Chelsea Fever
May means it’s time for Chelsea – the Flower Show, not the Football Club*. The first Royal Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show was held in 1888, not in Chelsea but in the three acre Inner Temple gardens in central London, surrounded by lawyers who were not impressed with the disruption – the wafts of soup from the catering stands proving particularly upsetting. Moving to the larger Royal Hospital, Chelsea in 1913, the show proved to...
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