Cheyne Walk
Cheyne Walk
(pronounced Chaynee) is the most historic street in
Chelsea
, a bit of "picturesque old London". Most of the houses were built in the early
eighteenth century
. Before the construction in the
nineteenth century
of the busy
Thames Embankment
, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the
River Thames
. East of the Walk are the gardens of the
Apothecaries' Company
, with their famous cedars. Many famous people have lived (and continue to live) in the Walk.
Keith Richards
lived at number 3.
George Eliot
spent the last three weeks of her life at Number 4.
David Lloyd George
lived at Number 10.
The landscape painter
Cecil Gordon Lawson
lived at number 15 (a number of his works still hang there).
also the engraver
Henry Thomas Ryall
.
also the Allason family, well-known for their political and literary influence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
lived at number 16
AND
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sir
Hans Sloanes
manor house, demolished in
1760
, stood at numbers 1926
James McNeill Whistler
lived at numbers 21, 96 and 101 (at different times, of course)
Mick Jagger
lived at number 48
Elizabeth Gaskell
was born at number 93.
Sir
Marc Brunel
who designed the Thames Tunnel lived at number 98
As did his son
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Sir Philip Steer lived at number 109.
*
J.M.W. Turner
died at number 119 in
1851
.
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