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Cheyne Walk: Prospect Place (Nos. 62 and 63)

Survey of London

… Walk) that James Salter had his famous coffee-house, which Faulkner tells us was opened in this very year, 1695. It was … road leading to the old Manor House, now Lawrence Street. Faulkner says that Salter was amerced 6 by the Court Leet in … the widow of Thomas Shadwell, the Laureate, whom Faulkner also places in Church Lane: and as we know that our …

Cheyne Walk: Queen's House (No. 16)

Survey of London

… Chelsea. Gryffid Price, the subject of a little eulogy by Faulkner, and by him styled one of His Majesty's Counsellors …

Cheyne Walk: Shrewsbury House, and Nos. 43-45

Survey of London

… destruction of Shrewsbury House in 1813, as chronicled by Faulkner. These buildings may fairly claim, therefore, to be … back as Little Cheyne Row where the stables were situated. Faulkner tells us that the road called Cook's Grounds (now … the original front of the west wing. Moreover, although Faulkner says that Shrewsbury House occupied in his day three …

Cheyne Walk: The Manor House, and Nos. 19-26

Survey of London

… which afterwards formed the nucleus of the British Museum. Faulkner gives some description of them with incidental … The view of the north side of the Manor House given by Faulkner in the second edition of his Chelsea is the only … Gentleman's Magazine of June 1822, where it is stated that Faulkner was about to publish a copy of a drawing of the …

Chiswick

Old and New London

… England, in order to be near him; and there is recorded in Faulkner's "Chelsea" an anecdote of another visitor of very … possession of Boyle, Earl of Burlington, above mentioned. Faulkner, in his "History of Chiswick," remarks that "it is a …

Chiswick: Charities for the poor