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Broomhouse Lane
Broomhouse Lane seems to date from at least the medieval
period when there was a small hamlet in the area. This was surrounded by
meadows and there was a warren belonging to the Bishops of London
The Elizabethan Open Air School. In 1855 Laurence Sulivan,
established a Ragged School for the children of his estate workers. He built a Gothic Revival building in
Broomhouse Lane and called it the Elizabethan Schools, after his late wife
Elizabeth. It was designed by Horace Francis with flats for the schoolmaster
and schoolmistress and two almshouses. It is symmetrical with a central black
brick diaper patterned tower. In 1920 the London County Council bought the
building as an open air school to use for delicate, particularly tuberculous,
children. By 1948 the building old with
only gas lighting – and thus no electricity for a radio - and two cold draughty
rooms. There were two open-air huts and a building for a kitchen and dining
room. The toilets were in the
playground. The School had three classes divided into ages. Gradually new drugs
meant less need for open air treatments and the school closed in 1960. The
building then became a youth club which closed itself in 2007. The building was
sold by Hammersmith & Fulham Council for £4m and it now has planning
permission to convert into housing. On the Daisy Lane frontage is a stonework
shield with an inscription '1855'.
Parsons Green Club. This was founded in 1885, and moved
here in the 1920s. The club had begun as
the Ray of Hope coffee house founded by Miss Sulivan. Various sports facilities were opened on a
field at the north end of the road. When Miss Sullivan died there was a dispute
on her will and the club lost their clubhouse.
In 1912 Hurlingham Club offered to swap the land at the north end in
return for a site south of Daisy Lane. This was agreed and a new clubhouse was
built along with new sporting facilities. Since then facilities have expanded,
although limited by the two world wars and the council’s purchase of the
cricket and golf areas. The site is now being reconfigured and a new club house
is due to open in 2017.
Broom House. From 1823 this was the home of the philanthropic
Sulivan family including Laurence Sulivan, who was Palmerston’s brother-in-law.
This 18th house was demolished
in the early 1900s and became part of the Hurlingham Club grounds along with
its notable garden. The site of the house appears to be marked by terraces to
the east of Hurlingham Club House.
Carnworth House. This stood at the south eastern end of
the road was originally called Lonsdale House, having begun as a cottage in the
18th with several well connected residents including In the early 19th members of
Lonsdale family. This continued with society and political leaders and by the
late 19th the Earl of Carnwath.
Carnwath road
Broomhouse dock. Broom House draw dock is an
ancient access to the river, dating from the Middle Ages
92-116 Baltic Sawmills,
this is a development of flats and this is the developers name for them
106-113 Jewson. Building supplies
74-86 Hitchcock King, timber merchant
Broomhouse Laundry. This was present in the late 19th
and early 20th
25 Carnwath Industrial Estate. Includes Howdens, Timber
wholesaler and joiners
Petrofina wharf petroleum storage depot
Reinforced concrete works 1950s
Xyz wharf 1950s
Hurlingham Wharf. This was a
cement works in the 1960s. In use for
the Tideway Tunnel, It is a safe-guarded
wharf
Tideway Tunnel. `The main tunnel will run from here to Acton
Storm Tanks. The site here will include an above ground ventilation building
with a ventilation
column and a below ground main tunnel shaft,
with access openings,
Whiffin Wharf. This is part of the
Thames Tideway site. In 1854 a London pharmacist, Thomas Whiffen became
part of a small firm manufacturing chemicals in the Borough. In 1868 he moved the
business to Battersea. They made poisons and alkaloids from imported raw
materials. In 1887 they moved to
Southall and took over the Aldersgate Chemical Works and some other companies. The Aldersgate Chemical Works were later
based here from 1923 as a leading British Chemical company. . In 1947 it was
acquired by Fisons Limited.
Gravel pit 1914
Mead wharf 1960s
Watson house—is this now energie
St John’s wharf this is a road to
the river 1960s
United wharf 1960s
Trinidad wharf
West wharf metropolitan asylums
board
Table waters works
Claytons wharf
Christiana wharf
Town mead wharf
Malt house north side behind pub at east end
Victoria wharf 1914
Corrison works 1950s
Trogon wharf 1950s
Wandsworth bridge wharf 1950s
Riverside wharf 1960s now the trading estate on Wansdworth
bridge road
Daisy Lane
De Morgan road
Pottery
Dymoke
Street
Greer Street
Hamble Street
Hugon road
Hurlingham Square
Hurlingham club
Hurlingham Farm
Cottage, 1873
Hurlingham House.
A gentleman’s retreat built by William Cadogan, surgeon, in 1760. Later, the home of John Horsley Palmer, a
governor of the Bank of England and later the Duke of Wellington’s brother. It is a plain
three-bay, three-storey house of brown brick flanked by additions made by
George Byfield in 1797-8 for John Ellis who transformed the river frontage into
a white stucco-faced mansion in Nash's grand manner. A service wing and stables
formed the sides of what is now the entrance courtyard. More work was carried out for the club by
Lutyens c.1906-12. Interiors dated from Byfield's time but there have been many
additions. A conservatory was demolished after war damage. It is the only survivor among the Georgian mansions
which once fringed this part of the river, insulated by its grounds, still
spacious, though less extensive than before the Second World War.
Hurlingham Club. Since 1869 the house was the Hurlingham Club,
founded initially for pigeon shooting but later famous for polo – when it
became the headquarters of the British game. Polo ended here in 1939 and the
sport is now based in Oxfordshire. The Garden is a 40-acre
'country-house' garden with lawns mainly laid to bowls, croquet and tennis
Peterborough Road
Watson House.
British Gas Offices and Laboratories 1961-3 by E.R. Collister & Partners, an enterprising effort to
brighten an indifferent industrial area. Six-storey curtain-walled slab with
blue spandrels, with low projecting exhibition wing on stilts, faced with a cheerful
coloured abstract relief in polyester resin and glass, designed by John Piper
and made by Gillespie & Mamerolli Associates.
Hurlingham academy
St Thomas school Fulham
Piper building
South Park
Stephenson road
Sullivan Court
Sullivan Court on the former No. 2
polo ground of the Hurlingham Club. Ot
os aa estate of 432 flats built in , 1949-56 by the Fulham Borough Housing
Department under J. Pritchard Lovell.
The
estate has been had 432 flats disposed in L-shaped blocks of mainly 3- to
5-storeys set in a spacious, informal landscape The land was once known as Hurlingham Field by
the C18th there were villas as well as meadows and nursery gardens.
Hurlingham
House built in 1760 for Dr William Cadogan who leased from the Bishop of
London. John Ellis enlarged with Humphry Repton landscaping, the Hurlingham
estate was sold to George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl of Egrement, who in 1820
sold it to John Horsley Palmer Governor of the Bank of England, and he let it
to the Duke of Wellington's brother.
Richard
Naylor in 1867 gave permission to Frank Heathcote to use the grounds for pigeon
shooting matches byThe Gun Club of London ,. Hurlingham became a popular and
fashionable venue, and Heathcote founded the Hurlingham Club as a country
resort. The Club in 1874 bought the freehold pigeon shooting continued until
1905 whe the main activity was polo, a sport that had originated in Persia
before being played in India, coming to England in 1869. The first polo match
was played here in 1874, watched by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and
Hurlingham become the game's headquarters for the British Empire. Tennis played
in 1877 and a lawn racquet ground was provided in the 1880s, and croquet in
c.1900.
enlarged
in 1879 by Mulgrave House, demolished in 1927, and its grounds including its
lake. Broom House acquired by the Club in 1912 and No. 2 Polo Ground was on the
site of Sulivan Court Estate. Lutyens engaged as architect pavilions.1906-12, and
half-timbered lodge by Broomhouse Lane. IN the Great War became the base for
Yeomanry and an RNAS balloon detachment. In the 1930s an outdoor swimming pool,
squash courts and bowling facilities were added and a 9-hole golf course. In hr
Secibd wrld War used as quarters for the Army and Air Force and an
anti-aircraft battery and balloon barrage unit were based here, with the main
polo ground turned over to allotments. the LCC compulsorily purchased the
Club's polo grounds in order to provide Hurlingham Park and Fulham Borough Council
purchased No. 2 Polo Ground for Sulivan School and housing at Sulivan Court
Estate.
Sullivan estate. This covers the second polo ground
Sullivan Road
Sullivan enterprise centre
50 bathstore big block
Townmead road
Wandsworth Bridge Road
Site of Townmead Road small hospital for small pox
hospital 1876. Then West Wharf - to the east market gardens until the gasworks.
Grove House here - The Grove - Sandford Manor across
Stanley Bridge.
St.Matthew. Nasty and built by son of Bishop of
London.
Townmead estate
Sources
Catalyst. Web site.
Fulham and Hammersmith History Society. Buildings to
see in Hammersmith and Fulham
Hasker. The Place that is called Fulanham
London’s Ghost Acres. Web site
London Metropolitan Archive. Web site
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Parsons Green Club. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. North West London
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