J W Doyes
Nell Gwynn House - Central London
Client: Kingswood Construction (London) Ltd
Project Value: £375,00.00
Description: Artex Removal.
Doyes have recently been involved on this £3.5million refurbishment project to remove asbestos based artex from within the communal areas over 10 floors of the of this prestigous building within the heart of Chelsea.
The programme was carried out over a period of 9 months and required close liasion with the Client and tenants assuring them that the work would be carried out with the minium of disruption to their busy schedules, whilst maintaining a high standard of workmanship. The project was complicated in that the artex was being removed from directly outside the apartments, meaning that all work areas had to complete by 4pm each day to ensure that tenants could re occupy the premises.
Nell Gwynn was born in 1650 and died in 1687 she was born to humble origins, she once sold oranges on the street until she got her first acting break in theatre and grew up to be an excellent singer and dancer. She caught the eye of the then King, Charles II and became his mistress, at 19, for the rest of his life, she was the most popular of his long line of mistresses. It is rumoured that on his death bed he whispered 'what will become of my poor Nelly'. The Kings Road one of the most prestigious fashion district in London gets its name from 'poor Nelly', for when the king was visiting her from his palace, the roads were full of highwaymen, to avoid any meeting with this bunch, the King bought all the land from his palace to Nelly's house, and since then it has been called the Kings Road. Nell bore the King two sons and died at 37.