlife and history (for moreon the history of the King’s Road, seeHistory).• Thomas Arne (1710-1778), the composerof Rule, Britannia!, lived at 215King’s Road. He also wrote music forconcerts at Ranelagh Gardens. His son,Michael, who was also a composer, hada passion for alchemy and built a laboratoryin Chelsea, where eventually hisobsession destroyed his finances.• Actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928), oneof the great beauties of her time, alsolived at 215 King’s Road. She was oneof the era’s leading actresses andappeared at Chelsea’s Royal CourtTheatre.Her first marriage was to the artistGeorge Frederic Watts, who was mucholder, and she features in several of hispaintings. Although they separated afterless than a year, she wasn’t divorcedfrom him until much later – making herrelationship with architect EdwardWilliam Godwin, with whom she hadchildren, something of a scandal.• John McKean Brydon's Chelsea OldTown Hall was finished in 1887. Thefront of the building, seen from the King’sRoad, was added 30 years later byLeonard Stokes. The building hostsevents and has beautiful rooms availablefor hire, including for civil marriage ceremoniesand receptions. It also housesthe Chelsea Library.• Thomas Crapper had a bathroomfittings showroom at 120 King’s Road.Contrary to myth, he didn’t invent theflush toilet, but he did help to populariseit and developed several important inventions,such as the floating ballcock.• The Six Bells pub on the King's Roadwas a favourite of artists includingWhistler. It is now Henry J Bean’s (seePubs, bars and nightlife).• The Glaciarium, the first mechanicallyfrozen ice rink, opened just off the King’sRoad in 1876 and moved to a permanentvenue on the street the next year.• Australian-born pianist, composer andarranger Percy Grainger (1882-1961)lived at 31 King’s Road. He is bestknown for his piano arrangement of thefolk tune Country Gardens, which he is
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