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Bishop Creighton House 1908-2008
Bishop Creighton House
John Sheppard. 150 pp. Illustrated. £6.50
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Bradmore House, Hammersmith
Bradmore House
Keith Whitehouse. Built some 300 years ago, most of the house has been demolished (or used in part as a bus depot). But the baroque façade was turned from East to West and has been well restored.
26pp, illustrated. £4.50
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Charlotte Sulivan (1824-1911): ‘The best friend we have’
Charlotte Sulivan
Sue Pierson. 80 pp, illustrated. £6.00
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Fulham Bridge, 1729-1886
Fulham Bridge
G and M Dewe. The predecessor of Putney Bridge. Fulham’s oldest street, the High Street, leads down to the Thames where a wooden toll bridge was constructed in 1729.
147pp, illustrated. £4.50
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Fulham’s Historian: a biographical sketch of Charles James Fèret, 1854-1921
Fulham’s Historian
Michael Dewe. Fèret was the author of “Fulham Old and New”, in three volumes, published in 1900.
35pp, illustrated. £2.
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Fulham in the Second World War
Fulham in the Second World War
Leslie Hasker.
A new edition of this popular title first published in 1984.
£6
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Hammersmith and Fulham Pubs.
Images of London Series
Chris Amies, 2004.
127 pp, numerous b&w illustrations. £14.50
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Hammersmith Bridge
Charles Hailstone. The first Hammersmith Bridge, the first suspension bridge over the Thames, was built in 1827 and reconstructed in 1887.
New edition now published 2020. ISBN978 1913663 70 4 £10.00 Plus p&p
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A History of Hammersmith
Philip Whitting (ed.). Fourteen contributors have written on various aspects of Hammersmith’s history.
A History of Hammersmith
273pp, illlustrated. £4.50
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Isaac le Gooch, King’s Jeweller and Latymer Benefactor
William Wheatley. Isaac le Gooch, who lived in Upper Mall, was Court Jeweller to Charles II and a benefactor of Latymer School.
30pp, illustrated. £1.50.
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Ladybirds on the Wall
Ladybirds on the Wall
Barbara Denny. Memories of growing up in West Kensington, 1920-40.
59pp, illustrated. £3.
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Leigh Hunt and his family in Hammersmith
Molly Tatchell. This distinguished writer lived the last few years of his life in Rowan Road.
102pp, illustrated. £3.50
Manbré: 100 Years of Sugar Refining in Hammersmith, 1874-1974
Manbre
Jeanne Stoddard. The sugar refinery was actually sited just inside the boundary of the former Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
56pp, illustrated. £2.
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Medicine in the Parish of Fulham from the 14th Century: Fulham Hospital 1884-1959
Medecine in the Parish of Fulham
A L Wyman. The hospital was bombed in WWII but continued until 1959 when bit by bit the old buildings were replaced by the new Charing Cross Hospital, which moved from WC2.
160pp, illustrated. £3.
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Memories of a London Childhood [In the North End Road, Fulham]
Memories of a London Childhood
Dorothy Ash. Mrs Ash ‘was born in the last summer of the 19th century in a small house in Fulham’ and lived in Fulham until she was thirty-three.
32pp, illustrated. £2
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Parson’s Green
Parson’s Green . ‘The Irregular triangle’ Sue and Lance Pierson. JUST PUBLISHED.(March 2022)
74pp Illustrated . £6.00. 2021
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The Pauper’s Paradise: Poor Relief in Hammersmith, 1899-1907
The Pauper’s Paradise
Anne Connelly. A new Hammersmith Workhouse, opened in 1905, was dubbed ‘the Pauper’s Paradise’ by local newspapers on the grounds that the accommodation was too good. It is now part of Hammersmith Hospital.
28pp, illustrated. £1.50.
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Personalities of Fulham and Hammersmith
Personalities of Fulham and Hammersmith
EJ Willson. Short biographies of 450 people, famous and less well-known, who have lived in the area.
68pp, illustrated. £4.50
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Peterborough House
Peterborough House
Sue Pierson. The story of an historic and now demolished house that stood on the eponymous estate.
72pp Illustrated. £7.50
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The Quest of the Golden Lion
The Quest of the Golden Lion
John J Murray. In Fulham High Street stands a Golden Lion public house built in 1893. The author has traced the history of earlier buildings on the site over five hundred years.
80pp, illustrated. £3.50
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Seventeenth Century Taxation in Hammersmith
P E Jones. Tax assessments of 1693/4 provide the earliest list of Hammersmith residents.
30pp. £1.50.
West London Nursery Gardens
West London Nursery Gardens
E J. Willson. 164 pp. Illustrated. £10.50
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Charlotte Sulivan (1824-1911): ‘The best friend we have’
Charlotte Sulivan Sue Pierson. 80 pp, illustrated. £6.00
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TO PURCHASE
Please contact:
Mrs Sue Pierson
48 Peterborough Road
London SW6 3EB
sue@lancepierson.org
Mail order only. Cheque payable to ‘Fulham and Hammersmith Historical Society’ with order, please. No callers.
33% trade discount.
A selection of pictures, postcards and maps is available at meetings
The Fulham and Hammersmith Historical Society 