This post shows sites north of the river only. South is Ham Lands

Post to the south Teddington and Ham Lands and Teddington Lock
Post to the north Twickenham and Ham Street Riverside



Cross Deep
The road runs parallel to a stretch of river called Cross Deep
Pope’s Villa. This was the home of Alexander Pope who moved here in 1719. He leased a piece of land close to the river and demolished cottages on site and then employed he architect James Gibbs to create a Palladian house and was later extended by William Kent. Pope also built his grotto and laid out one of the first picturesque gardens – including "a Theatre, an Arcade, a Bowling Green, a Grove, and a 'What Not'". After Pope's death in 1744, it was acquired by William Stanhope, who enlarged it and extended the garden. He also built a second tunnel; and some of this remains as does a brick gazebo. The house was demolished in 1808 by Baroness Howe of Langar and a new house was built. This house two was partially demolished and the rest became Ryan House and River Deep.
Pope’s Grotto is an underground passage leading from under his house to his garden. Alexander Pope came to live here in 1719 and leased some riverside properties. He obtained a licence to build a tunnel beneath the road, to give access to his garden. The cellars of his villa were at ground level facing the river and he placed his original grotto in the centre. It was completed by 1725 and he had found a spring of water. But this did not go under the road. In 1739 Pope visited the Hotwell Spa near Bristol and resolved to redesign the grotto as a museum of mineralogy and mining. He was sent material from Cornish tin mines, a stalagmite from Wookey Hole and of basalt from the Giants' Causeway. A restoration project is in hand. It is now owned by Radnor House School.
Pope’s Villa. In about 1845, house known as Pope's Villa was built on approximately the same site and has been used as a school in the 20th.  It was built for a tea merchant called Thomas Young and was designed by Henry Edward Kendall Jr. T
St Catherine's School. This is built round the core of a house built in 1842 by Thomas Young on the site of Pope’s Villa. It was founded by Sisters of Mercy in 1914 in Vicarage Road and named after St. Catherine of Siena. It moved here in 1919 with building on both sides of Cross Deep and including Pope’s Grotto. In 1948 they bought the Lawn, a house built in 1845 and thus expanded and in 1954 a pre-fabricated Hall with stage facilities was paid for by the parents. A continuous building programme made it possible to have a full two form entry by 1960. In 1991 the Sisters of Mercy left after 77  years. The river side of the school was sold and a charitable trust was set up by parents, who purchased the buildings and appointed a lay Headmistress. Building work and expansion continued.
Blue Plaque to radical journalist Henry Labouchere who used Pope’s Villa as a weekend retreat in the 1880s
Ryan House. This is the remaining half of a house built in 1807 by Baroness Howe near the site of Pope's villa.
Radnor House School. This is a private school in the later house called Pope’s Villa. In 2010 David Paton who was a teacher at the Harrodian School had the opportunity to buy Pope’s Villa which had been used as a school by St. Catherine’s.  With others he raised money and opened the school here.


Radnor House Gardens
Early buildings on this riverside land included a row of four houses owned by Mathias Perkins, and a tannery. These gardens were made up from a number of riverside properties. These were:
Radnor House. This was on the site of some of the gardens. It was named after the owner John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor who lived here 1722 - 1757. The house and land was bought by the Urban District Council in 1902 But was destroyed during a bombing raid in 1940. It had been given a Gothick exterior around 1749. Robartes had a Cold Bath at the water's edge and a remnant of this building, is in the gardens today but moved from its original site in 1847. The entrance to the gardens stands between the site of this house and Cross Deep Hall
Cross Deep Hall. The northern end of the gardens is made up of land from a house built by Samuel Scott in 1758. Damaged by a flying bomb (V1) in 1944
Joseph Hickey's house built at the same time. The grounds make up part of Radnor Gardens. Damaged by a V1 in 1944
Beechcroft. This was a 19th house originally called Pope’s Garden. The grounds make up part of Radnor Gardens.  This replaced Thomas Hudson's house built about 1750 and demolished in 1808, damaged by a flying bomb (V1) in 1944
River Deep - villa built by Baroness Howe in 1808 ,  These properties were further badly damaged by a flying bomb (V1) in 1944 damaged by a flying bomb (V1) in 1944
The Gardens were opened in 1903 after Radnor House had been bought by the Urban District Council. 7000 cubic yards of material from the construction of Teddington Lock were used to raise the ait above flooding level. At the opening a Catalpa Speciosa was planted in commemoration but was cut down later. In 1911 a cedar was planted for the coronation of King George V.
'Gothick' Summerhouse.  Built in the mid 18th. Polygonal, with trefoiled appertures
Plaque - this is on a wall in commemorates a flood. It says: "A Remarkable High Flood rose to this Mark on 12 March 1774". A pointing hand gives the exact level.
Strawberry Hill Bowls club. Formed in 1920
War Memorial, This was erected in 1921. The statue is facing south but it was sited to mark the end of a vista from Star and Garter Home to the north east. It depicts a joyful soldier, coat undone and grinning broadly – maybe delighted to be home
Bridge - Until 1965 the gardens were divided by a stream, which was a creek from the River Thames and a bridge led on to an island.  When the stream was filled in the bridge was left in place and the top of it marks the edge of the footpath leading from the entrance
Chinoiserie gazebo – this wooden structure was refaced in 1847. It was originally a bath house.


Mallard Place
Houses built 1978-80 by the Enc Lyons Cunningham Partnership, but a more affluent development than the earlier Span schemes. The  houses have their own riverside mooring places..
Radnor Works. Arthur Gibson Roller Shutter works were there from at least 1902 until the late 1950s. They are described as ‘manufacturing engineers’ making “Kinnear patent steel rolling shutters and Gibson patent bi-folding doors for generating stations, boiler houses, engine sheds, core ovens” . They also maintained branches in Manchester and Glasgow.  The site was redeveloped in the early 1970s and Malllard Place built.

Swan Island
This is a small island downstream of Teddington Lock.
Swan Island Harbour. Run by the Port of London Authority.
Newman Boat Yard. River, canal and houseboat building and repairs. Family run business.
Neal’s Yard Bakery. Fashionable bakery which moved here in 2004 from central London.

Sources
Grace’s Guide. Web site.
Pevsner and Cherry. South London
Pope’s Grotto. Web site
Radnor House School. Web site
Simpson. Twickenham Past
Strawberry Hill Bowls Club. Web site
Strawberry Hill Residents Association. Web site
St. Catherine’s School. Web site
Twickenham Museum. Web site

This post relates to sites north of the river only. South of the river is Ham House

Post to the east Richmond Star and Garter
Post to the north Richmond, central and riverside
Post to the west Twickenham and Ham Street riverside


Beaufort Road
Private gated road
Beaufort Engineering Works. The Beaufort Motor Co was based here in the early 20th. They made cars and buses, some of  which double deckers  were tried out by London General Ominbus Co. The Argson Engineering Works moved here in the 1920s making motor cycles and tricyles.

Cambridge Park
This area was previously Twickenham Meadows
Meadowbank. This was a brick mansion built in 1610. An earlier building may have been incorporated into the house. It is said to have later been the home of Lily Langtry. It was demolished in 1937 and replaced by the Cable and Wireless sports ground.
Meadowbank. A new house called Meadowbank, was built by George Owen Cambridge in 1824. He had been Proprietor of the Montpelier Row chapel and Archdeacon of Middlesex and Prebendary of Ely. He had previously lived in his father’s house in Cambridge Park.
Meadowbank Club. This was built in 1996 as a sports and social club for Cable & Wireless employees who had worked abroad but it closed in 1999. Replacing a larger building from 1960 it was designed by David Prichard of McCormac Jamieson Prichard and had eight acres of grounds leading down to the Thames towpath and views of Richmond Hill. The care home next door is part of the estate and has some rights over the grounds. It is said to have been converted into a private house.
Lynde House. Care Home. Named after Humphrey Lynd who built the predecessor to Cambridge House
Observatory. Built by George Bishop to replicate his father’s observatory near Regent’s Park in 1863 and constructed to follow the same system of work. It closed in 1877 and the instruments were given to the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte in Italy,

Glovers Island
This was originally called Petersham Ait. In the 1872 it was bought by a waterman called Joseph Glover for £70. He later tried to sell it and a long argument ensured with Richmond Council about the price.  It was eventually purchased by a resident who then gave it to the Council.


Little Marble Hill
Little Marble Hill was first built as a cottage in 1752 and enlarged in 1764.  It has had various names - Spencer Grove, Twickenham Meadows, Marble Hill Farm and Little Marble Hill. It was demolished in the mid 19th.

Marble Hill
Marble Hill. This is noted as Mardelhyll in 1350 which may mean there is a connection with martens. The House and the Park were laid out in the 1720s and it became the home of Henrietta Howard. It was unoccupied from 1887, and in 1902, it came into municipal ownership and was opened to the public.
Beaufort Lodge. This is on the site of the original 18th entrance. This was adapted to give access to little Marble Hill in the mid 1820s.
Marble Hill House. This dates from 1724 and is a stucco-faced rectangular Palladian mansion. Designed by Lord Pembroke and Roger Morris in the 1720s. It was built in 1729 for a royal mistress, Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, as a refuge from Court and her husband.  Her royal lover, George II, paid for it. Later occupied by Mrs. Fitzherbert, who had secretly married the Prince Regent, later George IV.   It was restored by the Greater London Council, 1965, and given to Twickenham as an Art Gallery.
Stables. These are 19th and house the cafe and other facilities.
Park.  The grounds slope gently down towards the Thames and were laid out in the early 18th said to be with advice from Alexander Pope and Charles Bridgeman. There are short parallel rows of chestnuts to the left and right of the house facing the river, with terraced lawns between them. There are small areas of woodland to east and west of the house, with broad lawns to north and south flanked by trees. There is a noted black walnut of the mid-18th in an enclosure.
Countess of Suffolk's Grotto. The remains of this are south of the mansion. Built in the 1740s it was inspired by Alexander Pope's Grotto at Strawberry Hill. Excavations have revealed traces of marble and flint patterns on the floor, and traces of the original incrustations of flints, clinker, corals and minerals on the walls; the ceiling was also likely to have been similarly incrusted. This brick built structure covered with evergreen was one of two... The second had gone by 1816 and its site is not known.
Ice house. This 18th brick structure is on then north-west edge of the shrubberies. It is a single brick chamber of beehive shape, largely below ground.
The East Meadow. This is grassland bordering the car park and the children's play area and is used for, football - there are posts in the centre. In
The North Lawn. This is used for cricket nets and hard tennis courts
Kitchen garden. This was still flourishing in 1890 when it was described well stocked and partly walled in, contains Range of Cucumber Pits, Green-house, Tomato-house, Vinery, Potting shed and Tool-house'. It had been abandoned by 1902.
Model Market Garden. This was built in 2014 on what may have been the site of the kitchen garden. It is now a showcase for heritage varieties, there are ten community plots. Throughout the 19th Middlesex provided food for London's expanding population. Farms became market gardens, nurseries and orchards. The Model Market Garden is a living tribute to market gardeners and nurserymen


Montpelier Row
Built after 1720 as a speculative development by Captain John Grey,
15 Chapel House. This was the home of poet, Tennyson, and later Pete Townsend
Chapel. This was first known as Twickenham Chapel and later as the Montpelier Chapel and was built in 1727 by John Gray, who also built the houses. It was not consecrated, but the clergy served it and were licensed by the bishop. It chapel was sold and because it had no endowment was supported by pew rents. Some marriages took place there. After the opening in 1875 of St. Stephen's Church it was used as a public hall and then as a laundry. It collapsed in 1941 and the ruins were cleared.

Orleans Gardens
The riverside grounds are now a woodland garden. It was part of the grounds of Orleans House named after Louis Phillippe, Duc d'Orleans whose widow bought the house in 1852. Riverside Orleans Gardens were originally linked to the House via a tunnel under the road and were purchased by Twickenham Corporation in the 1930s.

Orleans Road
30 Phoenix Pub. This closed during the Great War
31 The Old Chapel. This was the Montpelier chapel school, built in 1856 . No school board was formed, and instead the voluntary schools were extended. It closed in 1896


Richmond Road
147 The Crown. Late 18th pub described as ‘local community pub’ – listed and Michelin starred.
White Lodge. Late 18th lodge which stands by what was the approach drive to Marble Hill House.
277-279 Alba, this was the Alexsander, and before that the Rising Sun


Warren Footpath
Warren Footpath.  in 1883 Edward Dean Paul, later Sir Edward, annoyed the Twickenham Local Board by erecting railings on each side of the river towpath to prevent people crossing his lawns. In 1887 the Board agreed to create a footpath 12 ft wide alongside which Sir Edward erected his iron railings. This later became known as the Warren Footpath opened in 1923 by the Duke of York when an embankment with seating had been put in place to avoid flooding.


Sources
British History Online. Twickenham. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Field. London Place Names
Greater London Council. Thames Guidelines
London Borough of Richmond. Web site.
London Parks and Gardens online. Web site
London Transport. Country walks
Model Market Garden. Web site
Penguin. Surrey
Parks and Gardens. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. South London
Simpson. Twickenham Past
Stevenson. Surrey
Walford. Village London 
Wheatley and Meulenkamp. Follies

This post shows sites north of the river only. South of the river is Richmond Riverside and Centre


Post to the south Marble Hill
Post to the west St,Margarets
Post to the east Richmond Hill


Arlington Road
Arlington Works – this includes Twickenham Sound Studio and some light industrial units

Austin Close
This is a small group of houses between Park House Gardens and the Railway. It is named for early 20th owners of The Elms
The Elms. Early 19th house hidden away with an apparent address in Ducks Walk – but very unclear how it is reached from there. Used as a boarding house in the early 20th it is now divided into flats.


Beresford Avenue
Part of Twickenham Park, this area was tennis courts in the early 20th with housing built in the 1930s.


Cambridge Park
Named from the Cambridge family and marked as this on the 1876 Ordnance map. It is an estate development of Italianate villas on the site of Cambridge House and its grounds.
Cambridge House. This stood near the old ferry. It was built in 1616 by Sir Humphrey Lynd. By 1751 the house was called Twickenham Meadows and was purchased by Richard Cambridge who moved here following a large inheritance and the area became known as Cambridge Park. His son, George, later moved to the smaller house, Meadowbank. In 1824 it became the home of Lord Mount-Edgcumbe. In the early 20th it became the Middlesex County Club and was then sold as the Cambridge House Residential Hotel in 1915.  It was eventually demolished in 1937.
Cambridge Gardens. The site was part of the large riverside estate around Cambridge House. In the 17th the grounds shad been enlarged by Sir Joseph Ashe before it passed to the Cambridge family. The estate was divided in 1835 and part sold to Henry Bevan who commissioned Lewis Vulliamy to add a large conservatory, beautify the grounds and add a kitchen garden. In 1897 it was sold to a builder Henry Cresswell Foulkes, who had plans to build over the remaining parkland. In 1907 building began on Clevedon Road, separating the house from the riverside. By 1908 160 houses, 7 blocks of flats and 54 shops with living accommodation had been erected but Foulkes became bankrupt.


Cambridge Gardens
This is a recreation ground, local park and playground, overlooking Richmond Bridge. The far end of the Gardens meets the site of the former Richmond Ice Rink. There is a cafe and play facilities. Local groups promote biodiversity to support birds, butterflies and bees, and it is part of the riverain bats' super-highway.  There are tennis courts with coaching facilities and a field for ball games, fitness devotees, and local dog-walkers.


Cambridge Road
Twickenham Garage. This was a London Transport bus garage in operation until 1971.  It is said to have been built on the site of a skating rink. In the Great War it was requisitioned by the Royal Flying Corps and reopened in 1919. During the early 1920s it was used as a workshop for repairing and building bus bodies. The blind for garage journeys always referred to this location as Richmond Bridge. On closure, all its routes and vehicles were transferred to Fulwell bus garage, but the building continued to be owned by London Transport until the mid-1990s and used for the storage of privately owned old LT buses for the Routemaster Heritage Trust. It was later demolished for housing.


Clevedon Road
The Sports-Drome. This area was separated from Cambridge Gardens and a skating rink was built there before the Great War.
Pelabon Works. The disused rink was bought in 1914 by French Charles Pelabon as a munitions factory. He built four or five more workshops here including the building which later became Richmond Ice Rink. From 1914–15 about 6,000 Belgian refugees, some injured soldiers came here and many worked at the factory.  As a Belgian owned works munitions were produced for the Belgian Army, not the British. After the Great War Pelabon used the site for general engineering until 1924.
Richmond Ice Rink. Charles Langdon bought the site and converted the factory into an ice rink which opened in 1928.  When it opened the ice surface was the longest in any indoor rink in the world. It included an indoor golf range, outside bowling green, tennis courts, pitch and putt and a children's playground with tea gardens onto the river. It was used by several ice hockey teams. It was purchased in the 1980s by the London and Edinburgh Trust for housing development ‘executive’ houses - now Richmond Bridge Estates.
Ribbentrop.  The wartime Nazi Germany Foreign Minister,  Joachim von Ribbentrop, was German Ambassador to Britain in 1936.  He bought a house next door to the ice rink as his hobby was ice dancing. He was eventually executed for war crimes.


Denton Road
Warren Gardens. These are landscaped lawns running in front of the old Ice Rink. A memorial is planned here to the Belgian refugees who lived in the area in the Great War.
Richmond Bridge Works. In the 1940s Merron Ltd. was here. Merron made items from laminated or moulded wood. The Merron dinghy was designed here by Arthur Robb and built by the firm. It was the first design to use this autoclave hot moulding technique for a strong, lightweight and stable little boat. In the 1960s the works was used by Reliance Name Plates. They made decorative trim, dial and nameplates. Later Metal Trim Ltd. were at this works making large sheet metal items. They later moved to Daventry. The site is now – flats.


Ducks Walk
Richmond Slipways. This was a small boatyard which built and repaired police boats. It was managed by Charles Lightoller who was second officer on Titanic when it sank
Plaque to Charles Lightoller on an adjacent building.
Madingley Club. This appears to have been in Madingley House and was a jazz and rock venue in the 1960s.  It was burnt down in the 1970s and Madingley Court flats are on site.
Boundary stone made of concrete marks the junction of the parishes stands near Richmond Bridge.


Ellesmere Road
This road was not developed with the surrounding roads in the 1860s but was left until the 1930s. It is on the line of the drive to Twickenham Park House


Park House Gardens
In the 1820s, a substantial house was built site about halfway down what is now this road. It became known as Twickenham Park House. It was sold again in the late 1890s and for a short while was a school. The site was then acquired by Thames Sand and Gravel who demolished in 1929 having excavated the surrounding land for gravel.
64 Moderne style house


Pleasure Gardens
River Garden. This is part of the St.Margaret's estate on the square to the west. It is one of three private pleasure gardens belonging to the estate.  This one is River Garden and consists of riverside trees and grass.


Ranelagh Drive
Richmond Lock north side. Foot bridge incorporating lock and sluices. Built in 1891, and designed by engineer F.G.M. Stoney. The lock houses were designed by the surveyors Hunt and Steward and ironwork by the firm of Ransome and Rapier of Ipswich. At the bank the bridge is elevated on a brick base serving as a lock keepers cottage with stone dressings and double flight of steps.
Turret-like building. This is immediately beyond Twickenham Bridge alongside the road. Gives access to the underground water main which was constructed under the river around the turn of the 20th for the Hampton - Barn Elms 42" diameter main.


Ravensbourne Road
Gate posts of Twickenham Park are restored as a feature with seating halfway down the street


Richmond Road
The road marks the southern boundary of the medieval Twickenham Park.  It was at first an ancient track from Church Street to the ferry to Richmond.  It ran across what was then the Great East Field and ran along the boundary of Twickenham Park. By the 18th the approach to the Ferry was known as “Ferry Lane”. Richmond Bridge was built in 1777 it became known as Richmond Road.
429 Training Centre. This was built in 1912 as The Grand Picture Theatre. Within a year it was renamed the Gaiety Electric Playhouse and, in 1916, the Albert Cinema. It was known locally as the Gaiety Cinema until it closed in 1931. It then became a Temperance Billiards Saloon. It is near the site of Spring Lodge which was a villa from 1830 demolished in 1913
393 Old Ryde house. Stucco villa built in 1838 with an eagle over the door. This was restored in the 1980s by the Thomas Saunders partnership as part of the adjacent development. Then in use by a building society it has had subsequent use as offices. Before restoration it was part of a garage with a forecourt in front of the house.
397 Ryde House. This was a housing, shopping, and office development by Thomas Saunders Partnership from 1979. It has been empty since 2006 and is being considered for a ‘free’ school.
St.Stephen. In the 18th on this site was a brick yard. As Twickenham grew in the 19th it was felt that a church was needed and The Little family donated a he triangle of land – the shape of the land explains why the church faces north rather than east as is usual practice. Local fund raising provided money for building and Lockwood and Mawson were commissioned to desing it and did so for a church in Kentish Rag. A new parish was divided off from Twickenham, and 1875 the nave was ready for consecration. The tower was added in 1907.  Stones from the Montpelier chapel were brought used to make a bench outside the new 2011 spring extension to the church.
304 Crossway Pregnancy Crisis Centre. This ¬was set up in 1999, to support those facing the trauma of an unplanned pregnancy or pregnancy loss.  It is in a building for community and church use opened in 1999


Riverdale Gardens
2a Modern style house by Quad Architects


Rosslyn Road
This is the first road which was built during the 1860s development and was initially called  Twickenham Park. It ran between two gate lodges in an arc from and to St, Margaret’s road. It was renamed Rosslyn Road in the mid 1860s.
1a Victoria Lodge. This is a 19th lodge to Twickenham Park House designed as a Doric temple.
13 East Twickenham Neighbourhood and Community Centre.  The centre dates from the mid-1980s and offers the usual facilities
15 Rosslyn Clinic of the British Pregnancy Advice Service. Abortion Clinic. Previously this was known as the Richmond Private Clinic and Nursing Home;
15a Twickenham Park surgery. This is in The Cottage which was presumably some sort of amenity building to no. 15

Sandycombe Road
40 Sandycombe Lodge. Built by J.W.M.Turner, RA, for himself he was his own architect, contractor, surveyor, foreman and clerk of the works, said to have been inspired by his friend, John  Soane.  Turner's bought the land here in 1843 then built the house and moved in two years later. It was also a home for his father William and originally called as Solus Lodge, Turner lived here from 1814 to 1826. It is a symmetrical house, with central gable and lower wings with rounded corners.  A plaque was placed on the building in 1977.  It was used as a factory producing airmen's uniforms during the Second World War and vibrations from the machinery damaged the staircase and ceilings.  In 1947 the house was bought by Harold Livermore who created the Sandycombe Lodge Trust which is now the Turner's House Trust. Livermore’s bequeathed the house to the trust to be preserved as a monument to Turner. It is hoped to open it to visitors.

St Margaret's road
Marks the southern boundary of the medieval Twickenham Park

St Stephens Passage
This is an old right of way marking property boundaries

The Avenue
This begins as the A316 the approach road to Twickenham Bridge, but then diverges away to the riverside.

Twickenham Park
The area between the river, St Margaret’s and Richmond Road lie in an area which was part of a much bigger Twickenham Park stretching to the north outside this square
Twickenham Park House stood roughly at the junction with Arlington Close. The first major house on the site was built in 1601. The boundary line between Twickenham and Isleworth parishes ran through the middle of the house. It was demolished in the early 19th, sold, and a new house built on the site

Twickenham Park Mews
These are workshops in the what were the stables of the Twickenham Park House alongside the railway

Willoughby Road
1 Willoughby House. This is an old house with a tall campanile. It was refurbished as offices by Manning Clamp & Partners in 1981. It was also once known as Bertie House and also as Caen Lodge.
3 Halibut House. Howlett boatyard
The Watermark. Modernist house with curved roofs by Edward Cullinan Architects


Sources
Behind Blue Plaques,  
Blue Plaque Guide.
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Cinema Treasures. Web site
Crossway. Web site
Field; London Place Names
Friends of Cambridge Gardens. Web site
GLIAS Newsletter,
Greater London Council. Thames Guidelines,   
London Encyclopedia
Middlesex County Council. History of Middlesex
Penguin. Surrey, 
Pevsner and Cherry. South London,
Pevsner.  Surrey
Port of London Magazine
Stevenson. Surrey
St.Stephen. Web site
Twickenham Museum. Web site
Twickenham Park Residents’ Association. Web site
Wheatley and Meulenkamp. Follies
Wikipedia, as relevant

Post to the south Isleworth and Richmond Old Deer Park
Post to the east Kew Gardens West and Syon Park
Post to the north Syon Lane


Abbey Mews
Housing built in 2002 on an industrial site at the back of the Coach and Horses Pub.  There had been various works here but latterly it was a paint and bodywork repair shop

Busch Close
Gated housing estate built on the site of the Health Centre attached to Busch Open Air School

Church Street
Bridge Wharf. The new buildings start with Bridge Wharf by Edgington Win & Hyne, 1981
42-46 terrace of three 19th cottages, with back gardens going down to the river. One chimney has the initials and date: “W.C, 1833”
43 Richard Reynolds House. The name of this 18th house commemorates a monk of Syon Abbey Executed in 1535 together with the vicar of Isleworth for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. He has been subsequently sanctified.
48 18th cottage. Lady Dido Berkeley lived here who is well known for her and support for Thameside above Hammersmith Bridge.
54 House built in 1985 on the site of a riverside garden belonging to Richard Reynolds House
62 London Apprentice Pub. It is said that it was once the custom for City apprentices to row here on their days off. There are claims that it dates from the 15th, but can only be shown to be from the 1730s.
58 - 60 18th cottages attached to the pub and apparently once owned by it,
Slipway. This replaces a slipway at the bottom of Park Road which was destroyed by embankment building in the late 19th. The present slipway probably dates from the 1890s .The grass plot between it and the pub is common land despite the tables and benches on it.
59 Manor House. This late 18th house is neither the manor house not is it on the same site as the real manor house. In the 20th Michael Penty, purchased the Manorship of Isleworth and re-named the family home. The house dates from 1825-30 and is the remodelling of an older house
Blue plaque on 59 to Arthur Penty an architect who worked for Raymond Unwin on Hampstead Garden Suburb and published a book on the Restoration of the Guild System.
61 Swan House. This is a late 18th stucco house, with Soanian pilasters to the top floor and a tented balcony. From 1945 until the mid 1990s it was the Vicarage
All Saints Church. This is just the carcass of a building of 1707 which was burnt down in 1943 by two young arsonists and only the 14th rag stone tower remains. It stands on the river bank a church was here in the 11th.  It was rebuilt ion the early 18th following a bequest of £500 from Sir Orlando Gee, whose monument is in the church, Richmond architect, John Price remodelled a design originally by Christopher Wren who was too expensive. In 1867 a chancel was funded by Farnell, a local brewer. All of this was destroyed in the 1943 fire and years of intensive fund raising followed. The church was rebuilt by 1969 including some special memorial areas and there are some community rooms and facilities as well. There are many memorials and an ornamental sundial first erected in 1707 in memory of Susanna, wife of Col. Nicholas Lawes who was Governor of Jamaica.
Churchyard.  Since the rebuilding of the church there are now memorials fixed to exterior walls, and there is an open courtyard between the old church doors and the new entrance area with grass and a small stream emanating from a font – as a fountain. In front of the church is mown grass, an herbaceous bed and shrubs in the lawn, with chest tombs among the monuments. A yew tree covers the burial site of 149 local victims of the Great Plague in 1665. Stones set in the churchyard wall record floodwater levels - The earliest is 1 March 1774, and the highest is 1928. Behind the church is an extension of 1848 now overgrown and wooded.
The Green School. In 1796 Rev. William Drake started a Sunday School in Isleworth which is the forerunner of the Green School. It was to provide an education for the children of the poor. It was funded by local gentry and was held in a house which belonged to the Duke of Northumberland. Children attended the school on Sundays but in 1823 it became a daily charity school. It moved to Park Road in 1859
Butterfield House, two early 19th houses transformed into Strawberry Hill Gothic in 1971 by Howard V. Lobb & Partners. They are on the site of Porch House built in 1705 and using stone from the demolished medieval church. It was constructed to provide an arch over the pavement making a covered entrance into the churchyard. It was church property and sometimes used as a school.
Church Wharf. This is a free draw dock and has been so since 1880. It was used by the Guinness Park Riyal Brewery to bring new vats into the brewery, transferring them to low loaders from river craft. In 2004, the fuselage of a Concorde was transferred here from a low loader on to a specially constructed barge and then towed to Edinburgh. The wharf is also a ferry landing stand and the Isleworth Ferry uses it at the weekends during the summer months.
Ferry House. A building has been here since the 17th known as Sion Ferry House in the 18th and later as Church Ferry House or Park House. From 1804 - 1806 it was leased to J.M.W.Turner. It was destroyed by Second World War bombing but its owner, had the house rebuilt.


London Road
183 Coach and Horses.  This is an 18th pub leased by Young's since 1831 and one of the few remaining coaching houses of which there were many here. It was mentioned by Dickens in Oliver Twist.
Syon Lodge. This is said to be the former dower house of Syon Park. It dates from 1770 and was designed by Robert Adam for the Duke of Northumberland. It is inn Brown brick and some items are said by the owner to be from Foley House in Langham Place. It has however been recently owned by a member of the Crowther family, who dealt in historic architectural items many of which have been used in renovating the house. The house has wrought iron gates with brick piers surmounted by stone vase and here is a stable block which has had Tudor items added to it.
191-199 Park Cottages. These date from 1728-32
The Green School.  From 1904 the trustees determined that the school should be a Secondary School for Girls. The building was provided by Henry George 7th Duke of Northumberland and it ipened in 1906 and the current location of Busch corner. In 1934 new buildings were opened but in 1940 the school was bombed three times. In 1951 the rebuilt school was opened. It remains an all girls Church of England Secondary School but a boys' school is also planned.
 277 John Busch House, this is being partly demolished and converted into flats. This was a very large block of which the building date is not clear and which appears up until at least 1989s to have been used by National Semiconductors. Use since is unclear. It was/is a very large and austere building in the Chicago style.
John Wilmot’s Nursery. Marlborough School was built on the nursery site of John Wilmot who grew fruit for the London market. He developed a new grape in the 1830s and also a new strawberry “Wilmot’s Superb. The nursery was described as an “immense horticultural establishment” where only fruit trees fruit shrubs and strawberries were grown, plus tart rhubarb – something else developed by Wilmot in the 1820s. He also grew pineapples.
Marlborough School. Marlborough School originated here as a senior elementary school built by the Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council in 1932. It became Marlborough Training Centre in 1982 providing training in engineering, business administration, and health, care & public services. From the early 1990s it became self funding and in 1993 moved to Feltham.
Marlborough Primary and Nursery school. Marlborough School as rebuilt in 1997 by which time it was a nursery and primary school, which it remains. It appears however to have been built on a slightly different site to the rear of the original building and the part of the site nearest the road is now new housing.
280 Pine House. This was formerly in the grounds of Marlborough School. It was once the house of the steward of the Syon Hill estate; and built around 1760 for the Duke of Marlborough. . One pier has a stone and stucco pineapple on top the last reaming of once were several ornamental pineapples. It was the home of John Wilmot who grew pineapples for the London Market on the site of the school and the new houses.
Milestone. This is opposite Pine House. It is in cast iron and dates from around 1834. It is triangular in section, with an arched head inscribed ‘Isleworth Parish’ and ‘London 8’ and ‘Hounslow 2.’
Rose and Crown Pub. This pub is now closed and turned into flats. The building is 18th and it was a ‘coaching’ inn.
Smallberry Green Turnpike

Mill Plat
This is a footpath, in two halves, running alongside the Duke of Northumberland’s River
Brentford Union Infirmary. In 1894 the Brentford Board of Guardians purchased a house and its grounds in Mill Plat from Lord Warkworth in order to build an infirmary for its workhouse.  The site was later enlarged by the acquisition of other pieces of land along Mill Plat and Twickenham Road. They then built The Brentford Union Infirmary in 1896 and incorporated some of the workhouse buildings.  In 1920 the Infirmary became known as the West Middlesex Hospital, with an address in Twickenham Road. After 1920 it was under the control of Middlesex County Council
Warkworth House. A new workhouse opened in 1902 to the southeast of Percy House.  It was named Warkworth House and opened in 1902.  By the 1930s it was a Public Assistance Institution with accommodation the mentally ill, epileptics, and uncomplicated maternity cases.  In 1935 they were all transferred to Percy House and Warkworth House then incorporated into the Hospital.
Site of the old entrance to Warkworth House, this had been bricked up but is still visible.
Little Warkworth House. This was the original house on the property and was later was used as an annexe to the workhouse. In 1916 took ‘mentally deficient’ boys.  It later became the School of Nursing and has now been demolished.
Ingram’s Almshouses. The almshouses consist of six terraced bungalows. They were endowed in 1664 by Sir Thomas Ingram. They were renovated and modernised in 1993.
Dundee House. This was used as a receiving house by the workhouse to the north.


Mill Plat Avenue
18-20  Vector Signs.  Sign makers material in what appears to be an old garage, but has also recently been the base for a pest control business.


Millside Place
Modern housing on the site of Bridge Wharf


Park Road
The road replaced a main road which once ran through Syon Park,
Isleworth Health Centre. This was built here in the 1950s and has now closed and been replaced by Katherine House and Busch Close
Isleworth Cemetery. This opened in 1880 as All Saints burial ground became full. It has a twin Chapel and many memorials including one to members of the Pears family
Syon Park – vehicle entrance
Green School. This was in a building at the back of the churchyard. Thus dated from 1859 when the Duke of Northumberland had building erected using money given by the Dowager Duchess. The educational standard was rather low and there was an emphasis on needlework. Girls wore distinctive green clothing which was free.


Quakers Lane
This was originally called Conduit Lane
Friends Meeting House. The first recorded Quaker Meeting in Brentford was in 1659.John Tysoe, the instigator, was be imprisoned intermittently over the next thirty years, and until in 1689 it became lawful to hold such meetings. A barn in Brentford became a meeting place. The present Meeting House was built in 1785 and the date is carved over the door. The building is in plain 18th domestic style. It has a gallery with sliding partitions at the front which can be used to close it off as a separate room, now a library.  The main meeting-room is little different from the way it was in 1785, though men and women are no  longer separated and now the benches are arranged in a square. In 1940 it was bombed and the building could not be used for ten years. Then a children's room and a kitchen were added...
Burial ground. This surrounds the meeting house the land having been bought for the meeting by Benjamin Angell. The Brentford Friends were connected with Kew Gardens and a number of noted botanists, including Baker and Oliver, were members of the Meeting and were buried here. These early burials were not marked with gravestones, although there is a wall plaque. The southern part of the ground was given by Sarah Angell in 1824 and had rows of headstones yew trees along one boundary. Also here are the remains of the Friends Burial Ground in Long Acre, re-interred here in 1892. In 1978 part of the grounds were leased to the Shepherds Bush Housing Association who built Angell House – one flat of which is reserved for the Resident Friend

Rose and Crown Lane
This ran from the Rose and Crown pub in London Road from the rear of the yard down to
Twickenham Road.

Snowy Fielder Way
Charlotte House Care Home

Syon Park
This square covers only the western section of Syon Park and does not include the house
Lake. This is now managed as a commercial fishery.  It was originally constructed by Capability Brown in the 1760s, and is now stocked with rainbow trout and brown trout in season. The water enjoys prolific hatches of olives, alders, sedge, buzzers and damsel flies.
Ornamental footbridge. This carries a former driveway to the house. It is a Wrought iron Bridge over the lake built in 1827-30 and designed by Charles Fowler. It was Taken from a design by James Wyatt and built by John Busch.
Pond in the south west corner.

Turnpike Way
Smallberry Green Primary School. A school here was originally opened by Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council as a Senior Elementary School for boys in 1939. This school later merged with another to become a comprehensive Isleworth and Syon School on a different site. The school now on the site is a local authority primary. It is a utilitarian looking building but with a clock tower.


Twickenham Road
181 Chequers Pub. This pub dated from at least 1825 when it also had an active stable attached. It had then a double storey bow window at the front with a balcony on top. It was rebuilt back from the road in 1933. It was recently renamed the Waiting Room but since 2010 It has been an India Restaurant.
Percy House Institution. This was Brentford District Schools for which the foundation stone was laid in 1883.  It was known as Percy House and was a residential school for children from the Brentford Union workhouse on the site.  In 1930 it was leased to H.M. Office of Works to store military records but in 1935 this ceased and it was used to house those who had been inmates of Warkworth House, both able-bodied and infirm, who were transferred there.  Under the NHS Middlesex County Council retained Percy House for use as 'Part III' accommodation, that is, for adults who, because of age, illness or disability, were in need of care and support. It was demolished in 1978
Brentford Union Workhouse. This was built in 1837 and designed by Lewis Vulliamy. This later became the site of the infirmary. In 1897 a new workhouse was built to the south east based on a pavilion block lay out devised by W.H.Ward. This was considered state of the art at the time. In due course it became subsumed into the spreading hospital buildings.
West Middlesex Hospital. In 1930 this consisted of the old workhouse and its infirmary. It had about 400 general beds and in 1932 2o4k began on a modern maternity department. But plans for further extensions were delayed by the Second World War. Wooden huts were built instead and an emergency hospital was run by staff evacuated from St. George’s Hyde Park. An Out-Patients Depart had been established but it was small and there was little privacy. In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS and many of the buildings they inherited were very unsuitable for a hospital. By 1952 a new Our patients and casualty had been built followed by two new operating theatres but Although the Hospital was one of the largest in the country, with 1,254 beds, it was in need of modernisation and Its buildings stretched for a mile through the site.  Gradually more departments were opened and specialist areas set up.  A plan was made for redevelopment of the Hospital, but only the first stage – and a Medical Department and a new boiler house were built and more changes followed. In 1991 it as renamed the West Middlesex University Hospital.  It had 620 beds but was still using many 19th bulldogs and a 35-year PFI deal was approved in 2001.   The first phase opened in 2003 about of the half the original site having been sold.  In 2013 it was decided that it would then become one of London's 'major' hospitals. There is a small garden near the main entrance called the History Centre with seven foundation stones from various hospitals within the South Middlesex Group.
Isleworth Town Primary School, the school dates from 1910. There have recently been the additions of some new buildings.
BT Telephone Exchange
Busch House. This was the retirement home of John Busch, a German from Hanover who had set up the forerunner of Loddiges’ Hackney Nursery. He had spent many years in Russia working on the gardens at Tsarskoe Selo for Catherine the Great. In the early 20th it became a school. It is a small, two-storeyed, late 18th. It has since been used by a series of schools and is now the Woodbridge Park Education Service, a pupil referral unit.
Busch House Open Air School.  In 1938 an open air school for delicate children was set up in the grounds at the back of the house and some wooden buildings were provided. It ran on open air school principles until the late 1970s. It then housed Syon Park School, a small mixed secondary school which closed in 2007. The school buildings in the grounds were designed by Scherrer & Hicks in 1976. These have all gone and the site is a pupil referral unit centered round Busch House
Woodbridge Park Education Service. This is part of a service which has units around the borough. This unit deals in particular with pupils unable to return to education for medical reasons, but it is seen as a short term

Union Lane
This separated the workhouse separated from the Infirmary

Sources
21st Century Group. Web site
Aungier. The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery
Brentford and Isleworth Quakers. Web site
British History on line, Heston and Isleworth. Web site
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Green School. Web site
Historic England. Web site
Ingram’s Almshouses. Web site
London Borough of Hounslow. Web site
London Gardens Online. Web site
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Marlborough Primary School. Web site
Panorama of the Thames. Web site
Pub history. Web site
Soloman. Loddiges of Hackney.
Waymarking. Web site
Workhouses. Web site

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Syon Park
This square covers most of the main area of the park and the house. It does not cover the area to the south and east nor a small strip of amenity buildings to the north.
The house and park belongs to the Dukes of Northumberland and is surrounded by high walls.

Syon House
Syon – the nunnery. In the late middle ages the site was used a nunnery founded by Henry V in 1414, which moved to this site as a Bridgentine foundation. The new abbey was ready for occupation by 1431. In 1539 at the time of the dissolution Syon Abbey was the tenth wealthiest land owner in the country having many farms and manors – it had enjoyed royal favours. The site of the abbey and its many outbuildings has been located by archaeology south of the present house and between it and the river. The abbey was involved in Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon and meetings were arranged here. They were thus susceptible to suspicion and retribution. In 1535 Richard Reynolds and some others were executed. The Brigantines went as refugees to Belgium but Abbess Jordan has not surrendered the common seal of Syon and the Brigantine order, keeping part of the gateway where Reynold’s body had been exhibited.
Syon – the estate. Following the departure of the nuns the estate was Crown property and here Catherine Howard was confined before her execution in 1542. Under Edward VI the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector began to build a house which forms the basis of the present building. When he was executed in 1552 the property passed to John Dudley and at Syon Lady Jane Grey, married to his son, was formally offered the Crown.  Followed by her and Dudley’s executions.
Syon – the Dukes of Northumberland. In 1594 Syon passed by marriage to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.  He and his son built formal gardens around the house in the French style.  In 1602 they were given the freehold. In 1605 the he was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, and confined in the Tower for seventeen years, meanwhile refurbishing Syon. In 1642 before the Battle of Brentford there were skirmishes around the Park.  Later the three younger royal children were kept here and were visited by Charles I while he was captive. There was also a conference here between the Parliamentary Army and others.
Syon House. This is a 16th house and various alterations have taken place.  Inigo Jones is credited with having built an open loggia along the east front which probably dates from the late 17th. By the 18th a new generation undertook a complete redesign of Syon.  Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in an early commission replaced the formal landscape with the open views and over twenty years incorporating farmland to the west and creating grounds to the north with new ornamental lakes.  Inside the house Robert Adam created classical interiors, filled with antiquities from Italy.  Unable to change the interior layout he used clever architectural devices to create the impression he wanted. Generally the whole house is full of expensive works of art and architectural features. In the 19th the 3rd Duke had the exterior clad in Bath stone and added a Porte Cochere.  He also added kitchens and the Oak Passage.  New stables were built as well as the Great Conservatory. The Percy Lion stands on the east range with his outstretched tail having been brought here from Northumberland House at Charing Cross after its demolition in 1874
Syon in the 20th. Syon was used as a hospital during the Great War.  It remained however a private country estate surrounded by the city. The owners sought to cover maintenance costs through a process of commercialisation – opening the house and promoting festivals and features to bring the public in and provide an income.
The Great Conservatory. In the early 19th, glasshouses were small but as the century progressed technologies were developed to enlarge them dramatically. A commission was given to Charles Fowler, who specialised in large industrial buildings and who understood the new metalworking technologies. He created a building whose revolutionary structure was applied to a Palladian model. The Great Conservatory was filled with exotic plants from around the world. The building was restored in 1986/7 bur remains unheated
Riding School. This is now used as the garden centre. It was built between 1819-1826 for Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland.  It includes a 28-bay iron roof of composite truss construction and it thought to be very early and was probably designed by Charles Fowler who later built the conservatory. The building reflects the revival of tightly controlled dressage at this time. There have been some alterations to accommodate the garden centre and also during the Great War when it was used as a hospital.
Stables. These were built in 1831 in yellow brick with a clock tower. It is now used as gift shop for the Garden Centre.
Garden Centre. This is run commercially.  It was opened in 1968 by the Queen Mother and was it was a pioneer as the first 'garden centre' of its kind. It has been followed by many more. It has a large selection of English Roses. It includes a restaurant.
London Butterfly House. This was a site full of Free-flying tropical butterflies in a garden alongside displays of other exotic insects and spiders. It opened in 1981 and closed in 2007 because of plans to build a hotel
Garden. This was an early botanical garden laid out for the Duke of Somerset by William Turner in 1548, thus the mulberry bushes are the oldest in England. The garden had begun in the 1430s by the Brigantine Nuns who collected plants and trees for their garden and orchard.
Park. The Tudor terraces and walls were removed to create a more open landscape setting by 'Capability' Brown engaged by the 1st Duke of Northumberland. Brown turned the river into a feature lake placing it along the prehistoric bed of the Thames. Under the 3rd Duke the tree collecting was enhanced. There are more than 3,000 trees, 40 per cent of which exceed 100 years old and 187 of those are over 200 years old.  There are 28 types of oak as well as maples, catalpas, swamp cypresses and big zclkovas. Exotic trees were brought from North America in the late 18th.  In time new discoveries from the Himalayas and China were added to the collection.
Riverside. This is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Tide Meadow consists of a tall wet grassland community of reed-grasses which grades into a drier semi-improved grassland and rough meadow-grass on the higher ground towards a ha-ha. Along the river bank which has remained natural is a fringe of damp woodland has rich hybrids of willow species and poplar. Numerous small ditches dissect the site, running down to the Thames. The river here is tidal and the intertidal mud is used by herons, and wintering birds. The wash land and ditches contain rare marshland plants and flies. A species of snail new to Britain is here. Herons to roost in the trees while the meadow is grazed by cattle in the summer
Syon Pavilion. Also known as Syon Park Boathouse nit is said to have been built by a Duke as a surprise for his wife when she returned to Syon. It is late 18th with a stucco facade by J Wyatt. It faces the river with a bow front and with wings. A granite sett terrace and sloping bank run in front of the pavilion.
Snakes and Ladders indoor adventure playground.
Hilton London Syon Park. In 2004, planning permission was granted for the deluxe £35-million Radisson Edwardian Hotel and in 2011, the Syon Park Waldorf Astoria hotel opened on the site. It was renamed to the Hilton London Syon Park in 2013


Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Historic England. Web site
London Borough of Hounslow. Web site
Syon House. Web site
Wikipedia. Syon House. Web site

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Brooks Road
Strand on the Green Primary School and Infants and Nursery School. The school was opened in 1912. There has been a National School here since 1857 which was on the south side of Thames Road. In 1874 the school was moved to the site of the present school. In 1912 A new building was added for boys and buildings for infants and juniors on 1939. By the 1950s it was a popular school with swimming lessons, a pottery kiln, visits to Switzerland and many children going on to the County Grammar School.


Chadwick Mews
Flats in a converted industrial building previously known as Magnolia House, 160 Thames Road. In 1903 this belonged to the Larger London Land Company Ltd – and later to a firm known as Perrot and Sons who made, or dealt in, fancy goods and who retained it as their registered office until 1989.

Chiswick Village
Chiswick Village. This consists of 15 blocks of flats built round a green. They were designed by Charles Simmonds and funded by the People’s Housing Corporation in 1935 – today there seems to be an argument as to whether it is art deco or international moderne. It would appear to fit very neatly into an old orchard and a space left by the removal of the Chiswick Curve in 1932 in 1932 – this was a railway line connecting Gunnersbury and Kew Bridge stations.

Dead Donkey Lane
A lane which meandered down to the river northwards in the Magnolia Road area.

Ernest Gardens
The road now extends eastwards with new housing into an area which was once a timber yard alongside the railway

Grove Park Road
66 Thames Bank. This was a very large Tudor-style mansion built in 1870, facing the river. Between 1931 and 1994 it was the Redcliffe Missionary Training College and extended for them. In the late 1990s the site was redeveloped as housing and renamed Redcliffe Gardens.
Redcliffe Training Mission College dates from 1892 originally based in Kings Road, Chelsea. In 1917 they moved to Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington – hence the name – and In 1931 to 66 Grove Park Road. During the Second World War the college was used for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and the College returned in 1944. In 1984 it began to allow as women to enrol and in 1995 moved to Gloucester.
68-74 These were built before 1874 by electric boat builder William Sargeant.
70 Grove Mount. Home of John Thaw and Sheila Hancock.
76 three houses were built here after 2002 on the site of a boat yard. It was occupied until 1988 by Bason & Arnold, as a boat repair yard and club plus a re-fuelling point for boats with fuel pumped from tanks in the basement. The Wheelhouse Club also met there for a while.
St Paul’s Church. St Paul's was because of the patronage of William Cavendish the 7th Duke of Devonshire. It was designed by the English architect Henry Currey built in 1872. It is said to have a mock belfry. In the Second World War the church hall was destroyed and the church damaged. The Lady Chapel was this converted into a Community Room
64 Vicarage. Dylan Thomas lived here in the 1940’s when the ground floor was converted into a bed-sit.


Hartington Road
This was one of the earliest roads laid out on the Duke of Devonshire’s Grove Park Estate. The Marquis of Hartington is the title of his eldest son.
61 the house has a garden to the Thames and was at one time the Nicaraguan Embassy.  Also the home of TV presenter Eamonn Andrews.
Hartington Court. Art Deco flats built in 1938
81 University of London Boathouse. The club dates from the 1860s and competes in major events, including Henley Regatta and the Olympics. An appeal was launched for a boat house in 1926. The boat house was constructed in two phases in 1936 and 1937 by Thompson & Walford, in modern blue and white. Although added to it remains largely as originally built.


Oliver’s Island
This is an Island in the Thames. There is a story that Oliver Cromwell hid there – and it was called Strand Ait before the Civil War then named after him. However it was called Strand Ait for many years after that and the chance that there is any truth in story of a secret tunnel to the mainline is very remote indeed. In 1777 the City of London navigation committee installed a tollbooth on here to charge river craft to fund future works on the river. This was a wooden structure looming lime a small castle, with a barge – the City Barge - from where the tolls were collected. There was a smithy on the island by 1865 and a barge building and repair yard. In 1909 it was assigned to the Port of London Authority which used it as a storage depot and as a wharf for derelict vessels. The PLA tried to sell it in 1971 and there was a protest from residents at Strand on the Green. It was later to the London Natural History Society and the thickly wooded island is now a haven for herons, cormorants and Canada geese.


Pyrmont Road
St.Paul’s Hall. This is currently home to Chiswick Toddlers World. The hall here was originally called St. Paul's Institute. It appears to be attached to St. Pauls Church in central Brentford rather than St. Paul’s Grove Park.


Railway
London and South West Railway Line.  A railway line runs north south through the area and crosses the river on a bridge passing over Thames Road. This was the Kensington and Richmond branch of the London and South West Railway built in the mid-1860s. North of Wolseley Gardens the Chiswick Curve had left it to the west.
London and South West Railway Windsor Staines and South Western Railway line. This runs east/west across this square. It dates from the mid-1840s. In this stretch it runs between Chiswick Station and Kew Bridge,
Chiswick Curve. This left the main Kensington-Richmond line south of wharf was then called Brentford Road Station – now Gunnersbury at the request of a House of Commons Committee. It joined the line to Kew Bridge at Brook Lame called Chiswick Junction.  It was not used until 1870 and closed in 1932.


Strand on the Green
Pier House Laundry. The laundry appears to have been established in 1860 on the river front but from 1905 expanded north of the road leaving its original riverside site as a permanent open space. The current buildings date from in 1905 and extended in 1914. The building has previously been a hotel and closed as a laundry in 1973. It is now offices. A chemical manufacturing plant called Camille Simon, a subsidiary, moved in 1973. The building is now said to be offices
Indian Queen. This pub was on the corner with Spring Grove and appears to date from the mid 18 –there is a record from 1760. It is also thought that the name refers to Pocahontas who is said to have lived in Brentford. It is long since demolished.
Tile and slate works, with kilns. This was here in the early 19th
85 Steam Packet Public House opened in the 1870s. It closed as a pub in the 1980s to become The Dome Cafe and is now Café Rouge. The upstairs area was once used by the Old Meadonians Cricket Club
84 Rose Cottage. 19th house which was the home of Nancy Mitford in the 1930s.
Waterman’s stairs.
83 this was a 19th farm house. Maltings here were lost in bombing.
Malt house. Clunell’s large malt house entirely covered the point at the junction of with Thames Road
72 Bell and Crown. This was an 18th pub but rebuilt in 1907 in an Arts and Crafts style. It was first licensed in 1787. It was acquired by Fuller, Smith & Turner in 1814. In the early 20th it had a butcher’s shop in part of the building. It retains its original metal windows and tall chimneys. The conservatory was added in the 1980s.
Bell and Crown Watermen’s Stairs
70 where Michael Zachary lived who swam 22 leagues with a tinderbox and matches wrapped in his hair. It was also the home of William Sargeant who had a boat yard and electric boats locally. More recently Midge Ure from Ultravox.
Zacchary House riverside steps.
65 with a little lion over the door.  Home of Zoffany, the German artist, who undertake work locally. It is late 18th with a bay window and balconies.
Malt house belonging to Goslings
Ship Alley. A small brook came down here and there was a small bridge carrying the road over it
Ship House river stairs – these are of wood
56 This was once the Ship pub which may be the oldest house on the Strand, it existed before 1694.
Boat and barge building yard of James Hagtharp present in the early 19th
Yard of George Dorey, stonemason and builder
Oliver House Stairs
Malt house. This stood next to 50
46-47. Malt house and Warehouse site. It was the site of Ailsa Craig, an engineering company which made detachable, or outboard, motors in the early part of the 20th.  In the Great War the factory was a National Munitions Factory producing 4 ½” gun shells, 10,000 a week. Later it returned to inventing, designing and making the Ailsa Craig marine diesel engines for which it was famous. The buildings remained until 1982 when the site was sold for housing development.
44 Navigators Cottage. This was once owned by the City Corporation/ Thames Conservancy/ Port of London Authority and used as a house for their local foreman.  There were boatyard facilities and the grid on the foreshore is still maintained for shipping.
Grid. This is a timber grid with mooring piles, owned by the Port of London Authority.  It is used for drying out and limited to smaller vessels
40-43 this was once the Steam Navigation Company's boat-building yard which was sold for building in 1963. There are now houses on the site. Adjoining estate was property of the Port of London Authority also sold in 1970.
Magnolia Wharf. This is now housing built in 1963. It was previously owned by Maritime Lighterage Co. and had been an old ship-building site and Thames Conservancy warehouse, slip, crane and workshops. Robert Talbot & Sons built about 300 barges here between 1858 and 1908, and by 1908 were working for the Maritime Lighterage Co. The yard was closed in the 1950s and sold off for housing in 1961
Strand Works. This was William Sargeant’s boat-building yard on, already established yard. Bury and Moritz Immisch commis¬sioned him to build electric boats in 1888. They asked Sargeant to adapt a hulk to take a 20 horse-power Fowler under-type steam engine coupled up to one of Immisch’s dynamos. Sargeant designed two other electric launches and went on to build several more. The business being taken over in 1890 by Woodhouse and Rawson United, manufacturers of heavy engineering equipment, There was also a charging station here.
29 The Post House. This was once a post office and tea shop. Later it was the Cosy Cafe or The Spot of Comfort.
28 Post Office alley. This goes through a small tunnel underneath the first floor of 2o.
27 City Barge.  This was licensed by 1786 and known then as the Maypole Inn. Bells were sold in 18th on the site of this 16th inn.  Oliver Cromwell held court here. Joe Millar the comic was there –he could not read.  Nearby the pub was where the City of London State barge moored in the winter   and also used for Swan Upping.  British school.  In 1841 it was called the Navigators Arms, and also called after the Marie Celeste.  The bar has a 'Parliamentary clock' in a glass door to avoid the tax. The doors are boarded at high tides and when there are floods. It was bombed during the Second World War and all that remains of the original pub is at pavement level
City Barge River Stairs.
23 A modern infill of shuttered concrete and glass built in 1966 and designed by Timothy Rendle for Lephas Howard of the Temperance Seven.
20 York Cottage. This used to be Railway Cottage, and belonged to the London and South Western railway from the 1860s. It was used for housing for railway staff.
Strand Sailing Club. This dates from 1946 when 22 people met in the Club Room of the Bell and Crown pub and unanimously resolved to form a sailing club. The Club held its inaugural cruise on Good Friday, "in brilliant sunshine but alas! No wind". In the early days, boats were moored in the river. Then in 1964 the arch under Kew railway bridge was acquired, and rented from British Rail ever since. The ramp was built in 1964 and refirnioshed in 2011. In 2000 electricity, water and a toilet was installed in the clubhouse through new housing being built next door.
Railway Bridge.
Bull's Head Inn.  There is a sign outside about Oliver Cromwell visiting the pub. Said to have used it as his HQ sometimes and that there is a secret passage to Oliver’s Ait in the river. None of this can be substantiated.
Bull’s Head Stairs. These are set at right angles to the river
Hopkin Morris river stairs
Hopkin Morris Alley
Hopkin Morris Homes of Rest. These wren originally thatched alms houses from around 1658. They were rebuilt in 1721-04 by Thomas Child, Solomon Williams and William Abbott. They were repaired and extend in 1934 and financed by Hopkin Morris was a Middlesex councillor. They were taken over by Hounslow Council in 1973 and renovated.
7 modern housing on site once occupied by the British Buffalo Marine Motor Company which made marine engines. They were out of business by 1912.
Horse trough and drinking fountain
Devonshire Boat House.  Built by Frank Maynard in 1871. They built the first electric boat designed by Sargeant for Imisch He retired in 1938 but work continued under Bason and Arnold and then Automarine Services. It later became the Wheelhouse Club, Chiswick Yacht and Boat Club and then Papa Gees. Demolished in 2004.


Thames Road
This was once known as Back Lane and was a muddy path. Nine alleyways led from it to the river
Oliver Close. Site of R. &J. Park. Dominion Works. Their workshops were on the site of land leased to the War Office in the Great War for a National Munitions Factory and then a government training centre. It was later leased to R&J Park Ltd – who after the Second World War rebuilt their factory. They sold the site in 1982 to Fairview Estates who built the new houses here. This was a packing factory– preparing large items for export. This included heavy motor vehicles, machinery, etc. and light aircraft, for shipment abroad. There was also a bonded warehouse with a Customs officer on site.
Strand on the Green Recreation Ground. The land on which the park stands was bought by Chiswick Urban District Council around 1902 from Fanny Duncan and the Recreation Ground opened along with some allotments. This is a small park with play equipment, a dog free zone and a Friends Group. A bomb here in 1940 destroyed 41 houses and killed one person. Work is ongoing on planting bushes and flowers and the creation of enhanced facilities.
Magnolia Works. Des Vignes and Cloud. This company was present in the late 19th being dissolved in 1899. They were Engineers, Boiler Makers, Steam and Electric Yacht and Launch Builders, Barge Builders, and Motor Car Manufacturers,


Waldeck Road
There were a number of small factories and works between 54 and 70, most now modern housing.
66 Sental House. This, the last remaining industrial unit in the street is now housing since 2014. A number of companies are still registered there.


Wolseley Street
Park, a small park between the road and the motorway has a gate off the street


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This post relates to sites north of the river only. South of the river is Riverside Mortlake


Post to the east Barnes Bridge
Post to the south Mortlake and East Sheen
Post to the west Kew

Chiswick Quay
This is entered from Hartington Road.
This estate of townhouses was developed in 1974 and was originally part of Lord Burlington's Chiswick House estate, later owned by the Dukes of Devonshire.   The designers were Bernard Engle and Partners, the developers Kier Ltd.
Marina. This operates commercially. It originated as Grove House’s ornamental lake which can be traced back to the mid-18th century. It was used for punting, and contained an island in the centre with a grotto at its eastern end. It is also said to have been a gravel pit.
Cubitt's Yacht Basin. The ornamental pond became a dock. It is said that Cubitts used it to transport stone to their developments in inner west London – but this seems unlikely. From map evidence an entrance dock was built before 1920.  Concrete barges were built here in the Great War and used to transport ammunition to France.  Subsequently it seems to have been used to moor private vessels. It was then described as an artificial sheet of water of about two acres separated from the river by a concrete gate, only opened at spring tides. It had a hard, and slipway on to which yachts could be floated.  A repair staff was maintained. In 1926 it was leased by the British Motor Boat Club. A 5 ton crane was installed and a resident engineer appointed. There was also a slipway and new clubhouse. It later became a floating village of houseboats where families and commuters lived in what was reportedly an idyllic existence. In 1969 the boat owners were forced to leave to make way for the new development – having fought a long legal battle to remain.

Chiswick Staithe
This riverside estate was designed by Edward Armitage and built by Chiswick Strand developments in 1963. It is on the site of what was 1-15 Hartington Road.

Dan Mason Drive
Riverside road named for Dan Mason who was the founder of Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and it was renamed
Tideway Scullers School. The school was founded at the close of the 1950s by Alec Hodges, whose drive got the club established and the clubhouse built in the mid-1980s.


Dukes Meadows
The name comes because the meadows were owned by the Dukes of Devonshire. Up to the 20th this was a quiet unvisited place of orchards, market gardens and marsh. It now covers the area to the east of the Great Chertsey Road.
Gravel Extraction. In 1923 there was an agreement between the Riverside Sand and Ballast Company and Chiswick Urban District Council for the excavation of land with a payment per acre. Excavation began in 1924 and finished around 1937. The works operated by Thames Grit and Aggregates Ltd was one of the largest of its kind. In 1931 it merged with Hall and Co. to form Hall and Ham River Ltd. The pits were later infilled with rubble from demolition sites.

Dukes Meadows - North and West of the Great Chertsey Road
Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground - this is the University of Westminster sports ground. It was previously the Polytechnic sports ground and is named after Quintin Hogg, the founder, in 1881, of Regent’s Street Polytechnic the University’s predecessor. It was opened in 1906 and was soon used by the Polytechnic Harriers, as well as football, cricket and lawn tennis clubs. They drew large crowds to at their events so in 1938 the ground was enlarged by 20 acres and upgraded, with a new cantilevered stadium and a state-of-the-art cinder running track. During the Second World War it was put at the disposal of the Army and RAF, and suffered bomb damage including the destruction of the ladies pavilion. The boathouse reopened in 1951, and the running track resurfaced in 1945 but the ground was not fully reopened until 1960. Today it has 45 acres of sporting facilities including floodlit synthetic turf pitches, netball/tennis courts and natural pitches for cricket, rugby and football. There is also a large pavilion with two function rooms, bars and changing facilities. In 2011 the ground hosted the London Cup hockey tournament with teams from England, Belgium, Korea and New Zealand competing.
Polytechnic Grandstand.  Built in 1936 by Joseph Addison, with concrete cantilevers and corner windows

Dukes Meadows - South and East of the Great Chertsey Road
Sports Centre with: Golf course 9 hole par 3 course plus a driving range and an academy; Indoor and outdoor Tennis; Ski slope – indoor endless slope and Cafe, shop, treatment rooms etc
Riverside Lands School Playing Fields


Great Chertsey Road
The A316 it ‘strides purposefully into the distance’.. .’reflecting the aspirations of the 1930s planners..The first part of the road was built in 1923 as part of the gravel extraction scheme and built by the company. It was called Alexandra Avenue and went as far as the Hartington Road junction.
Railway Bridge. This was built by the gravel extraction company in 1923 as a concrete bridge called Alexandra Bridge.


Hartington Road
Gravel extraction and expanded to the other side of the Great Chertsey Road, where there were smaller workings between Hartington Road and the river.
St Ursula’s Retreat House. In 1912 a Roman Catholic priest named Charles Plater published a history of lay retreats. A group of ladies and clergy formed the ‘Association for Short Retreats’ and bought a house was at Chiswick with 20 bedrooms, known as St Ursula’s, used for women’s retreats. This now appears to be part of the site known as The Lindens.

Ibis Lane
Ibis Boathouse. Ibis Rowing Club acquired this from Grove Park Rowing Club in 1886.  Grove Park Club probably dated from the 1860s and there are illustrations of their boat house from the 1880s. Ibis Rowing Club was a division of the Prudential’s Ibis Sports Club and were still extant in the 1970s. It is brick and timber with a slate roof built in 1915 for the Ibis Club. It was sold to North Thames Gas Board in 1991 for use as their staff club, Horseferry Rowing Club, and then sold again to Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Rowing Club in 1999. The Ground floor accommodates boats, and the first floor has a large club room and balcony. There is a flat at the back,
Mortlake Anglia and Alpha Boat Club. They use the Ibis Boathouse. The Mortlake Rowing Club of 1877 is the oldest component if the present-day club. It merged with The Anglian Boat Club, of 1878 in 1962 to become Mortlake Anglian Boat Club. Chiswick Rowing Club had been formed from Bedford Park Club and Bedford Park & District Club and they too merged with Mortlake to become Mortlake Anglian & Chiswick Boat Club. Alpha Women's Rowing Club of 1927 also merged in Club in 1984
University of Westminster boat house. Brick and timber with slate roof, this replaced the original timber boathouse built in 1888 by Quintin Hogg. The Ground floor accommodates boats, and ht first floor has large club room with original features and a balcony with iron railings. There is a flat at the back. This is traditionally where the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race ends.
Quintin Boat Club, this was founded in 1907 as a means of circumventing the rules of the ARA and Henley Royal Regatta – which would only allow clubs entirely comprised of amateurs and gentlemen to compete.. But it originated with the Polytechnic Rowing Club of the 1880s and the Hanover United Athletic Club, from 1875.  Organised sports at the precursor of Regents Street Polytechnic began at the Youths’ Christian Institute in 1874 with the foundation of the Hanover United Athletic Club after the Institute’s then location. Rowing started in 1875 and by 1879 was the most popular sport at HUAC. In time it became the Polytechnic Rowing Club. In 1888 Quintin Hogg paid to have a boathouse built for the club on the present site. It was surrounded by the Duke of Devonshire’s meadows.  Quintin Hogg also paid for a fleet of boats. In 1907 the name of the club was changed to Quintin Boat Club in honour of Quintin Hogg.


Staveley Gardens
These houses were built by the Cherry Blossom Company for their work force. In 1930 the first occupants moved in to the 50 houses- semi-detached houses for workers and maisonettes for retired employees in 1960. Cherry trees were planted to line the walks.


Thames Village
This land was once a gravel pit which provided material for the construction of the concrete barges produced by Cubitt's Yacht Basin in what is now the marina next door.  When the gravel pit was first filled, it was a caravan site.
Thames Village was completed in 1958, with a central green space but is not gated. There is a short private footpath along the river.  Because of its previous use as a gravel pit each house was constructed on a raft of concrete. The architects were Stone, Toms and Partners.


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This post shows sites north of the river only. South of the river is Barnes Bridge

Post to the west Chiswick Dukes Meadow sports and Riverside Mortlake
Post to the south Barnes Common
Post to the east Barnes




Dan Mason Drive
This road is named after the founder of Cherry Blossom Boot Polish
Tom Green’s Boathouse. Thomas George Green was apprenticed to his father as a waterman in 1864. In later life he became a King’s Waterman.  In 1876, Tom Green he bought a rundown boathouse rebuilt it and a fleet of boats to hire. The boathouse became the headquarters of several rowing clubs and regatta committees. His son Young Tom’ took over the boathouse on the death of his father, in 1925.  Between 1925 and 1975 Green’s carried on as if the world was not changing, particularly as regards health and safety and ideas on basic sanitation.  Tom and his wife, Kate, continued, the premises decaying around them., in 1957 sixteen men’s clubs and two women’s clubs used the premises. Young Tom died in 1958 in the rooms about the boat racks where he was born 84 years earlier. In 1923 the land upon which Green’s stood had been bought from the Duke of Devonshire by Chiswick Urban District Council, and who wanted to build a community boathouse on the site. They did not do so until Mrs. Green died in 1975 and the boathouse burnt down in 1977.
Chiswick Boathouse. This is owned by the London Borough of Hounslow and built in 1973.  It is a two storey reinforced concrete, brick and glass boathouse designed by the Borough Architect George A Trevett. There is Boat storage on ground floor and changing rooms also serve adjoining sports pitches for club and community use. Numerous clubs use it. It is on the site of Tom Greens boathouse. They include below:
Old Meadonians Football Club. The club was founded in 1929 by the Old Boys of Chiswick County Grammar School. The name "Meadonians" originates from the early name of the School - "The School in the Meadows"..
Thames Tradesmen Rowing Club. This dates from 1897.
Old Harrovian Association Football Club. This dates from 1859 and claims to be the second oldest football club still in existence. This is despite the fact that in 1927 soccer was abolished at Harrow in favour of Rugby.  They started again in 1963 despite a lot of controversy.
Chiswick School Boat club. This is for pupils at the school,
London Oratory School Boat Club.
Hounslow Hockey Club.
Old Haberdashers
Barnes Hockey Club.
Ibis Football Club. It dates from 1913 and was part of the Prudential Clerks Society, renamed the Ibis Society.  Before the Second World War the Prudential, negotiated on behalf of the Ibis Society, a lease of a ground at Chiswick, but during the war, the ground was requisitioned until 1946-47. In the 1990s Ibis became detached from Prudential and became a private clubs. The Chiswick ground became a golf range and now a 9-hole course. In 2007 the opportunity arose to move back to Chiswick
Chiswick Rugby Club.   This used to be the Old Meadonians Rugby Football club founded in 1958 for the former pupils of Chiswick County Grammar School for boys.  Originally the team played at the School but in the early 60s loaned pitches at Osterley and then rented a clubhouse from Spelthorne Sports Club. During the early ‘70s the club moved to Dukes Meadows and transformed the school pavilion changing rooms previously into a clubhouse. They also stopped recruiting school Old Boys. In 1999, arsonists destroyed the Clubhouse and it was rebuilt and opened in 2005. They are on the other side of the road from the Chiswick Boathouse.

Dukes Meadows
Kings House Sports Grounds. This is what was the Civil Service Sports Club. It now seems to be owned by some private school although the ground still seems to be called ‘Civil Service’. The Civil Service Sports Club itself is a large organisation based in High Wycombe.
Civil Service Football Club. The club is the only surviving association football club from the original eleven clubs who founded The Football Association in 1863. They have played at Dukes Meadow since 1925.

Riverside Drive
Pillars Sports Club. There is a big clubhouse here which seems to be hired out.
Riverside Health and Racquets Club. Commercially run sports venue
Dan Mason Memorial Gateway, in 1928 a memorial gateway was erected to Dan Mason at the entrance to the company sports field. This would appear to be roughly on the entrance to the Virgin Active car park, and seems to have gone
Charles Mason Memorial Retreat. This building was erected in 1929 with a plaque on the rear saying “This retreat is erected by The Employees of The Chiswick Polish Co Ltd, As a tribute to The Memory of Charles Mason ESQ, December 1929. It is now in use as a car wash by Virgin Active.

Staveley Gardens
Tinplate Factory. In 1923 Cherry Blossom acquired land on Dukes Meadows from Chiswick Urban District Council to build a Tinplate Printing and Cardboard box factory.


The Promenade
Bandstand, A seaside-type promenade and a bandstand stand on the riverfrint and were opened by the Prince Albert, Duke of York in 1926. It has been refurbished with private funding and is used for summer events.
The Civil Service boat house is home to Cygnet RC and Barnes Bridge Ladies RC. The hard is shared with Emmanuel School BC and a local canoe club. It is rented from the Port of London Authority.
Cygnet Rowing Club , this was set up in 1890 and is based at what was called the Civil Service Sports Club Boathouse which adjoins the boathouse of the Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club. It was originally founded for non-manual male workers in the General Post Office and moved to the CSSC Boathouse in the 1930s. After the Second World War it was decided to merge several Civil Service rowing clubs that into Cygnet., whose blades are a mid-blue, between shades of those featured in a wide band toward the tips of Cygnet RC's blades.
Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club
Emmanuel School Rowing Club.  The boat club for pupils of Emanuel School, Battersea Rise,
Masonian Bowls Club. This began when Dan & Charles Mason leased land from Chiswick Urban Council, and built a club for their employees called Chiswick Polish Athletic Club and this included a bowls green. Then the club name was changed to Masonian Athletic Club, and the Masonian Bowls club was formed in 1925.   In 1983 after the factory closed the club was asked to move. They moved onto the Burlington Bowls Club green which was derelict.

Sources
Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club. Web site
Barnes Hockey Club. Web site
Civil Service Football Club. Web site
Cherry Blossom factory. Web site
Chiswick Rugby Club. Web site
Chiswick School. Web site
Cygnet Rowing Club. Web site
Dukes Meadows Park. Web site
Emmanuel School Rowing Club, Web site
Hear the Boat Sing. Web site
Hounslow Hockey Club Web site
Ibis Football Club. Web site
London Borough of Hounslow. Web sit4e
London Oratory School. Web site
Old Harrovians Association Football Club. Web site
Old Meadonians Football Club. Web site
Thames Tradesmen Rowing Club. Web site

This post gives sites north of the river only. South of the river is Lonsdale Road

Post to the south Dukes Meadows. More Sport and Barnes
Post to the east Castelnau



Alexandra Avenue
This stretch of road is called Great Chertsey Road on some maps, but not on others. The whole road was originally called Alexandra Avenue, but some of it has been changed.

Bennett Street
Office block. This was the White Swan pub. This was closed in the 1980s and is now flats and offices.

Bollo Brook
This brook comes into the area from its origins on Ealing Common. It was the original boundary of Lord Burlington’s estate in Chiswick and was widened and canalised when the grounds were landscaped in the 1720s, The brook fed the lakes and fountains at but is now carried in a pipe underneath the lake because on the dirty water from the many local laundries. It then goes by culvert underneath the main A316 to its outfall into the Thames. The line of the brook is now that of the Promenade Approach Road.

Burlington Lane
8 George and Devonshire. This originates in a 17th building and two cottages which Thomas Mawson, the brewer, bought in 1700. This was known as the George but by 1826, the name Devonshire had been added because of the local presence of the Dukes of Devonshire. There are stories of a smugglers' tunnel between here and the river and there is a bricked up doorway in the pub. The care park and function room are the sire of the stables.
Hogarth Business Park – this trading estate is being rebuilt as housing by Berkeley Homes.
Hogarth Business Park. This complex of offices and warehouses replaced the Cherry Blossom boot polish factory in the 1980s. Business Park. Some buildings here were by Covell Matthews Wheatley from 1985 onwards.
Cherry Blossom. The Cherry Blossom polish works was first of all the Chiswick Soap Company owned by brothers Dan and Charles Mason in 1878. The soap works was on a small part of the site later covered by the trading estate. Their works grew however to cover a large area a between Burlington and Hogarth Lanes – including the site of a large house in grounds called Providence House.  They wanted make use the 5-inch circular pieces of tin-plate which they had as a by-product. They thought of making smaller tins which could contain shoe polish – but one which would not rub off on clothing. Cherry Blossom Boot Polish was invented by their chemist and was launched in 1906, at 1d per tin to become a big success. The works expanded into a triangular-shaped site between Hogarth and Burlington Lanes where they made a range of shoe and household polishes, including Mansion House Polish. The Chiswick Soap Company changed its name in 1913 to the Chiswick Polish Company and went public in 1916. The name changed again in 1930 when Chiswick Polish amalgamated with the Nugget Polish Company to become Chiswick Products Ltd. In 1954 the business was acquired by Reckitt and Colman and Production ended here in 1972 when they transferred work to their main factory at Hull.  Cherry Blossom is still however a market leader.
St Marys Convent and St Josephs’ Hospital. This was originally an Anglican convent run by the Order of St Mary and St John. Founded in Kensington in 1868. It is now the Order of St Margaret. In 1896 they bought land from the Duke of Devonshire for the convent which was an Arts and Crafts style by building Charles Ford Whitcombe. It included St Joseph’s Hospital for Incurables. After the introduction of the National Health Service this was replaced with a residential home for the elderly and 1986 the name St. Joseph’s was dropped
Corney House (or Lodge). This was a 19th house on the corner of Powells Walk not the 16th riverside house of the same name. It was demolished for road widening in the 1930s
The Cedars. Built in the early 1860s. It was taken over by Cherry Blossom around 1911 and the Laboratory and Men's Canteen built in what had been the grounds. There was also an aviary owned by Dan Mason. The house was used as Stores, and the ground floor rooms used for carton making machines.

Chiswick Eyot
Marked as ‘Chiswick Ait’ on Greenwood's map of 1819. In the 17th there are records of it being called ‘Twigg Eight’ 1650 – island with brushwood'.'. It is thought that it may have been the site of a prehistoric stilted village and later a Danish encampment. In the 1930s the local authority bought it from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and it is now a nature reserve. It has however been subject to severe erosion and is submerged at high tide and is thus uninhabited
Green pole. This is at the end of the island and is to tome rowers on the boat race course.


Chiswick House and Grounds
Chiswick House. This square covers only the site of the house and the area of the park to the east of it. Chiswick House. The original house, visited by James I, stood to the east of the present building. This was owned by Sir Edward Wardour, and possibly built by his father aeound.1610. He sold it to to Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset in 1624 and in 1682 it was sold to Charles Boyle.
Chiswick House.  This is a Palladian villa designed by Richard Boyle, Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729.  The design was very shocking when it was built – it is not actually a house but a ‘temple to the arts’ and used as a picture gallery. It may include some Masonic symbolism.   Until the 1780s was used as an extension to the main house. After Burlington’s death in 1753 property eventually passed, by marriage, to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire and then to his children. Under the Cavendish family the house was a Whig stronghold where both Charles James Fox and George Canning died. During the 19th it was rented and became an asylum. In 1929, the 9th Duke sold it to Middlesex County Council, and it became a fire station. It was hit by a V2 in 1944 and the wings were demolished in 1956.  It is now maintained by English Heritage.
Chiswick House Gardens. This square covers only the gardens to the east of the house. The gardens were created by architect and landscape designer William Kent. They were inspired by and are an attempt to symbolically recreate a garden of ancient Rome
Conservatory.  This 300ft long conservatory was one of the earliest large glasshouses to be built and the longest such structure for its date. It was designed by Samuel Ware for the Duke of Devonshire in 1820 and overlooks the Italian garden. It was rebuilt in the 1930s and has recently been completely restored with a new frame and glass. In 1828, it was planted with camellias and some original plans remain and it is thus the oldest such collection in England and includes some very rare plants.
Italian Garden.  In 1814, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, commissioned Lewis Kennedy to design a semi-circular 'Italian Garden' in front of the Conservatory. The beds were laid out in geometric patterns and in 1880 the then head gardener, Michael May, simplified the layout and this design remains.
Southern Walled Garden. This has planting of 140 fruit trees and soft fruit. The walled gardens were originally part of the neighbouring Moreton Hall estate which the 6th Duke of Devonshire bought in 1812, incorporating the gardens into a larger productive area to support Chiswick House. Before this the area was a wilderness garden. It is now to be dedicated to horticulture with a quarter taken up with a lawn for events and activities. Archaeology has discovered what may be a shove house.  There is also a domed brick well capped with a Portland stone slab
Doric column and rosary. The Doric column is thought to have been designed by Lord Burlington in about 1729 and is surmounted by Venus d’Medici.  It is surrounded by the rosary with a 19thb radial layout of paths
Deer House. This stands at the end of a Ha-ha stands a Deer House and was designed by Lord Burlington. There was originally another Deer House. Both had pyramidal roofs and 'Virtuvian' doors. As Orangery, was also associated with the Deer Houses in this area,
Inigo Jones Gateway. This replaced the second Deer House which was demolished for it in 1738.  This had been at Beaufort House in Chelsea from 1621 and was bought and removed by Lord Burlington and rebuilt in the gardens here in 1738
Cafe. Designed by Caruso St John


Chiswick Lane South
This is now a short lane leading to the river and cut off from its northern continuation to Chiswick High Road by A4. It is almost entirely taken up with the brewery.
Griffin Brewery, In the late 1600s, there was a private brew house in the gardens of Bedford House on Chiswick Mall and another nearby in the cottage of Thomas Urlin. His son in law was Thomas Mawson who took over as manager at Urlin’s death. He bought the George and then the Bedford House brew house. By 1786 David Roberts had the premises. Handing on to his sons, and in 1816, it began to be called the Griffin name taking the name over from Meux and Reid’s whose business had collapsed. The Thompson brothers were joined by Philip Wood, in the partnership, and then John Fuller. Fuller was wealthy and was soon the majority shareholder. By 1843 the Thompsons were no longer involved and a younger Fuller was in charge. From 1845 it was known as Fuller Smith & Turner which continues. The partnership acquired the Beehive at Brentford in 1910 and Wiche Brewery in 1923, By 1970 Fuller’s had-a considerable trade supplying theatres and clubs.  The brewery produced London Pride bitter, E.S.B. and Hock Mild.  Apart from these draught beers bottled London Pride was available and Golden Pride, a bottled barley wine.  They also had about a hundred tied houses, most close to the Brewery. The central part of the original 18th building built as the owner's house is now offices. The brewery buildings were rebuilt in 1979-81 but some original remains. It is now the only remaining large scale traditional brewery in London


Chiswick Mall
Riverside gardens. The gardens along the Mall are private and were created in the 1880s as part of a scheme to use river embankments for mains carrying water, sewage, gas etc.
Old Vicarage. This old Parsonage House was built in 1657-8 following a decision of the Vestry in 1652. In the late 18th changed to have a stuccoed front and a window on the Mall. It was sold in 1973
Vicarage. This was built in 1973 when the old vicarages were sold in what had been the grounds of the building.
Woodroffe House. This is a 17th red-brick building.By 1819, together with its neighbouring houses to the east, it was part of the Lamb Brewery estate owned by the Sich family until 1923.
Bedford House. This was built in the mid-17th along with the house next door. By 1829, the tenant was the first John Sich, owner of the Lamb brewery who was there until 1836. The Brewhouse was at the back of the house. Recent residents include Michael Redgrave, from 1945 to 1954.
Gazebo. In the grounds of Bedford House, mid-l8th Gothic.
Eynham House. This was originally part of Bedford House in the 17th. Like its neighbours there are exit gates at the back into the brewery yard in case of flooding.
Barn behind Eynham House is an 18th brick barn originally the stables for brewery horses
Thames View House. The house carries a Civic Trust Award plaque for flood defence work carried out along the Mall by the Greater London Council in 1979.
Belle Vue House. This was owned by the Griffin Brewery and the house was the traditional home of the chief brewer
Crane - Opposite Belle Vue there was a mobile crane used by the brewery for transhipment from barges. It was also used by Cherry Blossom to unload wax.
1 Belle Vue Cottages.  This is one of a terrace of cottages standing behind the brewery building. This cottage is at right angles to the road forming part of a group around a courtyard. There are granite setts and an 18th gate piers and gate.
Red Lion House. This was built soon after 1700 for Thomas Mawson’s brewery. It was licensed by 1722.  There was then a drawdock opposite. Outside was a whetstone used by osier cutters for sharpening tools with the inscription "I am the old whetstone, and have sharpened tools on this spot above 1, 00(0) years".  It is now in Gunnersbury Park Museum. By 1915 the pub had lost its licence when it was still a Fullers pub. Since then it has been a private house.
Buildings of the Griffin Brewery
Prebendal Manor House for St Paul’s Cathedral, built in 1570. This was on the site of a 19th terrace which goes between Heron House and Thames Bank.   It became the home of a friend of John Evelyn. The building later became College House – named because of a relationship with Westminster school.  The school used it as rural retreat after 1571 and retained it until the 18th. The Whittington Press was here in the 19th. Later, after 1852, it was occasionally used as a lecture hall, and in 1875, just before it was demolished, Ellen Terry played there.
Chiswick Press. This was in College House from 1818 to 1852 owned by the Whitingham family. They produced hand-printed and finely designed books with woodcut engravings. It had previously been in High House from 1816.  Whittingham had patented a method of extracting tar from old rope and they used the hemp from ship's ropes for paper and had a steam engine on site. The extracted tar was used to make the ink. In 1852 under Charles Whittingham it moved to the City of London.
High House. This was the first home of the Chiswick Press in 1816 and was near a draw dock where rope was unloaded. This was a printing works with an adjacent and associated paper mill. It was demolished in 1880. The house was probably on the site where Greenash stands now,
Thames Bank. In the Second World War this was an infants’ school here for children who remained in London. It later moved to Hammersmith
College House.and space This is a space to the east of Thames Bank House. I papers to have been left vacant because it was planned to build a bridge across the Thames here with a section based on Chiswick Eyot. The house on the site dares from the 1980s
Greenash. House said to have been built on the site of High House and originally called Eyot Villa. It was built in   1882 by Belcher for Sir John Thorneycroft. It was converted to flats by E. Musman in 1934. In 1941 it was turned into a hostel for people suffering trauma from bombing


Chiswick Pier
The Pier House is managed by the Chiswick Pier Trust with a hall and conference room for hire. The Trust holds events to educate people about the river, its ecology and history. This pier provides eight residential moorings and visitor moorings with all-tide access, and pump out and shower facilities. It was opened in 1997
Chiswick Pier Canoe Club was formed in 1999
Thames Explorer Trust. This was founded in 1988 as an educational charity which promotes access to the Thames from source to sea. While providing activities to increase access to the river. They raise awareness of working beside rivers and haw to manage risk.
Chiswick Sea Cadets. They are based on the pier and keep their vessels there.
RLNI Lifeboat Station. This is one of is one of four lifeboat stations on the Thames operational since 2002, providing a round-the-clock rapid response service. They cover upstream Richmond Lock to Battersea Power Station.


Chiswick Square
This is a group of houses around a small gates area off Burlington Lane. It dates from around 1680 and forms a sort of forecourt to Boston House
Boston House. This dates from the 1680s and is apparently named after Viscount Boston later the Earl of Grantham who extended it in the 1740s. In the early 19th it was a school and it is claimed that this is the original of Miss Pinkerton’s academy in Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair and there is a plaque to that effect.  In 1899 it became St Veronica’s Retreat for women who were problem drinkers. In 1922 it was bought by Cherry Blossom as a social club for female staff.   The surrounding buildings were let out to employees as homes. The grounds were turned into a sports club.  It is now flats - and the grounds now housing development,


Chiswick Wharf
Chiswick Wharf.  This is a terrace of townhouses built in the 1980s on a site known as Church Wharf.


Church Street
Slipway. This is a public slipway with a 19th stone causeway runs into the river. It was the site of a ferry service to what is now Lonsdale Road in Barnes. It was also used by local fisherman and in the 19th a fleet of eel boats operated here. The slip and causeway were renovated in 2077.
Residential boats. These moorings were established as a response to housing shortages in the Second World War. Houseboats moored here include Greenwich built Leonard Piper.
1-7 these modern town houses are part of the Chiswick Wharf development. They replace industrial sites on an area once known as 'Slut’s Hole' and occupied by river workers.
St Nicholas. The church is dedicated to St.Nicholas, the patron saint of fishermen. The earliest mention of it is in 1181, with reference to St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Prebendal Manor of ‘Chesewic’ had been created. It stands on a narrow site which means it is almost as long as it is wide. The poet John Donne was Prebend here in 1625.  The church as it stands now dates from 1635 with a tower, now the oldest part of the church, built in 1435. The tower has eight bells, five from 1656, and there are links with Oliver Cromwell through his daughter. Excluding the tower, the church was rebuilt in 1882-1884 by ecclesiastical architect, John Loughborough Pearson.
Churchyard. This has the graves of several important artists and architects. William Hogarth is here with an epitaph by Garrick. Another painter, Philipp de Loutherbourg is buried in a tomb designed by Sir John Soane and William Kent, architect and designer is also buried here. Charles Tilston Bright who laid the first Atlantic Cable is also here. There is a tablet saying that the wall was built in 1623 by Francis Russell to keep pigs out. The extension to the church yard, which closed in the 1850s, is reached from Corney Road.
St. Deny’s House. This is described as the curate's house and is the ancillary building for the church standing opposite it. It is named after the Community of St. Denys an Anglican religious order of nuns founded in 1879. The building was used until 1973 to house a satellite community of three sisters. It now is used by a variety of community based organisations. It was purchased by the parish in the late 1990s and has since been extended to the rear to provide a church hall.
The Old Burlington. This was the Burlington Arms established in around 1550 and closed in 1924. It is thought to be the oldest, non ecclesiastical, remaining in Chiswick. It is said to have a cupboard outside it in which to lock up drunks. It was one of two pubs which stood on either side of the Lamb Brewery entrance. It is now flats.
Lamb Cottage. This was the Lamb Tap - Tap for the Lamb Brewery which was adjacent. It was of two pubs which stood either side of the brewery entrance.  It was a pub from at least 1732 to 1909. It is now a private house.
Lamb Brewery. Between the two pubs runs a lane marking the entrance to the Lamb Brewery. Down the lane are the brewery remains. The brewery was purchased in 1790 by coal merchant John Sich based on an older brew house in the grounds of Bedford House. It was acquired by the Isleworth Brewery Ltd in 1920, closed and the plant sold in 1922. Some buildings were bought by Fullers who subsequently sold to the Standard Yeast Company who used them until 1952 and now used as offices. A complex of buildings remain largely converted to flats and dominated by the red brick tower built in the early 20th and with ‘Lamb Brewery’ painted around the top storey. It was designed by brewery architect William Bradford with dormer windows, fancy ironwork and other decorative features. There is a water tank at the top and the brewery operated it on the gravity system.
Standard Yeast. The firm produced yeast and other ‘baker’s sundries’. They gave their address however as ‘Lamb’s Distillery’.
Guardship. This building was a store for the Lamb Brewery in the 19th when beer was pumped under Church Street to the cellar where it was stored for ageing and conditioning before delivery. The pipes and an internal lift are said to be still extant. Bottled beer was also stored here. Hops were stored on the upper floor and the remains of a crane are visible. The building was later used by a silversmith who stored his collection of ship models and had a figurehead, a ship's wheel and anchor sign were on the outside. The name of ‘Guardship’ relates to its use by the Sea Scouts in the 1920s.
7 The Post Office, this 18th building retains a shop window


Church Wharf
In the early 19th this had been it was a cluster of cottages known as Slut's Hole, later renamed Fisherman's Place
Thornycroft’s shipyard. John Thorneycroft was a shipbuilder and the son of Thorneycroft, the sculptor.Founded in 1864, the firm specialised in high-speed vessels, first launches and later torpedo boats and then torpedo boat destroyers. Their first steam launch, Nautilus, could keep up with the rowing eights on boa trace day, which caused a sensation. Vessels were designed by John Thornycroft who worked in partnership with his brother-in-law John Donaldson from 1873.  Their high-speed launches included the Sir Arthur Cotton which in 1874 claimed to be to be the fastest vessel in the world. Torpedo-boats formed the main output in the 1880s, 222 being built for the British and foreign navies between 1874 and 1891, followed from 1893–4 by the first torpedo-boat destroyers. However the increasing size and speed of the craft made it difficult to negotiate bridges downstream and the increased draught of the destroyers meant superstructures such as masts, funnels etc, had to be removed and refitted at Greenhithe. Thornycrofts built their last naval vessels at Chiswick in 1905–6 and had finally left for Southampton in 1909.
Gwynne's Works. The Thornycroft site was acquired by Gwynne's Engineering which had begun as a firm of pump makers in central London. They moved to Hammersmith from the 1860s and took over the Thorneycroft site in 1917.  They made aircraft engines for the Admiralty during the Great War and, later, cars following their acquisition of the Albert Car business. Car production was moved to Chiswick and in 1923 the name of the car was changed to Gwynne-Albert. In 1922 Gwynnes started to make the Gwynne Eight, based on the design of the Spanish Victoria car. Financial problems arose in 1923 and a receiver was appointed, but production continued. About 2,250 examples of the Eight were made. A larger model of car, the Gwynne Ten, was offered from 1927. About 600 were made before production ceased. The company was dissolved in 1927 and left Church Wharf in 1930.
Reckitt and Coleman. This Hull based firm had taken over Cherry Blossom in 1954.  Wax had been delivered by barge to Church Wharf under Cherry Blossom and as Reckett and Coleman in 1952 they build a large brick warehouse here. This was demolished in 1980.
National School. This is shown on 19th maps on Church Wharf backing onto the churchyard.  This is presumably the charity school founded in 1707 and which expanded until 1813 when the boys moved elsewhere. In 1819 it became a National School the girls remaining at Church Wharf. And the building here was still extant in 1923 when it was repaired and it was demolished in. 1951.
Regency Quay.  Housing in a gated development.


Corney Reach Way
Corney Reach development, this is an estate of flats and houses built on the riverside between Church Wharf and Pumping Station Road in the mid 1990s. This area was the estate of the old Corney House developed as an industrial area in the 19th.
Old Corney House. This was first built on the riverside by the Bishop of Rochester. In 1542 it was conveyed to John Russell, who became the 1st Earl of Bedford and it remained with Russell family until 1659 when it was sold. The house was demolished before 1705 and a new house and tenements built. It subsequently passed through several owners. The house and grounds were sold at auction, in 1829, and bought by the Duke of Devonshire.
LEP Transport Ltd. The firm had its main packing department here. LEP Transport was a freight company established in London in 1910 but originating in the 1890s in Le Havre. The company name was derived from the initials of the three founding partners; Longstaff, Ehrenberg and Pollack.  It eventually closed in the 1990s.
Valor. This Birmingham based firm is said to have had a works here. They made oil fired domestic heating equipment, moving later to gas fires. This works was still extant in the 1990s.


Corney Road
Chiswick Old Cemetery. This was originally designed as an extension to the adjacent churchyard. At the entrance from Powell's Walk concerning the donation of the land by the Duke of Devonshire. By the north wall is the bronze tomb of painter James McNeill Whistler, and there are other artists as well as politicians and soldiers. There is an empty mausoleum for Italian writer Ugo Foscolo. There is a Great War Memorial by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission in 1919 in Portland stone with a bronze crusader sword. It is backed by a screen wall bearing the names of those whose graves are not marked by headstones
Chiswick’s Municipal Stables, these were at the Corney Road depot. The stable block was built in 1910 to accommodate horses used by Chiswick UDC for carting refuse. The horses were tethered in stalls on the ground floor, while fodder was stored and processed above. Lighting was by electricity from the Chiswick Electrical Supply Corporation. The stall divisions were surplus stock from the London General Omnibus Company and were bought at auction in 1909 and the stables were planned around them.  The stables formed part of the small complex of buildings concerned with cartage and refuse disposal. In 1911 a farrier’s shop was added to an existing smithy and in 1913 an isolation stable was erected. In 1914 a committee recommended the purchase of two steam and two motor lorries. By the early 1920s the number of horses had declined and a garage for motor vehicles had been built.


Devonshire Road
109 The Feathers. This pub stood on the corner of the Hogarth Roundabout. Closed in 1999 to be replaced by a car showroom.
Landmark Car Co.  This is a very large and dramatic car showroom which also contains the Landmark Gallery; which they claim to be an art collection “associated with the automobile”. Outside is the UK's largest digital LED panoramic advertising screen.


Edensor Road
Whittingham Court. This is a rebuild of six almshouses, under a Scheme of 1934. It was planned in 1971 and carried out by Chiswick Parochial Charities, with money from the sale of the Hopkin Morris homes. Eighteen flats, were opened a in 1976
Cavendish Primary School. This opened in 1952. It was built on concrete stilts to raise it above the flood level and was built in a modular fashion with sections pre-fabricated in concrete and then brought to site for assembly. With the opening of the Thames barrier the flood risk was removed and the underside of the school was enclosed to create a nursery.
Dukes Meadows Children’s Centre along with the Riverside Community Day Nursery this is on the Cavendish School site.
Gates to the Promenade Approach Road. These have inscriptions with the road name. The Duke of York opened the road in 1926. It was then the vehicle and pedestrian entrance to the newly built riverside promenade and recreational area of Dukes Meadows. Following the erection of a flood barrier in the park in the 1940s the road was cut off from the main area of the park. The main gates then were closed at the Edensor Road entrance to only allow pedestrian access only.
New Chiswick Swimming pool. This is Council owned on the southern side of Edensor Road. It is a 25 metre indoor swimming pool, gym, and associated facilities. Chiswick Pool was first built in 1910 as an open air lido with a second pool opened in 1931. The pools were closed in 1981 and the New Chiswick Pool was built in the early 1990s by a private developer as part of the redevelopment of the site


Great Chertsey Road
The road from the Hogarth Roundabout running south west as the A316 is partly known as the Great Chertsey Road – and by some as that throughout its length. On this square it reaches as far as the corner with the non-A316 section of Burlington Lane. It was built and designed in the 1930s as part of a grand arterial roads programme. The first section through Chiswick was the only part of the route to have the A316 number.


Hogarth Lane
This road, leaving the Hogarth Roundabout, is a section of what was the Great West Road, A4, leading to the start of the M4. It is described as ‘essentially just a slip road’ leading eventually to the M4 and the Chiswick flyover. It is phenomenally busy.
McCormack House is the large building on the south west corner of the Hogarth Roundabout. It was, built 1985 on the site of an office block of the Chiswick Polish Company (aka Cherry Blossom aka Reckitt and Coleman). It was originally called Flemming House and then as the Axis Centre or Axis House.  It was built by Covell Matthews Wheatley in 1983-5.
Hogarth's House.  This Queen Anne house was the home of painter William Hogarth and was his country retreat. His wife Jane lived there along with his mother in law and the family used it every summer from 1749 until Hogarth’s death in 1765. It then stood in a country lane surrounded by fields and market gardens.  It is a tall, simple brick house of three storeys, five windows wide, with a central wooden oriel window overlooking the garden - where there are mulberries. Lieutenant-Colonel Shipway, who rescued the house and opened it to the public as a museum to Hogarth in 1904. Shipway gave the house to Middlesex County Council in 1909 and ownership passed in 1965 to Hounslow Council. The house was refurbished in 1996-97 to mark the tercentenery of Hogarth's birth.
43 Lifeguardsman pub. This pub was destroyed during an air raid in the Second World War.
Linen House. This appears to be the premises of the Hogarth Laundry now converted into flats.  The laundry was a large business with branch offices and - from the dates on the front of the building – probably opened in 1879.  The other date of 1933 could refer to the date they moved to this building which is shown on the 1935 OS as a laundry.


Hogarth Roundabout
Hogarth Roundabout is a junction on the A4 and  at the northern end of the A316. It is named after the painter William Hogarth, whose house was near the site of the junction.
Flyover. There is currently a temporary structure here built in 1969. Plans for a permanent flyover existed before it was built and in the 1960s several ideas were investigated.

Mawson Lane
Mawson Arms. Early 18th building WHICH was originally a private house and from 1716 to, 1719 was the home of the poet Alexander ¬¬Pope and his parents. It was renamed as "Fox and Hounds" in 1772, and then as "Mawson Arms/Fox and Hounds" in 1899. The pub was originally sited to the south in a building which is now offices, next to the current Brewery Shop. In 1898, when the name changed, it moved.
Blue plaque to Alexander Pope. He lived here 1716-19 and published his ‘Preface to the Iliad’ and ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, which he may have written in the surviving garden building, now converted to an electricity substation.

Netheravon Road South
Wall - the wall which runs along the road is roe remains of the Prebendal Manor wall and is 17th


Powell’s Walk
Formerly a footpath connecting Chiswick House with the parish church

Promenade Approach Road
This follows the line of a conduit leading from the ornamental water in Chiswick House.  This is fed by the Bollo Brook. The line of the brook follows the line of lime trees.
The Duke of York opened the Promenade Approach Road in Chiswick in 1926. It formed the vehicle and pedestrian entrance to the newly built riverside promenade and recreational area in Dukes Meadows.
Flood barrier. In the 1950s following floods a barrier was formed in form wartime rubble, and placed over the road between the pump house and the now Riverside Drive.
Dukes Meadows. The land here belonged to the Duke of Devonshire, from where it gets its name. It is in a bend of the river and was formerly osier beds and market gardens, In 1923 Chiswick Urban District Council bought some of the land from the 9th Duke of Devonshire. By 1926 the facilities included football and cricket pitches, a paddling pool, sand pit and playground, and the riverside promenade. It was opened by the Duke of York in 1926. Now it remains largely taken up with private sports grounds, and allotments.
The Friends of Dukes Meadows was set up in 1998 to conserve and improve the Meadows and the Riverside. a Community Orchard completed, and a Wild Flower Garden has been created on the disused paddling pool site.
Duke's Hollow. This is on the site of a 19th boathouse that burnt down in the 1970. It is now managed by the London Wildlife Trust and Hounslow Conservation Volunteers as a nature reserve. It is covered by the tide twice a day and is in its natural state


Pumping Station Road
Sewage works. This opened in 1879, it closed in 1936 and replaced by Mogden Works.
Rubbish destructor. This was built in the late 19th and was used to burn compressed household waste which was then burnt to power the plant and to make flagstones,


Riverside Drive
Grove Park Farm. A farm building of the Grove Park Farm on the Duke of Devonshire estate became changing rooms for the football and cricket teams, with a flat for the Park Keeper; in the 1970s the ground floor was used by the Masonians Bowls Club.


Thames Crescent
This is part of the Corney Reach development and a group of homes called Thames Crescent.

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Post to the south Lonsdale Road and Old Chiswick


Airedale Avenue
1a. Hogarth Health Club and Hogarth Clinic. This opened in 1983 on the site of the Chiswick and West London Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club which itself dated from 1908. In the 1960s it became the Greater London Sports Club. The Health Club includes outdoor sports like tennis as well as ‘treatments’ and a ‘healthy" food café.

Annandale Road
Baptist Church.  In 1841 a few local Baptists joined Congregationalists in a chapel in Chiswick Lane. In 1866 the Congregationalists went elsewhere but the Baptists were formed into a Baptist Church with the help of. Charles Spurgeon. They moved to Annandale Road in 1883 and an iron building was put up and within a few years fund raising went ahead for a new building – which was opened by Spurgeon in 1897. It was in red brick to designs by architect John Wills.


Bath Road
This is part of the Roman Road from London to Bath – superseded by many by passes
Bath Road Halt. This was opened in 1909 on the North and South West Junction Railway and was the line's only major crossing. It consisted of a level crossing and a wooden platform which was south of the road. There was a footbridge, which was detached from the platform, and sited north of Bath Road itself.  On the south east side was a crossing keepers cottage and south of that signals and a sidings.  It closed in 1917.  The route southwards is covered in new housing and there is a modern house on the site of the station.
62 home of Camille Pissarro in 1897. He painted the adjacent railway line
14 Arts Educational School.This co-educational specialist school moved here in 1986. The building previously housed the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic which was on the site of the Chiswick School of Art. ArtsEd offers pupils aged 11-18 an education with dance, music and drama
Chiswick School of Art. This opened in 1881, in a building designed by Maurice B. Adams.  This was one of the public buildings on the Bedford Park estate designed to develop a sense of community. Originally it offered ‘Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass. By 1897 they also offered courses which included laundry work, carpentry, and plumbing in 1897
Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic. This dates from 1899, when Middlesex County Council took over the School of Art .It was extended to become the largest polytechnic in Middlesex by 1908.  It was badly bombed in 1944 and rebuilt in a simpler flat roofed style. The buildings were extended again in 1953-4 and formed part of Hounslow Borough College from 1965.
Bedford Park Stores. This is next to the pub and also by Norman Shaw in 1880. The original operators of the Stores went into liquidation in 1893. The building was taken over by car dealers and repairers; Keene’s Automobile Works, in the early 20th but closed by 1904. Along with the works, behind in Flanders Road, they were later taken over by Mulliners, remaining there until 1968 by which time they were associated with Rolls Royce
Tabard.  The Tabard was built in 1880 as part of a range of buildings by Norman Shaw to include the Bedford Park stores. The swing sign outside was painted by T M Rooke. Inside original tiling by William de Morgan and Walter Crane are at front entrance and the right hand bar. On the first floor is the Tabard Theatre which was opened following fund raising by Equity. It has featured for example Al Murray, Harry Hill and Russell Brand.
St Michael and All Angels. The church originated in 1876 in a temporary iron structure on Chiswick High Road. The incumbent, Rev Alfred Wilson, fund-raised for a permanent church. The present building was consecrated in 1880. The church has an Anglo-Catholic tradition. It was designed by, Norman Shaw as estate architect for Bedford Park. During the Second World War, the roof - as well as most of the stained glass – was damaged by a bomb and stained glass was replaced in 1952 to a design by Lawrence Lee
The Parish Hall. This was designed in 1884 Bedford Park architect Maurice B. Adams,


Bedford Park Corner
This is the address of a few corner shops but also the hub of the housing and businesses around this area of Chiswick, called Bedford Park.  This claims to be the ‘world's first garden suburb’. The developer was Jonathan Carr, who bought land here in 1875 near to the newly opened Turnham Green Station, having already successfully developed an area of South Kensington. The first architect for the estate was Edward William Godwin but Carr later took on Richard Norman Shaw.  His designs for the buildings were successful in creating variety whilst employing a limited number of house types and set the tone for the estate. In the 1880s there was a church, parish hall, club, stores, pub and school of art, and the area became very fashionable and a bit arty. Inevitably the area declined through the early 20th and post Second World War. A local civic society was set up in 1963 and the estate was listed. It has pretty posh ever since.


Bennett Street
This was part of ‘New Chiswick’, which was a low status area built for the workers in the many new industries of the late 19th.
St Mary Magdalene’s Church. This was built in 1848 designed and financed by a banker, John Sharpe. It was demolished when the area was cleared and it had been damaged in Second World War bombing. Magdalene House in Devonshire Street is on the site


Berestede Road
Berestede Road Open Space – described as a ‘pocket park” with benches and lined densely by mature trees. Before the widening of the Great West Road here there were houses on this site, which were presumably demolished when the road was changed.


Beverley Road
Griffin Court. On the site of Beverley Road School – the railings and frontages laid on what could be the footprint of the school.
Beverley County Primary School. Built 1926 as an infants' school. It closed in 1978. The site is now housing.
All Saints Mission Church and club room. A brick church was built here in 1901 by the parish of St Nicholas to serve the growing population. It closed after 1922 and became the site of Beverley Road School

Binns Road
Binns Terrace. This is built on the site of the girls department of the Glebe School which opened in 1877 and closed in 1926.


British Grove
This appears to be an old lane running down the parish boundary between Chiswick and Hammersmith. It is identified as a lane in the mid 18th and known as ‘British Grove’ from the mid-19th – presumably because of the British School which was there.
Motor Repair Works. This was on the east side at the north end of the street.
West London French Laundry. This laundry is shown on maps of the 1890s on the west side of the road. In 1914 their chimney was the subject of smoke abatement notices.
20 British Grove Studios. This is a recording studio owned by Mark Knopfler. Alongside modern studio technology are 1960s items. Part of the site was previously in use by Island Records, belonging to Chris Blackwell. It was previously the Royal Chiswick Laundry – and this is engraved on the gable of the main building. In the 1970s the building is shown as a laboratory.
British School.  The Hammersmith, Chiswick and Turnham Green British School opened in British Grove in 1837 and continued until 1864.
Royal Dye Works.This is shown on maps of the 1890s on the west side of the road.  It appears later to have been a Post Office Supplies Department. A dye works shown opposite in the 1890s is now at the rear of the British Grove Studios with an address in St. Peter’s Square
British Grove Works. This was used by Frederick Walton, the inventor and exploiter of linoleum who is said to have made the first sheet of lino here. He later patented this. His works and house here were on the west side of the road
Joinery Works. This was on the west side of the road,


Chiswick Common
This square covers only the western half of the common
This was once known as Back Common and was part of the Bishop of London's Fulham Manor, It remained rural until the mid -19th and was created as the area urbanised, rather than being traditional common land.. Prefabs were erected around the perimeter of the common for emergency housing following the Second World War
Drinking fountain provided by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association in the 19th


Chiswick High Road
Chiswick High Road and Turnham Green constitute the main shopping area of Chiswick.
Houses which replaced Hammersmith and Chiswick Station. The station lay on the north side of the road on what is now Ravensmede Way.
25-29 Coach and Horses. This closed in 1992 and replaced with a facsimile in 2012. The current building was a Schooner Inn and later Jo Smo’s Bar and Diner, then Nacho’s. It is said to have had a stream running through the bar, a lit up coach and horses outside and to be full of entertainers from the BBC. It was licensed by 1761 and used by carters on their way to London. This was demolished in 1900.
70 The Power House. Built as a power station for the London United Electrical Tramway Company in 1899-1901 Designed by W.C.Green with a 200 ft steel chimney.  High car door, three brick sheds for 20 trams, etc. sidings for the Line off system trials car shed.  Machine shop and traverses.  Over the door were female figures of 'Electricity and Locomotion' and 'LVET'.  Inside was a carved staircase and gallery. The Power House continued to function as a sub-station until the closure of the trolley bus service in 1962. Its 260ft-high smoke stack was demolished in 1966.  Most of the site was owned by British European Airways and equipment was stored there. It is now called the Powerhouse and includes Metropolis Studios. It was converted in 1985 by David Clarke Associates, with flats tucked into the roof. The vast lower spaces have been imaginatively converted to recording studios by Powell- Tuck Connor & Orefelt, 1989.
74 Stamford Bridge Garage. This was originally the London United Tramways Chiswick Depot. It is an art deco building surmounted by a clock. It opened as a bus garage in 1980 after a two-year construction taking over from the Turnham Green Garage. . It had previously been used to operate the British European Airways bus service between Heathrow Airport and the West London Air Terminal. The garage closed in 1996 and became a store for unlicensed buses held for possible future use. In 1999 it reopened to cater for increased demand in the area.
80 Paragon. This was a shop turned into a J.J.Moons pub in 1992
94 Rambert Dance Company. ¬It is planned to turn this building into a cinema. Marie Rambert was a Polish dancer who turned to teaching and founded the Rambert Dancers in London in 1926. The company has flourished ever since to international acclaim. They left this building for the South Bank in 2013.
122 The Roebuck. This was the Chiswick Eyot in 1983, the Rat and Parrot in 1996 and the Bird Cage in 2002. It was also the Slug and Lettuce for a while. This was licensed from at least 1732, and was where the Manorial Court held their meetings. It had a bowling green and extensive stabling. The original building was demolished in 1890 and replaced by the present building with statues of deer on the gables.
145 Packhorse and Talbot. This was called The Pack Horse from 1698 until 1811. In 1698 people plotting to assassinate William III met here and 1725 when the landlord acted as a witness for highwayman, Jonathan Wild at his trial. It was also the meeting place of the Brentford Turnpike Trust between 1764 and 1776. It was rebuilt in the 1920s
160 The Old Cinema. This was built in 1887 as the Chiswick Hall and was converted into the Royal Cinema Electric Theatre in 1912. It closed in 1934. In 1939 it was a furniture shop and is now an antiques shop
Sulhampstead House. This was on the corner of Devonshire Road and was the home of chemist Professor William Brande of the Apothecaries’ Company and consultant to the early gas industry.
185 George IV. This dates from at least 1771 when it was called the Lord Boston’s Arms and the Boston Arms by 1790. It was taken over by Fuller, Smith & Turner in 1826 and the name changed to the George IV. It was rebuilt in 1931/2.  In 1838 an omnibus service ran from here to the City. It now hosts a comedy club.
Statue of Hogarth.  This statue is the work of Jim Mathieson and was unveiled in 2001 by Ian Hislop, assisted by David Hockney, patron of the statue appeal. The pug dog at Hogarth’s feet was unveiled by a pupil from William Hogarth School.
177-179 Prince of Wales. This pub closed in 1971 – the Prince of Wales badge is said to remain on the front of the building. The current building replaced a predecessor licensed by 1792. It ws rebuilt in the 1930s
197 All Bar One. This was the fire station the sign for which lies under the fascia.  The station was opened here in 1891 and operated there until 1963. It was built in 1891 and probably designed by Arthur Ramsden, surveyor to the local board. It has a clock tower which may be an early example of a hose tower. There is a helmet carved above the top window.
210 old Police Station. This was opened in 1872 and closed in 1972. It was associated with the police station in Brentford.
Linden House.  This was a large house fronting on to the main road after which Linden Gardens is named. In the late 18th it was home of Ralph Affleck, publisher of The Monthly Review and later of Thomas Wainwright, transported for fraud and possible murderer.
201 - 211 Police Station. This is on the site of Linden House and a later fire station. The site is also shown as a market in the 1930s. It was opened in 1972


Chiswick Lane
2 Convent for the Comboni Missionary Sisters of Verona opened a girls' hostel and nursery school opened here in 1951. There is an onsite chapel.
4 Tower House. This was built in 1875 and in 1901 was taken over by a French Roman Catholic Sisterhood, the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, as the convent of Marie Réparatrice, a closed order. They moved out in 1951 and were replaced by The Comboni Missionary Sisters, originally called the Verona Sisters. This Italian order was founded in 1872 to help the poorest in Central Africa and came to Britain in 1946. A wing was added in 1959, and used as the order's training centre in 1978. In 1996 the house was redeveloped as the Verona Court housing development.
10 Sisters of Mary Immaculate acquired this as Regina Pacis convent 1968.  A Kindergarten was opened 1969 and hall added 1972. Our Lady Queen of Peace Day Nursery
Homefields Recreation Ground. From 1966 Waste lands were acquired by the local board under the Metropolitan Commons Act, and laid out for recreation. Homefields and adjoining land east of Chiswick Lane were bought by the Urban District Council from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1898, with help from the County Council.
Buttercups Lodge. Private day nursery in the recreation ground.
Thames Tideway Tunnel entry shaft.


Chiswick Mall
The river is unembanked: hence the small front gardens between street and water.
Oak Cottage.  This is probably early 19th and is thought to have been accommodation for the coachman for Walpole House coachman. Behind the house were the Thornycrofts’ stables and coach house and a large garden with greenhouses. One of the stables was later used as a studio by Victor Passmore
Orford House. Built in 1886 by John Belcher. It is thought to be on the sire of High House. In 1810 Charles Whittingham equipped High House as a printing works with a paper mill next door. The riverside location was probably selected because of its proximity to the draw dock, where barge-loads of old ships’ ropes from London and other dockyards could be unloaded; they were used to produce ink and paper. He founded The Chiswick Press here in 1811, later moving his presses to nearby College House.
High House. This was the first home of the Chiswick Press in 1816 and was near a draw dock where rope was unloaded. This was a printing works with an adjacent and associated paper mill. It was demolished in 1880.
Walpole House, Named after the nephew of Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Said to be the home of Charles II’s mistress Barbara Villiers. In the early 19th it was a school attended by the William Thackeray in 1817 – hence this is another candidate for Vanity Fair’s Miss Pinkerton’s Academy. It later became a training school for homeless girls.  In the 1880s it was owned by the Thorneycroft family and Thomas Thrneycrofts Boadicea statue – now on the Embankment - was housed in a workshop in the garden. The workshop was later used by John Thorneycroft for experimental motor vehicles, and still later became a gym.
Morton House. This is 17th and possibly older. A small fire insurance plate on the front shows Britannia with shield, spear and Irish harp. There is also a Sun insurance plate. The facade was extensively rebuilt in the 1950s.
30 Riverside Lodge. This is three town houses, built in 2011 by the architectural firm Rolfe Juddson with various environmental features. They are on the site of a hospital put up in 1935 itself on the site of the Rothbury House.  There is a replica plaque to the hospital “"To the Glory of God, this stone was laid by Dan Mason Esq, 29 February 1936".
Rothbury House. Was a 17th house. In the 19th it was the home of and of George Chibnall, owner of the bakery also in the Mall.
Hospital.  In 1911 Rothbury House was bought from Acton Council by Dan Mason, Cherry Blossom shoe polish.  He had previously funded a hospital near the works but this needed to be enlarged. Rothbury House became the administration block, and a new hospital was built in the grounds.   It opened in 1912 as a general hospital known as the Chiswick Hospital.  The main entrance was in Netheravon Road to the rear. Kitchens and staff quarters were located in Rothbury House. The hospital was entirely funded by Dan Mason and was entirely free to Chiswick residents in need and unable to pay medical fees. At the start of the Great War award was allocated to wounded soldiers and Mason provided an ambulance which he drove himself. After the war the hospital was extended and Mason created a trust for the future funding of it. In the 1930s Rothbury House and the hospital were demolished and rebuilt. The Second World War intervened and it was unable to open until 1943 when it was used as a maternity unit. After the war it became Chiswick Maternity Hospital and joined the NHS. It closed in 1975. It was later used as staff accommodation for Charing Cross Hospital.  In 1984 it beamed Chiswick Lodge, a nursing home for patients with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.  That has since been closed and demolished.
Boundary stone. This is in the wall opposite Cedar House at kerb level.


Cranbrook Road
83 Sipsmith ‘artisanal’ distillery. They moved to this site in 2014 and have the first copper still to be installed in London for nearly 200 years. It comes from Germany’s, Christian Carl and will distill both Barley Vodka and London Dry Gin. The swan motif on the Sipsmith trade mark is a reference to the "swan's neck" pipe where the spirit vapour turns above the still.


Devonshire Road
107 Duke of York. This was originally built as part of Chiswick New Town.  It was acquired by Fuller, Smith and Turner in 1834 and rebuilt in 1927.
126 Devonshire Arms. This was originally the Manor Tavern, rebuilt in 1924 by Nowell Parr
Parish Hall. This is shown on maps at the south east end of the road before the Second World War and the subsequent widening of the Great West Road.


Devonshire Street
Magdalene House, this is on the site of the church of St. Mary Magdalene
Hogarth Infants School, this had opened in 1920 in Hogarth Lane and moved to Devonshire Street in 1956.


Duke Road
Hogarth Road Board School. These were primary and nursery schools, opened here in 1884 by the London school Board.
St Marys Roman Catholic Schools. This moved here in 1964 from a site in Acton Lane into the building which had formerly been the Hogarth Schools.
William Hogarth Primary Schools. This opened in 2001 in the old buildings of the Hogarth Primary Schools. They had moved to a new building in 1958,


Eyot Green
This is a small group of houses set around a garden which was once the tennis court of Walpole House. It was, built in 1960 by the architect Edward Armitage.


Flanders Road
Keene’s Automobile Works.  Keene were early 20th car dealers and repairers, who took over the Bedford Park Stores in Bath Road. They built a works to the rear of the building in 1903 with room for 250 cars. They developed a 14 horse-power steam car called the `Keenelet', but they failed in 1904.
H.J. Mulliner took over the Keene premises in 1908 and undertook coachwork for various motor manufacturers, including Rolls Royce and Daimler. They were a branch of a long established Northampton coach builder. In the Second World War they built gliders and in 1959 the firm was acquired by Rolls Royce having previously been controlled by the Croall Company of Edinburgh. They closed in 1968
Mulliner House. Offices on the site of the car factory
Bollards at the east end of the road mark what was the original end of the road where it met the north/south running North and South West London Junction Rail Line, defunct from the 1950s.


Fraser Street
Chiswick Christian Centre. This was previously Chiswick Mission. This was set up in 1890. By nineteen year old Robert Thomson Smith. He was a clerk at Thornycrofts, who tried to prevent heavy drinking by Thornycroft employees. Initially he up a coffee stall and went on to set up the mission helped with money from Thorneycroft’s and was later given land by the Watts family..  This also undertook a social role providing breakfasts for children, dinner for men, and coal and coke for the poor.  The mission, as the Christian Centre, is now part of the Elim Pentecostal Church following support for a new centre in the 1980s from Kensington Temple Church. The church still undertakes a social support role with many initiatives to the local community.


Gainsborough Road
North and South West London Junction Rail Line.  This now defunct railway ran down the backs of the houses in this road although most of the houses were built later than the railway.


Glebe Street
Chiswick Glebe Street Board School. This opened in 1877 as for girls and infancies. The girls left in 1884 and the whole school closed in 1926.
2 appears to be in housing or office use. This dates from the construction of the road and appears to have a later back extension. The front appears to be a small religious building, or a works.


Goldhawk Road
Stamford Brook. The brook crossed the road in the vicinity of Stamford Brook Underground Station.
Queen Charlotte maternity hospital. This large hospital site had a fringe in this square but is largely in the square to the east and will be dealt with there.
Stamford Brook Station. Opened in 1912 to runs between Turnham Green and Ravenscourt Park Stations on the District Line originally the Metropolitan District Railway.  The line itself was opened in 1869 by the London and South Western Railway as part of a new branch line to Richmond from the West London Joint Railway; however, no stations were built between the then Hammersmith Grove Road station and Turnham Green.  By 1912 rhea line was used by the District Railway as well as the L&SWR and at this time the station was opened with a building constructed by the District Railway.  It had one island platform and was used only by the District line trains and by 1916 the District alone used the line. In the 1930s, the owners of the District and Piccadilly lines rebuilt the line between Hammersmith and Acton Town to allow the Piccadilly to come to Hammersmith from Uxbridge and Hounslow, and thus from  1932  Piccadilly line trains began to run through Stamford Brook,.  This meant that the layout of the station had to be reconfigured and a side platform was opened. However eastbound Piccadilly line trains still cannot stop at the station. In 1964 Stamford Brook was the first underground station to have an automatic ticket barrier installed.
368 Chiswick Ambulance Station. This is a satellite station for Hanwell and has three ambulances.
375 The Raven. The Raven is said to date from 1839 and to have been a stable block. Its licensing records appear to begin in 1862 when it was known as ‘The Raven Tavern’. It does appear to have a carriage entrance which has been added onto the north side of the building which could have led to stables at the rear.
407 Chiswick Rooms. Boutique Hotel


Great West Road
This was the new a built to bypass Brentford and Hounslow by Middlesex County Council, first planned around 1920.


Millers Court,
This was built in 1970 on the site of Miller's bakery by Chapman & Taylor. The baker was originally Chibnall’s bakery, established in the 1880s and taken over by Miller’s in the 1940s. It closed in 1966.


Prince of Wales
The road ran at the back of what was the Prince of Wales Pub.
Chiswick Indoor Cricket School. This was held in a hall at the back of the George IV pub


Priory Avenue
Priory House. Chiswick and Bedford Park Preparatory School. This private school is said to have been established in 1915.  The building has a history as a series of private school. It was the Bedford Park School which joined Bedford Park high school in 1895 as Chiswick and Bedford Park high school, here, later this was Bedford Park college, bought around  1932 by Mme Fellowes, and  renamed it Chiswick and Bedford Park high. This continued and was managed by her daughters in 1979.


Ravensmede Way
Hamnmersmith and Chiswick Station. This is built on the site of the Hammersmith and Chiswick Station of the North and South West Junction Railway and its associated goods yard and sidings.  It opened in 1858 as ‘Hammersmith’. In 1880 the name was changed to ‘Hammersmith and Chiswick’.  A private house on the north side of Chiswick High Road was used as the station – this stood on the site of the first new houses east of 44 Chiswick High Road. .  The ticket office in the front door and the stationmaster lived upstairs. Trains ran from here to Acton Gatehouse Junction and the line took coal trains for various factories.  There was one very long platform and although a second set of rails was laid it is unclear if there was ever a second platform or if one was indeed ever planned. With the introduction of the rail motors in 1909 a shorter wooden platform was built on the main platform with a short canopy with a wooden wall as a shelter. The ticket office then closed and tickets had to be bought from the guard but they did not sell through tickets to other lines. In 1917 it was closed. The station was later re-converted back to a house and a shop and remained into the 1970s. A tree behind some of the houses may be that shown in photographs of the rear of the station building.
Sidings for the coal depot – there were extensive sidings paralleling the station platform, on its east side.


Thornton Avenue
Nursery. The area enclosed by this road is probably the site of f James Scott’s nursery was there from 1740 to 1760. From 1785 was the nursery of Richard Williams, who specialized in heathers, introduced exotic plants, and marketed the improved 'William' pear


Stamford Brook
The boundary of the 1889 county of London the westernmost Stamford Brook between the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hammersmith and Acton from the Chiswick and Brentford Urban Districts in Middlesex


St Peters Square
The public garden was bought by Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and in 1915 was opened to the public.
The Greek Runner, by William Blake Richmond. This was installed in the gardens in 1926.
22 This includes the buildings from an old laundry dye works in British Grove to the rear which was converted into an architects' studio and office building. In the basement is the former studio of Island Records known as The Fallout Shelter. Many musicians began their careers or recorded in the building. It was awarded a Hammersmith Society Conservation award plaque


The Avenue
Shops. These were built in 1924 on the front garden of Bedford House.
Bedford House. This was built by John Bedford in 1793. He was a furniture and builder. The house was the home of botanist John Lindley between 1836 and 1865 and was then bought by Hamilton Fulton who was father-in-law of Jonathan Carr. Carr went on to develop Bedford Park estate, and this included the grounds of Bedford House. The house has been converted into flats.
Park Club. This was designed in 1878 by Norman Shaw and later enlarged to include a theatre.  It was seen as a centre for artistic endeavour along with talk about every possible subject. Here both men and women were allowed to participate in political discussion. Alongside this were dances, plays, concerts and all sorts of social events. It closed in 1939 and is now a Buddhist Centre.
London Buddhist Viharam Dharmapala Building This is a centre for Theravada Buddhism.  The Vihasra was founded in 1926 by Anagairka Djarmapala as the first Buddhist monastery to be established outside Asia. It has a community of resident bhikkhus from Sri Lanka. In 1994 they moved to this site in the Avenue


Turnham Green Terrace
Turnham Green Station. This opened in 1869 and lies between Hammersmith and Acton Town Stations on the Piccadilly Line and also between Stamford Brook and Chiswick Park Stations on the District Line. It was opened by the London and South Western Railway as its new branch line to Richmond.  In 1877, the District Railway also began to use the line from its terminus at Hammersmith to go to Richmond.  The line was also used by the Great Western Railway and by the Midland Railway for short lived services. The District Railway’s services were however successful and in 1879 they began to run trains from here to Ealing Broadway. In 1882 the name was changed to Turnham Green (Bedford Park). The Distract Line tracks were electrified through here in 1903 and by 1916 they were the sole operator. Meanwhile the station was rebuilt and reopened on 1911, plus a new signal box.  In the early 1930s, the London Electric Railway, precursor of the London Underground and owner of both District and Piccadilly lines provided lines to allow the Piccadilly line to run to Uxbridge and Hounslow as an express service which meant a fast line added to the stopping tracks at this station. Them Piccadilly line trains began stopping here in the early mornings and late evenings and there have been moves to extend this. Turnham Green was one of the stations used for the testing of experimental automatic ticket barriers later adopted throughout the network
John Compton Organ Company Ltd. Crompton had first set up business in Nottingham but in 1919 he moved to workshops at Turnham Green Terrace which had been vacated by August Gern. In 1930 he moved to Park Royal. He worked primarily on electric-action pipe organs and electronic organs. These included the Melotone, the Theatrone and The Electrone.  The company were awarded many original patents for simple organ mechanisms as well as the most complex, state of the art electronic and electrical inventions.
August Gern was a French organ builder, famous for building the organ in Notre Dame. He came to England in the late 19th and built some church organs here.


Welsted Way
This road was built on the line of the North and South West Junction Railway as it ran into Hammersmith Station. It passes below what was the London and South West Railway's Kensington to Richmond line, which since 1877 had carried the Metropolitan District Railway, now the District Line. The tracks splayed out into sidings on the approach to the terminus shortly after leaving Bath Road Halt.
Engine Shed. This was north of the LSWR Bridge and was still in use in 1873 but was demolished later. The line only had one locomotive which was housed here.


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This post covers sites north of the river only, South of the river is St.:Paul's School

Post to the west is Chiswick riverside and Bedford Park
Post to the south Castelnau


Aiten Place
Short road on the site of Riverside Works, printers based in Standish Road

Albion Gardens
Albion Gardens flats. These were built for pensioners in 1955. Three architect was Henry Cadbury-Brown a modernist who combined a concern for social needs with a passion for elegant design
2 Dalling Carriage & Motor Works Ltd. These were present here in 1919


Albion Mews
The Mews run alongside the railway line beneath which are arches in which there are a variety of small firms
LGOC Depot. This is on the site of a large depot for the London General Omnibus Co. Which was extant in the late 19th.
Motor coach works. This was on the eastern part of the LGOC site. It 2as probably the works for the National Motor Cab Co. who ran a fleet of 250 Unic cabs and where W.O.Bentley worked to keep them on the road.  They also promoted cars for local manufacturers – the KRC sports car made by White Holmes, of Down Place, for example
Blenheim Works. This was an engineering firm William Edgar and Sons, making a variety of products including street lighting and geysers. They appear to have been at several other addresses from the 1900s. The firm is shown here in the 1950s with a registered office in 77-79 King Street In liquidation 1967.


Albion Place
Turning off King Street leading to new flats on the site of a group of factories
Green Peas Solutions. Plastics factory. This was a plastics packaging firm here in the early 21st which later moved to Sheffield.
Haberdashery factory

Argyle Place
Blue Cross Animal Hospital
Box and Trunk Factory
Electrical works


Aspen Gardens
Housing built in 1948 following slum clearance and opened by Aneurin Bevan
Residents Hall


Atwood Road
This was originally called Church Road


Banim Street
Cambridge School. This is the back of what is now West London Free School

Beavor Lane
This as the "Washway" and the "Green Walk in the 1750.
Beavor Lodge. This house dated from the mid 18th and stood on land owned by a Samuel Beaver. It is described as a simple rectangular brick building surrounded by gardens. It was still extant in the early 20th but demolished in the 1920s.
11 -21 Palco House. Industrial Polymer Chemicals Ltd. Building now demolished. Palco was a ‘telemarketing consultancy’.
23-31 office block which is used by the Polish Scouting Association, The Real Health Institute, The Tisserand Institute. It appears currently to be a school.
23-31 Eden High School and/or Al Muntada Girls School
23-31 The Independent School. Another private school. It says it is co-educational, independent, secondary school 11-16 year olds with a different approach to others. No mention of fees.
45 Clockwork Building. Refurbished offices. This was designed Richard Seifert on the site of the International Time Recording Company’s works. They were world’s largest manufacturer of time recorders. It was later known as Riverview House and used as council housing department
International works. International Time Recorders. The company was in Beavor Lane from 1963.  The originated as Howard Brothers who marketed the Dev Time Register in the late 19th They were part of IBM in the 1950s but subject to a management buyout in 1963. Taken over later by the Brocks Group they closed in eh 1970s
Electrical Engineering Works
Beavor Works
Reo Motor Works. Reo were an American car manufacturer. Chassis which had been designed for lorries from parts imported from REO in Lansing, Michigan were assembled into buses and commercial vehicles here in the 1930s.
Marshall-Arter. This was a car manufacturer 1912-1915, In 1912 Marshall-Arter 8/10 hp was introduced, which had a V2 engine. In 1914, they produced two models with four-cylinder engines and they were built till 1915. For a short period the car was known as the QED. But production ended because of the Great War


Black Lion Lane
Samel's Court. Behind river front buildings this is a modern courtyard-style house. It is named after Bertie Jonathan Samels, mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith 1926-29.
Cottages on the site of Samel’s Court. Previously there were old cottages on this site. One was home to Eric Gill early 20th typographer and sculptor
2 Black Lion. Pub with a skittle alley from 1840 buy could be earlier. The name is that of the badge of Queen Phillipa, queen of Edward III.
St Peter's church.  Built in 1829 it was then surrounded on all sides by meadows, market gardens and smallholdings. It was funded by the church commissioners. The land was given by George Scott of Ravenscourt. The architect was Edward Lapidge, whose father had worked as landscape gardener at Chiswick House. The body of the church is a plain rectangle of Suffolk brick and Bath stone. The vestries are underneath the galleries, which stand on Tuscan columns: The Chapel of St George This chapel was dedicated in 1920 to those who fought and died in the Great War. Om the tower is a clock made by Thwaites and Reed from 1862
The graveyard. When the Great West Road was built in 1957 a large portion of church land was lost. There is one headstone left on the south side of the church and thirty remaining on the north side. In 1958 the remaining portion of the churchyard was laid out as a garden of rest in the 1960s. A statue by Karel Vogel was included in 1959. It is called The Leaning Woman,
St Peter’s School. Church primary school apparently a new school was opened here by Lucy Hannah Scott in 1849
57 Cross Keys Pub. Dates from the 1860s
91 Carpenters Arms. Opened in 2007


Bradmore Park Road
Grove Neighbourhood Centre. The centre began in a private house and then moved to a prefab building in Bradmore Park Road, which became the Grove Neighbourhood Centre. In 1982 the prefab was demolished and replaced by a single storey community centre. In 1994 a grant from Hammersmith & Fulham Council enabled us to add a second storey.
32 Bradmore Children’s Centre. Now apparently part of West London Free School.
20 Bradmore Pub. Opened 1881 and closed 1944. Now flats.


Cambridge Grove
Cambridge House. This is now an office campus with breakout facilities. It also calls itself the Old Aircraft Factory. Most recently it has been used as offices for Hammersmith and Fulham Education Serviced, and others. It is said to have been built in the 1890s as a piano factory.  Kirkman. ‘Bradmore Works, pianos’ is shown on maps on this footprint in 1894 but on earlier maps only a farm is shown nearby. The Kirkman family had a factory of that name on Aldensley Road – Cambridge House backs onto Aldensey Road. It is said about 900 pianos were made by them here in 1881. The Kirkman family had made pianos throughout the 19th in the Soho area. Three is a report of their Golden Square factory being burnt down in 1853.  By 1877 the firm was owned by Georgina Kirkman and she is said to have sold, or passed, the business to rival piano makers Collard in 1896.
Waring and Gillow. Furniture and bedding factory. John Waring and Robert Gillow set up their furniture business in 1903.  Initially this was a depository and then made cabinets and high-end furnishings. In the Great War they made aircraft and after the war they made civilian aircraft,
Alliance Aircraft Factory. In 1918, responding to pressures for aircraft manufacture, Samuel Waring, the owner Waring & Gillow and the Nieuport & General Aircraft Company, formed the Alliance Aeroplane Company. The main factory was located at Hammersmith and, used Acton Aerodrome. The company assisted in the building of several hundred biplanes and triplanes for the de Havilland and Handley-Page. At the end of the Great War Alliance turned to producing civil aircraft. They engaged J.A. Peters, and produced a long distance machine, the P.2 Seabird. It flew non-stop flight to Madrid in, 1919, but a second machine crashed killing all on board. Alliance closed in 1920 and factory remained in the hands of Waring & Gillow until 1945. In the Second World War parts for the Mosquito bomber are said to have been made here.
Shepherds’ Bush Housing Group Community Hub. It is in a building called Craft Court, named after William and Ellen Craft, former slaves who campaigned against slavery. They lived in Cambridge Grove from 1857 to 1867.
Plaque to William and Ellen Craft.  They were an enslaved African-American couple who lived in Hammersmith in 1857. They were famous for daring adventures during their escape from slavery. William wrote a book about this
Rail bridges. This runs north from King Street with a dip to allow traffic to pass underneath the District and Piccadilly lines. The pavements do not dip but keep a level course supported by brick retaining walls with iron railings. The road was originally a 19th cul-de sac. It became a through road probably in 1853-56.
Godolphin and Latimer school. Godolphin was founded in the 16th through a bequest of William Godolphin. It was a grammar school in 1861, and established here as a boarding school for boys. In 1905 it became an independent girls' day school associated with the Latymer Foundation, and was renamed the Godolphin and Latymer School. The Latymer School was founded under the 1624 will of Edmund Latymer who bequeathed land in Hammersmith to charitable ends. In 1951 it became Voluntary Aided and in 1977, rather than become a comprehensive it reverted to full independent status.
Banda House. This was a factory of Block and Anderson, office machinery manufacturers. They were founded in 1922 among other things manufactured the spirit duplicator invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld Under their "Banda" brand
54 Stonemasons Arm’s, this was originally called the Cambridge. And still has the Duke of Cambridge’s arms on the façade. It was reamed in 2015.
Elizabeth Burgwin School. The school was built in 1964 and was originally called Elizabeth Burgwin School. It later became Cambridge School which was a small special needs secondary school.  It was closed so the Free School could have the building.
West London Free School. It seems very unclear which bit of this school is where. Very confusing but this might be the primary section.


Chiswick Mall
Malt Houses.  Malt houses were among buildings here. The small inlet here would make it easy for barges to moor up and offload grain to be processed. The malt would then be transported to nearby breweries like Fullerʼs or Lambs.
Durham Wharf. This was built in the early 20th as a coal wharf -hone the name. In the 1930s it became a home to artists and a centre for other art work.
St Peters Wharf. This is a development of modern studio houses, built in 1974 by the landowner, artist Julian Trevelyan and designed by architect Michael Patrick as homes for artists.  It is a dark brick group staggered to the road with a courtyard by the river.
Shepherd's wood yard. This was burnt down in the 1960s and replaced by the houses now called St. Peter’s Wharf


Chambon Place
This new housing development is on the site of Chambon’s Riverside print works. This works undertook specialist printing, including various bank notes, vouchers, labels etc. and also supplied machinery for this in the form of Manufacturers of multi-colour rotary printing machines, slitting and rewinding machines and other specialised machinery. Many patents are registered to it.  It originated with the French company of Machines Chambon S.A. of Paris and from 1925 was part owned by match makers Bryant and May.


Cromwell Avenue
St. Peter’s School (Boys). This was on the west side of the road pre-Second World War.


Dalling Road
8-10 is currently the studio of artist Ben Johnson and a number of community events -= lectures, exhibitions - also happen in these buildings.
6-10 WTT Engineering Co. The company had been set up in 1919 as the Aeroplane Components Company, and also carried on as the General Aircraft and General Engineering Company, Ltd. They handled the Johnson Motor Wheel, for the Johnson cyclemotor. This American invention was the basis for the Johnson outboard motor. WTT Engineering of this address was however wound up in 1920.
21-23 Salvation Army Citadel.This seems to have begun as the Albion Congregational Church, built in 1891 by F.W. Stocking. Subsequently used by The Ebenezer Chapel. This closed and it is now occupied by the Salvation Army.
20-40 Waverley Cars Ltd.  This firm was established from 1910 to 1934. The first Waverley had a 9 hp engine to be replaced a year later with a 10 hp four-cylinder. In 1920 they produced a sport model and some middle-class models with different engines. None of these models achieved significant production numbers.
30-40 Mace Montessori Nursery
43 Hitchcock and King. Timber merchants in railway arches
73 Flynn’s Pub. Previous names have been Egerton; Tommy Flynn’s; Fiddlers; and originally The Prince of Wales. It is in Brewers Tudor with an outside patio and originates from the 1850s
113 Commercial Spares. This company was selling parts for Maudslay lorries. No date
113 White Mouse Stable. This was the garage and workshop for Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, Thai Prince and successful racing driver. Full of a lot of very fast cars
115 Thatched House. This dates from the 1850s and was renamed Butchers Hook in 19134
Flora Gardens Children’s Centre
Flora Gardens Primary School
Ravenscourt Works. This was owned by F.C. Blake. They dealt in electrical ignition specialties, coils, ignition plugs, etc., around 1901.


Down Place
White Holmes. Makers of the KRC light car in 1923
Princes Electric Theatre. The Colisee Cinema opened before 1912 and by 1915 it was listed as the Prince’s Electric Theatre, operated by C & B Cinemas Ltd. It had closed by 1918.


Felgate Mews
1-8 Purdey gunsmiths  factory. Their products are described as ‘high end bespoke sporting guns’ – the cheaper end starts at £89,000.  The company started in the early 19th in the west end and remained there until 1979 when they moved to Hammersmith. The factory was completely rebuilt in 2016,
J.E. Jolly – the food factory market on site appears to be that of J.Jolly provision merchants with a shop at 42 King Street. They may have had a slaughter house on site at one time and built a cold storage facility here in the early 1960s


Furnival Gardens
Furnival Gardens. The Gardens link Lower and Upper Mall on what was once the mouth of Hammersmith Creek. By the mid 19th it was a dense mixture of factories and low quality housing. In the 1920s Hammersmith Council began to develop the area but there was extensive Second World War bombing and in 1948 it was decided to create a public open space for the Festival of Britain. The new park was named after Dr Frederick James Furnivall founder in 1896 of Furnival Sculling Club in 1896. The planting here dates from the 1950s apart from a 19th lime, and an older plane. The site of High Bridge/ Bishop’s Bridge is marked by a raised hump in the gardens and a flowerbed. There is a garden on the site of the bombed Friends Meeting House burial ground which, in line with Friends' traditions, never featured memorial stones. This was set up in 1955. The Thames Walk is along the river bank
Plaque. This is said to be on the river wall and commemorates Hammersmith Creek


Galena Road
11 Freedom Brewing Company.  Microbrewery, first in England to make lager under the Reinheitsgebot laws from Germany.
8-20 Galena Westside School. This was founded in 2006 as a charitable, independent school with approval from the Department of Education to become an Alternative Provision Free School Academy. They moved to the current building in 2013. Students are referred here from mainstream schooling.


Glenthorne Road
St John the Evangelist Church. This was built in 1858-9 as the centre for a new parish. It is a large church in yellow brick designed by William Butterfield, - and of his stained glass windows were lost in Second World War bombing. The church closed in 2005 and was leased to Godolphin and Latymer School. It has been converted into The Bishop Centre, a centre for performing arts opening in 2009.
Gardens. The church had gardens with mature trees and shrubs, bounded by iron railings.
War Memorial. In the church garden there is a memorial cross covering the Great War. This is a stone cross with an inscription ‘to the glory of God and in memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives for honour and freedom in the Great War 1914-1918. There are no names on it.
Vicarage. To the north of the church and also designed by Butterfield.
62 This was the Royal Oak Pub. Closed in 1990 and now a strip club.
75 Galena Garage
Galena Mews – back land offices and workshops
Council offices. Built in the 1970s and now demolished.
Fireplace works.This was to the rear of the now demolished council block
Boy girls and infants school 1890s


Goldhawk Road
354 Queen Charlotte's Hospital. When new this was intended to be the largest maternity hospital in the British Empire, double the size of its Marylebone Road site.  The plan was to have a block for private patients and one for women with puerperal fever as well as a, Nurses' Training College and Nurses' Home and an Out-Patients Department block.  Work began in 1929 and it admitted its first patients in 1930. There were all sorts of facilities. The Bernhard Baron Memorial Research Laboratory opened in 1931 to study the causes of puerperal fever.  Queen Charlotte's Ball, held every May, provided a fund-raising opportunity for the Hospital. In 1938 the Human Milk Bureau was established, dispatching human milk all over the country.  The isolation block was closed in 1939 and taken over by the Hammersmith Borough Council to use as a First Aid post and decontamination centre. The Marylebone Road site closed in 1940 and all services moved to the Goldhawk Road site when the first section of the ward block was finally completed. The Research Laboratory reopened in 1947.  In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS, merging with the Chelsea Hospital for Women and becoming a postgraduate teaching hospital.  The Nurses' Home was finally completed in May 1950.  By 1976, however, plans were being made to relocate all services to the Hammersmith Hospital site in Du Cane Road, although many of the buildings planned for Goldhawk Road had never happened.  In 1988, following long negotiations with the Chelsea Hospital for Women, the Hospitals merged onto one site and all functions transferred to Queen Charlotte's Hospital.  At the end of 2000 the Hospital moved to new premises built on the Hammersmith Hospital campus. The Goldhawk Road site was bought by Crest Nicholson.  The buildings have been demolished and the site has been entirely redeveloped.


Great West Road
Bazelgette Court. The Pump House - this is now the name for flats in the old buildings of the Hammersmith Water Works. This building was installed in 1909 for the Metropolitan Water Board. The West Middlesex Water Company works were established here in 1806 with the central part of the complex being designed by William Tierney Clark.  They had two pumping engines were housed in brick buildings and a system of cast iron pumps. In 1838 when the intake was moved to above Hampton the pump house was moved there but the Hammersmith buildings remained in the ownership of the water company and were in use into the 1960s and when steam equipment from the 19th remained usable. Two triple expansion engines were erected in 1910. A steam turbine drying centrifugal pumps and a generator in 1936, two electric pumps from 1938 and two more from 1946.. From here water from Barnes and Barn Elms was distributed.   In 1968, the riverside buildings were demolished and became a site for a public park. In the 1990s saw the development of the 1909 Pump House into flats


Hammersmith Creek
Hammersmith Creek. Furnival Gardens is on the site of Hammersmith Creek which was/is a distibutary of the Stamford Brook. There was a fishing fleet here until the early 19th, as well as malt houses and boat builders and much else. It was then navigable to near King Street. The Creek was a magnet for traders and watermen of all professions.  It was crossed by the High Bridge, rebuilt in the early 18th, and also known as Bishop's Bridge. In the late 19th malt houses and stables on the west side stretched alongside it up as for as King Street. It was infilled in 1936 although a small drainage tunnel into the Thames is still visible
Friends Meeting House. The Quakers established a Meeting House close to the Creek in the late 17th and rebuilt in the late 18th together with a Caretaker's Cottage.  They were demolished by Second World War bombing,
Sankey and Co. This was a building firm sited alongside the Creek which also supplied building materials.  In the 1880s they were lime merchants with dwelling houses, offices and garden, 4 warehouses used as lime houses, lime mill and pipe stores, slate brick and tile sheds, and a public house with 4 cottages and warehouse. In 1900 sailing barge Viola was built for them.
Hammersmith Brewery. This was alongside the Creek opened by Joseph Cromwell about 1780. It was also known as Swail’s Brewery. Town Brewery or Cromwell’s Brewery. It was extant until at least 1842


Hammersmith Terrace
The terrace is made up 16 brick houses. Built around 1750. The front face gardens which originally ran down to a private road along the river and there is still no public road here,
Old Hammersmith lock until 1930 built in 1936, before that wharves and malt houses
1a this was Harvey’s Bakery until 1932. It was also from where the Bell family ran their 19th boatbuilding business
1 The Doves Press was first established here.
3 home of Doves Press founder Emery Walker and subsequently Edward Johnson the calligrapher who created Johnston Type for London Transport.  There is a plaque saying 'master calligrapher lived here 1905-1912'.
7 home of painter Loutherbourg and later Emery Walker, of the Doves Press and mentor to William Morris. This art deco house is sometimes opened to the public by the Emery Walker Trust. 1903-1933
8 Home of William Morris’ daughter May, embroiderer.
12 plaque to Sir Alan Herbert 1890-1971 which says ‘author, humorist and reformist MP lived and died here’.
Bell or Black Lion Stairs. Frederick Bell, who ran a ferry from the steps here as well as a boatbuilding business from Hammersmith Terrace.


Hampshire Hog Lane
This is a tiny passageway running south down the west side of the Hampshire Hog Pub in King Street. Before the construction of the Town Hall and the Great West Road it turned dramatically south east to run in a straight line to what was High Bridge over the Hammersmith Creek. The last stretch being a road with terraced housing called New Street.
St Peter’s National School
Hampshire House. This 17th house was the YMCA Youth Club badly bombed in 1943. It demolished for work on the Great West Road. It was also used as workshops by calligrapher Edward Johnson and St. Dominic’s Press was set up which later moved to Ditching in Sussex and in which Eric Gill was involved.
Hampshire Cottage. Demolished.


King Street
84 Best Western Seraphine Hotel.  This was previously a Woolworth store but may have been an adaption of a previous building to which Woolworths added their decoration in the 1930s. The site is previously shown as a cinema – although it is not apparent in cinema reference sources. The Hammersmith Woolworth was one of the first to open, in 1914 – and may have been on this site.
108 Norfolk Pub. Demolished
111-115 Shops in a building which is streamlined in black and cream faience. This was built as the British Home Stores in 1937 by Albert L. Forman,
120 The Picture Hall cinema was an extension of the Plough and Harrow Hotel operated by Popular Entertainments (1909) Ltd. between 1910 and 1912.  The building is now an electronics store
120-124 Plough and Harrow Hotel. The hotel is now the Holiday Inn Express, with a bar operated by the J.D. Wetherspoon chain called the Plough and Harrow. The Edwardian facade has been kept.  In the 1960s the site was a showroom for restored Rolls Royces.
134 Windsor Castle Pub. The pub is said to have records going back to the 18th but Tesco opened here in 1961 having converted the building.  It is now a betting shop and a pawnbrokers.
133-135 Coach Maker’s Arms Pub latterly called The Penny Farthing and then Autumn House. This closed in 2004 and the building became a restaurant. A large ‘Charrington’s Entire’ sign remains on the facade.
139 Classic Cinema. This opened as The Electric Palace Theatre in 1910. It had a central paybox at the pavement entrance, and the name ‘Electric Palace’ at the top of the facade. In 1918, it was re-named Academy Picture Theatre and operated by Biocolour Theatres Ltd.  In 1946 it was taken over by the Classic Repertory Cinemas circuit and re-named the Classic Cinema. It closed in 1959 and was demolished. It was replaced by shops and offices called Appleton House
Kings Road Cloisters. Back land development of workshops and offices, recently reconfigured.
154 Salutation Inn. By A. P. Killick, 1910, with its blue and mauve tiles. It is a Fullers House.
170 Cock and Magpie. It is also said to have been demolished in 1919 to be replaced by the gospel hall of the Kelly mission.
Town Hall. This was built 1937 -1940 as a large square building three storey building in red brick by E. Berry Webber. Its original front faced the by a tall central brick arch Thames but this has been superseded by the Great West Road extension.  In the 1970s this was reversed and the grand double staircase removed. In 1971-5 a five storey extension towards King Street was built by the borough' architects department creating a new main front.
207 Blue Hall Cinemas. The New Blue Hall Cinema opened in 1912 built and operated by Blue Halls Ltd. a second cinema, Blue Hall Extension, opened in 1913 at the back and was designed by John Quilter & Sons. By 1918 they were managed by A.E. Abrahams and then leased to Favourite Cinemas Ltd. And By 1930 they were with Associated British Cinemas who replaced them with The Regal in 1935-6. This is now the closed Cineworld.
207 Cineworld. This was designed as the Regal Cinema by the Associated British Cinemas in-house architect William R. Glen. It replaced the earlier two Blue Hall cinemas on the site. It had a Compton 2Manual/5Rank theatre organ brought here from the Granada Theatre, Hove. There was a stage and four large dressing rooms. Inside there was an ornamental galleon on the walls either side of the screen. The Regal Cinema opened in 1936 and was eventually renamed ABC in 196. It was tripled in 1975 and eventually beamed the UGC and later the Cineworld. The foyer survives as part of the UGC, but only the side opening to the balcony is recognizable. It has now closed.
207 Cromwell House.  This was the home of Joseph Cromwell who founded the brewery here. It was demolished in 1912 for the Blue Hall Cinema
208 Foresters Arms. Closed.
Rivercourt Church House. In 1905, land next to the Methodist church was bought by the church acquired, and in 1938 Rivercourt Church House was built. This had office facilities, shops on King Street, and a hostel for young Methodist men.
Rivercourt Methodist church. In 1874 building work began on a new church here replacing a church in Warerloo place. It is Gothic style with a spire of 125 feet and on it In place of the usual weather-cock, reminiscent of Peter's denial, the trustees chose a dove with an olive leaf in its bill.. It has two stained glass windows and a three manual pipe organ which dates from 1771 and is thought to have come from St. Mary's Islington. The opening service was held in 1875. There is a plaque to the use of space in the church by Hammersmith Friends Meeting following the loss of their hall through Second World War bombing.
227 Hampshire Hog Pub also called The Ruby Grand. It was first licensed in the 17th as The Hogs, a name based on that of the members of the Royal Hampshire Regiment. The current building was built by Sich's Chiswick Brewery, in 1883.
237 Latymer Upper School.  The school was founded in 1624 by Edward Latymer, a wealthy lawyer and puritan, who left money for the education of “eight poore boyes” from Hammersmith. At first the school was in Fulham churchyard and then moved to Hammersmith. Following other moved a new building was provided here in 1863, and replaced in 1890 with a new building between King Street and the river. This is still in use although the school has been extended since. Latymer Prep School is also on site as is the Latymer Arts Centre.
241 Palingswick House. The land on which the house stands was once part of the Seagreens estate whose best-known owner was Louis Weltje, chef to George IV. He bought the estate in 1790. Seagreens House was on the Upper Mall with grounds back to King Street. Buhl House was then built on the King Street frontage and from 1872 it was renamed Marlesford Lodge – it is set back, grand, rather dour late Victorian Italianate.  In the 1880s it became a school for workhouse children from Kensington and Chelsea and later a London County Council children’s' home. More recently it has been the home of many small non-profit sector organizations, all of whom have now been evicted. It is now in use for the Sixth Form of the West London Free School.
Drinking fountain outside Palingswick House.
West End Baptist Chapel. The chapel itself was founded in the 1790s in Hammersmith. This King Street building appears to have been replaced around 1961 by the building now used as the Polish Cultural Centre and which originally included a church. A replacement chapel is now sited at the back of this building in 1968 in what was the burial ground. This appears to have been used as a school in the 1980s. The chapel was relaunched in 2007 as Ravenscourt Baptist Church.
246 Polish Cultural Centre. Built 1971 by M.F. Grzesik, a heavy concrete building. The Polski Ośrodek Społeczno-Kulturalny was founded and funded in 1967, for exiled Poles living in west London. It promotes Polish culture and art. It houses the Library of Poland in London, founded in 1942. Numerous Polish organizations are hosted within the building
243 La Piccolo. Pizza restaurant in old public toilets.
255 Premier Inn. This was previously the Best Western Vencourt Hotel. The building itself dates from 1960 as an office block.
257 Ravenscourt Arms. Ravenscourt Arms. Mid 20th pub with the stone figure of a lively black bull outside.
Black Bull figure. This came from the Black Bull pub at 121 High Holborn, mentioned in Martin Chuzzlewit. In 1825 it was rebuilt and the life-size statue with gilt horns and hooves, and a golden band round its body, was put on the front of the building. The commissioner of sewers said it had to come down and tried to remove it with a party of fifty men. The bull however somehow soared up to the inn’s parapet with a flag saying ‘I don’t intrude now’. When the pub was demolished in 1904, the bull as brought here by William Bull MP for his office entrance – on the site of which is now the Ravenscourt Arms .It is said to weigh four and a half tons.
271-273 London House. In 1949 this large building was in use for the storage of carpets and curtains. It was later Chelsea College, part of the University of London = housings for instance the Geology and Pharmacy Department and shown on maps as Chelsea college of science and technology. Later it was the London Language Centre along with many other small businesses and organisations.  It and Linden House next door are being replaced by flats.
260 Willoughby House. Built in the 1840s, with bench mark on the front wall.
Commodore Theatre.  The foundation stone for this theatre was laid on 1929 by Tallulah Bankhead. It was built for independent operator Commodore National Theatres Ltd. controlled by Ralph Specterman, and designed by George Coles – described as ‘outstanding’... It was very large and was designed for cinema and variety. There were also 252 standing spaces as well as seats. It had a Dutch Standaart cinema organ, plus an orchestra with a large stage eight dressing rooms. There was also a cafe and a dancehall. Associated British Cinemas took it over in 1933 and dropped the stage shows and the orchestra. It closed in 1963 became a Mecca Bingo Club until 1981 and was immediately demolished. Quantas House offices are on the site and the foundation stone of the Cinema is at the entrance.
Gates to Ravenscourt Park. These are the William Bull Memorial Gates which date from 1933 and commemorate Sir William who died in 1931. He was MP for Hammersmith 1900-1929, and its first Freeman. They are enhanced with a coat of arms
342 James and Browne. Factory of these automobile manufacturers, in Westminster and Hammersmith 1896 -1910. The cars had an unusual engine layout with the flywheel between the cylinders. In 1906 they made models with horizontal engines and a vertical engined car called the Vertex. Two of their cars are known to have survived.
395 Quantas. Large office block for the Austrailian airlined
383 White Hart Tavern. This pub dated from at least the 1820s. It closed in 2012 and had been converted into a supermarket.
Young’s Corner.  This was the local name for the corner with Goldhawk Road, because a greengrocer called Young had a shop there


Lower Mall
Digby Mansions. This is a 19th Mansion block – one flat in which was the home of Charles Wheatstone.
6 Headquarters of British Rowing with a small boatshed beneath the semi-circular bay window. It is on the site of house and orchard named Bedles, pulled down about 1811
8 Aston House. Home of Architect Maxwell Fry
9 plaque erected 2002 to, George Devine 1910-1965. Saying 'Actor. Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre 1956-1965, lived here.
10 Kent House. This was built in 1762 and called Mansion House.  It became a boys' school in the early 19th and as later owned by the Hammersmith Club Society with ballroom, theatre and snooker hall.
11 and 12 old cottages one of which claims to date from 1629.  A passage under the west end has a moulded oak lintel oak.
13 Blue Anchor pub, licenced from 1772
13 The Auriol Kensington Rowing Club. This is an amalgamation in 1981 of Auriol Rowing Club founded 1896 and Kensington Rowing Club founded 1872.
15 The Rutland Arms Pub. This was badly damaged in Second World War bombing,
19 Furnivall Sculling Club. Founded as Hammersmith Sculling Club in 1896 by Frederick Furnivall, for women only, men could join from 1901.
21 This building was once used by the Vicar of St Paul's and housed an library
22 Westcott Lodge. Grand and set back house with some later additions. It was built as Turret House in the late-17th and once the official vicarage for St Paul's Church. Attached to it is a West Berlin street lamp. A plaque says it was “presented by Herr Willi Brandt, the Mayor of West Berlin to councillor Stanley Atkins J.P., the worshipful mayor of Hammersmith as a token of friendship of the jumelage held in this borough.1st June 1963.
Tilbury Motor Body Co. Limited, Aspen pl. & 27 Lower mall, motor body builders
F.A. Clark. Phoenix Lead Mill. This was a large works at the east end of Lower Mall.


Macbeth Street
This was previously called Waterloo Road, after the battle and before that it was Plough and Harrow Lane. It was renamed after Robert Macbeth a local 19th Congregational minister. There is a plaque to him in the Macbeth Centre.
Wesleyan Chapel built in 1809. This was enlarged in 18¬56 and by 1875 had been superseded by the Rivercourt Methodist Church in King Street. The chapel was replaced by a Board School, and the playground became the site of the burial-ground.
Macbeth Centre. Hammersmith and Fulham Adult Education Service. This is in the buildings of St John's Church of England Primary School.  This was an early Board School. The Centre also gives space to a number of other quasi official organisations
Waterloo Street School. This dates from 1865 and was renamed Waterside Primary School in 1928,
20 Hope and Anchor Pub. The pub originates in the 1860s and was built in 1936 for Truman's Brewery by A E Sewell as part of the Riverside Gardens estate. There is a Truman eagle in a roundel on the corner of the wall. Inside there is gold lettering on the bar-backs and above the panelling in the rear saloon, saying: 'Truman's Trubrown', 'Truman's Pale Ale', Truman's Eagle Ale', 'London Stout', 'London - Trumans - Burton' and 'If it's Truman's ... It is Beer'. In the saloon is a Truman mirror above the fireplace. The pub is however closed and most of the building is now flats.
South Street Mission Hall. This was run by Sister Lizzie as a women’s refuge. South Street Mission Brass Band was active from around 1910s through to the 1950s. The building now appears to be operated as a church centre probably through St.Paul’s church.  It also appears to have links with the Shaftesbury Society and the St.Barnabas movement operating as a centre for the homeless and a night shelter for street sleepers.
Subway – The Macbeth Street subway runs under the Great West Road to emerge on the edge of Furnivall Gardens.
William Smith’s Almshouses. In 1865 William Smith of transferred £12,000 to Trustees for ten almshouses for residents of Hammersmith. They were built in 1868 and later administered by Hammersmith United Charities. These were demolished after the opening of new almshouses in Sycamore Gardens in 1955


Mylne Close
Maisonettes above garages are by the Borough Architect's Department, 1962


Nigel Playfair Avenue
This is essentially a service road to the Town Hall.
20 Quaker Meeting House. The 18th Meeting House remained in use until 1944 when it was destroyed by a flying bomb. The friends were offered space at Rivercourt Methodist Church where they remained for the next eleven years. They hoped to rebuild on their original site, but agreed with Hammersmith Borough Council to surrender it following plans for Furnivall Gardens. It was to be set aside as a Garden of Rest, where it remains today.  They had a new Meeting House designed by Quaker Hubert Lidbetter which opened in 1955. It as in the 17th and 18th style with pine wainscoting and a raised Elder’s Bench. It is nearby the site of the old Meeting House, and Garden of Rest. In 2002, on the 350th anniversary of George Fox’s vision on Pendle Hill, Hammersmith Meeting planted an apple tree brought from a nursery close to George Fox’s birthplace.


Oil Mill Lane
An extension of Beavor Lane south of the Great West Road and then known by that name. The area was known as Seagreens which became divided into various estates and dwellings such as Seagreens, Upper Mall House, Linden House and Grafton House. In 1631 Richard Gurney purchased Upper Mall House with land which was later divided and some sold in 1733 to Samuel Bever, a woollen draper
Seagreens. The most famous owner this house was Louis Weltje, head cook to George IV. Weltje bought Seagreens in 1790.

Ravenscourt Park
This square covers only the southern part of the park and also excludes the house and some facilities
Ravenscourt Park. This opened as a public park in 1888, laid out on the grounds of the Ravenscourt estate, once  known as Pallenswick. From 1812 it was owned by George Scott who may have sought Humphry Repton's advice on landscaping. It was acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and Hammersmith Vestry and opened as a public park in 1888 having been laid out by the London County Council’s Lieut. Col J J Sexby. It opened to the public on 19 May 1888 and soon attracted visitors. During the Second World War trenches were dug in the park and some of the area was used for allotments. The early 18th avenue of elm and chestnut trees became dangerous and had to be cut and replaced with flowering cherries. South of the 1869 railway line are more planes and VE Day commemorative carpet bedding.


Ravenscourt Park
This was once called Shaftesbury Road
Parkside Orthopaedic Hospital for Officers. Presented to the War Office by Henry Foreman, Mayor of Hammersmith and later MP.
Ravenscourt Park Hospital. By the mid 1920s, facilities at the Freemasons Hospital and Nursing Home were inadequate.  In 1931 plans were made to build a new hospital in Ravenscourt Park. The building was opened in 1933 by King George V.   It was then the largest independent acute hospital. Built in the Modern International style, it had four principal buildings, all linked by glass bridges, on a cross axial layout.  At the entrance two massive pylons flank the door, with concrete figures of Healing and Charity above.  Between them is an acid-etched glass window with Zodiac signs.  The big entrance hall is like a cinema foyer.  On either side of it are the Board and Conference Rooms, originally intended for Masonic receptions. The wards faced south around three sides of a courtyard.  The semi-circular cantilevered sun balconies made of welded steel designed by the structural engineer Sven Bylander. The Hospital was exempted from joining the NHS in 1948 and continued as an independent hospital but by the late 1970s, with more modern private hospitals opening in London, the Royal Masonic Hospital had severe financial difficulties.  Bed occupancy was low and in 1978 non-Masons were accepted for treatment as private patients. The Grand Lodge was embarrassed by the constant adverse publicity over the Hospital's finances and, in 1986, attempted to sell the building by a High Court writ was issued to stop the sale.  A consultants report concluded that it would only be viable as a completely private hospital. The Duke of Kent resigned as President and a number of financial scandals emerged and the e Charity Commissioners called in receivers who recommended closure. It was put up for sale and reopened as a private hospital - the Stamford Hospital.  In 2002 it was leased to the NHS am d Ravenscourt Park Hospital,  in a bid to cut NHS waiting lists, but once done, it was underused. The Nurses' Home became a hostel for backpackers and is now flats Ashlar Court. The hospital is said to be planned as the London International Hospital.  An acute private hospital, it will specialise in cancer and diseases of the heart and brain.
135 Payne & Payne, in the Railway arches. They were motor launch builders


Ravenscourt Gardens
Ashlar Court. This was built 1935-37 by Burnet, Tait and Lorne as a nurses’ home for the Royal Masonic Hospital. It was subsequently used as a students’ tourist hostel. It is in the Dudokian style and has elements of its original interior, for - fireplaces in travertine and bronze, wood block floors, walnut veneer panelling, stone dados and wooden fenestration. It is now being converted to flats.

Ravenscourt Road
John Betts Primary School. In 1859 Dr John Betts created a trust to built” a good substantial schoolhouse” on what is now Paddenswick Road. This opened in 1871. The school is still owned by the trust which Dr. Betts setup but is managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Education Authority.
Ravenscourt Park Pre School. Building in the park.
Ravenscourt Park station. This opened in 1873 as Shaftesbury Road Station and lies between Hammersmith and Stamford Brook Stations on the District Line. It was built by the London South Western Railway which had opened the line through the station in 1869. The station was opened as part of a new branch line to Richmond. In 1888, the station was given its present name because of the opening of the nearby park. In 1903, the District Railway funded the electrification of the tracks through the station although other services running through were still stream hauled and by 1916 the District was the only operator. In 1911 the station had been rebuilt with an extra platform and a new street level building. In the early 1930s, tracks were laid to allow the Piccadilly line to run through the station and this began in 1932;
Ravenscourt Baptist Church. This church dates from the 1970s and was built at the back of an older church which stood on the site of the Polish Cultural Centre in Kings Road
Ravenscourt Theatre School, This was a stage school founded in 1989 by Robin Phillips following the closure of the Corona Stage Academy. Robin ran the Corona agency for many years and most of its the traditions transferred to Ravenscourt Theatre School. It was sited in what is now the Ravenscourt Baptist Church but moved to Kew in 2009 and in 2010 became the Corona Theatre School,
Redmore Road
40 Emerson House. This is a private specialist centre for dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia set up in 1991 by for primary-age children. It appears to be based in an old Baptist Church.


Rutland Grove
River House Community Centre for people with HIV


St. Peter’s Road
40 Hope Pub. This was closed in the early 1960s
St.Peter’s Church of England Primary School. This appears to be an old school attached to the local church = and may have been a national schoo0l. There appear to be other buildings in the area which it used from time to time.


St. Peter’s Square
The St Peter's Estate was built between 1825-1840 with a focus on the Square. It overlooked a rectangular central garden designed by J C Loudon and reflected his theories on the relationship between houses and gardens. The architect of the surrounding houses may have been Edward Lapidge, who designed St Peter's Church. The
St. Peters Square Gardens. This was originally a private communal garden for residents of the surrounding houses. It was acquired by Hammersmith Borough Cchamouncil in 1914 and opened to the public in 1915. Although
Gardens, The gardens were threatened by building in 1912, but were bought by the borough, redesigned, and opened to the public in 1915. The Council laid out the garden as a simplified version of the earlier layout with a perimeter path three mature trees remain, one at each end and one in the centre. It is now surrounded by reproduction cast-iron railings based on the original pattern.
Engine-house in the centre formerly supplied the houses with water from an artesian well 510 feet in depth that supplied the surrounding houses with fresh water. ' On the site of the well is a bronze statue, 'Greek Runner' (1879) by William Blake Richmond. It was presented to Hammersmith Borough Council by his family and erected here in 1926 as a memorial to him.
41a Reliance Motor Body Works belonging to A. E. Wilkinson


Standish Road
Riverside Works. Chambon printers.  Chambon Close is now on this site.


Studland Street
Studland Road junction - the point at which the two underground lines, which have been running parallel from Hammersmith, meet. This was authorised under an Act of 1874 and was built by the Disrrict Railway to allow through running from the Metropolitan Line.

Upper Mall
Divided from Lower Mall by the narrow creek. It was once the most fashionable part of Hammersmith.
Upper Mall Open Space. This was the water works site. The arched walls from the works have been retained as a feature of the park they were opening into one of the engine houses. The wall by the children’s play area next to The Ship was also part of the building. There is a plaque on the landward side to William Tierney Clark, the company’s engineer.
25 Old Ship Inn. This was described in 1839 as 'an ancient building in the style of Charles I', which was saved from demolition when the West Middlesex Water Works was being built because it has a landing stage. The entrance to the pub is from a passage, at the rear. There is the remains of a 17th brick entrance to the east of the current pub. It was rebuilt around 1850
Albert Mills and Albert Wharf. Pinchin Johnson. In 1871 this partnership owned a seed-crushing warehouse and oil mills. This factory experienced a fire and the firm were later working from sites in east London and Kings Cross.
Vitamins Ltd. They made a wheat germ supplementary food called Bemax. They were on the Albert Mills site from 1930
London Motor Car Works Co. In 1900 this company were in Albert Mills owned by Brown and Rickard
Lord Napier Place. This is a 20th residential development on the sites of Albert and Atlanta Wharves. The riverside footpath passes under one of the blocks.
Linden House. This is used as a sailing and rowing clubhouse, owned by the London Corinthian Trust. The exact date of the construction is not known but it is recorded from 1795. It is possible that a Dutch merchant named Isaac le Gooch built it in 1685. It may also have been built as one house with Grafton House. It was later extended. In the 19th it became to St. Katherine's College for Girls and then in 1913 J. Lyons & Co bought Linden House as its sports and social club. In 1924 an indoor rowing tank and a shooting range were added. In 1956 it was passed to Hammersmith Council who suggested that the London Corinthian Sailing Club might want to have it rather than from their damaged clubhouse downstream. The Council then undertook major alterations and later offered to the club for sale – which it achieved with a lottery grant and with the condition that the Sons of the Thames Rowing Club could also use the building.
London Corinthian Sailing Club. This was set up in 1894 with a base at Bell Steps, near the Black Lion pub. The London Sailing Club, a clubhouse between The Dove and The Rutland pubs but then moved down to Essex. They then leased their building to the Corinthians.  After the Second World War they had association with well known dinghy designers. The clubhouse had been bombed in the Second World war bad was on the site now part of Furnival Gardens. They therefore moved to Linden House
Race starting box. This was installed as part of the work done to allow London Corinthian to take over Linden House. It provides dinghy race officials with a clear uninterrupted view along the Hammersmith Reach.  It is also called ‘The Bridge’ and is downstream of the boat house
Sons of the Thames Rowing Club.  This was established in 1886 by professional watermen. It moved up river from Erith via Lambeth and Putney to its present base here.  They have a clubhouse in Linden house to which the Council has added a rowing gymnasium and undercroft for rowing boat storage.
Grafton House. This was next to Linden House and had a similar history – they may once have been one house.  It was destroyed following Second World War bombing.
Boat House and landing stage with it. The boat house is on the site of Grafton House.
Buildings and flats overlooking the river, by Chapman Taylor Partners, 1971.
Latymer Boathouse. This boathouse was built on the site of 17th Upper Mall House, demolished in 1896 by the Latymer Foundation
Latymer Lodge. This was built for the Headmaster of Latymer School in the early 20th and is now used as classrooms by the school. It replaced 17th Hyde Lodge. It was home until 1674 to Isaac Le Gooch a Dutch jeweler. He left to the Dutch Church and the Latymer foundation.
Rivercourt house. This was built in the early 19th on the site of an earlier house of the same name which had been adjacent to the Queen Dowager, Katherine of Braganza’s houses. It is now Latymer Prep School.
Bastions - two wide semi-circles encroaching into the Thames. It is believed these were to make turning spaces for carriages and that they were once planted with fine elm trees, known as the Queen's Elms, behind which stood the Queen Dowager's House.
26 Kelmscott House. Thus was originally the warehouse for River House next door. It was the home of William Morris, and the Kelmscott Press, and now the William Morris Centre. Morns, lived here 1878 - 1896, and named it after Kelmscott Manor, his country home in Oxfordshire.  Morris used the coach house for meetings, had a tapestry loom in his bedroom, and printing the books of the Kelmscott Press in the cottage. It was also at one time the home of Sir Frances Rolands electrician and meteorologist, inventor of the electric telegraph in 1816 who conducted many important experiments in the back garden
24 River House. Combined with 22 it was part of the Queen Dowagers servants’ house.
22 17th house in the 20th occupied by a, the Irish Sisters of Charity who added a chapel.
20 Sun Inn 1718 - 1799, with a garden to the river. In 1800 records it became a bakery demolished in the early 20th.
The Doves.  This was a 17th coffee house and known as 'The Doves' after doves were painted on the sign in 1860. Reputed to be the smallest bar in Britain.
Doves Psssage. An old lane is a worple way at the back of the buildings here.
Dove Pier. This was built by the Port of London Authority for passenger boats on their journey downstream to the Festival of Britain at Battersea in 1951.  An original ticket office remains on one of the pontoons
The Seasons is thought to have been part of the Dove Inn at, and named in honour of the poet James Thomson, author of Rule Britannia.
13-15 In 1893 T.J. Cobden-Sanderson established the Doves Bindery and later, with Sir Emery Walker the Doves Press There is plaque to Cobden-Sanderson which says ‘ 'founded the Doves Bindery and Doves Press in this house, and later lived and died here''The business continued, until the First World War and an angry Cobden-Sanderson threw his type into the Thames. Plaque erected 1974.

Vencourt Place
Vencourt Works of The Brehmer Folding Box Company Ltd. Employing young persons in cutting, cornering, stitching, bending, printing and packing boxes and corrugating paper in the 1930s.
Ergon Electrical Manufacturing Co 1937 1947 - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Electro Medical Infra Red Appliances. Ultra Violet Mercury Quartz Lamps, Ultra Violet Carbon Arc Lamps, Electric Table and Floor Lamps, Infra Red Industrial Drying Plants, Industrial Workshop and Photo Lamps.
2 Royal Mail, sorting, parcels, etc for Hammersmith


Weltje Road
Weltje Road is located close to the Seagreens property and an old wall in the adjacent Trust boatyard is worth noting.
Weltje Road cinema. This was opened prior to 1913, and continued until at least 1914.


Western Terrace
5 Mulberry Cottage. This appears to be three separate houses on the site of Western Terrace, and it is known that there is certainly one older house here - Mulberry Cottage. It was built in the 17th, possibly as a gate house to the Mulberry Estate situated behind or maybe as a farmhouse,


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Post to the east Hammersmith Riverside and St.Pauls School
Post to the south Harrods Village


Angel Walk
Thames Tower.  This is an 11 floor office block built in 1975. It appears to have been built as an extension of British Oxygen’s headquarters building Hammersmith house, which was built in the 1963 by Parfitt and Craig Hall and demolished in the 1980s. In front of Hammersmith House was a specially commissioned sculpture ‘Breath of Life’ by David Wynne – present whereabouts apparently unknown.

Beadon Road
Hammersmith Station. Metropolitan Station Buildings. This station deals with the Circle, and Hammersmith and City Lines of which it is the terminus. The present station opened in 1868, replacing an earlier station slightly north of here which opened in 1864 when the line was extended here from Paddington. There was a footbridge connecting to Hammersmith Grove Road Station.


Biscay Road
The Biscay Road Board School was built for the London School Board by Thomas Bailey. It later became as the William Morris Academy which fronts onto St Dunstan’s Road.
Railway Crossing. This railway crossed the road at an angle to run round the back of the Lyric Theatre on the line of a small road called Orris Mews. The Metropolitan Railway operated a service from Hammersmith to Richmond from 1877 from Hammersmith Grove Road Station on a line which crossed this road. Grove Road Station eventually closed in 1916 and use of this line with it.  It remained much as it had been until 1929 when the Southern Railway, who had taken it over, began to clear it and deal with redundant lands. The viaduct from Glenthorne Road to Beadon Road survived into the 1980s.


Blacks Road
5 Irish Cultural Centre. The centre has now moved from this address and is building a new centre. ‘In a prominent location in London’.
16 Builders Arms. This was a Young’s House dating from the 1870s and now demolished. It also had an address of 12 Hammersmith Bridge Road.


Brook Green
This square covers the south and eastern sections of the green only.
The brook here, referred to c.1420 as ‘le Brooke’, is now covered over. The eastern mouth of Stamford Brook is said to be Parr's Ditch. It ran due east through Hammersmith into a natural trough, now the long park at Brook Green.
Brook Green Common. This is wedge shaped open space which extends along Brook Green Road. It was formerly manorial waste along the course of Parr’s Ditch, which formed the boundary between Hammersmith and Fulham from 1834. It was bought by the Metropolitan Board of Works from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in 1881 and was then landscaped and other pieces of land were added as time went on.  A section was reserved for a chapel which was never built.  Plane trees were planted around the edges and elsewhere. In 1948 four tennis courts were provided and larder a play area is a more recent addition.
Eagle House, This was a large mansion occupied by St. Vincent's in 1859, and later became a girls' orphanage.
Bute House.  The original Bute House, which belonged to the Marquis of Bute, was built in 1815 and stood on the site of the school swimming pool.
Bute House School stands on the site of the house with an address in Luxemburg gardens.
Deer Park. In 1903 it was claimed that a small deer park was attached to Bute House.
Civil Defence Training Centre with licenced club and underground Civil Defence Control Centre on the land on the west side of Bute House in 1953
Mercers Place. This development was commissioned by the Mercers Company who owns the land. It was designed by John Melvin & Partners, 1982-3 and intended to respond to traditional London housing. It is on land owned by the Mercers Company and appears to be on the site of the Civil Defence Training Centre.
13 Queens Head Pub. This is an 18th villa with a license dating from at least the 1820s. It is alleged to once have been called The Maiden, pr the Maiden Queen's Head in 1775
St Paul's Girls’ School.  Built in 1904 & 1913 and designed by Gerald Horsley with facade with sculpted figures. It is part of the Dean Colet foundation under  the Mercers Co, They bought The Grange, in 1895 and this school is built on it site and that of Dr. Iles' Almshouses.. Guystav Holst taught music here and wrote a Brook Green Suite. The music annex is named after him. There is also a brown plaque on the gate piers to “Actor Henry Irving –Lived on this site”.
Dr. Iles' Almshouses. These were founded in 1629 with money left for the purpose. They have become part of Hammersmith United Charities and located elsewhere.
The Grange. This was the home of Sir Henry Irving, English actor and theatre manager who lived here 1881 – 1889
41 Holy Trinity RC Church.  From the early 17th a Catholic community developed in this area and was strengthened by Irish immigration from the mid-19th. The foundation stone of the church was laid by Cardinal Wiseman in 1851 and building made possible by Helen Tasker, a wealthy local resident. The church was designed by William Wardell, and the stained glass is by John Hardman, a disciple of Pugin. In 1862 a tower was added, designed by Joseph Hanson, the cab designer.
Parish Centre, This is behind the church
41a Larmenier and Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School attached to the church. This is on a landlocked site for a two storey spiral building which incorporates Fibonacci’s golden mean plus sustainable features.  By Studio E Architects 2006
42 St Josephs Almshouse. A Catholic almshouse was opened here in 1851. The Aged Poor Society had been established in 1708 to give relief to poor Catholics of 'good character’. In 1851 they founded this almshouse using donations from well wishers. Only one range remains. They were probably by Wardell in ragstone, with two storeys of pretty square-headed traceried windows with a statue of St Joseph on the gable end. Originally 1629.
43 Elms House. Also known as Glacier House. This was built by Lyons in 1936/1937 to house clerical staff and was named for the mansion previously on the site. It was claimed to be state of the art for an office building of the time and was probably one of the first open-plan offices. In the Second World War it was used for storage only because of the risk of bombing. In 1957 it housed the first LEO II taking up most of the second floor. In 1963 a LEO III was also installed and then a LEO 326.  A company museum was later opened in the foyer but many items were later lost. The ground floor was taken up with a tray wash but in 1970 this was used for an IBM system. In the late 1970 the building was renamed Glacier House when the earlier Lyons Maid HQ was sold and the staff relocated here.  In the 1990s the building was sold to EMI records. It appears since to have been the headquarters of Halcrow as part of the CH2M construction firm
50 Virgin Megastore offices. It was Hammersmith College of Further Education before becoming offices.
50 Education Division Office, previously St. Joseph’s School, now offices. The original building dated from the early 19th but has been altered.
Hammersmith College of Further Education. In 1881, Brook Green School of Art was established here and in time became Hammersmith College of Art.   In 1975 it was merged with other local colleges to form Hammersmith and West London College.
50 St. Joseph's School for pauper children. This building received children from the workhouse at the age of three years, and they left at sixteen for situations. It was founded and managed by the Daughters of the Cross, and was established in 1892. It was a Roman Catholic School and had a Chapel called 'The Ark'.
St Mary's Training College was founded in 1850 on the initiative of Cardinal Wiseman. The Catholic Poor School Committee bought a former girls school at Brook Green House, and adapted it for use as a college for catholic schoolmasters with accommodation for 40 men students. By 1860 only lay students were attending the college and by 1924 there were 129 resident students at the College. The site was sold to J Lyons and Co. in 1922 and in 1923 they bought property at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham,
Oxford Gate, a large timber porte-cochere
56 Blue plaque to Frank Short which says: 'Engraver and painter lived here’. Short lived here 1893 - 1944. He was a master of the engraving process and became a teacher and authority on the subject.
59 Ecole Jacques Prevert. The French primary school for London founded in 1974, initially to serve the local community of French nationals. It is in a building previously known as High House butyl in 1893
71 Synagogue. This dates from 1890 and was closed in 1990.It followed the Ashkenazi Orthodox ritual and was a constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from its formation.
71 Chinese Church. This is in the old synagogue building. The church dates from Christmas Eve in 1950 set up by the late Pastor Stephen Y T Wang. The Hammersmith Worship & Ministry Centre was established in 2004 as their first owned building. The main worship hall takes 450 people and there are other rooms. They have three main congregations - Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
84 Silver Design Studio.  There is a blue Plaque to members of the Silver family saying ‘designers lived here'.  The studio was opened by Arthur Silver was born in Reading who was a versatile professional designer. In 1880, he opened his studio designing interior schemes. His sons Rex and Harry eventually took over and the studio closed in 1962.
100 The British Red Cross. Hammersmith and Fulham Centre


Bradmore Grove
This was a cul de sac which ran roughly behind the site of todays Lyric Square south of the railway line from Beadon Road
Lyric Theatre. The origins of the theatre were in Bradmore Grove, where a music hall was built in 1888 called Lyric Hall. In 1890 it was rebuilt as Lyric Opera House. In 1895 it was again reconstructed to the designs of the renowned Frank Matcham and enlarged again in 1899. It wad demolished in 1969 but the auditorium was kept to be reconstructed elsewhere


Bute Gardens
Matilda and Terence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. This opened in 1966 as the first research Institute in the world dedicated wholly to the search for the causes and cures of rheumatic diseases. The Mathilda and Terence Kennedy Charitable Trust made an endowment of £500,000 to the West London & Charing Cross Hospitals to build a group of laboratories in West London. A building was designed by architects, Alan Stubbs & Partners, 1997 the Institute moved to a different building and later became part of Imperial College and later the University of Oxford. The building has recently been demolished and housing built on the site.
Abercorn House Hostel


Butterwick
This is a new road, named after a local, now demolished, estate. It cuts across an area between Hammersmith Road and Great Church Lane and appears to have been built as part of the Hammersmith Gyratory post-Second World War.
Hammersmith Bus and Coach Station. This was installed when Butterwick was built as Butterwick Bus Station. It has since been upgraded and moved.


Chancellors Road
Black Bull Ditch. This was named for the Black Bull pub which it passed in Hammersmith Road. Here it ran parallel to the south side of Chancellors Road. It is also known as Parr’s Ditch and is believed to be manmade.  It follows the historic boundary between Hammersmith and Fulham. Largely used as a sewer and contaminated by brickfield.  It was covered over in 1867. On the river wall at its outfall into the Thames there is an old boundary marker.
46 Thames Water Hammersmith Depots. This site appears to date from the 1930s and acts as a depot for the utility company’s wastewater operations and to have had a role as a storm relief pumping station. It contains a water pumping station also accessed from St. James Street with an office, workshop and storage facilities
Hammersmith Pumping Station. This was on site by the early 1970s and is a storm relief pumping station built on a previously industrial site. It is currently a work site for the Thames Tideway Tunnel and directly opposite the older depot site.
Frank Banfield Park. This area was landscaped in, 1975 following clearance of housing in Elmdale and Playfair Streets. Frank was Mayor of Fulham, who died on in 1970. The park was later since been extended to Chancellors Road.
62/64 This is currently the premises of Jac Travel. Until 1963 this was a base for Gwynne’s Pumps. The original company had moved to Lincoln but a company called Gwynne’s Pumps was set up in 1927 remaining in Hammersmith and operating from this address. Eventually reorganised they removed to Lincoln in 1963.
70 British Safety Council. This was founded by James Tye whose efforts led to the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act. In 2004 it became a government-regulated organisation
72 Chivas House. Whisky business including many other spirit brands. They appear to have been at this address sixe around 2002
72 Phonogram records moved in 1994, later becoming part of Mercury records
Chancellors Wharf. Offices and town houses built 1986-9 and designed by D. Y. Davies Associates.
Chancellors Street
20 Lords Court. This consists of flats in a warehouse conversion. Previously Philip House and used as a dance studio by Dance Umbrella.


Colet Gardens
The road is bounded in the east by the wall of what was St. Paul's School – hence the name - since the school was founded by John Colet.  It was previously called Red Cow Lane
Colet Gardens Demonstration Kindergarten and School was opened in 1895. This was part of the Froebel Institute then based in Talgarth Road.
Paray House School. This appears to be an independent school for children with special needs, in particular people with speech and communication difficulties.


Crisp Road
This was a late 19th industrial area by the river. Previously known as Queens Road
The Chancellors Pub. The current building dates from 1857.
Hammersmith Iron Works. Gwynne and Co had been based in Essex Street in the Strand. The company had been founded in 1849 by John Gwynne, but under his sons the company split and throughout the late 19th there were a number of Gwynne works and companies. There was also a Gwynne’s Engineering Works in Chiswick which also made cars. The Hammersmith works was opened in 1866. They mainly produced a variety of pumps along with engines, boilers and other items. The factory was used as munitions works during the Great War.  In the 1920s all manufacturing works were transferred to Lincoln but the company kept a presence in Hammersmith into the early 1960s.
Riverside Studios. In 1933 the Triumph Film Company moved into an old industrial site previously used by Gwynne’s and local authority depots.  It was owned by Jack Buchanan, and well-known films were made there. In 1954, the studios were taken over by the BBC for TV productions and it became the BBC Riverside Studios. They moved out in 1975 and the building became a charitable trust formed by Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Two large multi-purpose spaces for theatre, music, dance and film were set up. From 1976, Peter Gill the Studios became a leading London arts venue and in the 1980s a venue for Dance Umbrella seasons, and productions from across the world. In the 1990s in order make money more commercial work was introduced and Riverside TV Studios was formed to a TV recording studio on a commercial basis. There was also a gallery on site which closed in 1994. Currently there is a major rebuilding programme underway.
Raw water mains tunnel. This runs under the river from West Middlesex reservoir at Barnes to ground next to Riverside Theatre, Hammersmith
Kensington Vestry Wharf. This was one of three or more wharfs owned by the Kensington vestry and appears to date from the 1880s.  It is not clear why Kensington vestry operated this site which is, clearly, in Hammersmith – although in this period an election was fought in Kensington on the siting of a dust destructor for the vestry. They may have operated a disinfection station here
Hammersmith Vestry Wharf. This site included a disinfection station using a dry heat system in 1894. After 1893 rubbish collections were taken from all houses in the Parish weekly and barged from the wharf to Sittingbourne – presumably for use by the brick industry there.
27 St Mark’s Mission Church. This is now out of church use and for a long time has been used as a store and for various industrial concerns- mainly motor repair


Distillery Road
This square does not cover the distillery itself which is in the square to the south. The north/south alignment of Distillery Road was Distillery Lane leading to the distillery entrance to Fulham Palace Road. In 1975 Elmdale and Playfair Streets were demolished and Distillery Road was created to turn south east from what had been Distillery Lane and run parallel and south to Fulham Palace Road turning towards the river. It now ends in a development site on the riverside, to the south of this square.


Fulham Palace Road
31 British Transport Police Hammersmith. This was built in the mid 1990s apparently on the site the Brittanie pub. It is one of seven area stations in London covering the transport network.
31 Brittania Pub. This dated from the 1860s but appears to have been rebuilt. A building on this site, which was possibly temporary, appears to have been used as a community resource centre and literacy centre, including an unemployed workers centre until the mid 1990s
48 Duke of Cornwall. Pub. At one time this was called Finnegan’s Wake.
55 St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. The Catholic Parish was founded in 1903. The Augustinian Centre is based here.  The church was founded by friars from Hoxton who opened a temporary iron church on this site in 1903. The church was built in 1916 and designed by Robert Curtis. It was consecrated in 1933.
64 The Distillers, or The Distillers Arms pub
80 Old Suffolk Punch Pub. It has returned to this old name in the 1990s but had previously been renamed OSP, Golden Gloves and
Rifle.  It dates from at least the mid-1840s
Guinness Trust Estate. Built in 1900 and designed by Joseph, Son & Smithen. This is a turn-of-the-century successful private attempt to provide adequate housing for the poorer members of British society.  The Guinness Trust “is the oldest member of the Guinness Partnership, a group of housing associations. Founded in 1890 by Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, great grandson of the founder of the Brewery. This was a major slum clearance effort and the last estate to be built before the Great War. It was refurnished and modernized in the 1970s. Work is ongoing to expand the estate further.
77 The Foundry. Hamlet themed four modern office buildings. This was publisher Harper Collins and is now being reconfigured.
83 Imperial Tobacco Co. (Fancy Goods Department).This was a briar pipe making works. In 1902 Imperial had purchased the Salmon & Gluckstein who had used this to finish briar pipes, made in France, for sale in Britain. In 1921, it became the Civic Company.
85 Hammersmith Power Station built by Hammersmith Vestry in 1897 closed 1966. Now the site of Hamlet and Ophelia Houses This was interconnected with Battersea and Fulham in 1922. Bulk supplies were fed in from 1930 but they continued to generate into the 1960s. In 1913 a pipe line coal conveyor was installed to bring coal in from the Thames. Some buildings remain behind the new offices up against the District Line. The site had previously been a nursery and gardens.
Peabody Estate. This estate was built in 1926, and modernised in the 1970s. It was built on the site of the convent
Good Shepherd Convent. This was the Pugin designed Convent of the Good Shepherd and the Asylum for Penitent Women. It was on the site of Beauchamp Lodge.  In 1840 St. Mary Euphrasia sent lay sisters to London to explore the situation and later in the year Mother Joseph Regaudiat, the first prioress arrived in London. She contracted benefactors and a house was found in King Street. Most of the women who came wished to reform their lives and were people of faith known as ‘penitents’ and later the Sisters accepted the care of girls and women in need of rehabilitation and protection – at the request of local magistrates. The Sisters and the girls had to earn their living through laundry work and fine needlework, and by growing fruit and vegetables. In 1848,Mother Joseph approached the famous architect, Mr. A. W. Pugin, to design the Sisters’ church. In 1863, the decision was made to move from Hammersmith which had become overcrowded.
Cemetery of the Benedictine Nunnery. This is now part of the Peabody Estate and was a small burial-ground in the garden. It was in use before 1829, but was later closed
116 Nurses Home.  This was built in 1905 in Arts and Crafts style designed by Saxon Snell. It is on the site of a house called Brandenbugh House which became a private asylum. This building is also called Brandenburg House, and is now flats.
Hospital and Workhouse complex. These buildings are mainly in the square to the south and will be dealt with there.


Glenthorne Road
Railway viaduct. To the north of the existing railway the old curving viaduct of the line to Hammersmith Grove Road petered out off Glenthorne Road
22 Glen House. This 1960s office block is on the site of the original Hammersmith GPO and sorting office.  Now Job Centre Plus.
26 Darlington Castle. Probably dates to the 1870s.


Great Church Lane
This ran parallel to the route of the flyover. A stretch appears to still exist running westwards from Colet Gardens, and some other stretches appear to be shown on maps as that, or as Talgarth Road. Many sites stretched between here and Hammersmith Road.
126 Beehive Pub. Closed and gone.
Shortlands.  This site, owned by the Latymer and Crisp charities, was used for the parish workhouse which opened in 1729 with occupants making baskets and weaving. This apparently continued in use although by 1839 only boys were housed there. A closure date is not clear.
Latymer Boys School. In 1863 a new school building for 125 boys was built between Great Church Lane and Hammersmith Road and designed by J.M.Kellett. It is described as a plain brick building with the Latymer arms, and a cross in stone over the doorway, as well as the date of the foundation. From around 1880 this was used as an elementary school called the Latymer Lower School. In 1960 as the Latymer Foundation School is became a London County Council school. It closed in 1963 because of the need for more modern accommodation.
53 Manor Hall. This building was to the west of Rose and Crown Lane. It dated from at least the 18th and may have been built on the shell of an earlier building. It was still extant in 1915
53 Female Philanthropic Society. Described as being at the back of the Latymer Foundation. The object was for the reformation of young women convicted for a first offence or addicted to petty pilfering.
Godolphin School. Sir William Godolphin, who was Charles II's ambassador to Madrid, left a fortune some to be devoted to charity and a school was opened in Piccadilly. In 1852 the whole trust was devoted to education and in 1856 the Godolphin School for boys was opened in Great Church Lane, later moving to Iffley Road. Later the school was unable to meet the competition of St. Paul's and Latymer Upper School, and in 1900 it closed.
Recreation ground. This was on the south side of the road and included St. Paul's Parochial Room. This was a small temporary iron building but appears to have been rebuilt later. It now seems to be the site of the Ark with an address in Talgarth Road.
Waterhouse Close. This was originally built as general use flats but was converted to sheltered housing in 1986 at the request of residents.
43 Tram Car Shed and Trolley Bus Depot.  This was owned by the London County Council. There are rails shown going in from the street but trolleybuses operating from here from 1937. It was previously the site of Hammersmith Tram depot which was placed north of the river but handled tram services to the south. It could take 59 cars on eight roads. The depot was slowly reduced in size with the north end going first then the remainder being replaced by a hotel.The last remains of the depot were demolished by 1980 and the adjacent hotel extended over the site. The last trolley buses left here in 1960 and Crowds welcomed the last one - vehicle No.1121. It had made the final run as 628 from Clapham Junction. Trolleybus staff carrying torches met the vehicle at the depot gates and sent it round the Broadway once again.   The next day the depot began to be used by a fleet of British Airways Authority coaches. ¬
Albert Stanley Institute, This was established in 1949 as a London Transport staff club. Albert Stanley was an MP and Chair of the London Passenger Transport Board, among other things and one of the founders of London’s public transport system.
Fullers Cakes. In 1889 America William Bruce Fuller demonstrated his Cakes, decided to stay and opened a shop in Oxford Street with a factory in Wardour Street. In 1900 cake manufacture was moved to Great Church Lane, but was not completed until 1919. In 1921Rowntree of York took a controlling interest and Fuller's prospered, with, by the 1950s, eighty-two shops. In 1961 they were taken over by Forte Fuller's baking interests were transferred to the Kunzle factory in Birmingham and the Hammersmith site was sold and closed in 1964.


Hammersmith Bridge Road
Rik Mayall bench. This is on the corner of Queen Caroline Street and matches the one that featured in the opening credits of BBC sitcom Bottom.  After a petition by 7,000 fans Hammersmith Council replaced it with the inscription "In Memory of The Man, The Myth, The Legend".
Landmark House. Tower block built in the mid-1960s and until the 1990s was part of the the HQ of United Distillers and owned by Guinness. The blocks were refaced in the 1980s and had been originally built for British Oxygen.
Hammersmith Bridge Road Surgery. Sculptural architecture by Guy Greenfield. It has a curved floor plan and measures to keep out noise. Built 2000
45 Duke of Sussex Pub. Demolished when Queen Caroline estate was built. It dated from the mid-1859s
70 Oxford and Cambridge Pub. A Charrington pub now closed and demolished 2006. The site is now flats
95 Ship pub. Long gone and replaced with housing.
107 Old City Arms. This has also been called The Harlequin and also The City Arms. This pub was first licensed in 1827 and was rebuilt in its present form in 1889
107a Bridge Studios.  Manser Practice Architects.Designed by Michael Manser and expanding upwards.
175 Prince of Wales pub. Long gone



Hammersmith Broadway
The second busiest traffic junction in London which developed in the late 19th around two railway stations. It is the meeting-point of six roads where bus routes converge and it was also the principal western exit from the west end and City. It was widened in 1908 for the LCC trams and in the 1960s the flyover was built. This has been followed by a number of schemes and in 1988 Elsom Pack & Roberts's plans were adopted for a new development.
1-5 Clarendon Hotel or Clarendon Arms. It was for a while called the The Goat and The Suspension Bridge. It was demolished for the Hammersmith Broadway Centre. It was a very large 1930s pub with attached function rooms, including a ball room, in the Art Deco style. Music events were held there with some important rock and country stars.
22 The Electric Theatre. This may have been a shop conversion. It was operating in 1908 and was licenced when the Cinematograph Act came in in 1910. It closed in 1914.
28 Belushi Pub. This is a chain pub plus a backpacker hostel. It was previously The George built in 1911, by the architects Nowell Parr and A E Kates.  The previous building had a modern front but it was an ancient building with two parallel roofs. It was originally known as the White Horse, in the 18th
46 Swan Hotel. This is a rebuild from 1901 of an older coaching inn which was the first stop out of London for coaches going west. The current building is by F. Miller, with mosaic decoration and good fittings inside. This was a Stansfield Brewery house and above the windows is the motif ‘S & Co'; with a swan above.
Hammersmith Vestry Hall. This stood on the east corner of the Shepherds Bush road and the Broadway. It was built to the competition winning designs of J. Henry Richardson and opened in 1897 but appears to have been inadequate. In the 1940s Hammersmith Palais proposed to convert it to a dance hall but it was eventually demolished in 1965.
Broadway Electric Theatre. This cinema operated in 1910-11 and may have been a shop conversion.
Hammersmith Station. There are two stations at Hammersmith, connected by subways.  The Metropolitan Line station stands to the north in Beadon Road; the District Railway station is in the Broadway and Queen Caroline Street.
Hammersmith District Railway Station. This was opened in 1874 ad lies between Barons Court and Turnham Green on the Piccadilly Line and between Barons Court and Ravenscourt Park on the District Line. The station was initially for District Railway trains and was the terminus until 1877 when the District began to run services to Richmond. In 1906 what was then the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, now the Piccadilly line, began to run trains to Hammersmith. In 1932 the Piccadilly extended westwards and the station was rebuilt with two more platforms and the station was rebuilt behind a Harry W Ford designed building frontage onto the Broadway. In the early 1990s, the station buildings were demolished in order to incorporate them into a new shopping centre and transport interchange. The tiling from façade with the station name and the lines serving it are now part of a decorative mosaic in the ticket hall. The District and Piccadilly Lines drop down to a lower level to enter the station and leave to run parallel with the defunct viaduct from Hammersmith Grove Road. A ‘ghost sign’ on the east side wall of the station used to advertise Hammersmith Palais which stood behind it.
Hammersmith Bus and Coach Station. This replaced Butterwick bus station as part of the development of the Broadway Centre. It consists of two floors handling buses and a third floor used by a private coach company
Broadway Centre. Commercial centre and shopping mall dating from the 1990s
Railway Viaduct: The District and Piccadilly Lines drop down to a lower level to enter their present Hammersmith station with the Eastbound District track keeping to the north of the viaduct


Hammersmith Flyover
This is an elevated motorway built at the junction of the north south route from Shepherds Bush to the River and from Central London to the A4.  The alignment was decided in 1935 via an Act was obtained by London and Middlesex County Councils.   The Cromwell Road extension had opened in 1940 and work resumed in 1955. It was built on single central columns, with a road cantilevered out on either side. It was finished in 1962. Consulting Engineers were Maunsell & Partners, the Architect was Hubert Bennett of the London County Council and the contractor was Marples Ridgeway and Partners. Structural faults have developed in 2011-12.


Hammersmith Grove
Railway Viaduct. The abandoned viaduct of the railway to Hammersmith Grove Station from Ravenscourt Park remained with a couple of segments removed. Some of it appears to have been rebuilt .The railway crossed the road on a girder bridge which was removed in 1954.
26-28 office block on site of Hammersmith Grove Station
Hammersmith Grove Station. This, now defunct, station opened in 1869. By the London South West Railway, as the Kensington and Richmond Railway, and was originally called ‘Hammersmith’. The building was east of Hammersmith Grove opposite the end of Glenthorne Road. It handled trains on the North London Railway lines and South Eastern Railway owned trains from Brentford Road, now Gunnersbury Station. . It had a connecting footbridge to Hammersmith Station. It had wooden platforms supported on decorated wooden columns plus a plain station house. It was closed in 1916 and the building was used as a warehouse to be demolished in the 1950s.


Hammersmith Road
British European Airways. Coach repair works. This is the old London County Council Trolley Bus depot which fronted onto Great Church Lane and with no access from Hammersmith Road
221 Butterwick House, Rowton House. This was built in 1897 and was one of the first hostels of this kind in London to provide cheap living-accommodation for single working men. It has since been demolished for a redevelopment scheme
217 Jolly Gardeners.  Demolished now site of Bechtel
212 Convent of the Sacred Heart, This convent is said to date from before the Reformation. The Catholic presence was re-established in 1669, when Frances Bedingfield and a community of English nuns came from Munich to set up a convent at what was called the Great House. They also set up a girls' school here.
212 Sacred Heart School. The school was founded by nuns of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1893 on the site of the previous convent. The building was intended as St Thomas seminary and remained as such for 20 years. It dates to 1876 and is by John Francis Bentley. In 1948 the convent school became a grammar school becoming comprehensive in 1976. In 2005 it became a specialist school in mathematics and ICT managed by the local authority. It has since become an ‘academy’.
204-208 Vilagio
203 Rose and Crown. Demolished for the Hammersmith Flyover
202 West London Hospital.  This began as Fulham and Hammersmith General Dispensary in 1856 in Queen Street.  Later they leased Elm Tree House and began to admit in-patients, mainly victims of industrial accidents.  In 1863 it was renamed the West London Hospital. In the Greer War it was affiliated to the Fourth London General Hospital, with 36 of its beds for servicemen. In 1925 a new wing was financed by Dan Mason and in in 1937 a new block was added. In 1970s its accident and emergency department closed and the hospital itself closed in 1993.  The building was sold and is now an office block called Saunders Housee used by Sony Ericsson
190 Princess Louise House. Territorial Army Centre. Princesses Louise’s Kensington Regimental Association.The building was opened in 1938. On the first floor was the Officers' Mess. Behind, the long building extended ending in a large drill hall. .  Vehicles used after 1947 for the Royal Signals were large and needed a large entrance and also trolley bus wires tangled with radio aerials. The building has twice been bombed by terrorists. It is currently used by the Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps as well as the TA.
188 Constitutional Club. This is a house from around 1820 said to have been the club since the late 19th.  It has recently been offices and now may be a church
181 Virgin Active. Sports Club on Shortlands site
175-169 Nazareth House or the Convent of the Little Daughters of Nazareth. This care home for the elderly is on the site of the Latymer Foundation School. It is a tall Gothic building in grounds screened by a high wall. Sister Basile Marie came to England from France as part of Little Sisters of the Poor to come to London to set up a foundation to look after the poor. Nazareth House in Hammersmith was set up as the first such in 1857 followed by 7 more. Until 1981 this was a childrens' home.
Latymer Lower School – fronted onto Great Church Lane
178-189 The King's Theatre, This was built by .W.G.R. Sprague .and opened in 1902. In the 1950s it was the B.B.C’s King's Studio, in particular where the Goon Show was recorded. It was demolished in 1963
174 Kings House. Office block on the site of Kings Theatre
163 Hogarth House, 18th house
161 Spike House. This dated from around 1627.  In the front wall was a stone engraved 'EL'. This was for Edward Latymer who owned the site of the house in 1624 which stretched back to Talgarth Road. It was leased to a Richard Spike in 1827. From 1907 it was owned by Lyons and used as an accounting centre for teashop receipts until the 1950s. In 1948 a Horsa glider here was fitted out to represent an airliner stewardesses of BOAC were trained in the use of frozen food made by Lyons. A special oven was made by G.E.C. and held 9 trays of food to serve 24 passengers. In the 1980s was demolished and is now the site of an office block
157 Latymers Pub. This was previously the Red Cow. Dating from at least the 1820s when it was originally two cottages. It was rebuilt in 1897
153 St. Paul’s School. The school was originally founded in St. Paul’s churchyard in the City of London by Dean John Colet. In 1884 they moved to this site in Hammersmith. The building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse decorated in terracotta made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth. In 1939 the school was evacuated and the buildings became the headquarters of the Home Forces and the headquarters of the XXI Army Group under the command of General Bernard Montgomery. The D Day landings were planned here. The school returned in 1945. In 1961 the school moved to Barnes. The site of St Paul's School still has its original perimeter walls and includes the former High Master's house,
153 St. Paul’s Hotel. This is in the old buildings of St.Paul’s School. The restaurant is called Melody after a film made there.
Black Bull Inn.  This Inn is said to have stood near the site of the High Masters House of St. Paul’s school.
Parr's Ditch or Black Bull Ditch. This ‘lost river' is said to have been named after the pub which it ran alongside. Now underground, the watercourse ran through Brook Green and under a bridge at
Hammersmith Road.
141 Lyric House. This was the laboratory building for Cadby Hall. And part of the J. Lyons factory complex
Latymer Court. This opened in 1934 and was then the largest single block of flats in Europe. The architects were Gordon Jeeves who planned flats with views over the then playing fields of Colet Court. It was built on the site of 19th houses.
100 St Pauls Junior School. The School was founded in 1881 as "Bewsher's" in Edith Road. In 1883 it was incorporated into the St Paul's School foundation, and moved into 100 Hammersmith Road Colet Court. By W.H. Spaull in terracotta Gothic. There is said to be an ARP sign on the wall. It was called Colet House and later Colet Court from John Colet, the founder of St Paul's School. In 1968 St Paul's School moved to its Barnes.
Colet Court. In 1970 the building became the production base of Thames Television's Euston Films subsidiary best known for The Sweeney. It was converted to offices in 1990.


Iffley Road
Godolphin and Latimer School. Godolphin School was originally a 19th boys' school but in 1905 it became an independent day school for girls, associated with the Latymer Foundation. It became known as Godolphin and Latymer School. From 1906 it was part funded by the London County Council and the local authority. . In 1951 it became a state voluntary aided school and stopped charging fees. In 1977 it reverted to full independent status. The main building on site here dates from 1861 by Charles Cooke but there have been many additions since including St. John’s Church.


King Street
The principal shopping street of Hammersmith. It also was once the main road west out of London and was part widened about 1910.
2-4 The William Morris. This is a Wetherspoons pub.
6 Maltman and Shovel pub. Now in other use but this is a building with a decorative frontage. The pub dated from the 1820s and seems to have closed in the 1960s.
14 The Electric Palace Theatre was operating 1915 managed by International Electric Theatres Ltd.
17-19 Hop Poles. Ornate 19th pub with coloured tile decoration to a front installed 1860-1
Ashcroft Square. These are the flats on top of the Lyric complex
38 Chaise and Horses Pub. This was a 19th pub now demolished.
81 Hammersmith Ram. Young's pub
82 Palace Cinemas. This was originally built in 1880 as Hammersmith Town Hall but was open for performances from 1883. In 1885- 1898 it was called the Temple of Varieties and was later rebuilt by W.M. Brutton and re-opened in 1898 as the Hammersmith Palace of Varieties. In 1909 it was altered by Frank Matcham, and from 1910 showed films as well as variety. Charles Gulliver took managed it from 1913 to 1928 ad it was then taken over by Summers Brown of Greater London Theatres and Cinemas Ltd. From the mid-1930’s it was called Palace Cinema although some variety shows were retained. It closed in 1947, and was demolished. Its site is covered by Kings Mall Shopping Centre and the Lyric Theatre
81 Town Hall Tavern, also called Hammersmith Tavern. Opened 1911. Closed and demolished
King’s Mall Shopping Centre. A 1970s package by R. Seifert & Partners, with  covered shopping centre below a car park, offices, and flats.


Leamore Street
Used to be Marsh Street.
Bollards and railings in cast iron around the railway bridge


Luxembourg Gardens
Bute House School. The house was first used as a school in 1918 by Belgian refugees. In 1922 until the Second World War this was the boarding house for St Paul's Girls' School. It was then used by the army. A school, later called Colet Girls School was on the other side of the green in 1932 and shared facilities with other schools during the war. After the War the head of Colet Girls School set up the Junior School for St Paul's Girls' School in Bute House. However the building was thought unsafe and parents raised money to build a new school on land leased to them by the Mercers' Company. In 1958 it opened as an independent, mixed- ability ‘school, called St Paul's Girls' Preparatory School but independent of St Paul's School and supported by the Mercers Company.. It was later called Bute House Preparatory School for Girls. It was built round a copper beech tree which has been there since the 19th. It had to be cut down in 2008 but the stump is now a memorial and new tree has been planted


Lyric Square
This square consists of offices and flats, along with the theatre.
Lyric Theatre. This was rebuilt in 1979 from an original 1890 theatre which had become derelict. Following a public enquiry demolition in 1971 had been permitted on condition that Frank Matcham's auditorium of 1895 was rebuilt within the new development. There is a small modern studio theatre below. A glass and steel entrance extension has been added by Rick Mather in 2003. The changes also included adding a new Box Office, new rehearsal and workshop spaces, and a cafe at street level. The work was carried out to the designs of the architect Rick Mather.  In 2012 another redevelopment included the building of new Drama, Dance, Film, and TV recording studios, a small Cinema for 60, and a new bar and cafe.


Margravine Road
A large amount of the Charing Cross Hospital complex lies on the west side of Margravine Road along with the sites of its predecessors.  However the bulk is in the square to the south and will be taken in that square.
Hammersmith Cemetery or Margravine Cemetery. This square covers about half of the cemetery; the rest is in the square to the east. It is a now managed as public garden, with the old graves grassed over. It was founded as Hammersmith Cemetery in 1869 by Hammersmith Burial Board and laid out by George Saunders, with a lodge and two chapels, to the east. The layout consists of a simple drive and turning circle from the west entrance. Planting within the cemetery is largely deciduous trees, with sycamore, lime, poplar and younger specimen trees, and there is beech hedging along many paths. It is sometimes referred to as Hammersmith Old Cemetery.
Casual Ward. This facility for vagrants was built in the 1880s just south of the cemetery entrance.


Parrs Ditch
This was a man made watercourse which acted as the boundary between Hammersmith and Fulham and thought to have a dark ages origin. It begins in the Brook Green and curves south crossing Hammersmith and Talgarth Roads. It curves west across Fulham Palace Road to flow into the Thames near Riverside Studios. Another watercourse may have run from near Ravenscourt Park east to join Parr’s Ditch at Brook Green. It was also sometimes called Black Bull Ditch. In the 19th it became polluted with waste from brick fields, and was eventually covered and became a sewer in 1876.


Queen Caroline Street
This was originally Queen Street and is the old road to the river from central Hammersmith.
Hammersmith Underground Station, District and Piccadilly Lines. In 1932 Charles Holden designed a secondary entrance to the station here.
33 Six Bells Pub. Closed and demolished for the construction of the flyover.
49 St Vincent’s House. This is a care home for the elderly. The name comes from the Brothers of St Vincent de Paul who ran a boy's orphanage in an old house here in the 1860s. The Sisters of the Misericorde of Seez lived here 1868 -1964 and rebuilt the house in 1913. Since 1968 St Vincent's has been a care home. It was again rebuilt in 2006
51 Temple Lodge Club. This is a plain late Georgian house providing accommodation for members. There is a plaque to, Sir Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956 which says 'artist, lived here'. He lived here from 1923 to 1937.
51 The Gate vegetarian restaurant. This is in the studio built by Frank Brangwyn,
80 Cannon Pub. Closed in the 1940s.
Queen Caroline Estate. Large council estate which has recently been the subject of a water management scheme – in terms of run off, flooding etc. undertaken by Groundwork.
Butterwick House. This was a large mansion once the home of Edmund Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave and Baron of Butterwick, who died here in 1646. It is also said to have been Cromwell’s head quarters in 1647. In 1666 the house was known as the manor-house and farm of Butterwick. In 1700 it was bought by Henry Ferne, Receiver General of Her Majesty’s Customs, who bought it in 1700 and lived there until his death in 1723. In 1739 it was bought by Elijah Impey, who divided the main house and wing. Butterwick House was later demolished.
Bradmore House. The original house was an 18th extension to 16th Butterwick House. It was probably built by Henry Ferne, maybe for actress Anne Oldfield.
LGOC Garage. In 1913 the site, now consisting of the wing called Bradmore House, was bought by the London General Omnibus Company and redeveloped as a garage. The London County Council required them to re-erect the east facing garden front as the façade of the LGOC offices in front of the garage and fronting the garage, and facing west. It was jacked up to allow headroom for buses, with a large vehicle entrance in each of the wings. The garage closed in 1983.
London Transport Garage. This bus garage was renamed Riverside in 1950
Bradmore House was rebuilt in the baroque style in 1994 as part of the Hammersmith Broadway development, incorporating the restored early-C18 façade. Some internal rooms were kept.  It became a restaurant/pub, currently an American restaurant.
Butterwick/Bradmore. There seems to be plenty of opportunities for confusion here – for example the Rowton House in Hammersmith Road was also known as Butterwick House. One or other of these buildings is said to have been a school – but there are plenty of other schools with these names. It is said that when LCOG demolished the house some elements were retained. Two panelled rooms were kept, one of which was kept by LCOG as a billiard room on site, ands later passed to Trinity House Almshouses, Mile End, in the 1950s. The other room and a brick alcove were installed at the Geffrye Museum, along with a brick alcove.  Some of these items may/may not have been returned
St Paul's church. Originally a medieval chapel of ease to Fulham Parish Church A church here was consecrated in 1631 by the Bishop of London. The cost of building was largely met by Sir Nicholas Crispe who built a monument to Charles I in the church, which remains. This was a plain brick structure' with a tower, Hammersmith became a separate parish in 1834 and in 1880 it was decided that a new larger church was needed. A new nave was consecrated in 1883. It was designed by Hugh Roumieu Gough and J P Seddon on the site of the 17th chapel, with some monuments and fitting being kept.  In 2011 St Paul's Centre was built to the west of the church.
Churchyard. The churchyard was reduced when the Flyover was built in 1961. Care of the churchyard had been handed from the churchwardens to the Council in 1950 and graves were cleared away, benches were placed.
St Paul’s Green. This is adjacent to the south of the churchyard on the site of an old NCP car park. It was designed in 1998 by Whitelaw and Turkington, and it was landscaped between March and November 1998.
8-14 Broadway Cinema designed by Frank Matcham, opened in 1912 and it was operated by Cinema Trust Co. Ltd. In 1927 it was taken over by Savoy Cinemas who later merged with Associated British Cinemas. By the early-1930’s it was called the Broadway Super Cinema. It closed in 1977 after the collapse of part of the ceiling, and was demolished in 1978, to be replaced by offices and shops.
45 Apollo Theatre – now the Odeon Hammersmith, also once called the Gaumont Palace. It was designed in 1932 by Robert Cromie, with a curved front with an organ below the large stage. There was also a café. It is mainly used for concerts, opera, ballet and musicals. It was renamed Odeon in 1962 and has not shown regular film performance since 1984. It became the Apollo in 1992. By 2005 it was operated by Clear Channel, who reinstate the original Compton organ console and it is now playable. In 2009 it was 2K digital projectors and a collapsible screen and has since been taken over again.  In 2013 it had a major restoration by Foster Wilson o its original 1932 condition.
Caroline Estate, slabs of post-war council housing
Flood gates. The road terminated at Queens Wharf where there were flood gates


Queens Wharf
Rosser and Russell. Heating, ventilation and mechanical engineers. They moved onto Queens Wharf in 1874 where they had a large semi circular building on the waterfront. They installed systems in many important public buildings. They left in 1993


Shepherd's Bush Road
This was previously called Brook Green Lane
St Mary Orphanage. This was in the building previous occupied by St.Vincent’s home for Boys.
190-192 Fire Station. This replaced the former station at 244 in 2003. It has two Mercedes fire engines and a scientific support unit vehicle. There is a plaque on the building noting it as the site of the home of local builder, the Bird family
226 Hammersmith Police Station. Divisional Station for the Metropolitan Police designed in 1939 by Donald McMorran of Farquharson and McMorran, winners of a competition. It is seem as one of Britain’s most sophisticated police station designs. This is a long, narrow rectangular building with two courtyards, offices and conference room with a canteen and cell block. Outside is a coat of arms. Inside is a War memorial `In Memory of the Men of F Division who gave their Lives 1939-1945’.
238 Draft House. Pub which was previously the Laurie Arms
242 Palais de Danse. The Hammersmith Palais first opened in 1919, and was primarily a dance venue.  It is said to have earlier been a tram shed and then became a roller skating rink. The Palais began with ballroom dancing and hosted early jazz bands. Between 1929 and 1934, it is said to have been used as an ice rink. It then once more became a dance hall which could take up to 5,000 dancers at a time. In the Second World War this continued and The BBC broadcast Services Spotlight from here. As trends in music changed, some of the biggest and most popular bands of the day played here. In the 1990s, discos and club nights were hosted rather than live music and the venue began to be associated with drugs and violent crime. After closure, the Palais stood derelict for a number of years.  In 2013, demolition work finally began and a block of flats built and a gym
Library. This dates from 1905 designed by Henry Hare, with sculpture on the facade by F. E. E. Schenck.
244 Fire Station. This is now Wagamama. This was designed in 1913 by W E Riley. It has now been replaced
Chapel. This was in what was then White Horse Yard belonged to a Dissenting Congregation. In 1915 the old chapel was still extant behind the Congregational Church. It was built in 1724 and enlarged in 1815
Broadway United Reformed Church. This originates in the mid 1640s. After being successful in the late 19th congregations declined in the 20th and it was agreed to use facilities at St Paul’s, and subsequently with Rivercourt Methodist Church


Shortlands
1 Cunard International Hotel. This was built on the site of the Fullers factory and incorporated an air terminal because  it was on routes to Heathrow. It was later taken over by Novotel. Novotel is a French hotel chain which opened their first hotel, in France, in 1967.


Southernton Road
30-32 Tawheed Islamic Centre. Shia Mosque. From 1886 to 1856 this was a Welsh Chapel and Sunday School.


St Dunstan's Road
Much of the south side of the road is taken up with hospital buildings which will be taken in the square to the south,
William Morris Sixth Form. This is in what was the Biscay Road Board School. This was built in 1885, and includes a 19th lodge and student services centre on St. Dunstan’s Road as well as later extensions.
17 Hungarian Reformed Church. This was founded in 1948 and they acquired the building in 2005.
17 This was built in 1891 as a studio by C.F. A. Voysey for the decorative painter W. E. Britten.  It is a cottage with studio behind simple.


St James Street
Entrance to pumping station – this is what may have been the original entrance to the water pumping station now fronting on Chancellors Road


Talgarth Road
Talgarth Road today extends far to the west of its pre-flyover existence, taking in lengths of Great Church Lane and parts of some other roads.  It leads up to the flyover and then drops below it are very confusing.
Name taken from Talgarth Brecon where Günter the caterer and local developer, was the landlord.  It was also known as the Cromwell Road Extension.
Parr’s Ditch now runs underground, but once went under a bridge at what is now Talgarth Road
201 The Ark. this is an office building in the shape of a very large boat. It was designed by Ralph Erskine, for Swedish Ake Larson and Pronator. It was completed in 1992. Drinks company Seagram occupied the Ark it from 1996 and it was later sold again. It has since been refitted for multiple tenants.
181 Magistrates Court. This is a purpose built court opened in the mid-1990s. It has ten courtrooms and the only youth courts in West London. It also housed the county court. It is now under threat of closure.
155 London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.  LAMDA has been here since 2003.  It is the oldest drama school in the UK. Founded in 1861 as the London Academy of Music. The building had previously been used by the Royal Ballet since 1947. It had originally been the teacher training college and kindergarten designed by John Salmon Quilter for the Froebel Educational Institute. The Institute remained here from its opening in 1904 till its move to Roehampton in 1946. The buildings were then purchased by the Arts Council for the Sadlers Wells Ballet School, later the Royal Ballet School.


Worlidge Street
St Paul’s Primary School, This moved as the result of 20th road building. It was previously a National School dating from the 1850s.

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Post to the north Central Hammersmith
Post to the south Barn Elms
Post to the west Castemau
Post to the south Fulham Bishops Park



Adeney Close
This appears to be a group of 1970s housing built partly on the site of Adeney Road following a reconfiguration of the area

Aspenlea Road
Hospital buildings – much of the north side of the street is taken up with buildings from the huge hospital complex to the north
Charing Cross Sports Club. This is within the hospital complex but apparently open to the public. It includes the Hammersmith and Fulham School of Gymnastics which opened in 2012
65 Riverside Studios. This is a temporary location for the Studios while their main complex in Crisp Road is being rebuilt. This block which appears to date from the 1960s and was part of the hospital complex but has since housed a wide variety of organisations, including, currently Mencap. The building appears to have been part of the Charing Cross Hospital .The site appears to have been housing but post Second World War was the site of the Hope Laundry and the Fulham Economic Laundry.


Crab Tree Lane
Adams Wharf.  Fragments of pottery were found here during construction and it is thought they came from a pottery known to have stood near the Crabtree Hotel.
Crab Tree Hall.   This dates from 1927 designed by S.Clough,.It was intended as a public hall with flats and shops.
The Boat House. This is a building of 1912 replacing one of 1865
Crabtree Wharf.  Joseph Mears Ltd., contractors, hauliers and wharfingers were on this site form the 1890s. They ran a fleet of at least four sailing barges. The main building was an L-shaped three-storey brick block and was originally a multi-storey stable for about 300 horses. Ramps originally linked the floors but were removed after a fire in the 1950s. Vertical grooves on the columns showed where boarding had separated the stalls and a number of tethering rings survived. There is also a 19th office block and two single-storey sheds. On the river front was a large electric derrick. The Mears brothers were active in the early Chelsea Football Club.
Crabtree Dock. This was a site for a marine engineering and boat-building business.
Palace Wharf. This is the current name for the Rathbone Works, architectural decorators.  It dates from 1907 and was the former Jackson's Plaster works – suppliers of decorative plaster effects. . The original 1907 building has metal casement windows with blue brick arches. The ground floor of it was originally used as stables. There is also an extension to the works built in 1933, designed by H. Shaw. The works was built on the site of a malt house and then a marble importing wharf from 1907.  It has later been used as artists’ studios etc and an area called the Foundry.
Bollards. Palace Wharf. These are thought to be Parish boundary markers from Westminster. One is inscribed 'St John the Evangelist' and the other 'St Margaret & St John, Westminster'.
Drawdock. This was a river crossing place


Crabtree Village
This was a riverside settlement at the river end of Crabtree Lane - crab apple trees are supposed to have grown there.
Malt House. This was here in 1790 and owned by a Joseph Attersoll. He also had a chalk wharf, lime kilns and a vitriol manufactory

Distillery Road
Hammersmith Distillery stood at the end of Distillery Lane which was short cul de sac off Fulham Palace Road leading to the distillery. In 1975 Elmdale and Playfair Streets were demolished and Distillery Road, partly in the square to the north was created to turn south east from what had been Distillery Lane and run parallel and south to Fulham Palace Road turning towards the river. It now ends in a development site on the riverside.
Crisp House - the riverside at the end of Chancellors Road and what is now Distillery Road is said to be the site of the house of 17th Sir Nicholas Crisp.  He rebuilt the house which he had inherited from his mother. In the Civil War the house was commandeered by Parliamentary troops and eventually Royalist Crisp fled to France. On his return he interested himself in building up industries here and elsewhere.  In 1792 it was sold to the Margrave of Brandenburgh-Anspach, who died in 1806. Many alterations were then made and it was renamed Brandenburgh House.
Brandenburgh House.  This was later the home of George IV’s estranged wife, Caroline. A year after her death in 1821, the house was sold and demolished. The distillery was on its site by 1857
Distillery.  This distillery is said to have opened in 1857 by a southern based branch of the Scottish whisky distiller, H & J Haig, and later became the Distillers Company, The Distillers Company was formed out of a trade association called the Scotch Distillers’ Association which had formed in 1865 and of which Haig was part. From about 1910 the plant was used for the development and manufacture of industrial alcohols.


Everington Street
Fulham Gilliat School. This was built in 1882 as Everington Street School taking boys, girls and infants.  In 1951 it was renamed Everington School. In 1961 the senior school was merged with Queens Court School and it became Gilliat School. Alice Gilliat was the first woman to be mayor of Fulham. There is now housing on the site.

Fulham Palace Road
Fulham workhouse. This was set up in 1848 and designed by Alfred Gilbert. An infirmary was added which as time went on became a general hospital and the old workhouse became the Fulham Institution, a hospital caring for the chronic sick and aged. Eventually it became the Fulham Hospital 2. In 1957 the old workhouse buildings were demolished and have now been replaced by Charing Cross Hospital.
Fulham Hospital Complex. The earliest sites were fronted on St. Dunstan’s Road – marginally in the square to the north but the bulk of the complex in this square – so included here, and below under St. Dunstan’s Road
Charing Cross Hospital. This is on the site of Fulham workhouse. It is an acute general teaching hospital  opened in 1973 but originally established adjacent to the Strand in central London. It is now part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust  After the Second World War it was decided to relocate the hospital away from central London and in 1957 a link was proposed with Fulham on Fulham Palace Road, was opened in 1973. It was designed by Ralph Tubbs as a fifteen-storey building in the shape of a cross. Three high-rise residential blocks were built to house medical staff, nurses and medical students—called Golding, Parsons and Cliff houses. There are some tile murals of rural workers that were once in the dining room of the workhouse.
Reclining Figure. Sculpture of 1963-65 by Henry Moore. This was first loaned to the hospital by the artist in 1975 and installed at a site of his choosing and set up at his expense in the water garden outside the main entrance.
Imperial College School of Medicine. The Charing Cross Hospital Medical School was formed in 1984 by the merger with Westminster Hospital Medical School and, in 1997, this merged with Imperial College London to create the, Imperial College School of Medicine. They house here academic departments and their laboratories. There is also a Pathology museum and Dissection rooms.
Reynolds Building. This is used extensively by Imperial College School of Medicine. It also houses a bar and area used by the Students' Union,
Parsons House. This is a hall of residence for Imperial College.
Maggie's Centre. In 2008 thus centre opened for anyone who is affected by cancer in London. It later won a Stirling Prize for design which is by Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners 2008
West London Neuroscience Centre
West London Mental Health Centre. This was designed by the Frederick Gibberd Partnership with secure residential spaces allowing patients as much outdoor access as possible. There is a sculpture by Bill Woodrow called Celloswarm and installed in 2002
Riverside Wing. This was designed as a new Day Hospital by Ansell and Bailey in 2006. At the staircase is an art installation by David Mach last year.
Hospital chapel. This is a polygonal space built 1969 - 1984 and designed by Ralph Tubbs. The stained glass is by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens and shows the River of Life and the Tree of Life. Stained glass by the altar is by Alfred Fisher. 
Landscaped grounds with garden areas and sculptures. In a basement-level cobbled courtyard is a bronze 'Horse and Rider' by Robert Clatworthy on loan from the British Land Company since 1995. There is an abstract stone sculpture by Tadeusz Koper on the grass by the car park donated by the artist. The wrought iron weathervane from the old Fulham Infirmary of 1884 is in the garden with an interpretation plaque
Fulham Cemetery.  In 1865 Fulham Burial Board established a cemetery here on an old nursery site. It was laid out by John Hall who designed the lodge at the entrance and two Gothic-style chapels, one of which was a Dissenters chapel which is now demolished. The Church of England chapel has a sculpture of Christ, two angels and three sleeping crusaders. The lodge, designed as a home for the superintendent, has the Bishop of London’s Arms shown on the outside wall.  There are stone walls and railings and walks lined with trees on a grid pattern  It was extended several times and by 1908 had been superseded by a cemetery at North Sheen. There is a Cross of Sacrifice which commemorates the dead of both world wars, erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was designed in 1919 by Reginald Blomfield, with a stone cross with bronze crusader sword pointing downwards.
Melcombe Primary School. This was a school building by Bailey as architect to the London School Board giving particular attention to light as recommended by the London Country Council medical officers. The school is larger and longer than its predecessors with classrooms oriented towards the playground rather than the road. It was opened in 1902
175–177 Greyhound Pub. This old pub, once famous for its rock gigs, now seems to be called the Southern Belle. It has also been called Puzzle, Astro Bar and the Cosmic Comedy Club.
St Clement’s Church. This was originally on the corner of Crabtree Lane and is a district church for the Fulham Parish.  It was founded in 1886.  In the 1960s it was linked to St.Etheldreda’s. By the winter of 1964/5 services were held in a chapel in the Vicarage because of the cost of heating the church. It was decided to demolish it and replace with a smaller building. The old church was replaced by flats by Shepherd's Bush Housing Association, and the new church, designed by Michael Briscoe and on the site of the old hall was dedicated in 1978.
Sandell’s Corner. This was named after a gardener who had a business on what is now the Lillie Road Recreation ground.
Recreation Ground. The railings along the road are set back to produce a grass verge along the road and shrubs have been planted there.
Public Conveniences. These date from 1894, with a gable above a big central archway. They were converted to offices in 1986.
Pillar Box from the reign of Edward VII. This is on the corner of Niton Road

Holyport Road
Wheatsheaf Wharf. In the 1930s this wharf was in the ownership of Joseph Mears
Wheatsheaf Wharf. Before the Great War this was in use by Oil Refiners Ltd. This appears to have been an edible oils business making margarine which moved to Manchester.
Wheatsheaf Wharf.  Dip lock Caterpillar Tractor Company business under Brahma Dip lock who had invented a ‘caterpillar’ type traction engine with feet called The Bedrail. This was later to contribute to the development of the military tank and various tractor applications
Rosebank. This was a house built 1809 by the Earl of Cholmondley and burnt down in 1864. Rebuilt, it was eventually demolished in 1934. Its ornamental grounds extended 565 feet along the river frontage and included a circular building, which were the dairy and larder as well as many important and rare trees.
Rosebank Wharf. This was used by Greenham building and demolition contractors but also by the Newcastle Coal and Shipping Co. As a coal transhipment wharf. Special vessels had to be constructed to work the wharf.
Rosebank Engineering works,

Lanarch Road
Crabtree Farm. The last farmers were the Matyear family. When the George Matyear died in 1910 he left his land to the King Edward VII Hospital Fund who sold it on to local developers Allen and Norris and development began on the Crabtree Lane Estate within a year. 

Lillie Road
Named for Sir John Scott Lillie, a veteran of the Peninsular War who owned land here
Lillie Road Recreation Ground. In the 17th this site was an orchard and gravel pits owned by Lady Pye, mother of Sir Nicholas Crispe. The park is used for sport and there is a sports centre.
378 Bishop Creighton House. Community Centre. This was named after a previous Bishop of London in the 1890s who lived in Fulham Palace. Three houses here were set up by his widow as a settlement in his memory. In 1912 a Play Centre was opened and work with local children began. In the following years a Boys Club was set up, and Invalid Kitchen, and a Child Guidance Clinic, Pensioners Clubs among much else. In 1960 it became the headquarters of the British Association of Residential Settlements providing support for other charities and organisations
Lillie Road Fitness Centre. Local Authority run gym which appears to be in the old park pavilion
354 Ebenezer Baptist Chapel. This building appears to be in commercial use. It has recently been in use as a mosque. A plaque or foundation stone on the outside has been rendered illegible.
Mackenzie Trench flats, since demolished.  They were built on the site of a previous Police Station.

Lysia Street
Queens Manor Primary School. This is a special needs unit in a large building from 1903-4 by T J Bailey for the School Board for London. The site includes play sheds and a school keeper’s house.
Blake’s Wharf.  A small park provides a river vista for the school beyond.  The bases of former silos have been incorporated into play areas and it is used as an outdoor play area.  There was previously a social services project here helping special needs clients to find work.
Blake’s Wharf. This dates from the early 20th and was operated by W.E.Blake for packing and general wharfage. Blake was however primarily a building contractor undertaking major contracts throughout the country.  In 1915 at the request of the Ministry of Munitions he set up the Blake Explosives Loading Company and built here a factory to fill grenades as well as a grenade factory.  By 1929 Blake was Mayor of Fulham.

Margravine Road
14 The Pear Tree

Manbre Road
King Henrys reach, Gated flats development on the site of what was the Manbre Wharf.
Manbre Sugar Works. Alexander Manbre came to England in the 1850s and lodged various patents for sugar manufacture with works based in the City and Southwark. The works in Hammersmith opened in 1876 to make glucose for brewing and other specialist applications initially as the Manbre Saccharine Co. Following various mergers in 1919 they became Manbre Sugar and Malt Ltd. with Albert Berry as Chair. In 1926 they took over Garton of Battersea and in the 1930s the Hammersmith plant began to supply liquid sugars to the food industry. They continued to take over other sugar producers and to build international links. In due they were taken over themselves by Tate and Lyle and the Hammersmith works closed in 1979.
Manbre Technical Block. This was built on the site of the buildings of the dairy of the Brandenburgh Estate Farm – which buildings had previously been used by the firm.

Rainville Road
Duckham's oil storage depot. Alexander Duckham and Co, originated in Kent as one of the family of Millwall engineers. They made industrial lubricants, cutting oils, greases and degreasants and preservatives, commercial lubricating oils. They moved to Thames Wharf in 1921. By 1967 they were the largest independent lubricating oil company in the U.K and third largest supplier of engine oil to motorists. In 1969 they were acquired by British Petroleum and the Fulham depot closed in 1978
Thames Reach. Three groups of flats by Richard Rogers Partnership built 1985-8. This has five storeys of curtain-walling to the river, with white tubular steel balconies.
Thames Wharf Studios.  Offices in a 1950s industrial building once Duckham's oil refinery. It was converted by Lifschutz Davidson for Rogers's own offices with lettable workshops and office units as well as new housing. The Rogers office's double-height entrance lobby was developed as a gallery where project models are exhibited. A rooftop extension shaped like a 'bread bin', was designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.  The freeholds have been owned since 2007 by two Guernsey companies and a pension fund which also acquired Richard Rogers' share in 2007. What is now called Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners remain as tenants.
Pokemon. In 2009 first floor offices were let to Pokémon the video and card game company.
Green Dot Ltd. this is a UK subsidiary of Grüne Punkt GmbH, a Europe wide waste recycling company
The River Café. This was originally run by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, now it is only Mrs Rogers.  It was designed as a restaurant for staff at the Studios and opened in 1987.  They work to an Italian menu. There is a garden with plants many of which are edible and there are Thames Views.
Dorset Cottage. This is shown on maps of the early 18th. It was demolished in 1890 by which time the grounds had been converted to a wharf
Dorset Wharf. Warehouse of the corn merchants, Hood and Moore.  Ltd. from 1890.
Dorset Wharf.  The Anglo American Oil Company were established here. This had originally been established here in the late 19th. They used using the wharf to land lamp oil. It later became the Esso Oil Depot
158 Dorset Wharf Community Hall
Tea Rose Wharf. This was also in use by the Anglo American Oil Company for oil storage.
Greyhound Wharf. Used by Hood and Moore, for hay and moss litter imports. It was also used by a folding box company.
Crab Tree pub. In the 1760s this was called he ‘The Pot House’ after an adjacent pottery. It was on the edge of the farm land. It became the Three Jolly Gardeners and later The Crabtree.  In 1817 it was described as “a picturesque old inn in front of which was a small open space enclosed from the river by a wall. Here a few seats were disposed for the use of customers.” This old building was demolished and the present building, by Messrs. Bird and Walters was built in 1898 in the Arts and Crafts tradition. It is much larger and it is thought that use as a hotel could have been intended. Alterations were carried out in 1935 by the architects F J Fisher & Son

Rannoch Road
Lyons Wharf. Barges with goods for Cadby Hall could unload here while also in transit to their Greenford Factory via Brentford Dock. Lyons had a works here from 1928 making a wide range of food products. After the Second World War they operated a soft drink factory here, in particular all Sunfresh, but jam and frozen food was also made here. The factory also housed a works department. The factory closed in 1988 mainly because of the problems of lorry operations in what had become a built up area and following a merger with Britvic
Pimlico Wheel Works. This was Smith, Parfrey and Co, before and during the Great War, They specialised in wheels, axles, springs, bent timber, forgings and motor repairs of every description. 

River
Thames Aqueducts. The ring main passes under here.


St.Dunstan’s Road
Although this road is in the square to the north the hospital site is given here for the sake of simplicity.
The Fulham Union Infirmary. The Fulham workhouse had been opened in Fulham Palace Road in 1849, the infirmary was built north of the workhouse in 1884 to provide medical care to the workhouse sick.  Many patients were the senile elderly or the chronically sick. In 1905 an Operating Room was installed and a Nurses' Home built on the west side of Fulham Palace Road  In 1915 the War Office took over the workhouse and Infirmary it became the Fulham Military Hospital with 1,000 beds.  The Army improved and upgraded conditions at the Hospital but as the war ended just as the Spanish flu epidemic began and many died. Returned to the local authority by 1922 bed numbers had increased to 550. in 1925 it was decided to change the name again because of the stigma attached to the word 'infirmary' and it became 'St Christopher's Hospital' but this was quickly changed to 'Fulham Hospital' . In 1930 the London County Council took over administration of the Hospital and in 1934 the Hospital and the Institute merged as Fulham Hospitals 1 and 2. In the Second World War the Hospital received wounded soldiers from and was also bombed on several occasions.  In 1948 it joined the NHS, with 394 beds and a converted ward served as an Out-Patients Department. Plans for rebuilding were considered but in 1959 it emerged that Charing Cross Hospital would be coming to Fulham Despite local protests. The Fulham Hospital was demolished piece by piece and finally closed in 1973. The new Charing Cross Hospital was opened the same year. What r4mains is a 0-ft high black painted weathervane which now stands in the garden behind the main Charing Cross Hospital building.


Stevenage Road
Rowberry Mead. Small park which includes industrial sculptures and silos. In the 19th the area was used to grow and dry osiers for basket making and it was the site of a 17th homestead. In the 20th it was an oil distribution depot

Winslow Road
Called after Dr Winslow who had nineteenth century mental home in the area, was Brandenburg Road but changed in First World War

Woodlawn Road
Finlay Street School. This opened in 1905. It is in brick wirth tal1 timber sash windows. It is thought to have been designed by Henry R Perry. Four of the original cast iron rainwater hoppers and downpipes remain.


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This post has sites north of the river only. South of the river is Barn Elms

Post to the north Fulham Palace Road and riverside and Harrods Village
Post to the west Barnes
Post to thr south Putney Boathouseshttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/riverside-south-of-river-west-of-tower.html


Bishop's Avenue
Fulham Palace and much of Fulham Palace Park are in the square to the west
Bishop's Park. This was opened as a public park in 1893 by the London County Council. It is on land which belonged to the Bishops of London and for them it was a medieval 'garden of the mind'. In 1884 Bishop Jackson persuaded the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to donate a strip of land called Bishop's Meadow for a public recreation ground. It had been osier and grazing land and prone to flood. A condition was that the river was to be embanked, and one this was taken on by the Fulham District Board of Works after the London County Council refused to do it. Later West Meadow was added to the park.  A children's playground was laid out, designed by the Borough Surveyor, Francis Woods. There was a lake with a terracotta balustrade with the arms of the Fulham Vestry, and a bowling green. There was also a children's paddling area with a 'beach' with sand from Margate, The king gave a pair of swans. This area was remodelled in the mid 20th and again in 2008 but using the original design. The entrance gates in Bishops Avenue are 20th leading to a walk lined with mature plane trees. There are two bowling greens and tennis courts on the site of West Meadow with a half-timbered tennis pavilion. The original bandstand was replaced in 1959, by an open-air theatre which was replaced by a play area in 1970. It is a Category II ecology site. There is a sculpture of Eve by Edgar Allan Howe. There are also statues of Adoration, Protection, Affection and Grief, as well as Leda and the Swan. There is a rose garden, and a plaque in memory of members of the International Brigade.


Bishop's Walk, this was a right of way from the 18th leading to the church.

Embankment Walk. This forms the riverside boundary of the park.


Eternit Walk
Bollards and posts preserved here from Cory’s Wharf
Eternit – this is pitch corrugated sheeting, manufactured under licence here by G R Speakers & Co Ltd.  Eternit was invented in the late 19th by Austrian, Ludvig Hatschek and was made by compacting a mix of 90% cement and 10% asbestos with water using a cardboard manufacturing machine.

Finlay Street
The Bridge Academy.  This is a Pupil Referral Unit for children outside of main stream schools. From 1916 the London County Council operated this as one block an industrial school and the other a Reformatory. This closed in 1920. It then appears to have been an infant school and later became the Gilliat Lower School.


Fulham Palace Road
St.James Home for Penitents.  This was originally established at Whetstone in 1856. Funds failed, and the then Bishop of London, made the Home diocesan and a building in the Fulham Palace Road was erected in 1871. inmates were employed at laundry and needle work, etc. This is now the site of Robert Owen House.


Inglethorpe Street
A windmill is thought to have stood in this area from the 15th until the 1790s.


Stevenage Road
Mill Shot Farm. This was owned in the 19th by a William Bagley and related to the nearby mill.
National Benzole Wharf. Oil storage. British Motor Spirit
Eternit Wharf Sports Centre which includes the Nuffield Health Centre. This was opened by the local authority in 1980.
Stevenage Wharves. A number of companies used these wharves.  In the 1920s Dodge Bros. US auto manufacturers were here. Joseph Mount provided shipping and packing facilities plus agencies for a wide range of devices. This included bonded warehousing. Other firms handled timber here.
Craven Cottage.  was on the site before the football club. It was the Earl of Cholmondeley's Swiss villa - a cottage orne of 1780. It had a number of wealthy owners.
Fulham Football Ground .  The club was established in 1880 and moved here in 1896 - the ground attracts thousands of visitors when matches are played. Both the east stand and the famous corner "cottage" offices of 1905 are by noted football ground designer Archibald Leach and listed. The club was originally Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F.C., They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and continued to succeed. They first played at Craven Cottage in 1896. They are one of the oldest established clubs in southern England currently playing professional football. They have had professional status since 1898.


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Church Gate
Until 1937 this little road was called Church Row.
All Saints Church. The first records of a church here are from the 13th, and the tower of the church was built in 1445. Traces of an earlier building have been found to the south of the current church. In 1880 the medieval church was thought too small and liable to regular flooding and it was therefore replaced by a new church designed by Arthur Blomfield also built of Kentish ragstone but higher to avoid floods. Most of the stained glass dates from the rebuilding of the church but the monuments were saved from the old church. There is a tablet to Elizabeth Limpany 1694 in a carved wooden surround and many other monuments.
Churchyard. The earliest known burial is that of Richard Colman in 1376. In 1611 pigs were not allowed into the churchyard, and in 1738 people were stopped from drying or airing clothes here. The burial ground was enlarged in 1781 and land to the south was added, and again in 1783.  The entrance was changed at various times to allow for carriages to enter and iron gates and fencing were erected. The churchyard was closed to burials in 1863.  From the early 19th the churchyard was subject to body snatching, The churchyard still has its gate piers and iron gates and the ground is planted with yew, holly and laurel, and there are limes along the walk. There are monuments including the tombs of ten Bishops of London.  There us a Great War Memorial dedicated in 1923 with a bronze life-size figure of Christ. There is a sculpture by Helen Sinclair, 'The Mother and The Child' installed in 2000. Also there is what may be a 12th font found buried in the High Street in 1827 and used for horses to drink out of and then later planted with flowers from 1867. It was presented to the church and put on a brick base
Old Vicarage. This was first recorded in 1430 and had a garden of over an acre with big trees and shrubs from the arboretum at Fulham Palace.
Vicarage Garden. This is a small public garden laid out in the early 20th once the garden of the vicarage but reduced when Putney Bridge Approach was built. The site of the former vicarage was close to the site of the War Memorial. There are large plane trees, rose beds, and shrub borders with what used to be a kiosk.
William Powell’s Almshouses. Powell lived here in the mid 17th and left a number of almshouses for poor men and women in the parish. They were managed by the Vicar and Parish Officers and over the 200 years the lessees changed repeatedly. In the 1850e it fell into disrepair and in 1867 it was decided to move. The site chosen was garden that belonged to the Lord of the Manor were a since demolished private school for young ladies had stood. The foundation stone was laid in 1869 and almshouses designed by J P Seddon were provided for 12 almswomen. A square tower had originally housed a water cistern. A tablet on the first house says: 'Sir William Powell's Alms Houses Founded 1680 re-built 1869. A plaque says 'God's Providence Our Inheritance'; with Sir William's and Bishop Blomfield's arms.
War Memorial. Erected 1921. The memorial has a bronze statue representing Peace and a kneeling cherub, the work of Alfred Turner. The inscription is "To the Honour of Fulham's Gallant Dead""They died for freedom" 1914–1918 and 1939–1945. There is a Roll of Honour set into the wall, and iron gates.
6 Egmont Lodge. This was renamed thus after the owner of Egmont Villa moved here after its purchase by the waterworks company. Fire mark insurance plaque
Church Gate Hall. This was a Baptist chapel now converted to a house, having been a photographer’s studio. It dates from the early 20th
The Vicarage moved to its current location between 1915 and 1921, when the old one was demolished

Fulham High Street
69-79 Fulham Green. Office block
87 Fulham House TA Centre. This is an early 18th house, with probably earlier cellars. Owned by the army since 1903.  This is a centre for The Royal Yeomanry RHQ, and the Command (Westminster Dragoons) and Support Squadron – and the cadets. The house was restored in 1987-89 by Suoud Mallis & Partners. There is a brick extension to the back and railings at the front with a stone entrance gateway.
89 Eight Bells. This was claimed to have been licensed in 1629 as the Blue Anchor, and then changed its name later to the Anchor, then The Anchor and Eight Bells and finally the Eight Bells by c1754. Has clearly since been rebuilt
69 Philip & Tacey Ltd. School Stationary factory. The company had started in 1826 in the City Road by John Tacey supplying schools with basic equipment. In 1902 they joined with Henry Philip and Boy and by the 1920s were working with Froebel and Montessori. They moved to Fulham in 1919 and in the late 1960s moved to Andover, where they remain
The Fulham Theatre. This opened in 1897 as a live theatre designed by W.G.R. Sprague, There was a portico entrance with Ionic columns, and a statue of Britannia and two hand-maidens above. Lighting was provided by a Crossley gas engine – and special arrangements had to be made for this installation in the water logged sub soil. It was later known as the Shilling Theatre, and used as a cinema from 1912. By 1937 it was re-named Grand Theatre with live theatre and films on Sundays. It closed in 1950, demolished in 1958. Riverbank House was built on the site – now between the High Street and the Bridge Approach. .
156 Cambridge House. This stood west of the old Fulham Bridge adjacent to the Swan coal wharf. It was built in 1843 on the site of the stables of Fulham Hall. In the early 20th it was the White Lodge Laundry.
Fulham Hall. This was on the west side of the street and had replaced 14th Stourton House in the 17th. It was demolished in 1842. This was for a while the home of Granville Sharp who is buried in the nearby churchyard. He was an associate of Wilberforce and mounted one of the earliest legal challenges to slavery in England.

Hurlingham Park
Hurlingham Park.  This square covers only the south west portion of the park. The southern part of this area is still an area which is part of Hurlingham Club
Hurlingham Club. This was once called Hurlingham Field farmed by Saxon settlers in 500AD and from the 8th it was part Bishops of London’s manor. In the 17th it was a burial pit for plague victims and an isolation hospital until 1736 – although the location of these is not known.  By the 18th there were riverside villas as well as meadows and nurseries. Hurlingham House (in the square to the east) was built and was the home of successive grandees and the park was laid out by Humphrey Repton. From 1860 it was used as a shooting ground and as the Hurlingham Club. The pigeon shooting area from which the club grew was what is now Hurlingham Club property south of the running track. The pigeon is still the Club’s crest and until 1905 live pigeons were released each summer from near the present Tennis Pavilion. In 1879 the estate was enlarged with the purchase of Mulgrave House and its grounds. In 1906 Edwin Lutyens designed pavilions which remain. In the Great War the area passed into military use and the polo grounds suffered trench mortar and other damage. In the 1930s an outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and bowling greens were added plus a 9-hole golf course. The 1930s Swimming pool has now been replaced. The Croquet Association had its headquarters here from 1959 to 2002.   When the Polo Grounds were taken over for use as a public park the club retained the southern section of the grounds and this remains as a private sports facility.
Polo. Polo came to England in 1869 through Lord De L’Isle who was a trustee of the club. The game was established at Hurlingham in 1874 and the Club then became the headquarters of Polo for the British Empire. International competitions were played here.
Hurlingham Park. After the Second World War, the London County Council compulsorily purchased the Club's polo grounds for public recreation and the park retains much of the ambiance of its days as a polo ground. It has a major focus on sports facilities of which there are all sorts – an All Weather Football Pitch; 3 Tennis Courts, a Multi use games area, a Bowling Green, 2 Football pitches 2 Rugby pitches and a Floodlit training area.  A sports pavilion is located in the centre of the site where there are toilets, changing rooms, meeting space and a viewing gallery. The park is bounded to the street by iron railings, with London plane trees and silver birch around the edge.
Mulgrave House. This was on the west side of the park and included the lake. Hurlingham Club bought it and demolished it in 1927. It had been the seat of the Earl of Mulgrave, and later of other wealthy people.
Tennis Courts. Tennis began here in 1877 and the first ‘All England’ tournament was played here. In the Great War trenches were dug around the tennis courts. Towards the end of the war, a hanger and other buildings were built for RAF balloons. The polo grounds were reclaimed by the club in 1919-20. During WWII, troops were again quartered at Hurlingham. Barrage balloons were tethered in the grounds and an anti-aircraft battery was installed.
Hurlingham Stadium and running track. The opening meeting of the running track was on 1954, the day that this became a public park. It was originally a cinder track and the field was part of the polo ground. A concrete polo grandstand was built in 1936 to replace an earlier one but was demolished because of poor repairs in 2002. It has been replaced by a pavilion. The track was the base of London Athletic Club and last used for a race in 1979. When a meeting was held with the same schedule of events as the first open championship in 1879
Hammersmith and Fulham Rugby Football Club. The Club was started by teachers from Henry Compton School and decided at a Hotel in Wigan in 1977. In March the Leisure & Recreation Committee of the London Borough of Hammersmith granted them the central pitch at Hurlingham Park and they made their own arrangements with the Peterborough Arms.  Find out about the annual club awards and the winners.
Little Mulgrave House. This was west of Mulgrave House and dated from 1715.  It was later bought by the Hurlingham Club and used as their manager’s house.

Putney Bridge Approach
This was previously called Bridge Street. When the current bridge was built a new rising approach was formed from the High Street at its junction with Church Gate through the Vicarage garden. This is now the main traffic route
Fulham/Putney Bridge.  The earliest bridge, dating from the mid 18th was accessed from Bridge Street with a toll house between the two. The current Putney Bridge dates from the 1880s and is built a short way to the west of its predecessor
Toll house between the two – this toll house being effectively an arch with a building either side of a roofed space. Below the house an arched passageway took the riverside path under the tollhouse and the bridge
Aqueduct. This was built by the Chelsea Water Works Co to bring water from Barn Elms to north London.  This water is now carried in a trunk main under Putney Bridge. The water company bought and demolished Egmont Villa as part of these works
2 Riverbank House. This was ICT’s Bridge House North by Siefert and Partners. On the building is a sculpture of the The Swanupper by Edward Bainbridge Copnall.  This dates from 1963, and was the first fibreglass sculpture in Britain, and therefore probably in the world.
3 Putney Bridge Cinematograph Cinema. This was in the corner with Gonville Street. It opened in 1911 and was re-named Putney Bridge Kinema in 1915. It became part of Town Theatres, and closed in 1940 for alterations to be carried out. Because of restrictions in the Second World War it was still closed when it became art of Odeon Theatres in 1942 and never re-opened. It was demolished in 1957/1958 and a Premier Travel Inn hotel has replaced it.
Premier Inn. This was Bridge House South for International Computers (ICT)
Pryor's Bank Gardens.  These are part of the old Bishop's Park. The house and garden were sold by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Fulham Vestry. The river wall was extended to Putney Bridge and the area was cleared and laid out. The house’s formal garden was preserved and opened in 1900. The east garden had a lawn with roses and a fountain. In 1953 in commemoration of the Coronation four statues by James Wedgwood, whose studio was local, were installed – these were of Adoration, Grief, and Protection. These are all in Portland stone, and Leda in Caen stone was also added as was, later, Affection in Portland Stone by Hermon Cawthra. In the formal garden is a fountain with three tiers, the top basin supported by three fish, thought to have been erected by Fulham Vestry in 1894. West of the house are rising formal terraces planted with roses but which were previously ornamental bedding with the Fulham coat of arms. Another paved garden has a memorial of 1997, dedicated to local residents who fought in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigade
Pryors Bank. This was a Strawberry Hill Gothic house with battlements and turreted chimneys. It had been built in 1837 for Thomas Baylis and William Letchmore, both antiquaries, who filled it with their collections. It was eventually purchased by the Vestry, and demolished in 1897, as unfit for public purposes.
Pavilion. This is on the site of Pryors Bank. It was built in 1900 designed by C Botterill, the Borough Surveyor. It is a mock Tudor pavilion, originally a refreshment house, inside the gates of Bishop’s Park, with a veranda overlooking the gardens and a lawn with specimen trees and shrubs. It also housed a public reading room and had staff accommodation on the first floor. It is new leased from the council by All Saints Church, and their offices are on the first floor.
Malt House. This was on the riverside on the east side of the road. It dated from the early 19th with an oast style kiln. It was connected to the Swan Inn brew house and stood behind the pub. In 1900 it was known as the "Swan Maltings" and belonged to the Royal Brewery, Chelsea.
Swan Wharf. This was taken over with the old toll house by the Vestry and used for rubbish removal after the erection of the current bridge in the 1880s. Rubbish was tipped into barges here for disposal down river at Rainham in Essex. It was named for the "Swan" Inn
Cramer Roberts & Co coal wharf.
Swan Inn. This dated from at least 1698 and stood on the riverside wit tea gardens going down to the river. In the mid 18th it had an adjoining brew house and maltings. A paved area in front of the pub was used as the parade ground of the Fulham light infantry volunteers. It was burnt down in 1871 Swan Wharf Chambers subsequently occupied the site and Swanbank Court flats.

Ranelagh Gardens
This road runs parallel to the river and is now the site of large mansion blocks of flats.  In some cases these have replaced working wharves
Ranelagh House. The road is named for Ranelagh House which was to the north of here but south of Hurlingham Road.  It was built for Viscount Ranelagh in 1804. It became a country club in 1848 but the club moved south of the river in the 1880s and the house was later demolished.
Willow Bank. This was a house built in 1816 overlooking the river standing in gardens. It replaced a number of older houses and cottages.  It was bought by the District Railway Company in 1889 and demolished for the railway bridge.
Fenning's Granite, Marble and Mosaic Works. This was on Willow Bank Wharf where Willow Bank House had stood. It had been established in the early 20th by Daniel Fleming with an interested in quarries at Shap in Westmoreland.
Carrara Wharf. Development of flats by Higgs & Hill in 1987-9 on the site of Fenning's Wharf.
Swanbank Court. Local Authority sheltered housing in brown brick, built in 981 by Green, Lloyd & Adams. This is on the site of Willowbank.
Railway arch. Single span of the railway bridge carrying the District Line over the road
Pillbox. There is a Second World War defence pillbox on the south east abutment of the bridge. A type 22 design, the pillbox is multi-sided and consists of two storeys, the lower storey doorway being on the west side but without loopholes.
Plaque. On the side of the bridge. Which says “Father of the British Motor Industry. Beneath this arch was situated the first workshop of Frederick Richard Simms 1863 – 1944”
Simms workshop. Simms first commercial workshop was under the arch of this bridge, a space for fitting Daimler engines to motor launches, in what was probably Britain's first motor company. Simms, is credited with coining the words 'petrol' and 'motorcar', and built the world's first armoured car, and invented the rubber bumper, and founded the Royal Automobile Club. In 1889, the 26-year-old Simms had met Gottlieb Daimler, from who bought the rights of Daimler's high-speed petrol engine in the British Empire. They were first used in motor launches but led to the British motor industry. In 1891, Simms demonstrated the motor launch on the Thames, and in 1893 formed The Daimler Motor Syndicate Limited work to put petrol engines into boars in a space here,
Rivermead Court flats.  Overlooking the Thames built 1950s. Private gardens. Spacious grounds overlooking the river

Railway Bridge.
Fulham Railway Bridge. This was constructed 1887-1889 by the London South Western Railway and refurbished 1995 - 1997 for London Underground Limited by Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited. It carries the District Railway line from West Brompton an ornamental viaduct approved by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and designed by William Jacomb, LSWR Engineer
Footway.  On the downstream side opened July 1889. This is reached by steep steps from the road. There are curled lamp fittings and at the river’s edge a pillar is topped off by an ornate pediment, with swirls and scallop painted in delicate green.

Station Approach
Putney Bridge Station. This was opened in 1880 and lies between Parsons Green and East Putney stations on the District Line to Wimbledon. It opened as Putney Bridge and Fulham when the Metropolitan District Railway extended its line south from West Brompton and was the terminus of the line until 1889 when the Fulham Railway Bridge was built and the line was extended south to the London and South Western Railway's East Putney station and then provided a through service to Wimbledon. Originally it had wooden platforms with an entrance through the east part of the garden of Willow Brook and there was a footway to interchange with river boats. In 1902, it was renamed Putney Bridge Hurlingham but became Putney Bridge in 1932. The station has an ornate yellow brick façade at the entrance. There are Cast iron lamp standards and at platform level are ridge-and-furrow canopies and white serrated valancing. A forked wooden staircase goes down to the ticket hall and remains are much as it would have been in 1880.
London Underground Electricity Sub Station


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Coursers Road
Willows Farm entrance and car park

M25
Junction 22. This is what was The Bell Roundabout. This was originally a roundabout on the A6 at the south end of the London Colney bypass – the A6 then running as a north west – south east through route.. When the M25 was completed between the A and the A (M), the section of the A6 dual carriageway to the south became the M25 motorway and two extra roundabouts were added to the south. (One of these is in the square to the west)The section of the A6 to the north became the Colney bypass.
Carriageways on the north of the roundabout remain as they were originally designed for future use in a different road configuration to that which was actually built.
The Bell. This pub dates from at least the 1880s and is now a burger bar. It was previously a road house band a venue for rehearsing rock bands

Ridge Hill
This is part of the B556 originally a cross country route dating from 1935 and running between Hatfield and Radlett. The route changed here when the M25 was built.
Salisbury Hall Lodge, This is now a cattery

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Lost Pubs Project.  Web site
Pub History, Web site
Sabre. Web site

Post to the north Bell Roundabout
Post to the east Ridge Hill



M25
This section was originally the A6 but was adapted into the M25 in the 1980s.

Ridge Hill
Salisbury Hall. Formerly called Shenley Manor. And in the 9th this was part of the Manor of Shenleybury held by Asgar the Stallar. In 1380 it to Sir John Montague, later the Earl of Salisbury.  A new house was built about 1507 by Sir John Cutte, Treasurer to King Henry VII and Henry VIII. This was bought in abut 1668 by James Hoare, a London banker and then to Jeremy Snow who rebuilt it.
Salisbury Hall House. Built in 1668-79 for Sir Jeremiah Snow but some parts date from the 14th. It is in red brick and 20th extensions replace the earlier service wings. Snow’s arms are carved on a pediment. Inside are 16th medallions with busts of Roman emperors brought from Sopwell Priory., The house is completely surrounded by a moat. In the late 19th it was occupied by a succession of farmers but in 1905 Lady Randolph Churchill lived here and in the 1930s it was the home of Nigel Gresley, of the London and North Eastern Railway.
Mosquito. The house was chosen by de Havilland in 1939 for development, in private, of a high-speed, unarmed bomber, of wooden construction, the de Havilland Mosquito design team moved here as a security precaution against the British Government stopping work on the project. The Mosquito was conceived as an unarmed high speed bomber but developed into the first multi-role combat aircraft. A hangar was built across the moat where the first prototype was hand built out of wood using non-strategic material and labour. Construction from wood is a specialty of this area, connected with the Chiltern furniture industry and several de Havilland aircraft were made of wood. Three Mosquitoes were flown out of the surrounding fields to Hatfield De Havilland left in 1947 and the Hall became derelict. In 1955 Walter Goldsmith an ex Royal Marine Major named took it on.
De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre. This is the the oldest aircraft museum in the country. It first exhibit was the Mosquito Prototype W4050 which was saved by Bill Baird and Walter Goldsmith. Baird was trying to find a home for this aircraft, and Goldsmith fundraised among the original sub-contractors and a Robin hangar was found in which the Prototype was assembled. A committee was formed including Geoffrey de Havilland.  More aircraft were added to the collection and the freehold of the site was acquired. It opened to the public in 1959. The name was changed to the Mosquito Aircraft Museum, and in 1974, the Supporters Society was formed and later the de Havilland Aircraft Museum Trust Ltd
Granary.  This dates from the late 17th and is timber framed and standing on staddle stones.
Barns. These are on the east side of the hall and include a tack room. They are late 17th and timber framed and weatehrboarded. The tack room is 18th.
Nell Gwynne's cottage. This was originally the pump house to Salisbury Hall. It is early 18th in red brick with some timber framing. Nell Gwynn is said to have lived there in the 17th and to haunt the hall
Dairy. This is 19th and is linked to the pump house.
Secret passages. There are stories of several. Some are said to run from deep cupboards in the attics.   Also on the side of the moat is said to be a circular bricked-up opening going to an underground passage nearly five feet high, which connected Salisbury Hall with St Albans Abbey.
Salisbury Hall Farm 

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Whitelaw, Hidden Hertfordshire

Post to the west Salisbury Hall
Post to the north Coursers farmland
Post to the south Rapley Park

Post to the east Redwell Wood

M25
This section of the M25 was originally the A6 itself adapted from what was Telford’s St. Albans Road.  On the A6 A dual carriageway bypass was built around 1970, and this section became the M25 in 1986.

Old St. Albans Road
This is a pathway between Rectory Lane and Ridge Hill. Mentioned from 1220 the old road to St. Albans followed a tortuous course . It was often flooded and in need of repair. A new road was built the east to carry the A6 and in 1965 it was decided to close the old road to motor vehicles to stop them joining the A6 trunk road. In time it was difficult to see the old road at all. It has now been improved by the County Council.

Redwell Wood Farm
Redwell Wood Farm.The farm buildings and surrounding area support a number of businesses of various sorts as well as farm use and livery. There have been proposals for other uses including a composting facility and a solar panel farm. There is a prominent silo
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Rectory Lane
Shenley Lodge. This is an 18th later used as a health resort. It was extended in the late 19th and early 20th. It was used as a land army hostel in the Second World War. Post Second World War; it was the home of double-agent and gangster, Eddie Chapman. It is now a private fee paying school
Manor Lodge School. This is a fee paying private primary and ‘prep’ school. It opened in 1992 and has caters for over 400 children over this time. The main school building was Shenley Lodge but there are now extensions and other building including a refectory and a sports
Ridgehill Stable and Riding School
Sign post on a small island of grass
Post Box. This stood on the grassy island and is marked on historic maps but has been removed. Brickwork remains of the post-box can still be seen at the foot of the mound.
Steddle stones. These are used ornamentally on the entrance to the riding school
Shenley Lodge Farm. This appears to be a dairy farm
Shenley Lodge Farm Wood. This is a designated wildlife site


Ridge Hill/St.Albans Road
This is what was the St.Albans Road, following the line of the pre-Telford Holyhead Road, which is the route of the M25 and which crosses the old road on Ridge Hill. The section of road from Barnet to South Mimms, completed in 1828, followed a fairly straight line to Ridge Hill.  At the beginning of the 20th the old turnpike had become a green sunken track, but most of it was then repaired and tarred. Raised on an embankment at times over 30 feet higher than the original road, the present road is one carriageway of the 1970 trunk road, running alongside the M25.Tthe north carriageway disappeared when the huge embankment was created to carry the motorway.
The St. Albans Turnpike Trust was established in September 1715, by Private Act of Parliament. The original route began at South Mimms through London Colney to St. Albans. It was the oldest and longest-lived turnpike trust in the county. In 1807 the road between Ridge Hill and South Mimms was straightened and widened and there were plans to lower Ridge Hill itself. It was later decided to avoid it and hence in 1818-1820 the Telford road was built.
Wagon and Horses. This was bought out in 1903 and became the first Trust House with an ex-policeman as manager. The idea was to provide a refreshment house which was not tied to a brewery and thus could provide drinks of all sorts. It was demolished for the motorway.
Packhorse Cottages. Demolished. They stood at the corner of Blackhorse Road and Ridge Hill.
Milestone. South side of the road.


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British Listed Building. Web site
Hertsmere Council. Web site
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Manor Lodge School. Web site
Patchetts Green Bridleway Trust. Web site
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Webster. Great North Road
WW2 People’s War. Web site

Post to the west Ridge Hill
Post to the south South Mimms


A6
The A6 was built in the 1970s to replace the St.Albans Road, and is now used as the M25.

Blackhorse Lane
Flint Cottage, house with stables
Woodhill Farm

Hawkshead Wood
Ancient replanted woodland

M25
Orbital motorway taking over the previous A6

Redwell Wood
Redwell Wood.  This is a Site of Special Scientific Interest with ancient and secondary woodland, heath and scrub. The woodland canopy is dominated by pedunculate oak. The woodland includes areas of high forest, coppice with standards and small areas of recent selective felling where birch scrub has developed. Part of the wood was replanted with conifers but these have largely failed and natural regeneration is proceeding. Ground flora include bluebells and enchanter’s-nightshade, while heath land species include heather and rare creeping willow
Swallowhole. There are temporary swallow holes from seasonal streams where cross boundary between geological beds.

Sources
Hertfordshire Geological Society. Web site
Natural England. Web site
Welwyn Hatfield Council. Web site

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Post to the west Mimms Lane ford
Post to the south Ridge
Post to the east South Mimms, Bignall's corner



Blanche Lane
Clare Hall. The house was built in 1754, around an existing early 17th century house by Thomas Roberts. It was enlarged between 1797-1842 and became a convent in 1886,, The  Manor was renovated in 1988 and now contains a restaurant, meeting rooms and accommodation for the employees on site.
St. Monica's Priory. This was in Clare Hall 1886-1896.
Clare Hall Hospital. The house became a private smallpox hospital in 1896, taking some cases from local authorities in Middlesex.  The hospital had been established in Clerkenwell in 1746 as the Middlesex County Hospital for Small-pox by Thomas Poole and moved to various premises subsequently. They moved here despite objections from local people and extensions were built. In 1901 16 new wards were built and 16 huts as well as other facilities including a sewage works. In 1907 it was bought from the charity by the hospital board.  From 1911 the National Health Insurance Act allowed public funds to be spent on tuberculosis sanatoria and tubercular patients were admitted to Clare Hall from 1912. It was taken over by the County Council in 1929. It became an emergency hospital during the Second World War and air raid casualties were treated there. Under the NHS from 1948 it was greatly expanded and new buildings erected on both sides of Blanche Lane. It was mainly treating patients with chest diseases. Although it continued to expand in the late 1960s it began to be thought that it was too remote and many facilities were old and inefficient. It closed in 1974. The buildings remained empty until acquired by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1980. Most of the original hospital buildings were wooden and have been demolished.  The gateway, lodge and wall on the west side of Blanche Lane have been retained.  The site of the east side is now a car park.
Wall. Bits of St.Antholin's church from the City of London  were built into the wall which has since been demolished. The fragments were removed elsewhere.
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control. The Institute is the UK’s Official Medicines Control Laboratory (OMCL), responsible for carrying out independent official batch release testing of biological medicines as required by EU law and carry put research into biological standards;
The Francis Crick Institute. Clare Hall Laboratories. This is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to under Istanding the fundamental biology underlying human health and illness. It was founded by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome Trust, University College London,Imperial College London and King's College London.
Blanche Lane Farm. The weatherboarded timber framed farm house has been replaced by a mid-20th house.


Crossoaks Lane
Ridge Farm. Farmhouse built between 1822 and 1838. There is an 18th Barn with a timber frame and weatherboarding on a brick base. There are stables which extend forward to the road from the end of the barn. They are 18th and 19th with a timber frame and weatherboarded.
Telephone kiosk, This is ourside Ridge Farm. It is type K6 designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott..
Old Guinea Pub. This was built before 1881 to replace an earlier pub. The earliest record is from 1750 when it was kept by Francis Grant. It then had one bed and stabling for two horses. Its cellar was used as the village lock-up and in 1852 it included a post office.
Vicarage. This is a brick house with a 19th design, It was built between 1822 and 1838 as the Vicarage to St Margaret’s Church. It is thought to stand on the foundations of an earlier vicarage and has stables and a coach house at the back.
Workhouse. this was built in 1834 and closed in 1842.
Pillbox. Second World War hexagonal pillbox with a thick concrete roof. It is opposite Deeves Hall Lane under a tree.
Baytree Cottages. This was the Sovereign Public House until about 1880. It is now two houses. It was built in the 17th, with a timber frame, rendered and weatherboarded. .
Forge Cottage House. Probably built early 17th with a timber frame and a weatherboarded first floor.
Orchard Mead . This was built as five almshouses in 1844 by Sir G.G.Scott and W.B.Moffatt for Miss J.Trotter of Dyrham Park. It is in knapped flint facing on clunch walls with red brick dressings. There is a blank rectangle for a dedicatory plaque in the gable

Deeves Hall Lane
St.Margaret's church. Ridge Parish was set up in the late 13th on land belonging to St. Albans Abbey and remained in the Liberty of St Albans until 1870 when it became part of Hertfordshire. The chancel of the church dates from the 14th, and may have been a small church there is a 13th piscina in the chancel.  The nave and tower were added in the 15th in knapped flint with clunch dressings and some pudding-stone in the tower. In 1740-46 following repairs box pews and a three-decker pulpit were added and in 1810, a gallery was installed. It was restored again in 1881 1 by A.Billings destroying most of a medieval doom- painting  but a large, defaced, wall painting of St Christopher is on the north wall. Recently more repairs have been carried out, the roof was renewed in 1976, and other work done.
Deeves Hall. This house was built around 1760 as a gentleman’s residence with a small farm. It was recorded as Deve Hall at that time and gave its name to Deeves Hall Lane. The band, Deep Purple, was developed here.
Granary at Deeves Hall, This is timber framed with weatherboarding. It rests on eight staddle stones
Deeves Hall Barn, This weatherboarded barn is now a house
Church Farm. Barn from the late 17th with as timber frame and weatherboarding. There are weatherboarded stables towards the yard.


Earls Lane
Earls Farm. Weatherboarded barns.

M25
This stretch of the motorway was built as the A6.

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