Stamford Bridge Studios

The 'Studios' were located in Wandon Road, Chelsea adjacent to what is now Chelsea Football Club the latter only arriving in the locale in 1905. It was built by Marwood Gooding, (1835-1897) a stonemason who hailed from Colaton Raleigh in East Devon. Gooding acquired the land in the early 1870's and ten ramshackle buildings were erected over a period of a few years to serve the needs of impoverished sculptors and painters on a railway embankment facing what was to become Chelsea football ground. The Studios were specifically meant to provide affordable working (and some cases living) space in Victorian London for struggling artists. It was also on occasion used by frame makers, guilders and lithographic printers offering facilities to nearby artists. Renowned silversmiths Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr worked in partnership initially at the Stamford Bridge Studios.

The number of artists who lived and worked there is not exactly known but is estimated at more than 100. A young, penniless Jacob Epstein resided there in 1906 and artists and sculptors who were to achieve fame and fortune started their careers there. The buildings were pulled down in 1959 by the local council and London lost one of its last links with the Bohemian art world.