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Australia Road

Canberra Infant and Junior School

Bathurst Gardens

St Mark's church

Library

Bloemfontain Road

Long frontages with Continental appearance

White City Pool

Cleverley Estate

1920 Peabody. 1928 Victor Wilkins . imposing development in Wren influenced baroque idiom. Bulls eye windows and grand arched openings.Commonwealth Avenue

Spaces were left along the main E-W route, for churches and public buildings, but they are too insignificant to provide focal points.

St Michael and St George

Our Lady of Fatima

Erica Street

Hammersmith School

Godolphin Road

St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral

Hammersmith Park

India Way

A welcome respite is provided by Malabar Court housing for old people arranged as a pile of ascending hexagons, by Neil Moffett & Partners, completed 1966.

Loftus Road

Queen's Park Rangers FC.

Malabar Court

36 Henley

New Zealand Way

Small community buildings by the borough, 1989-90.

Sawley Road

The informality of the Wormholt estate contrasts strongly with the Peabody Cleverley Estate.  This is 1928, with blocks only three storeys high, lower than Peabody estates in the centre of London, 

South Africa Road

South Africa Road

brick terraces by Darbourne & Darke, 1975-8, 

Stanlake Villas

Uxbridge Road

St.Stephen parsonage 1850

St Luke

Clifton House at the corner of Hetley Road, a grand debased Italianate palazzo of c. 1870;

159-167, a decent brick and stucco terrace.

Queen Adelaide  a jolly pub of c.1900, green tiles, moulded brick band, 

White City EstateL.C.C.'s estate begun in 1938-9 and completed after the war on part of the derelict 200-acre site of the ‘White City’ used for the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games in 1908. It was the largest L.C.C. built to that date covering 52 acres with 2,286 dwellings containing 7,290 rooms. The flats were modern in 1934-6, much praised then for their variety of size with separate bathrooms and kitchens.  But the five-storey balcony- access brick blocks, laid out designed by  Wheeler with Horns and Hepburn..  There were also schools; public buildings and play grounds.  In August 1944 a rocket-bomb fell here which badly damaged one block.  

Western Avenue

Wormholt Park, made in 1909-11.

Wormholt Library Borough Engineer's Long blocks 

 Wormholt Park Swimming Pool open air

Wormholt Estate

Planned from 1919, follow garden city principles with generously designed houses.  Built for Hammersmith by H. T. Hare with E. Franck, M.J. Dawson, and P. Streatfield - each architect responsible for one section- and intended to relieve the crowded slums of the Hammersmith riverside, considered 'as bad as Poplar' according to comments in 1923.  By 1926 600 houses existed on the acres between Old Oak Common Lane, Steventon Road, and Bloemfontein Road.  This portion still gives a good idea of the high quality of design and materials employed in the 'homes fit for heroes' campaign.  The houses are mostly of brick with pan- tiled roofs and are set back attractively around little greens.

Wormholt Road

St Luke's Vicarage

Wormholt Estate early municipal garden city estate. 1919. overseen by Henry Hare for Hammersmith Council. Neatly detailed brick houses small green. Homes for Heroes



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