Pimlico Road

Buckingham Palace Road (SW) In this road, opposite to the barracks, there stood until 1887-8 a shop bearing the sign of the "Old Chelsea Bun-House." But this was not the original bun-house, which stood farther eastward, outside the Chelsea boundary. It had a colonnade projecting over the pavement, and it was fashionable to visit it in the morning. George II, Queen Caroline, and the Princesses frequently came to it, and later George III and Queen Charlotte. A crowd of some 50,000 people gathered in the neighbourhood on Good Friday, and a record of 240,000 buns being sold on that day is reported. (Chelsea, G. E. Mitton, ed. Besant, p. 7)