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Chelsea Pottery No. 45 CHELSEA SOCIETY NEWSLETTER www.chelseasociety.org.uk charity no. 276264 July 2017 90 Not Out – Looking Forward to our Century JAMES THOMPSON, CHAIRMAN In our 90th Anniversary Year we aim to do range of topics of these lectures, such that two things: maintain our traditions and there will always be one event a month. try out some new things. Our founders’ We are trying new things. We will be passion for the preservation of Chelsea offering our Annual Report to a wider is still felt today: the best aspects of our public, starting with our advertisers and Libraries RBKC Credit: past should be cherished, and any change other Chelsea institutions, as a way of should be an improvement. telling them about Chelsea and about It is testimony to the dedication of the work of the Society, and gaining new Society members over 90 years that we are members. “Annual Report” is probably a flourishing organisation, always adapting not the most alluring of titles, which ourselves to new circumstances while still suggests it is just a financial statement. maintaining our traditions. For example, It might be more accurate to call it “The our Annual Report has been coming out Chelsea Society Review”, but I welcome since 1927, so we can be proud of this other suggestions on its content uninterrupted contact with our members and presentation. since the Society was founded. Past We are working hard to establish a copies are a treasure house of Chelsea permanent Chelsea Society Cricket team, history, and we are scanning them so and welcome volunteers. The intention is that they can be available on our website: to provide an entertaining game so that Reginal Blunt – Our founder www.chelseasociety.org.uk visitors to Chelsea can enjoy themselves, and learn more about the work of Our activities the Society. This Newsletter is a more recent Planning is done by a five-person CONTENTS Committee, with a representative for each innovation, started in 1993, now, at issue The King’s Road ......................................2 45, an established tradition. It is still printed of the four Chelsea wards of RBKC, and is Planning Report .....................................4 and distributed by post, as is the Annual chaired by Society Vice-Chairman Michael Report. Our Lectures have been well Stephen. It is sometimes assumed that Advertising ..............................................8 attended, and this year we have had talks we are against all planning applications, Crossrail 2 Update .................................9 (untrue, if you look at our Planning notes) on the Chelsea-based composer Peter London Lorry Controls ......................10 Warlock, on Cecil Beaton’s interior designs, and that we never say what we would the photography of luxury Chelsea approve of. To turn that round, we have The Changing River ...........................11 interiors and, branching further afield, introduced an Architecture Prize, to be Chelsea Pottery ....................................12 Anglo-German diplomatic relationships. given to the best proposal for a new Obituaries ...............................................14 We have also arranged public meetings building on a site in Chelsea which needs Chelsea Society Summer Meeting ..15 on planning, and RBKC finances. We are to be improved. As good neighbours, Dates for your Diary ............................16 attempting to increase the frequency and we will liaise with owners of the u 1 THE CHELSEA SOCIETY Chairman’s Report Kings Road u sites concerned. events, meetings and the AGM takes up display them. To make our Events easier to book, much of the membership income. That is We will continue to mail out the ticketing is now done by Cadogan Hall. even after working hard to find advertisers Annual Report, and two Newsletters a year You can book by phone on 020 7730 for the Annual Report. Hence, we have to all members. In addition, we are also 5400, or go and visit them in person. You had to raise subscriptions for next year by sending notice of events by email. Those Credit: Paul Aitkenhead Paul Credit: can also book on the internet. Our next £5. The Lectures, Visits and Tours normally without emails will continue to get paper event is our Summer Party on Wednesday break even, or make a small contribution flyers, even though that method is much 5 July, which this year will also get you to our funds. more expensive. free entry earlier that afternoon to the Our biennial Exhibitions cost The Chelsea Society depends on its Masterpiece exhibition. £40,000 and require major support from Members. Volunteers are always welcome, clutter, but all existing impedimenta We offered Members a chance to sponsors, or otherwise they could not and can determine how much time they were kept and cemented in place and live like a Chelsea Artist, courtesy of The be contemplated. Given the immense wish to contribute. Suggesting events a regiment of bollards were installed to London Sketch Club. We will be doing effort involved, we will only do another and helping with them are always helpful protect the Yorkstone pavements. this again, with more emphasis on tutors Exhibition if we can produce a book or contributions. In terms of changing the streetscape leading a beginner’s class, and a guarantee record of some sort which we can sell to I hope to see you at the Summer Party for the better, the major steps forward that your efforts will not be shown to defray the costs. Having sounded that on 5th July. n were the Yorkstone paving and the anyone if that is your wish. warning, we are considering an Exhibition Facebook: “continuous pavement” across most of We have looked at the costs of our in 2018 on Chelsea Fashion. If you have https://www.facebook.com/ the side-road junctions. Although there activities in some detail, and found that exhibits we would be delighted to hear savethequeensheadchelsea was no attempt at decluttering – removal printing and sending out the Annual from you. The current plan is to have a Twitter: @savethequeens16 of unnecessary street furniture - we were Review, two Newsletters and flyers for Fashion Show together with Peter Jones to saved from a procession of pedestrian crossings with traffic signals. In 2010, the Council decided to Memorial at Corner of Sydney Street revisit King’s Road to remove the clutter, whether in a bus, in their cars or in taxis, whether Sloane Street, Sloane Square or especially guardrailing and signage, as well as an increasing amount of home the Chelsea Embankment. Changing Character of the King’s Road reduce the number of traffic lights by deliveries. incorporating them on lighting columns For much of the day there are probably Managing the future of MICHAEL BACH and to put in new lighting. There were just as many people walking up and down the King’s Road mixed views on the bollards – some the King’s Road as there are in vehicles. There is a feeling that the King’s Road people were attached to these “traditional” They need to be given space for walking is drifting and may have lost its way, impediments to parking on the pavement along the road, time and space to cross although not as badly as Kensington What sort of place do more likely acknowledge that it is the way – even though there was never a tradition the road or a place where people can just High Street, Notting Hill Gate or even of the world. So, what are the issues today we want it to be? of bollards and these were modern enjoy being there. There are not enough Knightsbridge. There is no vision for the and what can we do about it? Recent issues of the Newsletter have “reproductions”. However, the cost of places to stop, rest and watch the world King’s Road – no group of people who focused on the changing character of taking them out was the deciding factor. go by. could produce a strategy and secure Changing Streetscape Michael Bach Picture: Chelsea, especially that of the King’s The greatest concentration – the north But have we got the balance right yet? improvements. Kensington and Chelsea is Twenty years ago the King’s Road was a Road. People remember when many of side between Tryon Street and Bywater King’s Road, like many roads, have evolved surrounded by boroughs which do seek to mess. The pavements were mixture of the shops were independent and when Street - there are 17 bollards. Apart to accommodate traffic and have given guide the future of their centres, whether materials – mainly asphalt and concrete – the King’s Road was famous as one of the from being a significant obstruction to precedence, in terms of space and time, to through a town centre management and crossing the side roads was difficult as centres for fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. pedestrians, they do nothing to contribute moving vehicles. The raised “crossings” on group or business improvement district. many drivers were unaware of pedestrians Even 15 years ago, when we did a survey, to the relaxed atmosphere of the the side-road junctions have made things And it shows as even the most basic having priority. The Society proposed to our competitors were seen as Covent King’s Road. more comfortable for pedestrians, and the cleansing and janitorial management is the Council that there should be a single Garden. Who would they be now? removal of guardrailing has made King’s lacking, let alone marketing. paving material – York stone – and that Traffic Today the King’s Road, despite the Road more people friendly. Introducing In 2007 the Council adopted the report there should be a continuous pavement “curation” - carefully choosing the mix of Contrary to popular belief, the King’s Road signalled crossings – and especially of its Retail Commission, which included the length of the King’s Road as a result shops - by the Cadogan Estate, including does not carry much through traffic apart any associated guardrailing – would a proposal to manage the Borough’s of raised surfaces at nearly every junction.
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