Ravenscourt Park to Hammersmith walk

An historical amble around riverside Hammersmith

The Cannon Pub and the Queen’s Dining Rooms (1950s)
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Sylvia guiver Blandford Square, NW1 Added: 4 Jul 2024 14:52 GMT	Grandparents 1937 lived 37 Blandford Square Y mother and all her sisters and brother lived there, before this date , my parent wedding photographers were take in the square, I use to visit with my mother I remember the barge ballon in the square in the war. Reply
Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply

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Shepherd's Bush Road, W6 TUM image id: 1488542121 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ravenscourt Park Credit: IG/elaiineowe TUM image id: 1653861576 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The front building of 22 St Peter’s Square Credit: Wiki commons TUM image id: 1511370000 Licence:	St Peters Square, Hammersmith, late 1950s Credit: unknown photographer TUM image id: 1668008114 Licence:	Cambridge Road (now Cambridge Grove) during the Edwardian period. A District Line train is crossing the bridge. TUM image id: 1668685689 Licence:
Carthew Road, Hammersmith (1920s) Carthew Road was originally part of an agricultural area called Bradford Fords This was known for its orchards and vegetable beds in the 18th century and was irrigated by Stamford Brook. The arrival of the Hammersmith & City Railway in 1864 greatly accelerated development and by the 1890s, Carthew Road was fully built up. TUM image id: 1466548214 Licence:	Castelnau (1910) with Hammersmith Bridge in the background Old London postcard TUM image id: 1600620265 Licence:	Glenthorne Road looking east towards St John’s Church (1901) TUM image id: 1668706259 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Charlotte House, Hammersmith stands on the location of The Cannon pub, pictured here in 1900 TUM image id: 1668015171 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Cannon Inn on Queen Charlotte Street (1952) The road to the right was Ship Lane - showing houses on the street ready for demolition, along with Ship Lane itself. TUM image id: 1668016204 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The junction of Glenthorne Road and Cambridge Road (now Cambridge Grove), 1909 The driver of the 133 tram is adjusting the rear indicator blind ready for the journey to Kew Bridge. TUM image id: 1668711773 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Peter’s Square, W6 TUM image id: 1511370624 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Aspen Gardens, W6 (2013) Aspen Gardens was an immediate post-war project building two 6-storey blocks Credit: Geograph/David Anstiss TUM image id: 1625838110 Licence:	Gothick Cottage (early twentieth century) This house - considered one of the most beautiful in the area and a landmark on the Goldhawk Road - was, for many years, the home of a Mr Murcott, a gunsmith. It was demolished in 1958 and eventually replaced by a Shell filling station. According to descendant Hilary Tilmouth, the people you can see in the garden are Catherine Murcott, twins Annie and Kitty, along with Willy and Lionel Mutcott. TUM image id: 1481561785 Licence:	Man waiting to cross Goldhawk Road, about 1935. Why did the postcard photographer not wait until the man had gone? The postcard is now all about him, really, front and centre as he is. The road on the left is Woodger Road Old London postcard TUM image id: 1669307138 Licence: CC BY 2.0