Cale Street

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Cale Street
Cale Street from Dovehouse Street, 1955
Cale Street is located in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Cale Street
Former name(s)Bond Street (west) College Place (east)
AreaChelsea
LocationRoyal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK
Coordinates51°29′25″N 0°10′08″W / 51.4904°N 0.1690°W / 51.4904; -0.1690
Construction
CompletionBy 1836
Other
Known forLocation of distillery where Beefeater Gin first made

Cale Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs between Dovehouse Street in the west and the junction of Elystan Street and Elystan Place in the east. It originally formed the southern boundary of Chelsea Common. The street was laid out in 1836, and was called Bond Street at the western end and College Place at the eastern but was later renamed Cale Street in honour of Judith Cale, a benefactor to the parish.

Location

Cale Street is in the Chelsea district of London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in England. It runs between Dovehouse Street (formerly Arthur Street) in the west and the junction of Elystan Street and Elystan Place in the east and is joined on its north side by Guthrie Street, Stewart's Grove, Bury Walk, Ixworth Place, and Whitehead's Grove. It is crossed by Sydney Street (formerly Robert Terrace) and joined on its south side by St Luke's Street, Astell Street, Danube Street, Godfrey Street, and Jubilee Place.[1][2] Crooked Usage once joined Cale Street to Britten Street in the south.[2]

History

Cale Street on an 1869–1880 Ordnance Survey map[2]
Beefeater Gin, first distilled in Cale Street

Cale Street originally formed the southern boundary of the 37-acre (15 ha) Chelsea Common, with a pond and gravel pits, but over time the land was all developed for housing.[3] A new street was laid out in 1836, and was called Bond Street at the western end and College Place at the eastern.[3] The street was later renamed Cale Street in honour of Judith Cale, who died in 1717 and left a legacy for the benefit of six poor widows of Chelsea, the interest on which was distributed to them each Christmas Day.[4][5]

In 1820, the Chelsea Distillery, a gin manufacturer in what became Cale Street, was opened by the Taylor family, and in 1863, was purchased for £400 by James Burrough, a pharmacist and the founder of Beefeater Gin, which was first produced there, and distilled there until 1908, when it moved to the Cale Street Distillery in Hutton Road in Lambeth.[6][7][8]

The Japanese watercolour artist and writer Yoshio Markino painted Gale Street, Chelsea, in Snow in 1907, and this is thought to be a misrendering of Cale Street, which he would have seen from a window of his then lodgings in Sydney Street.[9]

Buildings

Two blocks of Sutton Dwellings between Cale Street and Ixworth Place, 2009

St Wilfred's Convent once stood in gardens on the north side at the western end, opposite where the Royal Brompton Hospital is now on the south side.[10]

Also on the south side is

grave robbers.[11] St Luke's was built between 1820 and 1824, over the vaults used by Chelsea Old Church, when the old church was felt to be too small for the population of the area.[12] Its grounds were used for burials until 1857[11] before in 1881 they were converted to gardens. A new boundary for the church and part of the gardens was created using the gravestones from the burial ground. Today, the area to the north of the church adjacent to Cale Street is a recreation ground while the area to the south of the church adjacent to Britten Street is formal gardens.[12]

Sutton Dwellings, an estate of housing association properties built in 1913[13] is on the north side of Cale Street, and was threatened with redevelopment, until the local council declared it a Conservation Area.[14]

In the 1960s the fashion boutique Hung On You was at No. 22, run by the designer Michael Rainey[15] and whose customers included the Beatles. The shop moved to Chelsea's King's Road in 1967.[4]

Tom's Kitchen was a restaurant at No. 27 run by Tom Aikens from November 2006[16] to January 2020.[17]

References

  1. ISBN 0092027903
  2. ^ a b c Sheet 53, Ordnance Survey, 1869–1880.
  3. ^ a b "Settlement and building: From 1680 to 1865, Chelsea Park to Blacklands". British History Online. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2
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  5. ^ Reports from the Commissioners &c. Vol. XII. 1826. p. 196.
  6. ^ "Our History". Beefeater Gin. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Great drinks of Europe: Beefeater gin", The New European, 4 October 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  8. ISBN 978-1-84975-701-0
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  9. ISBN 978-90-04-24946-2
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  10. ^ OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  11. ^ a b History of St Luke's Gardens. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  12. ^ a b Historic England. "St Luke's Garden (1000834)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  13. George P. Landow
    , Victorian Web, 22 January 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  14. ^ Save The Historic Sutton Estate, Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  15. ^ Lunch With ... Michael Rainey. The Tapas Lunch Co. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  16. ^ "Matthew Norman reviews Tom's Kitchen, Cale Street, London SW3". The Guardian. 18 November 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2020. (subscription required)
  17. ^ McAllister, James (22 January 2020). "Tom Aikens closes final Tom's Kitchen site". bighospitality.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

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