Chelsea
What to see
London’s tourist attractions are well covered in Visit London, Lonely Planet and Time Out. Links to places near Stamford Bridge are:
● Chelsea FC Stadium Tour & Museum
● Chelsea Physic Garden
● Design Museum
● National Army Museum
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “The Design Museum isn’t far from Stamford Bridge. That puts it off the beaten track where most tourists to London are concerned, but it’s well worth a visit. Besides, you could make a case for Chelsea being the UK’s most trendy or design-influenced club.”
● “While the main cultural influences [from California] were jingly-jangly electric guitars and mild intoxicants, all was well. But California has found itself directing much of the world’s economic and psychic traffic and its experience with freeways has proved a poor model.”
● “The West Coast newcomers were not averse to sales but set out also to change people’s lives. What qualified them for that role? Confidence, certainly, and abundant marketing skills. A generation of young people have made fortunes teasing technology into products for which there was no justification beyond the assertion that they were ‘cool’. And the world, like a gullible teenager, has accepted their definition of cool over and over again, bought their products and signed a blank cheque to cover the upgrades.”
These are taken from the Chelsea chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.