The area had been open fields, orchards and market gardens until the 1850s but the arrival of the railway at Hammersmith ten years later changed all that and by 1890 the area from King Street to Goldhawk Road was completely built over.
Category: History
Brackenbury Village history
Hammersmith History: Caroline MacMillan – The artists of Hammersmith riverside
‘In a fit of pique Cobden-Sanderson threw all the type into the river from Hammersmith Bridge’
Brackenbury Village History: Caroline MacMillan – What’s in a street name?
Discover the history of family names and royal connections in your road. Location: Brackenbury Village, Hammersmith, London, W6