The Knowhere Guide

Local Heroes in Chelsea, Greater London*

Chelsea, Greater London Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• that model fellow, always surrounded by beautiful girls in the picasso cafe.......Gary someone...spencer i think
• felicliy kendle, jane asher,
• oh god, everyone? Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Dannie Minogue, Madonna, Richard E Grant, Bob Geldof, that footballer whose suppost to be the best ever but is a drunk but he bought me a drink, + all the others go shopping there on a sunny weekend.
• The Sanderson brothers including Chuck, Holly Knapman, Andy "batty boy" Hudson
• John Lydon/ Johnny Rotten of PiL/ Sex Pistols fame/ infamy used to live at 45 Gunter Grove.
• Joan Collins (Ex: Edith Grove); Anthony Newley (Ex:Edith Grove); Frances De La Tour (Ex: Edith Grove); Sir Thomas Moore(Sculptor); Joan Myles (Independent Woman & Supermum); Peter Finch (Nr. St.Lukes) David Graham; Mr.Cope (SUPER Headmaster Park Walk School); Mr.Pope (nice person worked at-Sydney St.) Derek Beck (Super nice Person - Sydney St.)
• Maraget Thatcher used to live in Chelsea village before she moved to Dulwich - but I am not sure that everyone would agree that she is exactly "famous". But so many really famous people lived in Chelsea that we need not mention her. In Cheyne Walk alone lived: Sylvia Pankhurst (women's rights activist), Sir Marc Isambard and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (civil engineers), George Eliot (novelist), Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell(novelist), Dante Gabriel Rosetti (poet and painter), Algernon Charles Swinburne (poet), James Abbot McNeil Whistler (painter), and Judy Garland (actress) died at 4 Cadogan Lane. One of the cast of "Blake's Seven" used to live in my block of flats in Draycott Avenue.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• Er this guy in a wheelchair outside the firestation on Kings road that was always pissing himself and trying to give passers-by money to get him a bottle of drink. Once he fell out of his wheelchair and just lay there like he was dead and everyone ignored him until an ambulance can about half an hour later. It could have been performance art from the nearby art college but it wasn't it was real cos his head was bleeding but he was back again the next day with a bandage on his head.

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Credits

Last updated: 2006-11-05