The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions ' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were founded for Stamford Bridge.

When Stamford Bridge was redeveloped in the Ken Bates era many additional features were added to the complex including two hotels, apartments, bars, restaurants, the Chelsea Megastore, and an interactive visitor attraction called Chelsea World of Sport.

Things initially went well, and for much of the season Chelsea were on course for promotion, but two wins from their final seven league games ensured the club finished 4th.

However, he and his colleagues were denied title glory as Liverpool also won their final league game of the season at Chelsea.

In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs (" Urge for Going ," " Chelsea Morning ," " Both Sides, Now ," " The Circle Game ") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968.

They were married in Chelsea, London on January 20, 1968 with considerable publicity.

His parents were Thomas Sullivan ( 1805 – 1866 ), a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London, and Mary Clementina ( née Coghlan, 1811 – 1882 ), English born, of Irish and Italian descent.

The team, dubbed The Invincibles did not achieve similar dominance in Europe ; Arsenal were beaten by Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Champions League over two legs.

Fourteen people were drowned in London and thousands were made homeless when flood waters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed.

Chelsea were relegated in Bonetti's second full season, which saw the appointment of Tommy Docherty as manager.

For most of the same season, Chelsea were on course to add both the league title and the FA Cup but ultimately missed out.

Chelsea were outplayed for large spells in the first final at Wembley and he made a series of crucial saves to help them emerge with a 2 – 2 draw.

His properties around Chelsea were seized and assigned to a local squire who held the mortgages.

" Other active executors were his cousin and executor, and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV ( benefactor of Westminster – now Chelsea & Westminster – Hospital ), Revd.

The figures for Kensington and Chelsea during 1991-1993 were significantly lower: 73. 0 years for males ( ranking 301st in the nation ) and 80. 0 for females ( ranking 129th ).

In December 2006, Sport England published a survey which revealed that residents of Kensington and Chelsea were the fourth most active in England in sports and other fitness activities.

The dancers were usually Goldie Hawn, Judy Carne and Chelsea Brown ; Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley popped up rarely, as did frequent guest Pamela Austin.

" Two of the kids were twins named Simon and Gar Farkel ( played by cast members of different races ; originally Goldie Hawn and Chelsea Brown, later Pamela Rodgers and Teresa Graves ).

* March 14 – Chelsea FC is founded.

* March 11 – The Royal Chelsea Hospital for Soldiers is founded in England.

* Chelsea Physic Garden, the second oldest botanic garden in England, is founded by the Society of Apothecaries for the study of medicinal and other plants.

* 1892-Redcliffe College, Centre for Mission Training founded in Chelsea, London

James I established a theological college on the site of Chelsea Royal Hospital, which was later founded by Charles II.

The Chelsea Arts Club continues in situ ; however, the Chelsea College of Art and Design, originally founded in 1895 as the Chelsea School of Art, moved from Manresa Road to Pimlico in 2005.

It is, for example, kept as Founder's Day in the Royal Hospital Chelsea ( founded by Charles II in 1681 ).

The School of Art merged with the Hammersmith School of Art, founded by Francis Hawke, to form the Chelsea School of Art in 1908.

In 1610 Hayward was appointed one of the historiographers of the college which James founded at Chelsea.

Opened in 1877, the stadium was used by the London Athletics Club until 1905, when new owner Gus Mears founded Chelsea Football Club to occupy the ground ; Chelsea have played their home games there ever since.

The site for the Hospital was an area of Chelsea which held an incomplete building — " Chelsey College ", a theological college founded by James I in 1609.

Located in Chelsea section of Manhattan it began as a roller skating rink and roller disco in 1978, it was founded by Steve Bauman, Richard Newhouse and Steve Greenberg then acquired in 1985 by Gene DiNino until it closed its doors for good in March 2007.

It is his distinction to have founded Royal Hospital Chelsea, to which he contributed £ 13, 000.

After withdrawing from public life in 1709, Astell founded a charity school for girls in Chelsea as a token of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, organizing the school's curriculum herself with likely financial support from her patrons Lady Catherine Jones and Lady Elizabeth Hastings.

They founded The Dial, a magazine, which had five issues from 1889 to 1897, and the Vale Press, named after their house, The Vale, in Chelsea, London.

They were founded in 1928, in a similar manner to New Brighton Tower and Chelsea, to play on a ground without a team.

He also produced models for the Chelsea porcelain factory founded in 1743, a private enterprise which sought to compete with Continental factories mostly established by rulers.

After some years, the company's board of directors led by Mike France, bought the company back in October 2001 for £ 30m, being backed by 3i, before selling it to Tim Waterstone ( who founded Waterstones bookstores ) under the name Eagle Retail Investments for £ 62m in April 2004 and he joined it with his Daisy & Tom chain of shops within the " Chelsea Stores Group ".

Oakley Football Club was founded in 1967 by the Chelsea FC footballer, Peter Houseman.

In Hickory Dickory Dock, he investigates the strange goings on in a student hostel, while in the Third Girl he is forced into contact with the smart set of Chelsea youths.

They later married on October 11, 1975, and their only child, Chelsea, was born on February 27, 1980.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

Chelsea failed to build on this success, and spent the remainder of the 1950s in mid-table.

Under caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea won their seventh FA Cup, and their first UEFA Champions League title, beating Bayern Munich 4 – 3 on penalties, the first London club to win the trophy.

Soon after the takeover a decision was taken to drop the " Chelsea Village " brand and refocus on Chelsea as a football club.

| West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on 23 September 1905 ; Chelsea won 1 – 0.

On 3 October 2011, Chelsea made a proposal to CPO shareholders to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits, stating that " buying back the freehold removes a potential hurdle should a suitable site become available in the future ".

Chelsea released artistic impressions of the proposed stadium at the Battersea site on 22 June 2012 .< ref >

In 1964, Banks finally won his first major trophy though when Leicester beat Stoke City 4 – 3 in the League Cup final over two legs, though they lost the trophy a year later after a 3 – 2 defeat by Chelsea on aggregate in the final.

The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

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