Chelsea Barracks

Chelsea Barracks was a British Army barracks located in the City of Westminster, London, adjacent to Chelsea, on Chelsea Bridge Road. The barracks was originally built in the 1860s to house two battalions of troops. The original Victorian buildings were replaced by a series of concrete tower blocks after World War 2. A nail-bomb attack on the barracks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in September 1981 killed two civilians. On 6 September 2005 Secretary of State for Defence, John Reid, announced that Chelsea Barracks would be sold. He described it as needing extensive renovations. The site was vacated in 2008 with the troops transferred to the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich. The site was part of the Ministry of Defence's...