#LondonWalks #Literature #Chelsea I'm walking literary London again, this time with a Chelsea London walk! Scroll for a list of the literary sights featured!
Look at all that scaffolding! So that was a little irritating, but apart from that this was a really enjoyable walk! I'll list below all of the details about the places featured, as well as the rough time stamps. As with my previous Walking Literary London video, most of the places here (aside from P.L. Travers's home) I'd read about in the same-titled book by Roger Tagholm. It's a great book, and definitely worth checking out if you're interested in London, literature, history, and historical literary London!
PLACES
00:00 - 00:59
- Sloane Square Station, where Peter Llewellyn-Davies (the inspiration behind J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan) committed suicide by jumping in front of a train.
- Carlyle Mansions, where T.S. Eliot resided at number 19, and Henry James at number 21. James Bond author Ian Fleming also stayed there in the 1950s.
01:00 - 01:59
- Cheyne Walk, where George Eliot lived at number 4, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne at number 16, and Sylvia Pankhurst at number 120.
- St Luke's Church, where Charles Dickens married Catherine Hogarth.
- 213 King's Road, where film director Sir Carol Reed lived.
02:00 - 02:59
- 6 Carlyle Square, where actress Dame Sybil Thorndike lived.
- 11 (now 13) Mallord Street, where Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne lived.
- Chelsea Old Church, where Henry James worshipped.
- Bronze 'Awakening' statue of a naked woman by Gilbert Ledward.
- Statue of Saint Sir Thomas More.
- Cheyne Mews, where once stood King Henry VIII's manor house.
03:00 - 03:59
- 22 Upper Cheyne Row, where Leigh Hunt lived.
- 23 Tedworth Square, where Samuel L. Clemens (aka Mark Twain) lived.
- 16 (now 34) and 1 (now 44) Tite Street, both former residencies of Oscar Wilde.
- 50 Smith Street, where Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers lived.
04:00 - 04:48
- 18 St Leonard's Terrace, where Dracula author Bram Stoker lived.
- Cadogan Hotel, where Oscar Wilde was staying in room 118 at the time of his arrest on the grounds of homosexuality.
- Sir Hans Sloane statue.