Old Scenes of Chelsea as You’ve Never Seen Before

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.

North side of the King’s Road from Paultons Square

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