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Cultural history Andrew Martin enjoys a history of the road that was at the epicentre of the british youthquake

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20051120
Author:Andrew Martin

King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World

BY MAX DECHARNE

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 18.99, 391 pp

T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

This book (as bulky as you might expect a work on the whole of London to be, rather than a single street) starts with a gallop through Chelsea's prehistory: the time before flared trousers.

As evidence that the area had acquired a bohemian reputation by the late 17th century, Max Dcharn quotes from William Congreve's play Love For Love, in which Mrs Foresight asks somebody, 'I suppose you would not go alone to the ...

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Cultural history Andrew Martin enjoys a history of the road that was at the epicentre of the british youthquake

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