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thank you dea and chris for finding that

(some references on below)

Chris :)

20 March 1942 - Chelsea News and General Advertiser - London, London

Some sacks of coke on a lorry caught fire at Gunter-grove, Chelsea, on Tuesday. The lorry was driven to the fire station Hortensia-road. a few yards away, and the flames were there extinguished by the brigade.


04 July 1941 - Chelsea News and General Advertiser - London, London

inter-club boxing tournament, arranged by the Chelsea Boys’ Club, attracted a large audience to the A.R.P. depot at Carlyle School, Hortensia-road, Chelsea, on Thursday. The proceeds from the tournament were in aid of the Chelsea Club's fund, and the Stretcher Party fund of A.R.P. depot 1 (Carlyle School, Hortensia Road)


07 July 1939 - Chelsea News and General Advertiser - London, London

CARLYLE SCHOOL Hortensia Road, S.W.10 Headmistress: Miss B. D. Finney, M.A. (Cantab) Secondary School for Girls aged from ten nineteen years. Full particulars with regard to the fees and Special places tenable at the school may obtained ...”


21 November 1941 - Chelsea News and General Advertiser - London,

Edward Walker, schoolkeeper at Sloane Sctiool, Hortensia-road, Chelsea, and Ashburnham School, said that about 6.45 p.m. on September 11 he saw the County Council lorry in ...”


Edits (on that 1939 image, was below, Schoolkeeper)

All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 (Ancestry)

Walter Septimus Chappell
1939 Kensington and Chelsea Chelsea Sloane School Hortensia Road S.W. 10

(above him, Edmund Woodrow, Carlyle School)

Having looked further, I believe it does say fire station on the image and the most likely explanation is that the school had been temporarily taken over by the AFS. (Auxiliary Fire Service).

Note those at the address are noted on the right hand page as AFS or WAFS and each section has a sub-officer - this gives you more info.

http://www.graemekirkwood.co.uk/AFS.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Fire_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots

Dea x

thank you for that information

Actually, the first part of the address is 'Sloane School' , Hortensia Rd. which was an actual school and the building is still standing but up for sale for development.

Perhaps he was employed to clean the windows in the school - it certainly had an awful lot of them:

http://www.locationworks.com/news/sloane.html

Dea x

I think it was a London underground rail station?

There certainly was one on Hortensia Road.

Dea x

image could say sub fire station ?

not line station

next to window cleaner it says AFS

thank you I know he worked as a fireman in war could that be a fire station he was living in?

Alfred B Malyon on the 1939 Register

1939 Register Transcription

Household (1 Person) Sloane School, Sub Line Station Hortensia Road , Chelsea, London, England
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First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
Alfred B Malyon 03 May ? Male Window Cleaner Single 2 8

image says 1912

lots of other people living there

please can someone look for my father in 1939 Alfred b malyon dob 1913 would be living in London thank you