London’s Alleys: Flood Walk, SW3
This is a short passage in Chelsea that sounded more interesting than it ended up being and was a lot more confusing than I would have expected.
The main road that Flood Walk leads off was originally a country lane called The Pound Lane.
John Rocque’s “The Country Near Ten Miles Round” 1746
It was later renamed Robinsons Lane, after Sir Ernest Robinson, around when housing developments were first appearing. By the 1820s though it had changed its name again, to Queens Street. Th
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