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Title: Simpson's Chelsea, Pimlico, Brompton, and Knightsbridge Directory, and Court Guide

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIMPSON'S CHELSEA, PIMLICO,

BROMPTON, AND KNIGHTSBRIDGE DIRECTORY, AND COURT GUIDE***

Transcribed from the 1863 Tomkies and Son edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.

SIMPSON’S

CHELSEA, PIMLICO, BROMPTON,

AND KNIGHTSBRIDGE

DIRECTORY,

AND

COURT GUIDE,

INCLUDING

LIST OF VESTRY, PARISH OFFICERS, POST OFFICE

INTELLIGENCE, CHELSEA CHARITIES, &c. &c.

1863.

COPYRIGHT.

TO BE PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.

LONDON

PUBLISHED BY TOMKIES AND SON,

4, Bedford Terrace, Church Street, Kensington.

INTRODUCTION. [0]

In introducing this Directory, in a cheap and comprehensive form, to our numerous subscribers, very few comments are necessary.  Great inconvenience is felt in all large districts through not being able at a moment’s notice to discover the place of abode of various individuals, such as customers, friends, &c.  To obviate this has induced us to attempt the compiling one of a pure local character, at a price within the means of all classes.  We trust we have succeeded in completing a work which cannot fail in giving satisfaction to our subscribers.  It is our intention to publish annually, and doubt not, as we become more acquainted with the locality, being enabled to establish a work which will become thoroughly useful as a book of reference.

SIMPSON & CO.

March, 1863

LIST OF VESTRYMEN & PARISH OFFICERS

CHELSEA DISTRICT.

The Names and Places of Abode of the Rector, Incumbent of the Parish Chapel, Curates, Churchwardens, Representative Member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Vestrymen, Auditors and Officers under the Metropolis Local Management Act, Overseers, Relieving Officers, Medical Officers, Superintendent Registrar and Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Vestry Clerk, Deputy Parish Clerk, Beadles, Engine Keepers, Fire Escape Conductors, Turncocks, Collectors of the different Rates and Taxes, &c.

The Fire Engines and Ladders are kept at the Workhouse, Arthur Street, King’s Road; at the Old Church, by the Waterside; and at the Depôt in Draycott Place.  In Case of Fire give immediate notice to the Engine Keepers, William Piggott, Superintendent, 1, Arthur Street, King’s Road; Charles Greaves, 4, Duke Street, Chelsea, near the Old Church; Henry Adams, 14A, Symons Place, Sloane Square; Chief Station, at the Workhouse, Arthur Street, King’s Road.

The nearest Fire Escapes are stationed at Oakley Square, Sloane Square, Pelham Crescent, and Knightsbridge Green.

BROMPTON VESTRY.

PIMLICO AND KNIGHTSBRIDGE VESTRY.

CHELSEA ANNUAL CHARITIES.

POSTAL INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH-WESTERN DISTRICT.  (S.W.)

This District extends from Charing Cross by the river to Battersea-bridge; and thence to Wimbledon, Kingston, Sunbury, Twickenham, Richmond, Mortlake, Brompton, Knightsbridge, and St. James’s, as far as Piccadilly.

CHIEF DISTRICT OFFICE, 8, BUCKINGHAM GATE, PIMLICO, (S.W.)

Money Orders are issued and paid at this Office, and inquiries received for misdirected letters, &c.

235.  The following are the latest times for posting Letters, &c. at this Office for the London District deliveries.  Care should be taken to deposit the letters, &c. in the proper box.

TOWN RECEIVING HOUSES AND PILLAR BOXES.

Those marked * are Money Order Offices and Savings Banks.

PIMLICO DISTRICT, RECEIVING HOUSES.

BELGRAVIA DISTRICT.  PILLAR BOXES.

CHELSEA AND BROMPTON DISTRICT.  RECEIVING HOUSES.

PILLAR BOXES.

GAS CHENDELIERS AND GAS FITTINGS,

WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION.

BURNERS, &c.

WARREN SMITH,

MANUFACTORY AND SHOW ROOMS,

66, COLLEGE STREET, CHELSEA, S.W.,

(Opposite Pelham Crescent, Brompton,)

AND AT 3, QUEEN’S ROAD, BAYSWATER,

(Five doors down from Kensington Gardens).

Gas Fitters & Plumbers’ Brasswork

BEST WELDED IRON BARREL,

Composition and Brass Tubes.

The Cheapest House in London for

Plain and Cut Gas Glasses.

BATH, HOT WATER, AND STEAM

FITTINGS.

Price Lists on Application.

A Large Stock of Shop and Factory Fittings always ready.

PLANS AND ESTIMATES FOR LIGHTING PUBLIC OR PRIVATE BUILDINGS IN TOWN OR COUNTRY.

Experienced Workmen sent to all parts on the shortest notice.

Burners and Fittings in Mansions and Public Buildings kept in Order by Contract.

S. W. MOSS,

Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, and Undertaker,

187, YORK HOUSE, FULHAM ROAD,

An extensive and well-seasoned Stock of New and Second hand Furniture.

Bronze and Iron Bedsteads of every description.

Houses Furnished throughout at the Shortest Notice.

SULPHUR.

NO MORE ERUPTIONS ON THE SKIN.—A. MOLLARD’S Perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Sulphur Cream are entirely free from any unpleasant Smell, and are sovereign remedies against local or chronic cutaneous eruptions, rheumatism, pains in the joints, &c.  The Sulphur Cream possesses all the properties of the renowed Barege Waters for baths,—recommended by the most eminent physicians.  Prospectuses and testimonials on application.

Sold Wholesale and Retail by Messrs. Newbery and Sons, 45, St. Paul’s-church-yard; Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street; T. Keating, 79, St. Paul’s-church-yard; Districhsen and Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; G. Jozeau, 49, Haymarket; P. A. Gerard, 390, Strand; Bainbridge and Pound, 60 Leather-lane; Bosley and Coleman, Chemists, 26, Brompton-row, and at the Depot, 2, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, W.

B. ARMSTRONG,

FAMILY, DISPENSING & CONSULTING

CHEMIST.

OPPOSITE MARKHAM SQUARE,

KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA.

PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY DISPENSED.

N.B.  All Chemicals and Drugs carefully selected from the first wholesale houses in London, and warranted of the choicest quality.

J. C. SAWYER,

STATIONER AND BOOKSELLER,

323, FULHAM ROAD,

Near the Gilston Road, West Brompton.

Repository for all kinds of Berlin and Fancy Articles.  A large and cheap assortment of Photographic Albums, Carte de Visite Portraits, and all the materials for the new art of Decolcomania, with instructions for the same.

Noted House for Foreign Postage Stamps of every nation.

CATALOGUE, ALBUMS, &c.

LIBRARY IN CONNEXION WITH MUDIE’S, AND SMITH & Co.

REGISTRY FOR SERVANTS.

MACMICHAEL’S LIBRARY,

207, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA.

ESTABLISHED 1847.

In connexion with Mudie’s, also with the united Libraries of Booths, Churton’s, Saunders and Otley’s, Regent-street, and the Library Company, 30, St. James’s-square.

Residents in South Kensington, Brompton, and Chelsea, may obtain all the advantages of a First Class Library, by subscribing for any of the following Terms:—

All New Books, and exchangeable at pleasure.

J. M. begs to call the attention of the Gentry to the above Reduced Scale of Subscriptions to his Library.

THE LARGEST COLLECTION IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF

Original Carte de Vesite Portraits,

By Kilburn, Silvy, Mayall, and Others.

Also, Album Portraits of all the Local Clergy, &c., &c., &c.

portrait albums, from 2s. 6d. to £2 2s.

An Extensive Assortment of Gift Books suitable for Prizes, Presents, or New Year’s Gifts.

Hymn Books, as used at St. Paul’s Church, Onslow-sq. 6d. each and upwards

All the Works of the Rev. Capel Molyneux kept in stock.

MUSIC AT HALF PRICE.

BOOKBINDING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Note Paper, 6d., 1s. 6d., 2s. and 3s. per packet of Five Quires.

Envelopes, 6d., 9d., 1s., and 1s. 6d. per 100.

Black Bordered Note, 6d. per quire.  Ditto Envelopes 1s. 6d. per 100.

Depot for De La Rue’s Note Paper and Envelopes.

NEWSPAPER AND ADDRESS OFFICE.

DUTY OFF PLAYING CARDS.

De La Rue’s Cards from 1s. per pack.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

(From the Standard and Morning Herald, Dec. 26, 1862.)

In the balance sheet, one of the most satisfactory items will be the shilling and 2s. 6d. day tickets, which sold remarkably well.  One agent alone, Macmichael’s Library, of 207, King’s Road, Chelsea, who was the first to take the matter up, disposed of over £5,000 worth of day and season tickets, which numbered upwards of one hundred thousand.

Agent for the Sale of Tickets for the Monday Popular Concerts and the National

Harp Concerts at St. James’s Hall.

W. G. CATTLE & Co.

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CIGARS by the BOX, containing over 100 in number, from 9s. 6d.

SNUFFS, very choice, our own and Foreign Manufacture.

TOBACCOS, of the finest quality imported.

N.B.  A famous and delicious SMOKING MIXTURE, that will not blister the mouth, 7s. 6d. per lb.

Address W. G. CATTLE & Co, 102, King’s Road,

Chelsea, S.W.

W. ATKINSON,

TAILOR AND TROUSERS MAKER,

56, WALTON STREET, BROMPTON.

In expressing his acknowledgement for the support he