Editing Fulham (section)

===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>