Heading now into 'old' Chelsea... the area retains the feel of a C18th village...
Now we come to Old Church Street. Running from the Thames up to South Kensington, Old Church Street has more architectural masterpieces than most cities. It offers fine examples of almost every style of architecture, from quaint C18th cottages to post-modern mansions:
... so that's just one street!!
Heading back down to King's Road...
we just have time to take a look at Carlyle Square (average house price £6 million)...
... and Chelsea Square. I dislike this square intensly - despite being one of most expensive in London (houses from £5-£20 million) it radiates bad vibes...
Just off Chelsea Square is former Chelsea art school...
This is the front of the building:
This is the back... the school has been converted into mega-apartments. There are several new apartment buildings in London currently marketing themselves as the most expensive/ hi-tech in the world, this is one of them. Prices start at £20 million:
That's your lot for today. Plenty more pictures to come in part 3, including some high rise grit!!
Oh, I wish I had £20 million. I wouldn't buy an apartment in that rather ugly and boring building in the last shot though. I could settle with one of those old and nice £6 million buildings and spend the rest of the money other stuff.
Charming neighborhood, I see Chelsea is much larger than I thought. London neighborhoods I noticed can easily blend in with the next. I think for the average tourist one can easily get the different hoods mixed up. For instance, I was staying in Bayswater, and yet Notting Hill was so close they seem to blended in together. For an outsider one couldn't tell where the bounderies are.
Charming neighborhood, I see Chelsea is much larger than I thought. London neighborhoods I noticed can easily blend in with the next. I think for the average tourist one can easily get the different hoods mixed up. For instance, I was staying in Bayswater, and yet Notting Hill was so close they seem to blended in together. For an outsider one couldn't tell where the bounderies are.
Most London neighbourhoods blur together quite organically. I'm not sure even many residents know where Notting Hill ends and Bayswater begins, exactly (I would say the boundary was Hereford Road ) sometimes postal codes can give a clue eg SW5, W8, NW1 and can be quite accurate reflections of a district... but sometimes not! And, numerically, they don't make much sense either...
eh? what works?
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