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Title: looking for paradise row
Post by: bigjon on Saturday 02 December 17 14:31 GMT (UK)

hi all
    just discovered my gggggrandfather lived on Paradise Row in Chelsea. Is this what is now called Paradise Walk. Can,t find any other options.
                                                               thanks .........bigjon

Title: Re: looking for paradise row
Post by: groom on Saturday 02 December 17 14:44 GMT (UK)

Does this map help?

http://mapco.net/darton1814/darton25.htm

From another source " Paradise Row was renamed Queen's Row West in the 1860s and is now known as Royal Hospital Road."

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/ChelseaDiscipline/

Title: Re: looking for paradise row
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 02 December 17 14:46 GMT (UK)

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol2/pt1/pp23-28

 the ancient name of the road "Paradise Row." These houses formed a terrace—to use a much-abused word—opposite Walpole House and the stables of the Hospital, and were separated from Smith Street by the not unpicturesque group of buildings shown in Plate 17.

Title: Re: looking for paradise row
Post by: chinapaddy on Saturday 02 December 17 14:49 GMT (UK)

Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea, being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry noble and notable persons who in former times dwelt there; to which are added likenesses of the principal of them and of their several houses
by Blunt, Reginald, 1857-1944


https://archive.org/details/paradiseroworab00blungoog

Title: Re: looking for paradise row
Post by: bigjon on Saturday 02 December 17 15:00 GMT (UK)

thank you guys,
    seems to have been a very nice place, pity it had to be demolished
     bigjon