CHELSEA - KING'S ROAD, THE IVY CHELSEA GARDEN, BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

CHELSEA - KING'S ROAD, THE IVY CHELSEA GARDEN, BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS, King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the King's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London. Thank you for watching! :) To watch Street Food videos from London click here: Borough Market Street Food:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, BOROUGH MARKET, FRESH ...   Partridges Street Food (Chelsea):    • LONDON STREET FOOD, HOT DOGS, PARTRIDGES M...   Street Food at Southbank:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, AMAZING STEAK AND CHIP...   Camden Market Street Food:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, BURGER, DOUGNUTS, BACO...   Borough Market:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, BOROUGH MARKET   Brick Lane Market:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, SAUSAGES, HUGE CHEESE ...   Canary Wharf Street Food Market:    • LONDON STREET FOOD, CANARY WHARF, STEAK, C...   King's Road runs for just under 2 miles (3.2 km) through Chelsea, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from Sloane Square in the east (on the border with Belgravia and Knightsbridge) and through the Chelsea Design Quarter (Moore Park Estate) on the border of Chelsea and Fulham. Shortly after crossing Stanley Bridge the road passes a slight kink at the junction with Waterford Road, where it then becomes New King's Road, continuing to Fulham High Street and Putney Bridge; its western end is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. King's Road derives its name from its function as a private road used by King Charles II to travel to Kew. It remained a private royal road until 1830, but people with connections were able to use it. Some houses date from the early 18th century. No. 213 has a blue plaque to film director Sir Carol Reed, who lived there from 1948 until his death in 1976. Thomas Arne lived at No. 215 and is believed to have composed "Rule Britannia" there. Ellen Terry lived in the same house from 1904 to 1920, and also Peter Ustinov; the house is commemorated by a blue plaque also. Photographer Christina Broom was born in 1862 at No. 8. The world's first artificial ice rink, the Glaciarium, opened just off King's Road in 1876, and later that year it relocated to a building on the street. During the 1960s the street became a symbol of mod culture, evoking "an endless frieze of mini-skirted, booted, fair-haired angular angels", one magazine later wrote.[2] King's Road was home in that decade to the Chelsea Drugstore (originally a chemist with a stylised chrome-and-neon soda fountain upstairs, later a public house, and more recently a McDonald's), and in the 1970s to Malcolm McLaren's boutique Let It Rock, which was renamed SEX in 1974, and then Seditionaries in 1977. During the hippie and punk eras it was a centre for counterculture, but has since been gentrified. It serves as Chelsea's high street and has a reputation for being one of London's most fashionable shopping streets. Other celebrated boutiques included Granny Takes a Trip. 484 King's Road was the headquarters of Swan Song Records, owned by Led Zeppelin. The company was closed and the building vacated in 1983. King's Road was the site of the first UK branch of Starbucks, which opened in 1999. In 1984 Keith Wainwright, a pioneer responsible for starting one of the first men's hairdressers catering for the longer men's styles of the time, with such clients including Roy Wood, The Move, Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers and Elton John, opened the salon "Smile", at 434 King's Road. 535 King's Road was the headquarters of Cube Records, an independent record label of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The label folded in the mid-1970s, becoming part of Elektra Records. The building has since been demolished but the new building on the same site still houses a record company. #christmasinlondon, #london, #kingsroad, #chelsea, #theivy, #christmasdecorations,