CONTENTS The Chelsea of Sir Thomas More-Crosby Hall -Cheyne Walk-Sandford Manor-Chelsea III. TRAFALGAR SQUARE TO FLEET STREET The Strand-Charing Cross-Water Gates— Roman Baths-London Stone-Great Tower Street-All Hallows, Barking-St. Olave's- IX. A STROLL IN WHITEHall and WeSTMINSTER 158 Whitehall - United Services Museum The Abbey Cloisters-The Chapter House-Ash- Battersea-Kew. UNNOTICED LONDON CHAPTER I CHELSEA "I have passed manye landes and manye yles and contrees, and cherched many full straunge places, Now I am comen home to reste." SIR JOHN MAUndeville. IF a hurried traveller had only time to roam about one of the London boroughs I think he should choose Chelsea, because in that small area of houses built along a mile and a half of the Thames riverside there is much that is typical of quite different phases of London life, from the sixteenth century to the present day. It lies between the Kings Road and the Embankment, beginning at Lower Sloane Street -Chelsea Bridge Road, and is reached by the district railway to Sloane Square Station or by the No. II bus passing the Strand, Trafalgar Square and Victoria: by Nos. 19 or 22 from Hyde Park Corner, and from Kensington by the 31, with its terminus at Limerston Street, and by the Nos. 49 and 49a. Perhaps the reason why this quarter has always been beloved is because while other districts |