Walham Green - Fulham
Post to the north Earls Court
Post to the east Chelsea Lots Road
Post to the south Parsons Green
Post to the west Fulham - Lillie Road
Anselm Road
St Oswald. The parish of Saint Oswald was formed in
1899, following the success of Lillie Road Mission after 1884. The church was
demolished in 1974. There is now housing on the site
Argon Mews
This was Princes Mews in the late 19th
London Electricity Board Offices and Workshops,
1950s. This included the Fulham Meter Station.
Barclay Road
23 Fulham Refuge for Friendless Girls. A Catholic institution
for friendless or fallen women under 30.
Corporation Depot. This was on the site of a
terrace destroyed in Second World War bombing.
The site is now housing.
Britannia
Road
1 T.
B. Ayshford. Coach and Cart Maker, and Coach and Cart Wheelwright and Smith,
and Patentee of Improvements in Omnibuses, as well as Builder of Patent Omnibuses
and other Carriages. They were there in 1858. In 1903 it was the Coupe Co.
Patent wheel work.
49a
Britannia Studios. This was home to a number of small electrical firms, Lessa
Electrical Co.1950, The Flairline Organisation, 1950. Now up-market housing.
69a
Fulham Club and Institute. Traditional
working men's club with two darts teams it houses, In the 1890s this was
the Liberal club . It has recently been rebuilt to include flats.
1-10
Greville Place. This is the site of Harwood Primary School. On this site the
school dated from 1928. In 1942 the building was shared with the Londoners' Meals
Service, which maintained a public restaurant there until 1947. The school
closed in 1991, the premises in Britannia Road were demolished and the site was
developed for housing.
Coleridge Gardens
This is an up-market housing development on the
site of part of the College of St.Mark and St.John. Only a corner of the road, and of the College
site are in this square.
Dan Leno Walk
Infill development from 1970s/80s. Named for ‘the funniest man in the world’.
Effie
Road
BIMM.
This is a contemporary music college.It began
in 1983 as the Tech Music School
London which in 2010 by the BIMM Group of music colleges.Barclay House is a
five-storey building with recording studios, mac labs, post-production suites,
rehearsal studios, lecture rooms, mixing rooms, performance spaces and teaching
rooms.
Barclay
House. This was built on the site of bomb damaged houses in 1947 by Sir Robert MacAlpine and son Ltd
for the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham Electricity Department.
Christian
Fellowship , Barclay Hall. Set up as a Mission and School in the 1890s Barclay Hall is a two storey building, with
semi-basement, with “MISSION AND SCHOOLROOM” and “BARCLAY HALL” signed above
the door. It appears to have been, or maybe still be, involved with the London
City Mission.
Welsh
Presbyterian Church. This has been The Haven (breast cancer charity) since 2000.
The church dated from the 1890s and was closed in 1988.
Farm
Lane
23
Farm Lane Care Home
72
Stewart’s garages.
The site was occupied by market gardens in 1869-74. This was built in 1880 by the London Road Car
Company as their depot. The Company was one of the largest proprietors of
horse-drawn buses in London .It was also one of the largest and finest horse
stables in London and contained two-storey stables that were ranged around a
quadrangle, where 700 horses lived in about 1890. The London General Omnibus
Company (LGOC) took over the premises in 1909, and left in 1923. There appears
to have been a V1 adjacent in 1944. By 1971 it was a 'Catering Depot'. Plaque
to this is shown on building
10l Rainsborough Square. This was the Farm Lane
Motor Works. This was the Omega Bus Co. from
1901-05. 10 horse bus of Berg. Co. and other buses. Motor repairs and
engineering 1970s. Sign works 1970s. Now
a modern housing development and trading estate. Plaque to this is shown on building
Lyons
horse stables
London
Road Car Co between there and Seagrave Road
Tilbury’s
mat and rope works
78
Laundry rund the back up the end
Joinery
works behind the houses
Wahleeah
Weavers
arms 1960s
Harwood
Arms.
Farm Lane flats, GLC 1975 using a Dutch prefanricated system
Troughton
and Young
Tyrad
lighting founded
in 1897 and closed in 1988.
Finborough
Road
Was
previously Honey Lane
Fulham
Broadway
Shopping centre of Walham Green. The
side of Walham Green became Fulham Broadway but there is little to commend in
the c19 and c20 medley, apart from the Town Hall of 1888 and some public
buildings along North End Road
George. Grand Italianate mid c 19
Sculpture by Philip King, 1981, is hardly a visual asset.
Shopping development a more dignified addition to the townscape 1987 by
Renton Howard Wood Levin, in a vaguely Venetian palazzo style, yellow brick
with red trimmings.
White
Hart from 1532.
Kings
Head from 1680.
Cock
from 1713.
Pond
Head 1606
Wheatsheaf
1616
Brewery
in 1796 called the Swan and the Swan Pub was its outlet.
Town Hall. 1880-90 ext.
l904. Edwards 1888. Many of London so called vestry halls and town halls were
the products of so called bad competitions'. But perhaps none more so than
Fulham Town Hall, which was plagued by virtually every iniquity imaginable
vagueness of instructions, Insufficiency of funds, delayed notification of
results overruling of the assessor. And accusations of outright unfairness
jobbery and nepotism. The assessor’s choice of design selected from some 400
drawings submitted by 63 architects was’ overturned by the vestry committee
which selected less extravagant designs by George Edward's. Built in 1899 for
twice the original stipulated sum the Classic Renaissance' detailing was
externally largely restricted to the Fulham Road frontage, where London stocks
are faced with Portland stone. Internally the building boasts a magnificently
adorned large hall on the first floor approached by a grand double return
principal staircase. A five-bay full
blooded Baroque extension of 1904-5 by the borough engineer Francis Wood added
to the ensemble of beautifully crafted interior spaces many with Arts &
Crafts details. Further perfunctory
additions of 1934 and 1949 by respectively Walter Cave and J. Pritchard Lovell,
complicate what becomes a rather entangled assemblage of buildings.
Grenville
Theatre f. Dan Leno 1898 now closed. In the 1950s owned by ITV
Walham
Green Court
Sculpture
Fulham
Road
Road
from London to Fulham mentioned in 1372 and became a proper highway in 1410
after the Bishop built Stamford Bridge. It goes to the Bishop’s Palace. 15th
road. Earlier called Kings Highway and London Road. Part of the Coaching road
to Portsmouth. Winds towards Chelsea with a few genteel mid c19
terraces. It ran through open fields
until the mid-18th when speculative builders moved in. Street lighting from 1806 and paving from the
1840s.
62
Middleton building 19l0.
404b
Italian Village
410-416
plaque to builder of Italian Village. Behind is hidden the
so-called 'Italian Village', picturesque low pantiled buildings created around
his workshops in the 1920S by the sculptor Mario Manenti.
422-438
villas
448
Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation. Mansions main intrusion on the
north side is this long undistinguished Baroque frontage. 1917-23 by Inigo R.
Tasker, with housing behind for disabled ex-servicemen.
469
Features in film 'Performance’.
480-4
494-504 old
Fulham
Fire Station 1896 L.C.C
490-2
Old Red Lion pub with old red lion on it
583 Cinematographic Theatre. Small cinema, built c 1914, shared
space with a surveyor's office. It appeared to hark back to the old 'penny-gaff
although it would have been more advanced.
596
Marist Convent 1896
623
George’s Snack Bar.
Fulham Broadway Station. 1st March 1880. Between West Brompton and Parsons Green on
the District Line to Wimbledon. On the
Metropolitan District Railway. Opened as
‘Walham Green’ on the site of Fulham Road tollgate by the Metropolitan Railway.
Built in a cutting with an A shaped overall roof of glass with iron built over
blind arched walls. In 1910 the station was rebuilt by the District Line
architect with a street level building designed by Harry Wharton Ford with a new entrance and booking office to accommodate crowds for the newly
built Stamford Bridge stadium. It is now listed Grade II. In
1952 the name was changed to ‘Fulham Broadway’ after representations
from Fulham who
said that one station in the Borough ought to be called Fulham something.
Served the Stamford Bridge Ground, which was leased in 1876 to the London
Athletic Club and Athletic Grounds. New booking hall and concourse, with extra
exits for Stamford Bridge. There are 10 booking windows so that they could
issue 120 tickets a minute. In 2003 a new station was
opened within the adjacent shopping centre with the motto "Life Begins at
Fulham Broadway". The centre was built above what were the open-air
sections of the platforms and the station facilities were improved to for the
management of football crowds. The old station building was refurbished and is
occupied by a restaurant. It retains many of the original station signs and
architectural features.
Purser’s
Cross. Mansion house south of Fulham Road, west of Walham Green. 1765 Home of John Ord,
and afterwards of Lord Ravensworth. It contained a curious garden planted and
laid out by Mr. John Ord; this garden produced some of the finest specimens of
trees in the kingdom. Visited by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort in 1840,
after which its name was changed for some unknown reason to Percy Cross. John
Ord was Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, Master in Chancery,
and M.P. for Midhurst.
George
Chelsea and Fulham station 2nd March 1863. West London
Extension Railway On the north side of Fulham Road entrance on the north east
side of Wandon Road. Called ‘Chelsea’
Station although it is in Fulham. In
1903 it was renamed ‘Chelsea and Fulham’ – but it was never busy and usually
just used by Chelsea football crowds. In 1940 closed and in that October it was
bombed and burnt out. The buildings were demolished in the 1950s. The
platforms
may still be there and the crumbling remains of the north bound platform,
flanked by a brick wall. It was never reopened and there are flats on the site
but station remains are still left in the boundary wall of the new flats.
Halford
Road
Halford
Road Schools
Cricket
ground shown in the 1890s the junction with Farm Lane. This was Captain James’s Field. It may in
fact have been a football ground which was used by the Stanley Football Club
Harwood
Road
Harwood
Road School demolished.
Hilmead Road
Hornthwaite road
Ifield
Road
Was
previously Honey Lane.
Jerdan
Place
St.
Johns Church 1827
Kensington
Canal
North
of Kings Road filled in 1850s. It Forms the dividing line between
Chelsea and Fulham. The canal, which was
two and a quarter miles long was opened on 12 August 1828, and was a hundred
feet wide and capable of affording a passage for craft up to a hundred tons
burden. It was built at a cost of £40,000 to convey water to Kensington and its
income from wharfs, tonnage, etc., was estimated at £2,500 per annum. Similarly
the canal was constructed in 1724 by the Chelsea Waterworks Company from the
Thames near Ranelagh to Pimlico, to provide water to Westminster, Chelsea, and
the West End of London. This canal was abolished to make way for Victoria Station.
Site
of lock to the north of West Cromwell Road. Lock over the railway bridge facing
the railway near junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road. Kensington
Rifle Club.
King’s road
Knivet Street
Lancaster Court
Lillie
Road
Called after Sir John Lillie local
landowner when the road was built. The street-line
disintegrates into ill-thought-out wasteland
Ramada Inn bulky concrete
Peabody Fulham Estate c. 1900, five-storey blocks, ultra-plain apart from
terracotta doorways.
Lillie
Bridge Depot Trainstaff Mess.
Bus
garage
Lillie
Bridge Signal Overhaul Shop
Lillie
Bridge Stores
Lillie
Bridge Met Railway Gas Works. Pipeline to Hammersmith.
Maxwell Road
Michael Road
Micklethwaite Road
Moore
Park Road
Area
developed 1850s and 60s by freeholder Percival Maxwell who came from Moore Park
County Waterford. Hence street names Percival Road, Maxwell Road Moore Park
Road and Waterford Road. .
Mark II version c. 1970 of the borough's experimental deck access
housing by Higgins, Ney & Partners starker and more cost-conscious than its
prototype.
St.James
1869 nice stained glass inside.
Victorian
iron railings
1-17
4 storey stucco mansions, iron work
Lord
Roberts Mews. Private housing with the artful arched features and
fancy brickwork favoured a decade later Michael Brown Associates, 1983.
Musgrave
Crescent
Terrace
of houses stepped at 45o
11
Features in film 'Melody’.
North
End Road
North End. Named after the old hamlet of ‘Northend’ 1459,
‘North End’ 1822, 'northern district in the parish of Fulham)', from Middle
English ‘north’ and ‘end’. Leads
to Lillie Road and West Kensington. North End, and consisted of a line of residences
extending for more than a mile from Walham Green Church to Hammersmith. Market
gardens skirted both sides of the road, with very old cottages. Much of it was rebuilt when
quantity not quality was the aim in public housing. It is Fulham's busiest shopping
centre and includes one of London's most lively street markets.
368 Fulham Baths. With two deep wells for water and a rifle
range. 1900-1902. demolished in the
early 1980s. It was occupied and run by campaigners for a time, but the only
result of their endeavours was the preservation of the grade II listed façade.
St.John's
Church l827. Wholly devoid of mystery. 1827. Built after the
design of Mr. Taylor upon a filled-up pond. The foundation-stone was laid on 1 January
1827, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 14 August 1828.
Butchers
Almshouses 1840. Foundation-stone laid by Lord Ravensworth on 1 July 1840.
Methodist
New Connection
West
London County Court
Waitrose
on the site of the ABC Cinema.
Ongar road
Pulton Road
Racton Road
A more appealing street developed c.
1900-4 with model housing for the Gunter estate by the estate's
surveyor, Walter Cave: low terraces and cottage flats in a simple Arts and
Crafts style: striped quoins, casement windows.
40 St Oswald’s Studios by Cave, picturesque formerly the vicarage for
the demolished St Oswald's, with narrow sash-windows in the manner of Philip
Webb.
Railway Lines
District Line south from West Brompton built by the
Metropolitan Railway in 1880. Leaving the south end of West Brompton station it
goes below the West London Railway line at first in a cutting.
Bull
Lane. It connected the main Fulham Road with King's Road, by
the side of the former Kensington Canal, now covered by the West London
Railway.
Redcliffe
Street
10
Dobson essayist
Rumbold Road
Sandford
Bridge
Sand
Ford market gardens.
Football
ground. Market gardens, farm in l905
Seagrave Road
London orartry school
Site of Western Fever Hospital. Built as a smallpox hospital in 1867.
Disliked the name and locally unpopular. 1883 renamed. And became general fever
hospital
ore appealing street developed
c. 1900-4 with model housing for the Gunter estate by the estate's surveyor,
Walter Cave: low terraces and cottage flats in a simple Arts and Crafts style:
striped quoins, casement windows.
Shirrolds Rroad
Tamworth Street
Tournay Road
Vanston
Place
Jolly
Maltster. Perkier gabled pub of 1900 by Nowell Parr & Kates
tucked away
Walham
Green
The Victorian centre of Fulham developed at Waltham Green which was once
a hamlet around a green on the Fulham Road. It was then a plot of
ground on the north side of Fulham Road – a Green triangle between
Vanston Place, Jordan Place and Fulham Broadway upon which
donkeys used to graze and children played cricket. In the 17th there were
stocks and a whipping post, with a pond. .. Prior to 1688 it was
known as Wansdon Green, this name being derived from the Manor of Wendon. Called
‘Wendenegrene’ in 1386, ‘Wendenesgrene’ 1397. In 1483 called ‘Wandagrene’ – a
personal name -‘Wanam Grene’ 1546, ‘Wallam Green’ 1710, that is 'village green
associated with a family called ‘(de) Wenden’; from Middle English ‘grene’. A
family of this name is recorded in the parish of Fulham from the 13th century;
they probably came from Wendens -earlier ‘Wendene’ "the winding valley' -
in Essex.
Embankments
made of spoil from the tube
Walham
Grove
An attractively complete street of 1862, with stuccoed terraces facing
trim paired villas with side entrances, and a former Nonconformist church of
the same period.
United
Methodist Free Church
Wandon
Road
A small pocket of housing built on railway land in 1958-60 by
Bridgewater & Shepheard; an eleven-storey tower and lower buildings, with
eight artists' studios.
3-4
secluded cottages, road raised when railway built
Waterford
Road
Pleasant minor mid Victorian street, with stucco-trimmed terraces
25-27
Gasworks
Restaurant 85-87 pub turned into a folly
Clare
Mews. Another small infill of the 1980s.
West
Brompton Cemetery
West Brompton Cemetery. Unkempt.
Over-managed by MSC & herbicide. Grassland etc. West London and Westminster
Cemetery Co. 1840. 40 acres with many
memorials. Benjamin Baud 1840.
West Gate Terrace
Buildings
to see in Fulham and Hammersmith
Clunn.
The Face of London
Hasker.
The Place which is called Fulanham
Hillman
& Trench. London Under London
London
Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Web site
London
Encyclopaedia
Lucas.
London
Pevsner
& Cherry. London North West
Smythe.
City Wildspace
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