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What’s this address?

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BingBongBoo86 · 27/07/2024 22:43

Hey, can anyone read this address? Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks

What’s this address?
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GU24Mum · 27/07/2024 22:44

I'd say that it's: 14 Alexandra Mansions, Hans Road, Chelsea.

PoopedAndScooped · 27/07/2024 22:47

14 Alexandra mansions
Kings Road
Chelsea

Makepeacetoo · 27/07/2024 22:49

As @GU24Mum but looks like Alexander to me. Definitely Hans Road (which is still there).

PoopedAndScooped · 27/07/2024 22:56

Is there a postcode? Can you google it?

BingBongBoo86 · 27/07/2024 23:00

PoopedAndScooped · 27/07/2024 22:56

Is there a postcode? Can you google it?

Should have said this is from the 1921 census. Postcodes weren’t used until end of the 1950s so no postcode I’m afraid.

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AdaColeman · 27/07/2024 23:02

14 Alexandra Mansions, Kings Road Chelsea

If you Google Alexandra Mansions Chelsea, you will see photos of it, still standing apparently.

BingBongBoo86 · 27/07/2024 23:05

Thanks for all your help. Needed a second pair of eyes.

I do think it looks like Hans Road, however, there’s Alexandra Mansions on Kings Road. Don’t think it looks like Kings on the census.

What’s this address?
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BingBongBoo86 · 27/07/2024 23:06

AdaColeman · 27/07/2024 23:02

14 Alexandra Mansions, Kings Road Chelsea

If you Google Alexandra Mansions Chelsea, you will see photos of it, still standing apparently.

Thanks, just seen it.

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OpizpuHeuvHiyo · 27/07/2024 23:14

I agree it doesn't look like Kings, there's nothing that could be the tail of a g, and there is a Hans Road nearby.

Could it be that the original Alexandra Mansions was bombed out in WW2? I am imagining that if the same landlord owned two nearby apartment buildings and one got bombed out, they might juggle things around to combine the tenants of both buildings who hadn't left the capital to all occupy one building, and they kept the fancier name?

Just wild speculation, but I know of a similar thing that did happen with some schools during the war - 3 schools merged into one as the other two sites got bombed, and the surviving building was given the name of the more prestigious of the bombed out schools, despite having had a perfectly decent name of its own previously.

Makepeacetoo · 27/07/2024 23:35

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol41/pp58-86#h2-s17

There was an area called the Alexander Estate around there. It definitely doesn’t say Kings Road OP.

The Alexander Estate | British History Online

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol41/pp58-86#h2-s17

leeverarch · 02/08/2024 17:54

The enumerator may have been having a bad day and written it down wrong.

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