Michelin House

Michelin House was opened in 1911 as the first permanent UK headquarters for the Michelin Tyre Company Ltd.

Bibendum, The Michelin Building on Fulham Road, Chelsea
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Michelin House is an example of late Modern Style (British Art Nouveau) and early Art Deco. It was designed and built at the end of the Art-Nouveau period.

Designed by François Espinasse, the building has three large stained-glass windows based on Michelin advertisements of the time. At the front of the original building there are decorative tiles showing famous racing cars of the time that used Michelin tyres.

In April 1969 the front section of the Michelin Building was Grade II listed.

Michelin moved out of the building in 1985 and it was purchased by restaurateur/retailer Sir Terence Conran and publisher Paul Hamlyn. They embarked on a major redevelopment and restoration project and in 1987 the building reopened as mixed-use - with stores, a restaurant, bar and office space.

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Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply

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Harrods Department Store frontage as viewed along Brompton Rd at night (2012) Credit: David Liff TUM image id: 1557150671 Licence:	The London Oratory Credit: FB Group Londonist Urban Oddities/Jim Hoe TUM image id: 1653846106 Licence:	Natural History Museum (2022) Credit: IG/engr.nelson.ph TUM image id: 1653839233 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buildings on the north side of Cadogan Square (2008) Credit: Wiki Commons/Cj1340 TUM image id: 1691443423 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Elm Park Gardens TUM image id: 1573064988 Licence:
Ennismore Mews, SW7 with the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Dormiton at the end Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1634644830 Licence:	Lennox Gardens (2015) Lennox Gardens was built in the Queen Anne style over the final remaining market garden south of Knightbridge in 1882. Credit: Wiki Commons/Spudgun67 TUM image id: 1670603830 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The interior of St Simon Zelotes church, Milner Street, SW3 Credit: Geograph/John Salmon TUM image id: 1670606830 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Admiral Codrington, 17 Mossop Street, Chelsea Credit: National Brewery Heritage Trust TUM image id: 1670610088 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Houses on the northwest side on Onslow Square, SW7 Credit: Wiki Commons/Nigel Mykura TUM image id: 1646482035 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Pavilion Road is London’s longest mews and runs parallel to Sloane Street Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1670684264 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tite Street, SW3 (1955) Playing in the street wasn’t an activity confined to Chelsea’s mean streets as this view of Tite Street shows. Baseball is being played here. In spotted dressed and suit trousers, the young (possibly American) boys and girls look dashing as they frolic around under the sun peaking through the trees. Tite Street was formerly home to Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Credit: John Bignell TUM image id: 1633097254 Licence:	Walton Street, SW3 That ladder is a health and safety nightmare! Not that I believe in moaning about H&S nor nothing. I leave that to others... TUM image id: 1466549385 Licence:	The Sutton Estate, Chelsea was built in 1913. Credit: Sutton Estate TUM image id: 1670633812 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Justice Walk links Old Church Street and Lawrence Street. It has stayed relatively untouched, a reminder of early 19th century Chelsea. The cellar under the Wesleyan Chapel, seen on the right, was used as a soup kitchen for the poor. The chapel was relocated to the corner of Chelsea Manor Street and King’s Road circa 1900. H. Allen Smith, wine merchants, occupied the premise from 1903 to 1985. According to local legend, a courthouse with a gaol beneath occupied this site in 18th century. Prisoners were led through a tunnel to boats moored on the river to be transported to Australia. Credit: William Walter Burgess c.1890 TUM image id: 1654184434 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Harrods Department Store frontage as viewed along Brompton Rd at night (2012)
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The London Oratory
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Ennismore Mews, SW7 with the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Dormiton at the end
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Lennox Gardens (2015) Lennox Gardens was built in the Queen Anne style over the final remaining market garden south of Knightbridge in 1882.
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The interior of St Simon Zelotes church, Milner Street, SW3
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Admiral Codrington, 17 Mossop Street, Chelsea
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Houses on the northwest side on Onslow Square, SW7
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Walton Street, SW3 That ladder is a health and safety nightmare! Not that I believe in moaning about H&S nor nothing. I leave that to others...
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The Sutton Estate, Chelsea was built in 1913.
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Boundary marker at the end of Cottage Place, SW3 (2021) Cottage Place was the location of Brompton Road station on the Piccadilly Line before its closure.
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