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stood on the eastern side of the street, and was built around 1707. It became a school in 1830, then the Victoria Hospital for Children in 1866. In 1898, the building was considered inadequate for its purpose. The hospital moved to
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Walter H Godfrey, 'Paradise Row, south side: Gough House', in Survey of London: Volume 2, Chelsea, Pt I (London, 1909), pp. 8-9. British History Online
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In the late 19th century, the street was a favoured and fashionable location for people of an artistic and literary disposition.
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Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past, Ruth Alexandra Symes, Pen and Sword History, 2015, pg 83
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also posed for Shanks in the Tite Street studio in 1999. Thatcher's portrait by Shanks now hangs at the
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lived here from his marriage in 1884 until his arrest in 1895. This location is now marked with a
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Authors —> Aesthetes and Decadents —> Oscar Wilde —> Biographical Materials
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The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street
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pilot, who organised and led the famous escape from the Nazi prisoner of war camp,
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to build the White House here, but due to his bankruptcy after his legal case with
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http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol2/pt1/pp8-9
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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea
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Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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in Tite Street was designed by the church architect
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Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper
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Oscar Wilde
blue plaque
Chelsea, London
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
River Thames
Metropolitan Board of Works
Chelsea Embankment
William Tite
Metropolitan Board of Works
Chelsea Embankment
Gough House
St George's Hospital
St Wilfred's
Irish Republican Army
wider set of bombings
Gordon House
River House
Thomas Garner
Grade II listed
Gustav Pope
Frank Cadogan Cowper
Frederick Chesson
Julian Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett
British Steel Corporation
Sonia Melchett
Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
Lord in Waiting
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Minister of State

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