Editing Fulham (section)

==History==
The word Fulham originates from Old English, with Fulla being a personal name, and hamm being land hemmed in by water or marsh, or a river-meadow. So Fulla's hemmed-in land.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Greater%20London/Fulham |website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=22 May 2021}}</ref> It is spelled Fuleham in the 1066 [[Domesday Book]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fulham, Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2476/fulham/ |website=opendomesday.org |publisher=Anna Powell-Smith |access-date=22 May 2021}}</ref>

In recent years, there has been a great revival of interest in Fulham's earliest history, largely due to the Fulham Archaeological Rescue Group. This has carried out a number of digs, particularly in the vicinity of Fulham Palace, which show that approximately 5,000 years ago [[Neolithic]] people were living by the riverside and in other parts of the area.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Excavations have also revealed [[Roman Britain|Roman]] settlements during the third and fourth centuries AD.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

===Manor and Parish of Fulham===
[[File:Chertsey Breviary - St. Erkenwald.jpg|alt=manuscript image of a Saxon saint|thumb|St Erkenwald, Saxon Prince, bishop and saint known as the "Light of London": granted the manor of Fulham which became the country residence of the Bishop of London for 1,000 years]]
There are two not necessarily conflicting versions of how Fulham Manor came into the possession of the [[Bishop of London]]. One states the manor (landholding) of Fulham was granted to Bishop [[Erkenwald]] about the year 691 for himself and his successors as Bishop of London.<ref>{{cite web|author=Walford, Edward|title=''Fulham: Introduction'', in Old and New London|volume=6|date=1878|pages=504–521|publisher=British History Online|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp504-521|access-date=23 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024025456/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp504-521|archive-date=24 October 2016}}</ref> The alternative has it that The Manor of Fulham was acquired by [[Waldhere (bishop)|Bishop Waldhere]] from [[Tyrhtel|Bishop Tyrhtel]] in AD 704.<ref name="Timeline"/> In due course the manor house became [[Fulham Palace]], and for a millennium, the country residence of the [[Bishop of London|Bishops of London]].

The first written record of a church in Fulham dates from 1154, with the first known parish priest of [[All Saints Church, Fulham]] appointed in 1242. All Saints Church was enlarged in 1881 by Sir [[Arthur Blomfield]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title=Fulham Past| publisher=London: Historical Publications|pages=35–39|isbn= 0-948667-43-5}}</ref>

Hammersmith was part of the [[Civil Parish#Ancient parishes|ancient parish]] of Fulham up until 1834. Prior to that time it had been a perpetual curacy under the parish of Fulham.<ref>'Hambledon - Hampshire-Cross', in A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis (London, 1848), pp. 387-391. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp387-391 [accessed 18 May 2018].</ref><ref>[[Thomas Faulkner (topographer)|Faulkner, Thomas]]. (1813) ''Historical and Topographical Account of the parish of Fulham, including the hamlet of Hammersmith''</ref> By 1834 it had so many residents, a separate parish with a vicar (no longer a curate) and [[vestry]] for works was created. The two areas did not come together again until the commencement of the [[London Government Act 1963|London Government Act]] in 1965.

The parish boundary with Chelsea and Kensington was formed by the now culverted [[Counter's Creek]] river, the course of which is now occupied by the [[West London Line]]. This parish boundary has been inherited by the modern boroughs of [[London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham|Hammersmith & Fulham]] and [[Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea|Kensington & Chelsea]].

===Early history===
In 879 [[Vikings|Danish]] invaders sailed up the [[Thames]] and wintered at Fulham and Hammersmith. [[Raphael Holinshed]] (died 1580) wrote that the Bishop of London was lodging in his manor place in 1141 when [[Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex|Geoffrey de Mandeville]], riding out from the [[Tower of London]], took him prisoner. During the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] the manor was temporarily out of the bishops' hands, having been sold to Colonel [[Edmund Harvey]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 1642, [[Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex]], withdrawing from the [[Battle of Brentford (1642)]], ordered to be put a [[pontoon bridge|bridge of boats]] on the Thames to unite with his detachment in [[Kingston upon Thames|Kingston]] in pursuit of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], who ordered [[Prince Rupert]] to retreat from Brentford back west.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} The King and Prince moved their troops from Reading to [[Oxford]] for the winter. This is thought to have been near the first bridge (which was made of wood). It was commonly named Fulham Bridge, built in 1729 and was replaced in 1886 with Putney Bridge.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Margravine Road recalls the existence of [[Brandenburgh House]], a riverside mansion built by [[Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet|Sir Nicholas Crispe]] in the time of Charles I, and used as the headquarters of [[General Fairfax]] in 1647 during the civil wars. In 1792 it was occupied by [[Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] and his wife, and in 1820 by [[Caroline of Brunswick|Caroline]], consort of [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]]. His non-political 'wife' was [[Maria Fitzherbert]] who lived in East End House in Parson's Green. They are reputed to have had several children.<ref>Wilkins, F.H. (1905), [https://archive.org/stream/mrsfitzherbertge02wilkiala/mrsfitzherbertge02wilkiala_djvu.txt ''Mrs Fitzherbert and George IV''], London: Longman and Green. p. 23</ref>

The extract below of [[John Rocque's Map of London, 1746]] shows the Parish of Fulham in the loop of the [[Thames]], with the boundary with Chelsea, Counter's Creek, narrow and dark, flowing east into the river. The recently built, wooden, first Fulham/Putney bridge is shown and two Fulham village clusters, one central, one south-west.

===19th century transport and power plays===
[[File:Charles Booth 1889 map - detail showing Lillie Bridge.png|thumb|[[Charles Booth (social reformer)|Charles Booth]] 1889 map - detail showing Lillie Bridge, the two railway lines and Brompton Cemetery]]
The 19th century roused [[Walham Green]] village, and the surrounding hamlets that made up the parish of Fulham, from their rural slumber and market gardens with the advent first of power production and then more hesitant transport development.<ref>Old [[Ordnance Survey]] Maps, ''Hammersmith & Fulham 1871'', The Godfrey Edition, Consett: Alan Godfrey Maps.</ref> This was accompanied by accelerating [[Urbanization|urbanisation]], as in other centres in the county of Middlesex, which encouraged trade skills among the growing population.

In 1824 the [[Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company]], the first public utility company in the world, bought the [[Sandford Manor House|Sandford estate]] in Sands End to produce gas for lighting — and in the case of the Hurlingham Club, for [[Hot air ballooning|ballooning]].<ref name=SandsEnd>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandsendrevisited.net/work-places/93-north-thames-gas/274-north-thames-gas|title=North Thames Gas|work=Sands End Revisited|access-date=27 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005113508/http://www.sandsendrevisited.net/work-places/93-north-thames-gas/274-north-thames-gas|archive-date=5 October 2011}}</ref> Its ornately decorated number 2 [[gasholder]] is [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]], completed in 1830 and reputed to be the oldest gasholder in the World.<ref name=Gasholder>{{NHLE|num=1261959|desc=Number 2 Gasholder, Fulham Gas Works|access-date=28 June 2011}}</ref> In connection with gas property portfolios, in 1843 the newly formed Westminster Cemetery Company had trouble persuading the Equitable Gas people (a future Imperial take-over) to sell them a small portion of land to gain southern access, onto the [[Fulham Road]], from their recently laid out [[Brompton Cemetery]], over the parish border in Chelsea. The sale was finally achieved through the intervention of cemetery shareholder and Fulham resident, John Gunter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/wamdocs/BromptonCemeterypp_10_15.pdf|title=Map of Brompton Cemetery Layout|website=Rbkc.gov.uk|access-date=30 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202001307/https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/wamdocs/BromptonCemeterypp_10_15.pdf|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.captureburnham.co.uk/heritage-trail/tregunter|title=Tregunter|publisher=Capture Burnham|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002303/http://www.captureburnham.co.uk/heritage-trail/tregunter|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>
[[File:010-brompton-cemetery-15c and Kensington Canal by William Cowen.jpg|thumb|right|Kensington Canal and Brompton Cemetery by William Cowen, with [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]] in the distance. c. 1860]]
Meanwhile, another group of local landowners, led by [[William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington|Lord Kensington]] with [[Sir John Scott Lillie]] and others had conceived, in 1822, the idea of exploiting the water course up-river from [[Chelsea Creek, London|Chelsea Creek]] on their land by turning it into a two-mile canal. It was to have a basin, a lock and wharves, to be known as the [[Kensington Canal]], and link the [[Grand Union Canal]] with the Thames. In reality, however, the project was over budget and delayed by contractor bankruptcies and only opened in 1828, when railways were already gaining traction.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/pp322-338|title=The Kensington Canal, railways and related developments|publisher=British History Online|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104641/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/pp322-338|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> The short-lived canal concept did however leave a legacy: the creation on Lillie's land of a brewery and residential development, 'Rosa', and 'Hermitage Cottages', and several roads, notably, the [[Lillie Road]] connecting the canal bridge, ([[Lillie Bridge (Fulham)|Lillie Bridge]]) at [[West Brompton]] with North End Lane and the eventual creation of two railway lines, the [[West London Line]] and the [[District line]] connecting South London with the rest of the capital. This was done with the input of two noted consulting engineers, [[Robert Stephenson]] in 1840 and from 1860, [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet|Sir John Fowler]].<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/>
[[File:Lillie Bridge Depot and Earl's Court 1928-EPW024262.jpg|thumb|left|Empress Hall with Lillie Bridge Depot, Fulham, before Earl's Court Exhibition was built on the right, 1928-source: Britain from Above.]]
It meant that the area around Lillie Bridge was to make a lasting, if largely unsung, contribution for well over a century to the development and maintenance of public transport in London and beyond. Next to the [[Lillie Bridge Depot|Lillie Bridge engineering Depot]], the [[Midland Railway]] established its own coal and goods yard.<ref name = "EC">{{Cite book| author = Corwin, Elizabeth| title = The Lillie Enclave, North End, Fulham, London| publisher = Countryside Books| date = 2024| page = | isbn = 978 1 84674 431 0}}</ref>

In 1907 the engineering HQ of the [[Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway|Piccadilly Line]] in Richmond Place (16-18 Empress Place) oversaw the westward expansion of the line into the suburbs. At the turn of the century, the [[London General Omnibus Company|London Omnibus Co]] in Seagrave Road oversaw the transition of horse-drawn to motor buses, which were eventually integrated into [[London Transport (brand)|London Transport]] and [[London Buses]]. This attracted a host of other automotive enterprises to move into the area.<ref name = "EC"/>

With the growth of 19th-century transport links into East Fulham and its sporting venues by '[[Lillie Bridge Grounds|Lillie Bridge]]', along with the immediately neighbouring 24-acre [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre|Earl's Court exhibition grounds]], and the vast the Empress Hall (see entertainment section below). During the [[First World War]] it would become accommodation for Belgian refugees. Meanwhile, the historic hamlet of [[North End, Fulham|North End]] was massively redeveloped in the 1880s by Messrs Gibbs & Flew, who built 1,200 houses on the fields. They had trouble disposing of the properties, so for public relations purposes, they renamed the area 'West Kensington', to refer to the more prosperous neighbourhood over the parish boundary.<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title=Fulham Past|location=London, UK|publisher=Historical Publications|page=69|isbn=0-948667-43-5}}</ref>

The last farm to function in Fulham was Crabtree Farm, which closed at the beginning of the 20th century. A principal recorder of all these changes was a local man, [[Charles James Feret|Charles James Féret]] (1854-1921), who conducted research over a period of decades before publishing his three volume history of Fulham in 1900.<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title=Fulham Past|location=London|publisher=Historical Publications|pages=128–29|isbn=0-948667-43-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Féret, Charles|date=1900|title=''Fulham Old and New'', vol.I-III|publisher=[[Leadenhall Press]]|volume=III|url=https://archive.org/details/fulhamoldandnew00frgoog|format=PDF}}</ref>

===Art and Craft===
[[Ceramics]] and weaving in Fulham go back to at least the 17th century, most notably with the [[Fulham Pottery]], followed by the establishment of tapestry and carpet production with a branch of the French 'Gobelins manufactory' and then the short-lived [[Pierre Parisot|Parisot]] weaving school venture in the 1750s. [[William De Morgan]], ceramicist and novelist, moved into Sands End with his painter wife, [[Evelyn De Morgan]], where they lived and worked. Another artist couple, also members of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]], lived at 'the Grange' in [[North End, Fulham|North End]], [[Georgiana Burne-Jones]] and her husband, [[Edward Burne-Jones]], both couples were friends of [[William Morris]].

Other artists who settled along the [[Lillie Road]], were [[Francesco Bartolozzi]], a florentine engraver and [[Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner]], a society portrait painter. [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]], the French expressionist painter and friend of [[Ezra Pound]], lived in [[Walham Green]] till his early death in 1915. Glass production was, until recently, represented by the [[stained glass]] studio of the purpose-built and [[Grade II listed]] [[The Glass House, Fulham|Glass House]] in Lettice Street and latterly, by the Aaronson Noon Studio, with the 'Zest' Gallery in Rickett Street, that was obliged to shut down in 2012, after 20 years by the developers of 'Lillie Square' and [[Earl's Court]]. Both glass businesses have now moved out of London.<ref>Cherry, Bridget and Nikolaus Pevsner "The Buildings of England. London 3: North West", Yale University Press, p. 249. {{ISBN|0-14-071048-5}}</ref><ref name=archives>[https://archive.today/20121223003241/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/aad-2008-1 ''Lowndes & Drury, stained glass workers: records''], archiveshub.ac.uk; retrieved 12 September 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://adamaaronson.com/about-adam-aaronson|title=Adam Aaronson - Adam Aaronson Glass|website=Adamaaronson.com|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730152655/http://adamaaronson.com/about-adam-aaronson/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref>

The Art Bronze Foundry, founded by Charles Gaskin in 1922 operated in Michael Road, off the [[King's Road|New King's Road]], a short distance from [[Eel Brook Common]] until it gave way to an apartment redevelopment in 2017. It had produced works by [[Henry Moore]], [[Elisabeth Frink]], [[Barbara Hepworth]] and [[Jacob Epstein]] among others. Its work may be seen in public spaces all over the world.<ref>[http://www.artbronze.co.uk/3.html Art Bronze Foundry London Ltd] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202004527/http://www.artbronze.co.uk/3.html |date=2 February 2017 }}; accessed 22 October 2016.</ref>

===20th century===
[[File:Empress Place Fulham.jpg|thumb|left|Empress Place (1865), with the former [[Piccadilly line]] HQ, last block on the left of street]]
[[File:Chimney stack at Corbett &McClymont's 1870 Carpentry works in Seagrave Road Fulham.jpg|thumb|right|Chimney stack on the old laundry and [[Kodak]] lab. site in Rylston Road, Fulham]]

In 1926, the Church of England established the office of [[Bishop of Fulham]] as a [[suffragan bishop|suffragan]] to the Bishop of London.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Fulham remained a predominantly working-class area for the first half of the 20th century, with genteel pockets at North End, along the top of Lillie and New King's roads, especially around [[Parsons Green]], [[Eel Brook Common]], South Park and the area surrounding the [[Hurlingham Club]]. Essentially, the area had attracted waves of immigrants from the countryside to service industrialisation and the more privileged parts of the capital.<ref name = "EC"/>
With rapid demographic changes there was poverty, as noted by [[Charles Dickens]] (1812-1870) and [[Charles Booth (social reformer)|Charles Booth]] (1840-1916). Fulham had its [[poorhouse]]s, and attracted several benefactors, including: the [[Samuel Lewis (financier)]] Housing Trust, the [[Peabody Trust]] and the [[Oswald Stoll#Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation|Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation]] to provide low-cost housing.<ref>[http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=list_parishes_by_deanery&arg0=Fulham Charles Booth Poverty Map of London] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161009145320/http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=list_parishes_by_deanery&arg0=Fulham |date=9 October 2016 }}, [[London School of Economics]] Archives; accessed 29 July 2017.</ref>

The [[Metropolitan Asylums Board]] acquired in 1876 a 13-acre site at the bottom of Seagrave Road to build a fever hospital, [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=134  ''The Western Hospital''], that later became an [[National Health Service (England)|NHS]] [[centre of excellence]] for treating [[Poliomyelitis|polio]] until its closure in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.workhouses.org.uk/MAB-WFever|title= The Western Fever Hospital, Fulham|first= Peter|last= Higginbotham|website= Workhouses.org.uk|access-date= 29 July 2017|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170801151541/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/MAB-WFever/|archive-date= 1 August 2017|df= dmy-all}}</ref> Bar one ward block remaining in private occupation, it was replaced by a gated-flats development and a small public space, Brompton Park.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/western.html|title= Lost_Hospitals_of_London|website= ezitis.myzen.co.uk|access-date= 29 July 2017|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160314071724/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/western.html|archive-date= 14 March 2016|df= dmy-all}}</ref>
 
Aside from the centuries-old brewing industry, exemplified by the Swan Brewery on the Thames,<ref>{{cite web|title= A photograph of the maltings at Swan Wharf|url= https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/swan-wharf-fulham-3867|website= Historicengland.org.uk|access-date= 23 August 2021|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210823123431/https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/swan-wharf-fulham-3867|archive-date= 23 August 2021|df= dmy-all}}</ref> the main industrial activities involved motoring and early aviation — [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]], [[Shell-Mex & BP]], [[Rover Company|Rover]], the [[London General Omnibus Company]] — and rail engineering ([[Lillie Bridge Depot]]), laundries — the Palace Laundry is still extant — and the building trades.<ref>{{cite web|title= Photograph of Rolls' Lillie Hall car showroom|url= http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10316386&cs=tJ~GpjmmK~WDyrs&pb=Cars&themex=51|website= Scienceandsociety.co.uk|access-date= 30 July 2017|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170730160435/https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10316386&cs=tJ~GpjmmK~WDyrs&pb=Cars&themex=51|archive-date= 30 July 2017|df= dmy-all}}</ref> Later there developed distilling, Sir Robert Burnett's ''White Satin Gin'',<ref>The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the YEAR MDCCXCV. Volume LXV, Part the first.  London. p. 344</ref> food processing, e.g. Telfer's Pies, Encafood and [[Spaghetti House]], and [[Kodak]]'s photographic processing. This encouraged the southern stretch of [[North End Road]] to become Fulham's unofficial [[High Street|"High street"]], almost a mile from the actual [[Fulham High Street]], with its own department store, F.H. Barbers, along with [[Woolworths (United Kingdom)|Woolworths]], [[Marks & Spencer]] and [[Sainsbury's]] outlets, all long gone. The second ever [[Tesco]] shop opened in the North End Road. The UK's reputedly oldest independent [[Health food store|health-food shop]], opened in 1966 by the [[Aetherius Society]], still trades on [[Fulham Road]].

Allied to these developments, the [[postwar]] period saw the extensive demolition of Fulham's early 19th-century architectural stock, replaced by some [[Brutalist architecture]] — the current Ibis hotel — and the [[Empress State Building]] in Lillie Road that in 1962 replaced the declining Empress Hall.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} The [[London County Council]] and local council continued with much-needed council-housing development between [[World War II]] and up to the 1980s.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Fulham's traditional population of working people has been partially displaced by affluent newcomers since the turn of the century.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Masey |first1=Anthea |title=Four miles west of central London, this affluent Zone 2 area has something for everyone |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-live/living-in-fulham-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a94966.html |website=Evening Standard |language=en |date=27 January 2017}}</ref>

===Piece of aviation history===
[[Geoffrey de Havilland]], aviation pioneer, built his first aeroplane at his workshop in Bothwell Street, Fulham in 1909.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/de-havilland-the-man-and-the-company/aviation-pioneer.aspx|title=Aviation Pioneer|work=rafmuseum.org.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010093620/http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/de-havilland-the-man-and-the-company/aviation-pioneer.aspx|archive-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> Later, during the [[First World War]], Cannon's Brewery site at the corner of Lillie and North End Road was used for aircraft manufacture.<ref>Pearson, Lynn. (1990) ''British Breweries: An Architectural History'', London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 60</ref> The [[Darracq Motor Engineering Company]] of Townmead Road, became aircraft manufacturers in Fulham for the [[Airco]] company, producing De Havilland designs and components for the duration of the war.

===Musical heritage===
[[William Crathern]], the composer, was organist at St Mary's Church, West Kensington, when it was still known as [[North End, Fulham|North End]]. [[Edward Elgar]], the composer, lived at 51 Avonmore Road, W14, between 1890 and 1891.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elgar.org/2houses.htm|title=ELGAR - The Elgar Trail|website=Elgar.org|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822002121/http://www.elgar.org/2houses.htm|archive-date=22 August 2017}}</ref> The notorious Italian tenor [[Giovanni Matteo Mario|Giovanni Matteo Mario de Candia]] and his wife opera singer [[Giulia Grisi]], made Fulham their home from 1852 until the 1900s at a lovely country-manor where their daughters and son were born, among them writer [[Cecilia Maria de Candia]].<ref>Pleasants, Henry (1966), The Great Singers: From the Dawn of Opera to Our Present Time. New York: Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|0-671-20612-5}}</ref> Conductor and composer [[Hyam Greenbaum]] married the harpist [[Sidonie Goossens]] on 26 April 1924 at Kensington Registry Office and they set up home in a first floor flat on the Fulham Road, opposite [[Michelin House]].<ref>Rosen, Carole. ''The Goossens: A Musical Century'' (1993), pp. 88-92</ref>

===Redevelopment===
[[File:Earls court.jpg|thumb|left|Aerial view of Earl's Court, 2008 L-R [[Empress State Building]], Earl's Court Two in H&F and Earl's Court One in RBKC]]
With the accession of [[Boris Johnson]] to the mayoralty of London, a controversial 80 acre high-rise redevelopment has been under way on the eastern borough boundary with the [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]], involving the dismantling of the two [[Earl's Court Exhibition Centre]]s in RBKC and in Hammersmith and Fulham and the emptying and demolition of hundreds of commercial properties, thousands of both private and social housing units and including the demolition of a rare example in Fulham of mid-Victorian housing, designed by [[John Young (architect)|John Young]], close to Grade I and II listed structures and to a number of conservation areas in both boroughs. It also involves the closure of the historic Lillie Bridge Depot, opened in 1872 and the dispersal of its operations by [[Transport for London|TfL]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Carmichael, Sri|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798298-on-the-bill-earls-court-demolished-to-make-way-for-8000-flats.do|title=On the Bill: Earls Court Demolished To Make Way for 8,000 Flats|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|date=22 January 2010|access-date=7 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126105905/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798298-on-the-bill-earls-court-demolished-to-make-way-for-8000-flats.do|archive-date=26 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hatcher|first=David|url=http://www.propertyweek.com/olympian-effort/3143254.article|title=Olympian Effort|work=[[Property Week]]|date=19 June 2009|access-date=5 August 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314042938/http://www.propertyweek.com/olympian-effort/3143254.article|archive-date=14 March 2012}}</ref>