Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group

http://www.hfhbg.org.uk/

The Hammersmith & Fulham Historic Buildings Group is a voluntary organisation based in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. We work to promote, research, record, preserve and enhance Hammersmith and Fulham’s historic environment. This includes not just historic buildings and built structures of all types, but also open spaces, parks and gardens, landscape and views, the Thames and the Grand Union canal and what planners call the public realm, which means things like signage, street furniture and materials

24 out of 24 (100%) plaques have been curated

43 subjects all or unphotographed

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Henry Moore sculptor (1898–1986) lived and worked in this studio between 1924 and 1928. Among several works carved here are Mother and Child 1924-5 and Woman with Upraised Arms 1927.

The Laboratory, Adie Road, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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This building stands on the site of 190 Shepherds Bush Road, home of George Bird and his family in the 19th century, as West London builders and brick makers they were responsible for many local buildings, including the earliest parts of Nazareth House and the Sacred Heart School, the stonework of the first Hammersmith Bridge (the present, second, bridge is built on the original Bird piers), and Holy Trinity Church on Brook Green. The Birds were also active in civic development and public welfare and founded the West London Hospital in Hammersmith Road, the coat of arms was formerly placed above the gateway of 190 Shepherds Bush Road.

190 Shepherds Bush Road, London, United Kingdom

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Citroën House, an early example of a concrete-framed building, was built in 1916 as a showroom and service depot for Ford Motor Company. The architects were Charles Heathcote & Sons of Manchester, who also designed Ford's factory at Dagenham. Citroën succeeded Ford in 1923, giving the building their name. Citroën House was requisitioned for the RAF and later occupied by Osram.

184 Shepherds Bush Road, London, United Kingdom

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HAMMERSMITH PALAIS opened as a roller skating rink in 1910. Later it served as an ice rink and, most famously as a 'palais de danse' with a capacity of 2,500. Dancing continued all through the Second World War despite the Blitz. From the 1960s the Palais was increasingly used for live concerts and club nights. It finally closed in 2007.

228 Shepherds Bush Road, London, United Kingdom

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101 Farm Lane This site was first developed in the 1890s as a horse bus company depot. It was then used by various motor bus companies and by the British Motor Cab Co., who probably built the double-arched entrance around 1910. Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of land and water speed records, operated an aircraft engineering firm from here in the 1920s.

Farm Lane, Fulham, London, United Kingdom

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This site was formerly occupied by the Red Hall Picture Palace. Built in 1913, the Red Hall was part of the first wave of new British picture houses constructed following the introduction of cinema licensing in 1910. It was unusually large, with a combined seating/standing capacity of 2,000. The Red Hall closed in 1962 and later became a bingo hall.

Dungannon House, 15 Vanston Place, Fulham, London, United Kingdom

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D-Day 6 June 1944, the Normandy landings were planned by General Montgomery and others in St Paul's School, which occupied this site from 1884 to 1968. On 15 May 1944, the final invasion plan was presented to General Eisenhower and senior allied commanders in the school lecture theatre, in the presence of King George VI and the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill

Gate pier, St Paul's Gardens and Open Space, Hammersmith Road, London, United Kingdom

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The Kings Theatre Designed by prolific theatre architect W. G. R. Sprague and opened on this site in 1902, the Kings was one of the earliest theatres to have cantilevered balconies allowing a clear view of the stage from all 3,000 seats. Many famous actors played here. After use as a BBC television studio in the 1950s, it was demolished in 1963.

Kings House, 174 Hammersmith Road, London, United Kingdom

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St Paul's School This house with attached lodge was built for the High Master of St Paul's when the school - founded next to St Paul's Cathedral - moved to Hammersmith in 1884. The architect was Alfred Waterhouse. The main school buildings were demolished after the school moved again - to Barnes - in 1968.

St Paul's Hotel, 154 Hammersmith Road, London, United Kingdom

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Passmore Edwards Public Library This building was originally the Shepherd's Bush Public Library, one of 24 public libraries founded by Victorian newspaper proprietor and philanthropist John Passmore Edwards. It was designed by architect Maurice B. Adams and opened in 1896. The library moved to another site in 2009. It was converted into a theatre in 2011.

7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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On this site stood the Paragon Works of the Brilliant Sign Company. Formed in 1888, the company patented the 'brilliant letter' shop sign and in so doing changed the face of the British high street. Production began at the company's brand new Paragon Works in 1907. The factory closed in 1976 when the Brilliant Sign Company ceased trading.

Havilland Mews, Stowe Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, United Kingdom

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The Sun A public house called the Sun stood on this site from at least 1722. In September 1940 a wartime bomb landed on the pub killing 20 people. The only person to survive was a barmaid who dived to the floor behind the bar. Rebuilt after the war, the last Sun was demolished in 2013

120 Askew Road, Shepherds Bush, London, United Kingdom

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Royal Masonic Hospital Nurses' Home This former nurses' home and the nearby hospital it served were designed by architects Burnet, Tait and Lorne. The hospital opened in 1933. The nurses' home, part of the architects' original plan but built later, opened in 1938. Following closure of the hospital, the nurses' home was converted into apartments in 2013.

Ashlar Court, 32 Ravenscourt Gardens, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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Hammersmith Pumping Station was built by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1909. It formed part of a complex of earlier waterworks buildings begun around a century earlier by the West Middlesex Waterworks Company and their engineer, William Tierney Clark, designer of the first Hammersmith Bridge. The pumping station was decommissioned in 1997.

Bazalgette Court, Great West Road, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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Riverside Studios In 1933 the Triumph Film Company converted a Victorian riverside engineering works on this site into film studios. The BBC took over in 1954, making many famous TV series here, including Dr Who, Dixon of Dock Green and Hancock's Half Hour. From the mid 1970s Riverside developed as an arts centre combining theatre, dance, music, cinema and TV.

Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street London Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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Hammersmith Drawdock Hammersmith Drawdock and Beckett's Wharf were, in the 18th Century, important transport links for Hammersmith. Goods such as hay and coal were brought by barge and off-loaded to horse drawn carts on the foreshore for local delivery via Queen Caroline Street to Hammersmith. Today the drawdock is still an important river access point.

Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street London Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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St Vincent's takes its name from the Brothers of St Vincent de Paul who ran a boys' orphanage in an old house on this site in the 1860s. The Sisters of the Misericorde of Seez lived here from 1868 to 1964 and rebuilt the house in 2013. Since 1968 St Vincent's has been a care home. It was rebuilt again in 2006.

St Vincent's House Care Home, 49 Queen Caroline Street,, London, United Kingdom

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Palingswick House was built in the 19th century as a private residence, possibly for Barnabas Steel, whose initials appear on the façade. By the 1880 it was in institutional use, first as a Kensington & Chelsea Board of Guardians School and then as a home for diabetic children. The house was renamed after the old manor of Palingswick in 1954.

West London Free School Palingswick House 241 King Street, London, United Kingdom

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Nicolai Gustavovich Legat born St Petersburg, Russia 1869, died London 1937 Russian ballet dancer and teacher with the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. His studio here (formerly 46 Colet Gardens) was attended by leading international ballet dancers from 1932 until his death.

Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom

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72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two-storey stabling for the London Road Car Company, operators of horse-drawn buses. When engines replaced horses, the London General Omnibus Company, successor to the LRCC, established a coach-building works here. It had various other transport-related uses from the 1920s on, before redevelopment in 2013.

72 Farm Lane, Fulham, London, United Kingdom

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Kops Brewery Kops Brewery was established here by a Mr H. Lowenfeld in 1890. The name is believed to have been a play on hops. Founded at the height of the temperance movement, Kops brewed non-alcoholic ales and stouts on an eight-acre site and exported its products throughout the British empire. The brewery was converted into a margarine factory in 1917.

25 Townmead Road, Fulham, London, United Kingdom

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Palace Wharf was built in 1907, replacing a malt house. An extension facing Rainville Road was added in 1933. For many years the wharf was the 'Rathbone Works' of fibrous plaster firm, George Jackson & Sons, founded in Rathbone Place off Oxford Street in the early 19th century. Jacksons' made the new plasterwork for Hammersmith's rebuilt Lyric Theatre.

Palace Wharf, Rainville Road, London, United Kingdom

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Wood Lane Generating Station Built 1898-9 to supply energy for the Central Line, is the earliest example of an electricity generating station built for the London Underground. It closed in 1928 and was later used by the Dimco power tool company.

Exhibition London, Ariel Way, Shepherd's Bush, London, United Kingdom

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The Palladium Opened in 1910 as Pyke's Cinematograph Theatre. It became the New Palladium in 1923. Renamed the Essoldo in 1955, Classic from 1972 and Odeon 2 until 1981. Its final incarnation was as the Walkabout Australian pub which closed in 2013.

58 Shepherd's Bush Green, London, United Kingdom

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