Chelsea Manor Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from

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, crossing

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to St Loo Avenue. The southern continuation, Cheyne Gardens ends at

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. It was originally called Manor Street. In 1931, the Peabody Trust built the Chelsea Manor Street estate of eight blocks totalling 111 flats, designed by

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. Following modernisation in the 1970s, there are now 103 flats. The designers

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and Marion Dorn lived at Swan Court, Chelsea Manor Street, and this is commemorated by a

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placed by

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in 2015. The actress Sybil Thorndike and her husband, the actor and director

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, lived there for many years, and she died there in 1976.Croall, p. 529 Chesil Court, an Art Deco block, was home to Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and Elizabeth Longford, who had a "wholly unpretentious" flat there.

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* Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Chelsea, London King's Road, Chelsea, London {{London-geo-stub