Fashionable Contrasts

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Chelsea in the fifties and sixties was a small Thames-side village, still insulated from the encroachments of an expanding London by. The King's private lands. Young Gillray passed his first three years at a tiny cottage in Robinson's Lane, set back a few hundred feet from the town docks. By September 1759 the senior Gillray had moved his family to the Moravian settlement in Milman's Row. This line of dwellings, adjacent to the sect's burial ground, stretched from the King's Road to a point on the Thames near the present site of Battersea Bridge.