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Bramerton Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from 
The Gateways Club, a lesbian nightclub was based on the corner with King's Road, but with its entrance in Bramerton Street from 1931 to 1985, and was the longest-surviving such club in the world.
The socialist politician and writer
Bramerton Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from King's Road
King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents) is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both ...
to Glebe Place
Glebe Place is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from King's Road to the crossroads with Upper Cheyne Row, where it becomes Cheyne Row, leading down to Cheyne Walk and the River Thames. It also has a junction with Br ...
. It was known as Caledonian Terrace
Caledonian is a geographical term used to refer to places, species, or items in or from Scotland, or particularly the Scottish Highlands. It derives from Caledonia, the Roman name for the area of modern Scotland.
Caledonian is also used to refer t ...
until 1912.
The Gateways Club, a lesbian nightclub was based on the corner with King's Road, but with its entrance in Bramerton Street from 1931 to 1985, and was the longest-surviving such club in the world.
The socialist politician and writer Margaret Cole
Dame Margaret Isabel Cole ( Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly with her husband, G. D. H. Cole. She went on to hold important posts in London ...
and her husband G. D. H. Cole
George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, historian, and novelist. As a believer in common ownership of the means of production, he theorised guild socialism (production ...
, and the writer Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review (1924), The Transatlant ...
was a visitor in 1920.
The film composer James Bernard lived at number 19 Bramerton Street with his partner Paul Dehn
Paul Edward Dehn ( ; 5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was an English screenwriter, best known for '' Goldfinger'', ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'', ''Planet of the Apes'' sequels and ''Murder on the Orient Express''. Dehn and his li ...
.
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In the early 1960s, production designer Christopher Hobbs
Christopher Hobbs (born 9 September 1950) is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British systems music.
Life and career
Hobbs was born in Hillingdon, near London. He was a junior exhibitioner at Trinity College London, ...
and author John Roman Baker occupied respectively the top floor and basement of number 14. A fictionalised record of life in the street is included in John Roman Baker's book "Time of Obsessions".
The grade II* listed West House is on the west side at the southern end of the street.
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