Rambling Recollections of Chelsea
by J. B. Ellenor
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ellenor, J. B.
- Title
- Rambling Recollections of Chelsea and the Surrounding District as a Village in the Early Part of the Past Century By an Old Inhabitant
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1901 The Press Printers edition by David Price. Many thanks to Kensington Local Studies Library for allowing the use of their copy in making this transcription
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Chelsea (London, England) -- History -- 19th century
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32548
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32548
- Release Date
- May 26, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Rambling Recollections of Chelsea and the surrounding District as a Village in the early part of the past century
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.CHAPTER 1.—Early Recollections.
- 4.CHAPTER 2.—Schoolboy Escapades.
- 5.CHAPTER 3.—Entertainments and Sports.
- 6.CHAPTER 4.—Chelsea Notabilities.
- 7.CHAPTER 5.—Old-time Chelsea.
- 8.CHAPTER 6.—Public Gardens.
- 9.CHAPTER 7.—My First Census.
- 10.CHAPTER 8.—The London Docks.
- 11.CHAPTER 9.—An Exciting Experience.
- 12.CHAPTER 10.—A Boy’s Tramp by Road to Epsom, on Derby Day, 1837.
- 13.CHAPTER 11.—On the Downs.
- 14.CHAPTER 12.—The First Steamboats.
- 15.CHAPTER 13—Politics on Kennington Common.
- 16.CHAPTER 14.—Knightsbridge.
- 17.Footnotes:
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