Editing Fulham

{{Short description|Area of west London, England}}
{{About|an area in London|the football club|Fulham F.C.|other uses}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}
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{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| map_type = Greater London
| region = London
| population = 87,161
| population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hammersmith-and-fulham-e09000013#sthash.vabOA0V7.dpbs |title=Hammersmith and Fulham - UK Census Data 2011 |website=Ukcensusdata.com |access-date=2 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321081229/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hammersmith-and-fulham-e09000013#sthash.vabOA0V7.dpbs |archive-date=21 March 2017 }}</ref>
| official_name = Fulham
| static_image_name = Fulham Palace courtyard - geograph.org.uk - 835758.jpg
| static_image_caption = [[Fulham Palace]], the Grade I listed former residence of the [[Bishop of London]]
| coordinates = {{coord|51.4828|-0.1950|display=inline,title}}
| london_borough = Hammersmith and Fulham
| constituency_westminster = [[Chelsea and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chelsea and Fulham]] [[Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith]]
| post_town = LONDON
| postcode_district = SW6, W14, W6
| postcode_area = SW
| dial_code = 0207
| os_grid_reference = TQ245765
| charingX_distance_mi = 3.6
| charingX_direction = NE
}}
[[File:Hammersmith_and_Fulham_London_UK_labelled_ward_map_2002.svg|thumb|London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Ward Map, 2002-present. Fulham is the southern part of the borough.]]
'''Fulham''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ʊ|l|ə|m}}) is an area of the [[London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham]] in [[West London]], England, {{convert|3.6|mi|km|1}} southwest of [[Charing Cross]]. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the [[River Thames]], bordering [[Hammersmith]], [[Kensington]] and [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], with which it shares the area known as [[West Brompton]]. Over the Thames, Fulham faces [[Wandsworth]], [[Putney]], the [[London Wetland Centre]] in [[Barnes, London|Barnes]] in the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://londoncanals.uk/2010/01/14/the-kensington-canal-from-west-brompton-to-olympia/|title=The Kensington Canal – West Brompton to Olympia – London Canals|website=Londoncanals.uk|date=14 January 2010 |access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730072349/http://londoncanals.uk/2010/01/14/the-kensington-canal-from-west-brompton-to-olympia/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref><ref name=london_plan_f08>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf|author=Mayor of London|publisher=[[Greater London Authority]]|title=London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004)|date=February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602000714/http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf|archive-date=2 June 2010|author-link=Mayor of London}}</ref>

First recorded by name in 691, it was an extensive [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Anglo-Saxon]] estate, the [[Fulham Palace|Manor of Fulham]], and then a parish. Its domain stretched from modern-day [[Chiswick]] in the west to [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] in the southeast; and from [[Harlesden]] in the northwest to [[Kensal Green]] in the northeast bordered by the littoral of [[Counter's Creek]] and the Manor of Kensington.<ref name="Timeline">{{Cite web |url=https://www.fulhampalace.org/house-garden/timeline/ |title=Timeline |website=Fulham Palace |language=en |access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref> It originally included today's Hammersmith. Between 1900 and 1965, it was demarcated as the [[Metropolitan Borough of Fulham]], before its merger with the [[Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith]] to create the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (known as the London Borough of Hammersmith from 1965 to 1979). The district is split between the [[W postcode area|western]] and [[SW postcode area|south-western]] postal areas.

Fulham industrial history includes pottery, tapestry-weaving, paper-making and brewing in the 17th and 18th centuries in [[Fulham High Street]], and later the automotive industry, aviation, food production, and laundries.<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title=Fulham Past|location=London, UK|publisher=Historical Publications|pages=106–16|isbn=0-948667-43-5}}</ref> In the 19th century, there was glass-blowing and this resurged in the 21st century with the Aronson-Noon studio and the former Zest gallery in Rickett Street. [[Lillie Bridge Depot]], a railway engineering depot, opened in 1872, is associated with the building and extension of the [[London Underground]], the electrification of Tube lines from the nearby [[Lots Road Power Station]], and for well over a century has been the maintenance hub for rolling stock and track.<ref>[http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/route%20and%20track%20diagrams.htm#West%20Kensington%20and%20Lillie%20Bridge Route and Track diagrams for West Kensington and Lillie Bridge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921220545/http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/route%20and%20track%20diagrams.htm |date=21 September 2012 }}, trainweb.org; retrieved 3 October 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/pp322-338#fnn61 "The Kensington Canal, railways and related developments" Pages 322-338] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104641/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/pp322-338 |date=30 July 2017 }}, ''Survey of London'': Volume 42, Kensington Square To Earl's Court. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1986.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>

Two Premier League football clubs, [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] and [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]], play in Fulham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fulhamfc.com/|title=Fulham Football Club|website=Fulhamfc.com|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728202822/http://www.fulhamfc.com/|archive-date=28 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chelseafc.com/|title=Home|website=Chelseafc.com|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728181842/http://www.chelseafc.com/|archive-date=28 July 2017}}</ref> Two other notable sporting clubs are [[the Hurlingham Club]], known for [[polo]], and the [[Queen's tennis club]], known for its annual pre-[[Wimbledon tennis tournament|Wimbledon]] tennis tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk|title=Private Members Club - London - UK |publisher=The Hurlingham Club|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730105042/https://www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.queensclub.co.uk|title=Homepage - The Queen's Club|date=30 December 2010|website=Queensclub.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730072047/https://www.queensclub.co.uk/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> In the 1800s, [[Lillie Bridge Grounds]] hosted the first meetings of the [[Amateur Athletic Association of England]], the second [[FA Cup Final]], and the first amateur boxing matches.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp301-302 "Sport, ancient and modern: Athletics", in ''A History of the County of Middlesex'': Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822124845/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp301-302 |date=22 August 2016 }}, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 301-02; accessed 15 October 2016.</ref> The [[Lillie Bridge]] area was the home ground of the [[Middlesex County Cricket Club]], before it moved to [[Marylebone]].<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp270-273 "Sport, ancient and modern: Cricket, Middlesex County", in ''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018223547/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp270-273 |date=18 October 2016 }}, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 270-73; accessed 15 October 2016.</ref>

==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>

==Politics==
[[File:Michael Stewart.jpg|thumb|right|Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham]]
Fulham is part of two constituencies: one, [[Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith]] bounded by the north side of the Lillie Road, is represented by [[Andy Slaughter]] for [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], the other, [[Chelsea and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chelsea and Fulham]] parliamentary seat is currently held by [[Ben Coleman (politician)|Ben Coleman]] for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] since 2024. It had been held by [[Greg Hands]] and the [[Conservatives]] for many years before this. Fulham was formerly a part of the [[Hammersmith and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith and Fulham]] parliamentary constituency which was dissolved in 2010 to form the current seats. However, parts of Fulham continue to score highly on the [[Brian Jarman|Jarman Index]], indicating poor health outcomes due to adverse socio-economic factors.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Fulham has in the past been solid Labour territory. [[Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham|Michael Stewart]], one time Foreign Secretary in the [[First Wilson ministry|Wilson government]], was its long-standing MP, from 1945 until he stood down in 1979. It became a politically significant part of the country, having been the scene of two major parliamentary by-elections in the 20th century. In 1933, the Fulham East by-election became known as the "peace by-election". The 1986 by-election following the death of Conservative MP, [[Martin Stevens (politician)|Martin Stevens]], resulted in a Labour win for [[Nick Raynsford]] on a 10% swing.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

With "[[gentrification]]", Fulham voters have been leaning towards the Conservatives since the 1980s as the area underwent huge demographic change: the tightly packed [[terraced house|terraces]] which had housed working-class families employed in trade, engineering and the industry that dominated Fulham's riverside being gradually replaced with young professionals.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

In the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 General Election]], Greg Hands won the Hammersmith and Fulham Parliamentary seat for the Conservatives, polling 45.4% against Labour's 35.2%, a 7.3% swing. In the 2010 General Election, he was re-elected this time for the newly formed Chelsea and Fulham constituency. In the 2015 General Election he was returned with an increased share of the vote.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} In the 2024 General Election Ben Coleman defeated Greg Hands by [https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/councillors-and-democracy/elections/previous-election-results/2024-general-election-results 151 votes] to retake the seat for the Labour Party.

[[Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council|Hammersmith and Fulham]] is currently controlled by Labour. At the [[2014 United Kingdom local elections|2014 local elections]], Labour won 11 seats from the Conservatives, giving them 26 councillors and control of the council (said to have been the then Prime Minister [[David Cameron]]'s "favourite"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-take-control-of-hammersmith-and-fulham-council-amid-gains-across-london-9424328.html|title=Labour take control of Hammersmith and Fulham council amid gains across London|last=Watts|first=Joseph|date=23 May 2014|work=The Evening Standard|access-date=13 September 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064605/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-take-control-of-hammersmith-and-fulham-council-amid-gains-across-london-9424328.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>) for the first time since 2006.

==Sport, entertainment and life-style==

===Sport===
[[File:Stamford-Bridge,WestStand entrance, day.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]], home of [[Chelsea FC]]]]
The first organised sporting activity in Fulham took place at the [[Lillie Bridge Grounds]] in the 1860s when British Amateur Athletics were introduced and the first codified [[Boxing]] under [[Marquess of Queensberry Rules]] matches were staged. The catalyst for sport in Fulham was the [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] rowing blue and sports administrator, Welshman [[John Graham Chambers]]. Later, with the destruction of the Lillie Bridge Grounds by a riot in 1889, they were replaced first by the [[Fulham F.C.]] stadium [[Craven Cottage]] and the [[Chelsea F.C.]] stadium at [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]].
Other sports facilities were opened at The Queen's Club for [[Rackets (sport)|rackets]] and tennis and at the private members' [[Hurlingham Club]], for a range of sporting activities in the south of the borough. [[Hurlingham Park]]'s tennis courts are used as netball courts and tennis nets are taken down and so restricting access to the courts for tennis. Hurlingham Park hosts the annual Polo in the Park tournament, which has become a recent feature of the area. The Hurlingham club is the historic home of [[polo]] in the United Kingdom and of the world governing body of polo.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Public tennis courts are located in Bishops Avenue, off Fulham Palace Road and on Eel Brook Common. Rugby is played on Eel Brook Common and in [[South Park, Fulham|South Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk|title=Private Members Club - London - UK - The Hurlingham Club|website=The Hurlingham Club|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730105042/https://www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> Normand Park in Lillie Road is the entry into the Virgin Active-operated ''Fulham Pools'' swimming facilities and neighbouring tennis courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/played-in-london-directory-sporting-assets-london/DirectoryofHistoricSportingAssetsinLondon.pdf|title=Played in London : a directory of historic sporting assets in London|publisher=English Heritage|date=2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002151/https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/played-in-london-directory-sporting-assets-london/DirectoryofHistoricSportingAssetsinLondon.pdf/|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>

Fulham has five active [[Bowls]] clubs: The Bishops Park Bowls club, The Hurlingham Park Bowls Club, Normand Park Bowls Club, The Parson's Green Bowls club and The Winnington in Bishops Park.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
[[File:Fulham Baths 01.JPG|thumb|right|Fulham Baths]]

===Entertainment===
The historic entertainment destinations in Fulham, have included [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre|Earl's Court Pleasure Gardens]], the brain-child of [[John Robinson Whitley]], straddling the border with Kensington since 1879, then the 1894 [[Great Wheel]] and the 6,000-seater Empress Hall,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/EmpressHall.htm|title=Empress Theatre / Empress Hall, Lillie Road, Earls Court, London|website=Arthurlloyd.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730025633/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/EmpressHall.htm|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> built in 1894 at the instigation of international impresario, [[Imre Kiralfy]] — the scene of his spectacular shows and later sporting events and famous ice shows — and latterly, Earl's Court II, part of the [[Earl's Court Exhibition Centre]] in the neighbouring, [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw055910|title=Britain From Above|website=Britainfromabove.org.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730023027/http://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw055910|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> The first closed in 1959, replaced by an office block, the [[Empress State Building]]. The second, opened by [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess Diana]], lasted just over 20 years until 2014. Along with the architecturally pleasing Mid-Victorian Empress Place, formerly access to the exhibition centre, it is destined for high rise re-development, but with usage as yet to be confirmed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/planning/planning-applications/major-planning-applications/earls-court-planning-application|title=Earls Court planning application|date=16 December 2015|website=Lbhf.gov.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730013255/https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/planning/planning-applications/major-planning-applications/earls-court-planning-application|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saveearlscourt.com|title=Save Earl's Court! – Home|publisher=Saveearlscourt.com|access-date=15 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116090110/http://www.saveearlscourt.com/|archive-date=16 January 2014}}</ref>

No trace is left today of either of Fulham's two theatres, both opened in 1897. The 'Grand Theatre' was on the approach to [[Putney Bridge]] and was designed by the prolific [[WGR Sprague]], author of venues such as [[Wyndham's Theatre]] and the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in London's [[West End of London|West End]]. It gave way to office blocks in the late 1950s. The 'Granville Theatre', founded by [[Dan Leno]], to the design of [[Frank Matcham]], once graced a triangle of land at [[Walham Green]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/FulhamTheatres.htm|title=Theatres and Halls in Fulham, London|website=Arthurlloyd.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731194137/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/FulhamTheatres.htm|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> After the [[Music hall]] era had passed, It served as a film and television studio, but was finally demolished in 1971. It too has been replaced by an office block in Fulham Broadway.<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title=Fulham Past|location=London, UK|publisher=Historical Publications|page=117|isbn=0-948667-43-5}}</ref>

The performing arts continue in Fulham, like the notable [[Fulham Symphony Orchestra]] and the successful Fulham Opera.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fulhamopera.co.uk|title=Fulham Opera – Fulham Opera's Site|website=Fulhamopera.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2017}}</ref> St John's Parish Church, at the top of [[North End Road]], stages choral and instrumental concerts as do other churches in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stjohnsfulham.org/index.php/music|title=MUSIC|website=Stjohnsfulham.org|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730020355/http://www.stjohnsfulham.org/index.php/music|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref>

There is a cinema complex as part of the Fulham Broadway Centre. [[Fulham Town Hall]], built in 1888 in the ''classical renaissance'', was used as a popular venue for concerts and dances, especially its Grand Hall. Behind Fulham Broadway, the heart of the original village of [[Walham Green]] has undergone pedestrianisation, including the spot once occupied by the village green and its pond next to St. John's Parish Church and bordered by a number of cafés, bars, and a dance studio in the old Fulham Public Baths. The largest extant supermarket in Fulham, is located on the site of a cinema later converted to the iconic "Dicky Dirts" jean store with its sloping shop-floor, at the top of [[North End Road]]'s [[Street market]]. It started a new trend in how retail was done.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/detail/6540/1/Magazine-Advert/Dickie-Dirts|title=The Advertising Archives - Magazine Advert - Dickie Dirts - 1980s|publisher=Advertising Archives|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095425/http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/detail/6540/1/Magazine-Advert/Dickie-Dirts|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

The debut albums by 1970s new wave bands [[The Stranglers]] ([[Rattus Norvegicus (album)|''Rattus Norvegicus'']]) and [[Generation X]] ([[Generation X (album)|''Generation X'']]) were recorded at TW Studios, 211 Fulham Palace Road. The Greyhound music venue at 176 Fulham Palace Road hosted up and coming punk, post-punk and indie bands in the late 1970s and the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/5539021113 | title=London Lost Music Venues: Rock Music 12 - the Greyhound | date=8 January 2011 }}</ref> Film music creator, [[Hans Zimmer]] double [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] winner, launched his career in a studio behind the Lillie Langtry public house in [[Lillie Road]] in the 1970s.<ref name = "EC"/>

===Gin, breweries and pubs===
[[File:Lillie Langtry pub (formerly, 'The Lillie Arms) 1835.jpg|thumb|left|Lillie Langtry pub (formerly, 'The Lillie Arms'), 1835]]
The most illustrious brewery in Fulham was the [[Swan Brewery]], Walham Green, dating back to the 17th century. Among its patrons were kings and other royalty.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp168-178 "Industries: Brewing", in ''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton'', ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 168-178] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103094104/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp168-178 |date=3 November 2016 }}; accessed 29 July 2017.</ref> It was followed by the North End Brewery in 1832, Cannons again in North End in 1867 and finally on account of [[Temperance movement|temperance]], the [[non-alcoholic beer|alcohol-free]] phenomenon that was [[Kops Brewery]] founded in 1890 at a site in [[Sands End]].{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} In 1917 Kops Brewery closed and was converted into a margarine factory.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page4233.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201202022147/http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page4233.htm| archive-date = 2 December 2020| title = Kops Brewery}}</ref>

Gin distilling came to the remnants of the North End Brewery in Seagrave Road after a brief period of service as a timber works in the 1870s and lasted for almost a century. The premises were taken over by distillers Vickers who at the outbreak of the [[First World War]] sold out to Burnett's, producers of White Satin Gin, until a 1970s take-over by a [[Kentucky]] liquor business. None of the breweries remains.<ref name = "EC"/>

With its long history of brewing, Fulham still has a number of pubs and [[gastropub]]s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Amies, Chris|date=2004|title=Images of London: Hammersmith and Fulham Pubs|publisher=Tempus Publications|isbn=978-0752432533}}</ref> The oldest tavern is the ''Lillie Langtry'' in Lillie Road, originally the ''Lillie Arms'' named after its first freeholder, Sir John Scott Lillie, who built it in 1835 as part of the 'North End Brewery' complex, run from 1832 to 1833 by a Miss Goslin.<ref>Féret, Charles. (1900) ''Fulham Old and New'', volume II, p. 271-73.</ref> It was intended originally to service the Kensington Canal workers and bargees. Later, it was the watering hole of the new railway builders, motor and omnibus company staff and latterly Earl's Court exhibition and Chelsea F.C. visitors. Of the three popular neighbouring pubs acquired by developers during 2014–15, the ''Imperial Arms'' and the ''Prince of Wales'' were forced to shut; only the ''Atlas'', reconstructed after bomb damage in the [[Second World War]], has been reprieved.

''[[The White Horse (pub)|The White Horse]]'' in [[Parsons Green]] is colloquially known by many as the "Sloaney Pony",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/barguide/story/0,,668959,00.html|title=London (part two)|publisher=Observer.guardian.co.uk|access-date=19 May 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921222846/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/barguide/story/0,,668959,00.html|archive-date=21 September 2012}}</ref> a reference to the "[[Sloane Ranger]]s" who frequent it. Pubs which are [[Grade II listed building]]s include the ''[[Duke of Cumberland, Fulham|Duke on the Green]]'' and ''[[Aragon House]]'' both facing Parsons Green, ''[[The Cock, Fulham|the Cock]]'' in [[North End Road]], and the ''[[Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham|Temperance]]'' in Fulham High Street. Other pubs include ''the Durrell'' in Fulham Road, the locally and [[Michelin Guide]] listed 1866 ''Harwood Arms'' in Walham Grove and ''the Mitre'' on Bishops Road.<ref>[http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Fulham UK historical street directory of London and the UK] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011172045/http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Fulham/ |date=11 October 2016 }}, pubshistory.com; accessed 29 July 2017.</ref>

===Open space===
[[File:Bishops-park.JPG|thumb|right|[[Bishop's Park (Fulham)|Bishop's Park]]]]
Fulham has several parks, cemeteries and open spaces, of which [[Bishop's Park (Fulham)|Bishop's Park]], [[Fulham Palace]] Gardens, [[Hurlingham Park]], [[South Park, Fulham|South Park]], [[Eel Brook Common]] and [[Parsons Green]] are the largest.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Among the other spaces are Normand Park, the vestige of a convent garden with a bowling green, [[Lillie Rec|Lillie Road Recreation Ground]] with its gym facility and Brompton Park in Seagrave Road. The [[Thames]] riverside walk in Bishop's Park is interrupted by the Fulham football ground, but resumes after the neighbouring flats and continues to the Crabtree pub and beyond, past the Riverside Cafe on towards [[Hammersmith Bridge]], affording views of the river and rural scenes on the opposite bank. It is part of the [[Thames Path]].{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

==Heritage==

===Architectural===
[[File:Fulham Pottery, September 2016 01.jpg|thumb|left|Sole remnant of [[Fulham Pottery]], one kiln]]
Fulham parish's rural past meant that its grand houses and not so grand vernacular and industrial buildings were either clustered in the village of [[Walham Green]], along the Thames or scattered among the fields of the hamlet of [[North End, Fulham|North End]]. Many historic structures fell prey to industrialisation, war-time bombing or a rush to demolition and redevelopment. Gone are [[Edward Burne-Jones|Burne-Jones]]'s 'Grange' in W14 and [[Samuel Foote|Foote]]'s 'Hermitage' villa and park as is [[Joseph Williams Lovibond|Lovibond]]'s Cannon Brewery in SW6.<ref>[http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=11712 Lovibond's Cannon Brewery, North End, Fulham] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005183437/http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=11712 |date=5 October 2016 }}, heritage-explorer.co.uk; accessed 29 July 2017.</ref>

The ancient buildings and estate of [[Fulham Palace]], the seat of the Bishops of London until 1973, remains the outstanding asset with its Grade I listed medieval and [[Tudor period|Tudor]] buildings including a small museum, 13 acres of grounds, walled garden, and the part-excavated longest [[moat]] in England. The gardens are Grade II* listed. The further original grounds are now divided between a park by the riverside, All Saints’ Primary School and The Moat School, and public [[Allotment (gardening)|allotment]]s.

[[Church Gate, Fulham|Church Gate]] to the south of [[Fulham Palace]], is the approach to [[All Saints Church, Fulham|All Saints Church]], with its 14-15th-c. tower and 18th-c. tombs in the churchyard including those of a number of the Bishops of London. The [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791]] led to a gradual reintroduction of Catholic worship in the parish, but not until 1847 was the foundation stone laid for a church. This was [[St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Fulham]], with its presbytery, churchyard and school, off [[Lillie Road|Crown Lane]], designed in [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] style by [[Augustus Pugin]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=O'Donnell, Roderick|date= 2007|title= Pious bachelors, converts, fathers and sons - English Catholic architects 1791–1939| journal=Ecclesiology Today |issue=38| pages= 25–36|url= http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET.38.pdf}}</ref> It is his only complete church and associated buildings in London and is [[Grade II* listed]].<ref>{{NHLE|num=1358590| desc=  Name: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury|access-date = 16 July 2020}}</ref>

There are a number of other statutorily and locally listed structures strewn across Fulham. Worthy of note is the last remaining conical kiln of the [[Fulham Pottery]]. Broomhouse Lane has a number of structures of interest, ranging from the Broomhouse draw-dock of medieval origin to 18th-c. cottages (Sycamore and Ivy) and the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic revival]] [[Castle Club]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panoramaofthethames.com/1829/guide/broom-house-dock|title=Broom House Dock - Guide to London's Georgian Thames|website=Panorama of the Thames|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104143/http://www.panoramaofthethames.com/1829/guide/broom-house-dock|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> [[The Vineyard, Fulham|The Vineyard]] in Hurlingham Road is of 17th-c. origin with later 19th-c. additions such as the stable buildings. The [[Hurlingham Club]] and grounds are of 18th-c. origin and Grade II* listed.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
The winding [[North End Road, Fulham|North End Road]] had several buildings of note. What remains are  'Crowthers' at no. 282, first built in 1712 with its extant 18th-c. gate-piers and the [[Modernism|modernist]] (1938) [[Seven Stars, West Kensington|Seven Stars]] public house, acquired by developers in 2014 and now converted into flats.

The New King's Road contains several 18th-c. and early 19th-c. residences, namely, [[Northumberland House, Fulham|Northumberland House]], [[Claybrook House]], Jasmine House, Belgrave House, [[Aragon House]], and [[237–245 New King's Road]], all Grade II listed.<ref>Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group, 2004, ''Local List''. Ed. Angela Dixon, Fourth Edition; revised September 2004.</ref>
[[File:Aragon House, Parsons Green, SW6 (5306977458).jpg|thumb|right|Aragon House, Parsons Green, SW6]]
Much of the stock in Fulham attests its vigorous 19th-c. industrial and urban development, most of it, 'low-rise', and benefiting from the brick-fields that abounded locally at the time. An unlisted vestige of the early industrial era is the 1826 remnant of Gunter's canal bridge, still visible from platform 4 at [[West Brompton station]].<ref name = "EC"/>

===Fulham in popular music and film===
[[File:Thomas Robert Way00.jpg|right|thumb|Thomas Robert Way]]
Fulham has several references in song lyrics: 
* The album, ''[[Passion Play (album)|Passion Play]]'', by [[progressive rock]] band, [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], contains: ''There was a rush along the Fulham Road/There was a hush in the Passion Play''. 
*''[[London's Brilliant Parade]]'' by [[Elvis Costello]], has the lyrics: ''From the gates of St. Mary's/There were horses in Olympia/And a trolley bus in Fulham Broadway''.
* ''[[What A Waste]]'' by [[Ian Dury and the Blockheads]], contains the lines: ''I could be a writer with a growing reputation/I could be a ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station''.
* ''[[Kiss Me Deadly (album)|Kiss Me Deadly]]'' by [[Billy Idol]]'s 1970s [[punk rock]] band, [[Generation X (band)|Generation X]], paints a gritty picture of casual street violence in 1970s Fulham. The song contains the refrain: ''Having fun, in South West Six,'' as well as the line, ''Hustling down the Fulham Road/Doing deals with Mr Cool''. The song also makes reference to The [[Greyhound Pub]], since closed, in Fulham Palace Road, and to the subway under [[Hammersmith Broadway]].
* ''[[Ejector Seat Reservation]]'' by [[alternative rock]] band, [[Swervedriver]], has the line: ''And just don't tell me the Fulham score''.
* ''Pretty Things'' by [[Take That]] has the line: ''At Fulham Broadway Station, I see them every day'' in 2010 album ''[[Progress (Take That album)|Progress]]''.
* West London [[hip-hop]] artist, [[Example (musician)|Example]], released a comedy song, ''[[You Can't Rap]]'', with the chorus line: ''You can't rap, my friend/You're white and you're from Fulham/Please put down the mic./ There's no way you can fool them''.

Fulham has been featured in films including ''[[The Omen]]'' and ''[[The L-Shaped Room]]''. [[Fulham Broadway tube station|Fulham Broadway Underground station]] was used in ''[[Sliding Doors]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/artwork/fulham-broadway/|title=Labyrinth|website=art.tfl.gov.uk|date=18 October 2013}}</ref>

[[Esther Rantzen]], presenter of long-running [[BBC One]] TV magazine, ''[[That's Life!]]'' frequently used [[North End Road|North End]] market to gauge public opinion (''[[Vox populi|vox pop]]'').

===Education===
Fulham is home to several schools, including independent pre-preparatory and [[Preparatory school (UK)|preparatory]] schools. Noted Fulham secondary establishments are the Grade II Listed [[Fulham Cross Girls School]], [[London Oratory School|The London Oratory School]], [[Lady Margaret School]] and [[Fulham Cross Academy]].<ref>{{NHLE|num=1393344|desc=FULHAM CROSS SCHOOL AND SCHOOL KEEPER'S HOUSE, Hammersmith and Fulham |access-date=29 July 2017}}</ref> There is also [[Kensington Preparatory School]], that moved from [[Kensington]] into a former convent, next to [[Fulham Library]] in 1997.
<ref>Arabella Youens. "A Guide to Parsons Green". ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]''. 2014. https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/london-property/guide-to-parsons-green-2888 (accessed 29 April 2019)</ref> To cater for the large French-speaking population in the area, a French language primary school, 'Marie d'Orliac', has opened in the [[Grade II]] listed former [[Peterborough School, Fulham|Peterborough School]] near [[Parsons Green tube station]]. It is a feeder school for the [[Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle]] in [[South Kensington]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Charlotte |last1=Faucher |first2=Olivier |last2=Rauch |first3=Floriane |last3=Zuniga |first4=Éric |last4=Simon |title=Le Lycée français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, 1915–2015 |language=fr|place=London |publisher=Association des Anciens du Lycée français de Londres |year=2015 |isbn=978-0993097706}} Centenary edition of the school's history</ref>

==Transport==
An early account of Fulham, from a pedestrian's viewpoint, is provided by [[Thomas Crofton Croker]] in his journal published in 1860.<ref name="Croker1860">{{cite book|author=Thomas Crofton Croker|title=A walk from London to Fulham|url=https://archive.org/details/awalkfromlondon00crokgoog|access-date=1 December 2015|year=1860|publisher=W. Tegg|pages=[https://archive.org/details/awalkfromlondon00crokgoog/page/n193 187]–188|author-link=Thomas Crofton Croker}}</ref>

===Rail===
[[File:Putney Bridge Underground Station - geograph.org.uk - 685230.jpg|right|thumb|[[Putney Bridge tube station|Putney Bridge Underground station]] entrance]]
[[File:Lillie Bridge into Fulham.jpg|thumb|right|From [[West Brompton station]], looking over Lillie Bridge into Fulham, 2015]]
Fulham nestles in a loop of the Thames across the river from [[Barnes, London|Barnes]] and [[Putney]]. It straddles the [[Wimbledon station|Wimbledon]] and [[Richmond tube station|Richmond]]/[[Ealing Broadway tube station|Ealing Broadway]] branches of the [[District line]] of the tube&nbsp;— Fulham's tube stations are [[Putney Bridge tube station|Putney Bridge]], [[Parsons Green tube station|Parsons Green]], [[Fulham Broadway tube station|Fulham Broadway]] (originally named ''Walham Green''), [[West Kensington tube station|West Kensington]] (originally ''Fulham - North End'') and [[Baron's Court tube station|Baron's Court]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Denny, Barbara|date=1997|title= Fulham Past| location=London|publisher= Historical Publications|page=72|isbn= 0-948667-43-5}}</ref>

The [[London Overground]] [[West London Line]] stops at {{stnlnk|West Brompton}}, just inside the [[Hammersmith and Fulham|Fulham]] borough boundary, and at {{stnlnk|Imperial Wharf}} in Fulham, [[Sands End]]. Until 1940 there was a [[Chelsea and Fulham railway station]] on this line, close to Stamford Bridge Stadium on Fulham Road, but this was closed following [[the Blitz|World War II bomb damage]].<ref name=subbrit>{{cite web|title=Chelsea & Fulham|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/chelsea_fulham/index.shtml|work=Disused Stations|publisher=Subterranea Britannica|access-date=31 July 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202330/http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/chelsea_fulham/index.shtml|archive-date=29 October 2013}}</ref>

===Major roads===
Major urban routes, or trunk roads, cross the area: The Talgarth Road — the [[A4 road (England)|A4]], Fulham Palace Road — the [[A218 road]], Fulham Road — the [[A219 road]], the New King's Road — the [[A308 road]], Wandsworth Bridge Road — the [[A217 road]], [[Dawes Road, London|Dawes Road]] — the [[A3219 road]], Lillie Road — the [[A3218 road]].

===River crossings===
[[File:Putney Bridge.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Putney Bridge]] with Fulham on the left]]
By road:
* [[Wandsworth Bridge]]
* [[Putney Bridge]]
* [[Lillie Bridge (Fulham)|Lillie Bridge]], formerly a Thames tributary crossing, now over two railway routes.
* Counter's Bridge at [[Kensington (Olympia) station|Olympia]], over the West London Line in the Counter's creek littoral.

By rail:
* [[Battersea Railway Bridge|Cremorne Bridge]]
* [[Fulham Railway Bridge]]

==Places of interest==
[[File:FulhamRailwayBridge.jpg|thumb|right|[[Fulham Railway Bridge]] at low tide]]
* [[Fulham Palace]]
* [[Fulham Pottery]]
* [[Margravine Cemetery]]
* [[Bishops Park]]
* [[Chelsea Harbour]]
* [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)]]
* [[All Saints Church, Fulham|All Saints' Church]]
* [[Craven Cottage]]
* [[King's Road|New King's Road]]
* [[Riverside Studios]], refurbished
* [[South Park, Fulham]]
* [[St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Fulham]], the only complete [[A. W. Pugin]] church in London

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==Notable residents==
[[File:All Saints Church, Fulham, London - Diliff.jpg|right|thumb|All Saints Church, Fulham, London - Diliff]]

* [[Joseph Addison]] (1672–1719), essayist, playwright lived at [[Sands End]]<ref>Denny, Barbara. (1997) ''Fulham Past'', London: Historical Publications, p.77-78, {{ISBN|0 948667 43 5}}</ref>
* [[Francesco Bartolozzi]] (1725–1815), Italian engraver<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/francescobartolo00bailrich/francescobartolo00bailrich_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Francesco Bartolozzi, R. A"|website=Archive.org|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref>
* Joseph Bickley (1835–1923), [[Lillie Road]]-based [[Real tennis]] court designer and restorer<ref name="Millar, William 2016 83">{{cite book|author=Millar, William|date=2016|title=Plastering: Plain and Decorative|publisher=London: Routledge|page=83|isbn=978-1-873394-30-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://realtennissociety.org/court-register/|title=Court Register|date=12 October 2013|website=Realtennissociety.org|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730080912/http://realtennissociety.org/court-register/|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref>
*[[Kathleen Bliss]] (1908–1989), theologian and official of the [[World Council of Churches]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Bliss [''née'' Moore], Kathleen Mary Amelia|date=23 September 2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39995|last=Edwards|first=David L.}}</ref>
* [[Arthur Blomfield]] (1829–1899), architect<ref name="scottisharchitects1">{{cite web|author=David Goold|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200276|title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report|website=Scottisharchitects.org.uk|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328021730/http://scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200276|archive-date=28 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[Charles James Blomfield]] (1786–1857), [[Bishop of London]]<ref name="scottisharchitects1"/>
* [[William John Burchell]] (1781–1863), explorer, naturalist, artist, and author<ref>{{NHLE|num=1393343|desc=TOMB OF BURCHELL FAMILY INCLUDING WILLIAM BURCHELL, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 2M FROM THE SOUTH ELEVATION OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH |date=1 July 2009|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Edward Burne-Jones]] (1833–1898), artist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lbhflibraries.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/the-flower-book-by-edward-burne-jones|title=The Flower Book by Edward Burne-Jones &#124; LBHF Libraries|website=Lbhflibraries.wordpress.com|date=22 June 2016|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014084330/https://lbhflibraries.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/the-flower-book-by-edward-burne-jones/|archive-date=14 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Georgiana Burne-Jones]] (1840–1920), painter and writer, friend of [[George Eliot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O88886/the-morris-and-burne-jones-photograph-hollyer-frederick/|title=The Morris and Burne-Jones families - Hollyer, Frederick - V&A Search the Collections|website=collections.vam.ac.uk|date=27 September 1874 |access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327085301/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O88886/the-morris-and-burne-jones-photograph-hollyer-frederick/|archive-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Sir William Butts]] (1486–1545), physician to King [[Henry VIII of England]]<ref name="british-history344">{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol2/pp344-424 |title=Fulham &#124; British History Online |website=British-history.ac.uk |access-date=2 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003055618/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol2/pp344-424 |archive-date=3 October 2016  }}</ref>
*[[Clifford Chetwood|Sir Clifford Chetwood]] (born in Fulham, 1928), Chairman of [[George Wimpey]]<ref>"CHETWOOD, Sir Clifford Jack; Kt. (1987)" in ''[[Debrett's People of Today]]'' (2006), p. 296</ref>
* [[Linford Christie]] (born 1960), Olympian athlete 
* [[Johnny Claes]] (1916–1956), Belgian racing driver 
* [[Henry Compton (bishop)|Henry Compton]] (1632–1713), [[Bishop of London]]<ref name="british-history344"/>
* [[Michael Cook (playwright)|Michael Cook]] (born 1933), Canadian playwright<ref>{{cite web|author=Denyse Lynde|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/michael-cook.php|title=Playwright Michael Cook|website=Heritage.nf.ca|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625042955/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/michael-cook.php|archive-date=25 June 2017}}</ref>
* [[Elvis Costello]] (born 1954), spent part of his youth in the area<ref>Costello, Elvis. (2015) ''Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink''- a memoir</ref>
* [[Jill Craigie]] (1911–1999), documentary film maker and wife of [[Michael Foot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/581828/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Craigie, Jill (1911-1999) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk|access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322070521/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/581828/index.html|archive-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Mandell Creighton]] (1843–1901), historian and Bishop of London; a popular social centre in Lillie Road is named after him.
* [[Geoffrey de Havilland]] (1882–1965), aviation pioneer, had his first aircraft building workshop in Fulham<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/airplane%20at%20war/upload5/Geoffrey%20De%20Havilland.htm |title=Geoffrey de Havilland |access-date=26 March 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820051302/http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/airplane%20at%20war/upload5/Geoffrey%20De%20Havilland.htm |archive-date=20 August 2008  }}</ref>
* [[Evelyn De Morgan]] (1855–1919), painter in the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] tradition<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=45491|title=Evelyn De Morgan}}</ref>
* [[William De Morgan]] (1832–1917), potter, [[Ceramic art|ceramicist]], designer and novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://antique-marks.com/william-de-morgan.html|title=William De Morgan and the Arts & Crafts Movement|publisher=Antique Marks|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109220610/http://antique-marks.com/william-de-morgan.html|archive-date=9 November 2016}}</ref>
* [[Example (musician)|Example (Elliot John Gleave)]] (born 1982), rapper, singer, and songwriter<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/example-sing-when-youre-winning|title=Example: Sing When You're Winning|magazine=FourFourTwo|date=27 May 2010|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515175303/http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/example-sing-when-youre-winning|archive-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner]] (1787–1849), society portrait painter, lived in Richmond (Lillie) Road<ref name="CaveNichols1849">{{cite book|author1=Edward Cave|author2=John Nichols|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPoIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA664|access-date=26 March 2018|year=1849|publisher=Edw. Cave|page=664|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508193052/https://books.google.com/books?id=UPoIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA664|archive-date=8 May 2018}}</ref>
* [[Charles James Feret|Charles James Féret]] (1854–1921), editor and historian of Fulham<ref>Dewe, Michael. (1972) ''Fulham's Historian - Charles Féret'', published by Fulham and Hammersmith Historical Society, 42 pages.</ref>
* [[Geoffrey Fisher]] (1887–1972), Bishop of London, then translated to the [[See of Canterbury]]
* [[Maria Fitzherbert]] (1756–1837), companion, and possibly wife, of [[George IV of the United Kingdom|King George IV]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/parsons-green|title=Parsons Green|publisher=Hidden London|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104154642/http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/parsons-green/|archive-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Foote]] (1721–1777), dramatist, actor and manager<ref name="british-history344"/>
* [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]] (1891–1915), [[Expressionism|expressionist]] sculptor and artist spent the last 5 years of his short life in Fulham<ref>{{cite web|author=Pound. Ezra|title=''Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoire''|url=https://archive.org/stream/gaudierbrzeska00pounrich#page/n45/mode/2up|date=1916|access-date=11 October 2016|author-link=Ezra Pound}}</ref>
* [[Edmund Gibson]] (1669–1748), Bishop of London<ref name="british-history344"/>
* [[Eugène Goossens, fils]] (1867–1958), musician and his four musical children: Sir [[Eugene Aynsley Goossens]], [[Léon Jean Goossens]], Marie and [[Sidonie Goossens]]
* [[Nell Gwyn]] (1650–1687), companion to [[Charles II of England]], has a close named after her in Fulham<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk8/pp11-16 |title=Sandford Manor &#124; British History Online |website=British-history.ac.uk |access-date=2 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003060743/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk8/pp11-16 |archive-date=3 October 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Alfred Hackman]] (1811–1874), sub-librarian at the [[Bodleian Library]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/hackman_alfred.html|title=Hackman: St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford|website=Stsepulchres.org.uk|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003103058/http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/hackman_alfred.html|archive-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Toni Halliday]] (born 1964), musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snellandsnell.co.uk/news/161/The-complete-guide-to-living-in-Fulham|title=The complete guide to living in Fulham|website=Snellandsnell.co.uk|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003103703/http://www.snellandsnell.co.uk/news/161/The-complete-guide-to-living-in-Fulham|archive-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Andy Hamilton]] (born 1954), satirist, comic actor, writer and broadcaster<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/outnumbered-creator-andy-hamilton-from-my-fictional-family-to-a/|title=Outnumbered creator Andy Hamilton: from my fictional family to a real-life impersonator|first=Jasper|last=Rees|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=15 September 2016|access-date=26 March 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327094500/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/outnumbered-creator-andy-hamilton-from-my-fictional-family-to-a/|archive-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Imogen Hassall]] (1942-1980), actress
* [[Thomas Hayter]] (1702–1762), Bishop of London
* [[Humphrey Henchman]] (1592–1675), Bishop of London
* [[Henry Holland (architect)|Henry Holland]] (1745–1806), architect
* [[Theodore Hook]] (1788–1841), creator of the [[World's oldest postcard|world's first postcard]]
* [[William Hurlstone]] (1876–1906), composer mostly of chamber music, born in Empress Place (formerly Richmond Gardens)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/Hurlstone/Hurlstone%20Trio%20Paper2.html|title=William Yeates Hurlstone Biography - December 2006 MusicWeb-International}}</ref> 
* [[Charlie Hutchison]] (1918–1993), British-Ghanaian communist, liberator of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Belsen concentration camp]], and only black British volunteer of the [[International Brigades]]
* [[John Jackson (bishop)|John Jackson]] (1811–1885), Bishop of London
* [[Sajid Javid]] (born 1969), politician
* [[Nathaniel Kent]] (1737–1810), agriculturist
* [[Sir John Scott Lillie]] (1790–1868), [[Peninsular War]] veteran, inventor and North End resident<ref>Féret, Charles (1900) ''Fulham Old and New'' vol. II, p. 179.</ref>
* [[Robert Lowth]] (1710–1787), Bishop of London
* [[Henry Montgomery Campbell]] (1887–1970), Bishop of London
* [[John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt]] (1626–1675), royalist conspirator prominent in the [[English Civil War]]
* [[John Osborne]] (1929–1994), playwright<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5892951/John-Osborne.html|title=John Osborne|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 December 1994|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224024340/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5892951/John-Osborne.html|archive-date=24 February 2017}}</ref>
* [[Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips|Baroness Phillips]] (1910–1992), Labour politician, radio personality, wife of [[Morgan Phillips]] and mother of [[Gwyneth Dunwoody]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ec1f84fc-5dc8-4bf5-8cc2-df7d51e286bb|title=The Discovery Service|first=The National|last=Archives|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327092430/http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ec1f84fc-5dc8-4bf5-8cc2-df7d51e286bb|archive-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Augustus Pugin]] (1812–1852), architect of St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Rylston Road
* [[Daniel Radcliffe]] (born 1989), actor<ref>{{cite news|author=Isabelle Fraser|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/daniel-radcliffes-childhood-home-up-for-sale-complete-with-a-cup/|title=Daniel Radcliffe's childhood home up for sale... complete with a cupboard under the stairs|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=6 June 2016|access-date=2 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814194349/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/daniel-radcliffes-childhood-home-up-for-sale-complete-with-a-cup/|archive-date=14 August 2016}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Richardson]] (1689–1761), writer and printer
* [[John Robinson (bishop of London)|John Robinson]] (1650–1723), Bishop of London
* [[Charles Rolls]] (1877–1910), co-founder of [[Rolls-Royce Limited]] and pioneer aviator, had his car showroom in the former [[Lillie Hall]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/snapshotsofthepast/8255116.A_magnificent_man_lost/|title=A magnificent man lost|website=Bournemouth Echo|date=6 July 2010 |access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084639/http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/snapshotsofthepast/8255116.A_magnificent_man_lost/|archive-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[John Saris]] (1580–1643), captain of the first English ship to reach Japan
* [[Jean-Baptiste Say]] (1767–1832), French liberal economist known for [[Say's law]] on the behaviour of markets<ref>{{cite journal|first=Brian|last=Lancaster|year=2015|title=Jean-Baptiste Say's First Visit to England (1785/6)|journal=History of European Ideas|volume=41|issue=7|pages=922–930|doi=10.1080/01916599.2014.989676|s2cid=144520487}}</ref>
* [[Joan Sims]] (1930-2001), British actress known for the [[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]] films. 
* [[Granville Sharp]] (1735–1813), abolitionist and brother of William<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/sharp.htm |title=Granville Sharp: biography and bibliography |website=Brycchancarey.com |date=3 March 2014 |access-date=2 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201125300/http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/sharp.htm |archive-date=1 February 2017  }}</ref>
* [[William Sharp (surgeon)|William Sharp]] (1729–1810), surgeon
* [[Thomas Sherlock]] (1678–1761), Bishop of London
* [[Sir Oswald Stoll]] (1866–1942), theatre impresario and benefactor
* [[Robert Stopford (bishop)|Robert Stopford]] (1901–1976), briefly [[Bishop of Fulham]], before becoming Bishop of London, the last to reside at [[Fulham Palace]]
* [[Janet Street-Porter]] (born 1946), journalist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/focus-with-no-money-in-my-pocket-i-left-suburbia-and-my-parents-for-good-5354580.html|title=Focus: 'With no money in my pocket, I left suburbia, and my parents|date=9 May 2004|website=independent.co.uk|access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327092839/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/focus-with-no-money-in-my-pocket-i-left-suburbia-and-my-parents-for-good-5354580.html|archive-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Richard Terrick]] (1710–1777), Bishop of London
* [[William Wand]] (1885–1977), Bishop of London
* [[Sir Ralph Warren]] (c. 1486–1553). twice [[Lord Mayor of London]] lived in [[Fulham House]]<ref>*{{Cite ODNB |last=Archer |first=Ian |year=2004 |title=Warren, Sir Ralph (c.1483–1553) |id=28787}}</ref>
* [[Bob White (cricketer)|Bob White]], (born 1936), cricketer, later [[First-class cricket|umpire]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://history.trentbridge.co.uk/players/bob-white.html|title=Trent Bridge - History|website=history.trentbridge.co.uk|access-date=26 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831114044/http://history.trentbridge.co.uk/players/bob-white.html|archive-date=31 August 2016}}</ref>
* [[Leslie Arthur Wilcox]] (1904–1982), marine artist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp38357/leslie-arthur-wilcox |title=Leslie Arthur Wilcox &#124; Science Museum Group Collection |access-date=26 March 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084804/http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp38357/leslie-arthur-wilcox |archive-date=27 March 2018  }}</ref>
* [[Emlyn Williams]] (1905–1987), actor, dramatist, author, lived at 15 Pelham Crescent from 1937 to 1962
* [[Sir William Withers]] (1657–1720), [[Lord Mayor of London]]
* [[Arthur Winnington-Ingram]] (1858–1946), Bishop of London (1901–1939), one of the longest serving bishops
* [[John Young (architect)|John Young]] (1797–1877), [[City of London|City]] architect and developer of Empress Place and Lillie Road

<gallery>
File:Portrait of Sir William Butts (ca.1543) - Hans Holbein II (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum).jpg|Portrait of [[William Butts]], physician to [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]. He came from Fulham
File:Nell Gwyn by Simon Verelst (2).jpg|Nell Gwyn by Simon Verelst. She lived in Fulham
File:Joseph Addison by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|[[Godfrey Kneller|Kneller]]'s portrait of Joseph Addison of Sands End
File:Samuel Richardson by Mason Chamberlin.jpg|Novelist, Samuel Richardson, who moved from North End to [[Parsons Green]]
File:Jean-baptiste Say.jpg|French liberal economist who in his youth stayed in Fulham
File:Granville Sharp (Hoare memoire).jpg|Granville Sharp (Hoare memoire). He is buried in Fulham
File:Demorgans.jpg|De Morgan and his wife, Evelyn. They lived and worked in [[Sands End]]
File:Georgiana Burne-Jones by Edward Coley Burne-Jones.jpg|Georgiana Burne-Jones and children by Edward Coley Burne-Jones. They lived in North End
File:Henri Gaudier-Brzeska self portrait.jpg|Henri Gaudier-Brzeska self-portrait
<!-- Deleted image removed: File:Jill Craigie.jpg|Jill Craigie documentary maker was born in Fulham -->
File:Janet Street-Porter at station.jpg|Janet Street-Porter grew up in Fulham
File:Linford Christie 2009.png|Linford Christie in 2009. He attended [[Henry Compton School]]
File:Daniel Radcliffe SDCC 2014.jpg|Daniel Radcliffe in 2014. He comes from Fulham
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|London}}
*[[List of districts in Hammersmith and Fulham]]
* [[Metropolitan Borough of Fulham]]
* [[Counter's Creek]]
* [[Kensington Canal]]
* [[Lots Road Power Station]]
* [[West London Line]]
* [[West Brompton station]]
* [[West Kensington]]
* [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre]]
* [[Sir John Scott Lillie]]
* [[Grade I and II* listed buildings in Hammersmith and Fulham]]
* [[Parks and open spaces in Hammersmith and Fulham]]
* [[Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race]]
* [[Little Australia]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Fulham Broadway stn entrance mall exterior.JPG|Entrance to Fulham Broadway station
File:Covered Tankard, John Dwight, Fulham, c. 1685-1690 - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - DSC08692.JPG|Covered tankard made by Fulham Pottery, c. 1685-1690
File:Battersea Railway Bridge, London 04.JPG|Cremorne Bridge, West London Extension Railway Bridge, towards Fulham
File:Mulberry fruit and leaves at Fulham Palace - geograph.org.uk - 835697.jpg|Mulberries at Fulham Palace
File:Arch in Tudor brick wall, Fulham Palace - geograph.org.uk - 835785.jpg|Tudor entrance to Fulham Palace kitchen garden
File:Gunter's Lillie Bridge, 1826.jpg|vestige of 1826 canal bridge from Lillie Bridge, Fulham
File:Corbett & McClymontt's 1870 Wood Workshop, Seagrave Road Fulham.jpg|Corbett & McClymont's 1870 Carpentry workshop in Seagrave Road, Fulham
File:County Court, North End Road W14 - geograph.org.uk - 1229455.jpg|Former Fulham County Court House in North End Road
File:St John's Church, North End Road SW6 - geograph.org.uk - 1459602.jpg|Parish Church of St John, Fulham
File:Fulham Town Hall 02.JPG|[[Fulham Town Hall]] entrance in Fulham Road
File:Fulham Palace Road Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 1039602.jpg|Fulham Cemetery in Fulham Palace Road
File:St Thomas of Canterbury, Fulham, February 2015 02.jpg|[[Augustus Pugin|Pugin]]'s [[St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Fulham|St Thomas RC Church in Rylston Road, Fulham]]
File:WestBrompton4.jpg|London Overground at West Brompton in Fulham
File:Fulham House 01.JPG|Fulham House in [[Fulham High Street]]
File:St Pauls' Studios, Talgarth Road W14 - geograph.org.uk - 1311270.jpg|St Paul's Studios, Talgarth Road
File:Imperial Wharf stn western entrance2.JPG|Imperial Wharf station western entrance 2
File:Fulham Fire Station 02.JPG|Fulham Fire Station
File:Market, North End Road, Fulham, London 02.jpg|Market, North End Road, Fulham, London
File:Kops Brewery, Fulham 02.JPG|Kops Brewery, Sands End
File:River Thames by Bishop's Park - geograph.org.uk - 1088471.jpg|River Thames by Bishop's Park
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* The Fulham and Hammersmith Historical Society, now merged with the Fulham Society, has a number of publications about the locality: {{cite web|url=https://fhhs.wordpress.com/fhhs-publications/|title=Publications|date=3 January 2008|website=Fhhs.wordpress.com|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002427/https://fhhs.wordpress.com/fhhs-publications/|archive-date=2 February 2017}}
*  Thomas Faulkner (1777-1855), ''An Historical and topographical account of Fulham; including the hamlet of Hammersmith''. 1813. RCIN 1077212: {{cite web|url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/1077212/an-historical-and-topographical-account-of-fulham-including-the-hamlet-of|title=Thomas Faulkner (1777-1855) - An Historical and topographical account of Fulham; including the hamlet of Hammersmith / by T. Faulkner.|website=Royalcollection.org.uk|access-date=29 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730071215/https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/1077212/an-historical-and-topographical-account-of-fulham-including-the-hamlet-of|archive-date=30 July 2017}}
* {{Cite book| author = Corwin, Elizabeth| title = The Lillie Enclave, North End, Fulham, London| publisher = Countryside Books| date = 2024| isbn = 978 1 84674 431 0}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.lbhf.gov.uk London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham]
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Fulham|volume=11|page=293}}

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