Chelsea Creek

[mark99]

[Heartland]

A useful image, is there a date for this image. The locomotive looks it might have been in the late 1960's or during the 1970's

 

 

Edited February 20, 2022 by Heartland

[mark99]

2 hours ago, Heartland said:

A useful image, is there a date for this image. The locomotive looks it might have been in the late 1960's or during the 1970's

 

 

I can find out. Pretty sure it's from a film which shows all sorts of alleyways etc round Battersea and Fulham. Goldust.

[mark99]

From a film called the Optimist of Nine Elms released in 1973. Drama starting Peter Sellers.

[Derek R.]

Never heard of that film. Free to watch in three parts:

 

Chelsea Creek appears in the opening shots, and later on. Filmed around Battersea and Chelsea, and a trip on the bus to Hyde Park and Soho.

Snapshots of early seventies London along with street performers. The Budgerigars on sticks is quite something. Pixelated in full screen, but fascinating all the same. BFI do a clearer version for £2.50 (rented).

[magpie patrick]

On 19/02/2022 at 09:41, mark99 said:

 I think that length of Chelsea Creek has quite gone? I know it still runs up from the river to the railway but the bit running parallel to the railway has quite gone IIRC

 

It also ran under the railway to wharves - I guess this could be the bit on the inland side of the railway but it looks to parallel the railway for too great a distance for that 

 

I think the railway was preceded by the Kensington Canal

 

 

[David Mack]

I remember reports of a bit of a rumpus at BW's annual public meeting in about 1981, when some London IWA people were aggressively questioning BW when they revealed that they had sold off the remains of the Kensington Canal/Chelsea Creek, which although heavily silted and with some sunken barges, was not officially unnavigable at the time.

[David Mack]

Presumably this section, as shown on 1951 OS maps, with the open space on the right of the image being the area marked 'Christiania Wharves' on the map.

Edited February 20, 2022 by David Mack

[magpie patrick]

That was where I took it to be - I was there a few years ago looking at a marina project

[matty40s]

38 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

 I think that length of Chelsea Creek has quite gone? I know it still runs up from the river to the railway but the bit running parallel to the railway has quite gone IIRC

 

It also ran under the railway to wharves - I guess this could be the bit on the inland side of the railway but it looks to parallel the railway for too great a distance for that 

 

I think the railway was preceded by the Kensington Canal

 

 

Chelsea Creek Highways Department lot.

[mark99]

46 minutes ago, Derek R. said:

Never heard of that film. Free to watch in three parts:

 

Chelsea Creek appears in the opening shots, and later on. Filmed around Battersea and Chelsea, and a trip on the bus to Hyde Park and Soho.

Snapshots of early seventies London along with street performers. The Budgerigars on sticks is quite something. Pixelated in full screen, but fascinating all the same. BFI do a clearer version for £2.50 (rented).

Also some shots around Wandsworth Gas works and the junc Wandle with Thames. Fulham too.

1 minute ago, matty40s said:

Chelsea Creek Highways Department lot.

Can you spot the grade 1 listed structure?

[matty40s]

The "marina.." and the rest of the creek..

3 minutes ago, mark99 said:

Also some shots around Wandsworth Gas works and the junc Wandle with Thames. Fulham too.

Can you spot the grade 1 listed structure?

 

[Derek R.]

Counter's Creek aka Chelsea Creek leads into the Kensington canal. Some good research done here:

https://londoncanals.uk/2010/01/14/the-kensington-canal-the-waterway-that-served-west-london/