Oakley Street, Chelsea

In 1825, the trustees obtained a further Act to demolish the property and build new houses on the site.

2 was owned by John Samuel Phene, a noted property developer and local eccentric.

9 was the home of pianist Angus Morrison, where he was visited in the 1920s by Sergei Diaghilev, Constant Lambert and William Walton to run through ballet scores.

42 was where Bob Marley moved to with his wife Rita in January 1977, following an attempt on his life in Jamaica.

56 was the home of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott from 1904 to 1908, together with his mother and sister.

74 was home to actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and her husband Lewis Casson in the 1930s.

[25] However, the enumerator was able to confirm from the neighbours that the head of the house was Mrs Alice Monck Mason, who lived there with her daughter, Winifred Alice Monck Mason (and others), an actress who went by the name of Winifred Mayo.

Oakley Street looking south, May 2018.
Postcard showing Oakley Street and the Pier Hotel, c. 1910
Oakley Street area map (centre vertically)