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Sculpture

Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - cow's head on set back building

Inscription

1908
Estd. 1796

In you can see that the set-back building originally had a 6-bay plain Georgian-style front elevation. The northern third, which can be seen down the side alley, was re-fronted 1908. It can be seen before its refacing, on : 'View Wrights Dairy, 46 Old Church Street, Chelsea by Walter Greaves on artnet."

The following may refer to just the northern third or the whole building - it's never clear.

This is numbered 46a or 45a (reports differ) and in 1964 started as a small recording studio at 46a Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3 and was the passion of two friends who set it up, Geoff Frost and John Wood."  has a lot of information about Sound Techniques in this building.  When they moved in "... the ground floor had a cobbled floor and looked like a garage with a pottery leasing part of the floor. It had a gentle slope...". This would be to facilitate hygienic cleaning and would be expected in a building that was used for processing milk. Sound Techniques moved out in 1974 and Olympic Sound Studios took over and stayed until the early 1980s. In 1997 it was converted to residential.

Site: Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street (5 memorials)

SW3, Old Church Street, 38-48, The Old Diary

We've numbered the lovely tiled panels left to right.

See our page about the dairy for our attempt to understand the geography of the site with reference to a 1865 map.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - cow's head on set back building

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Wright’s Dairy - Chelsea

Founded in 1796 by a Mr Wright, whose son, W. H. Wright carried on the busine...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - cow's head on set back building

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Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - mural 2 - mower

Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - mural 2 - mower

The text is misleading - ye early mower is actually whetting his whistle.

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Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - mural 3 - milkmaid

Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - mural 3 - milkmaid

The milkmaid carries her milking pail on her head and her milking stool on he...

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