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My brother remembers the beginings of Chelsea, back when it was subtle in '84 or so. When I got to CH in 89 it was 50 people behind a twig. (I am certain that the fag ends were starting to form there own hill).

Is it still there? Or is it like so many great things just left to our memories? Is there anywhere left to smoke in safety? Besides Lamb A's Back Roof?
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Jolyon wrote:My brother remembers the beginings of Chelsea, back when it was subtle in '84 or so. When I got to CH in 89 it was 50 people behind a twig. (I am certain that the fag ends were starting to form there own hill).

Is it still there? Or is it like so many great things just left to our memories? Is there anywhere left to smoke in safety? Besides Lamb A's Back Roof?
Chelsea has nodied a death, when they built one of the many car parks around the backs of the houses...

People tend to smoke by the pavilions, the MSB (music school bush) and by the sicker - or at least they did when I left in 1999...
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Mid A lav ends was always packed at break time, especially in bad weather!
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Chelsea ?? Explain please !

(I only opened this thread because I became a CHELSEA SUPPORTER at C.H. in 1958 ! - Stamford Bridge, and all that !)
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J.R. wrote:Chelsea ?? Explain please !

(I only opened this thread because I became a CHELSEA SUPPORTER at C.H. in 1958 ! - Stamford Bridge, and all that !)
A number of the smoking bushes were named after football times - by the time I came only Chelsea was left... it's behind Barnes B...
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The "Chelsea" was a group of bushes behind Maine A used for smoking.

The k.v. (cave) was someone shouting Chelsea in football supporter manner.
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Thanks for that !

In my day, it was down at the assault course, or on bad days, the drying room under Coleridge House. The rancid musty smell of drying rugby gear obliterated the smell of ciggies !
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I was told by someone who was around at the time the chelsea was born that there were three bushes all named after posh hotels, the ritz, hilton and chelsea, ah the irony! Anyway, the ritz and the hitlon were chopped down and only the chelsea remains
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qwerty wrote:I was told by someone who was around at the time the chelsea was born that there were three bushes all named after posh hotels, the ritz, hilton and chelsea, ah the irony! Anyway, the ritz and the hitlon were chopped down and only the chelsea remains
I thought they were named after football teams...
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the name

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someone had scrawled "Chelsea FC" or something similar on the wall there. Not sure if that was before the name or the cause of it.
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