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Ravenscourt Park Credit: IG/elaiineowe TUM image id: 1653861576 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The construction of the White City Estate began in the late 1930s and was finished after the Second World War. It is named after the White City Exhibition that took place on the site in 1908. The estate was built by the London County Council. 23 blocks were completed by the outbreak of the war, with the rest completed afterwards. Credit: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham TUM image id: 1680170016 Licence:	St Peters Square, Hammersmith, late 1950s Credit: unknown photographer TUM image id: 1668008114 Licence:	Wormholt Wood notice TUM image id: 1570540541 Licence: CC BY 2.0	New Blue Hall Cinema, Hammersmith The New Blue Hall Cinema opened on 10 December 1912 with a seating capacity of 1300. It was built and operated by Blue Halls Limited. It was such a success that a second cinema known as the Blue Hall Extension was opened on 26 December 1913 at the rear of the original Blue Hall. In 1935 ABC were planning a new cinema for Hammersmith and the Blue Hall Cinema was demolished to be replaced by the Regal Cinema. The Blue Hall Annexe continued to operate while the new Regal Cinema was being built. When that opened on 14 September 1936 the Blue Hall Annexe was closed and demolished to provide a cinema car park at the rear of the new Regal Cinema. The Regal Cinema operated as a 4-screen Cineworld Hammersmith until its closure in April 2016. TUM image id: 1517664264 Licence:
Chiswick High Road (1900s) TUM image id: 1519219785 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Keene’s Automobile Works in Flanders Road, c. 1903. Mr L.P. Keene had earlier set up his works in a yard behind the Stores in Bath Road. He claimed it was the best repairing works in London with accommodation for 250 cars. He developed a fourteen-horsepower steam car called the ’Keenelet’, but it did not catch on and the company failed in 1904. In 1906 the firm of H.J. Mulliner, coachbuilders, took over the premises, which by then included workshops and offices in the three-storey Stores building. Mulliners made high-quality coachwork for firms such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It merged with Park Ward and moved to Willesden in 1961. A large red-brick office block, appropriately named Mulliner House, now occupies the site of the automobile works. TUM image id: 1681217745 Licence:	Construction work on the Wormholt Estate (1920) The East Acton area lay in a ’railway desert’ until the arrival of the Central Line. While areas to the north and south urbanised, a pocket of countryside survived very close to Shepherds Bush until after the First World War. This continuing bad connection with the rest of the area, before the First World War, allowed White City stadium to be developed as a green field site. Credit: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham TUM image id: 1586274051 Licence:	Bloemfontein Road - part of the White City estate Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1563736710 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:
I had a gentle amble around riverside Hammersmith. On the way, I managed to discover the location of the Queen’s Dining Rooms. Not sure if I haven’t made this historical walk a bit too eccentric in places but I’m going with it! Credit: https://youtu.be/aB5njfRV xc TUM image id: 1687430263 Licence:	Police section house on the corner of Dalling Road and Paddenswick Road (1915) Batey and Company - in the shop advert - had their mineral water works in Munster Road, Fulham TUM image id: 1668704103 Licence: CC BY 2.0	From 1869 the London and South Western Railway ran services between Kensington and Richmond via Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith (The Grove) stations, in a loop joining up with the existing District Line. Intended to link Richmond with the city, this roundabout route lost out to the more direct electrified District Line and was closed to passengers in 1916. This postcard hints at the leisurely tempo of trains using the line. TUM image id: 1668094785 Licence:	Caribbean troops taking the salute at Hammersmith Town Hall on VE Day 1945 TUM image id: 1668007585 Licence:

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Ravenscourt Park
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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.
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Police section house on the corner of Dalling Road and Paddenswick Road (1915) Batey and Company - in the shop advert - had their mineral water works in Munster Road, Fulham
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