Sloane Square

Events at Sloane Square

• The Chelsea: London's Riverside Village Walk

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  Here is the shale of the past, locked in the embrace of the Thames is one of the grand set-pieces of London architecture: Wren's Royal Hospital where the "pensioners" - old soldiers - are resplendent in 300-year-old scarlet uniforms, the garb of British soldiers - Redcoats - in the 17th-century. Here is Whistler's Thames - best seen in the afternoon with the sun like a blob of melted butter burnishing the luminous water. Here is Sir Laurence Olivier's house - and Carlyle's - and Mick Jagger's - and Oscar Wilde's "Tower of Ivory" - for these village streets are as clamorous with great names as rooks in a wood. Here are artists' studios and the ancient Apothecary Garden that changed the course of American history and Sir Thomas More's church and Crosby Hall. N.B., this walk is substantially different from the Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk on Sunday nights.

   

• The Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  The Village of Palaces is London at its most beguiling. It's Oscar Wilde's Tower of Ivory and Mick Jagger's town-house. It's James Bond's pad, Paul Getty's stately mansion, Christopher Wren's Royal Hospital, and an ancient Physic Garden that changed the course of American History. It's trendy Sloane Rangers, Hooray Henries, and scarlet-coated Chelsea Pensioners. It's cannons from the Battle of Waterloo and Chinese lanterns from the Flower Show. We take it all in, punctuated with visits to three delightful hostelries, including an inn that's utterly surprising and the most traditional pub in London.