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Fulham history

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The word Fulham originates from Old English, with Fulla being a personal name. It is spelled Fuleham in the 1066 Domesday Book. Excavations have also revealed Roman settlements during the third and fourth centuries AD.

Manor and Parish of Fulham

The first written record of a church in Fulham dates from 1154. Hammersmith was part of the ancient parish of Fulham up until 1834. The parish boundary with Chelsea and Kensington was formed by the now culverted Counter’s Creek river.

Early History

In 879 Danish invaders, sailed up the Thames and wintered at Fulham and Hammersmith. In 1642, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex withdrawing from the Battle of Brentford (1642) ordered to be put a bridge of boats on the Thames to unite with his detachment in Kingston in pursuit of Charles I, who ordered Prince Rupert to retreat from Brentford back west. This is thought to have been near the first bridge (which was made of wood) Fulham Bridge, built in 1729 and was replaced in 1886 with Putney Bridge.

19th century transport and power plays

The 19th century roused Walham Green village, and the surrounding hamlets that made up the parish of Fulham, from their rural slumber. In 1824 the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, the first public utility company in the world, bought the Sandford estate in Sands End to produce gas for lighting – and in the case of the Hurlingham Club, for ballooning. Meanwhile, another group of local landowners, led by Lord Kensington with Sir John Scott Lillie and others had conceived, in 1822, the idea of exploiting the water course up-river from Chelsea Creek on their land by turning it into a two-mile canal.

Art and Craft

Ceramics and weaving in Fulham go back to at least the 17th century, most notably with the Fulham Pottery, followed by the establishment of tapestry and carpet production. The Art Bronze Foundry, founded by Charles Gaskin in 1922 still operates in Michael Road, off the New King’s Road, a short distance from Eel Brook Common.

20th century

In 1926 the Church of England established the office of Bishop of Fulham as a suffragan to the Bishop of London. Fulham remained a predominantly working-class area for the first half of the 20th century. With rapid demographic changes there was poverty, as noted by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and Charles Booth (1840-1916)

Piece of aviation history

Cannon’s Brewery site at the corner of Lillie and North End Road was used for aircraft manufacture during the First World War. The Darracq Motor Engineering Company of Townmead Road, became aircraft manufacturers in Fulham for the Airco company.

Musical heritage

Edward Elgar, the composer, lived at 51 Avonmore Road, W14, between 1890 and 1891. The notorious Italian tenor Giovanni Matteo Mario de Candia and his wife opera singer Giulia Grisi made Fulham their home from 1852 until the 1900s. Hyam Greenbaum married the harpist Sidonie Goossens on 26 April 1924 at Kensington Registry Office.

Redevelopment

A controversial 80 acre high-rise redevelopment has been under way on the eastern borough boundary with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It involves the dismantling of the two Earl’s Court Exhibition Centres in RBKC and in Hammersmith and Fulham and the emptying and demolition of hundreds of commercial properties.

  

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