Erection date: 1909
Grove Buildings
Erected in 1909 by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea on land presented by Earl Cadogan KG.
Mayor Christopher Head, JP
Chairman of Housing Committee: W. J. Mulvey, FRCVS
Architects: Wills & Anderson
Town Clerk: T. Holland
Medical Officer of Health: L. C. Parkes, MD
Contractors: Gathercole Bros.
SW3, Chelsea Manor Street
Grove Buildings is also known as Grove House.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Grove Buildings
It was amalgamated under the London Government Act of 1963, with the Metropol...
Architectural firm. Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada Scottish...
Politician. Born at Durham. Ennobled by the death of his father in 1873. Lor...
Mayor of Chelsea 1909-11. Died in the sinking of the Titanic. Born Stoke New...
Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 1887 - 1969, politician and writer, lived here. English Heritage
Robert Graves, 1895 - 1985, writer, was born here. English Heritage
The site of the Toy Inn. An ancient hostelry of note. Built for Oliver Cromwell's troops c. 1650, rebuilt c. 1700, demolished c. 1840, wh...
This street was first called Portland Place and George was born at no. 9, so we guess the street got renumbered as well as renamed. By 1...
{Left hand plaque:} The Nightingale badge awarded between 1925 - 1996. {Central plaque:} The Florence Nightingale Garden This garden cel...
