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Hammersmith is a district of
West London
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, England, southwest of
Charing Cross
Charing Cross ( ) is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet. Clockwise from north these are: the east side of Trafalgar Square leading to St Martin's Place and then Charing Cross Road; the Strand leading to the City; ...
. It is the administrative centre of the
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham. The borou ...
, and identified in the
London Plan
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The regional planning document was first pu ...
as one of 35 major centres in
Greater London
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.
It is bordered by
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a district of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Although primarily residential in character, i ...
to the north,
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
to the east,
Chiswick
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to the west, and
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
to the south, with which it forms part of the north bank of the
River Thames
The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, se ...
. The area is one of west London's main commercial and employment centres, and has for some decades been a major centre of London's
Polish community. It is a major transport hub for west London, with two
London Underground
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stations and a bus station at
Hammersmith Broadway
Hammersmith Broadway is a major transport node and shopping centre in Hammersmith, London.
History
The shopping centre opened in 1994, on the site of many now-demolished buildings, including The Clarendon Hotel (a music venue) and Palmers De ...
.
Toponymy
Hammersmith may mean "(Place with) a hammer smithy or forge",
although, in 1839,
Thomas Faulkner proposed that the name derived from two 'Saxon' words: the initial ''Ham'' from
ham
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and the remainder from
hythe
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* Hythe, Tasmania
Canada
*Hythe, Alberta, a village in Canada
England
* T ...
, alluding to Hammersmith's riverside location. In 1922, Gover proposed that the prefix was a personal name, Heahmaer or Hæmar, and stating that the suffix must be Anglo-Saxon from -myðe, meaning the junction of two rivers, as
Hammersmith Creek
Hammersmith Creek was an outflow river of the Stamford Brook, and used to run through what is now King Street, into the Thames at the present-day site of Furnivall Gardens in Hammersmith.
Until the early 19th century the creek was navigable o ...
merged with the Thames here.
The earliest spelling is Hamersmyth in 1294, with alternative spellings of Hameresmithe in 1312, Hamyrsmyth in 1535, and Hammersmith 1675.
History
The district was a chapelry of the ancient parish of
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
, but became a fully independent parish in 1631. In the early 1660s, Hammersmith's first parish church, which later became
St Paul's, was built by
Sir Nicholas Crispe who ran the brickworks in Hammersmith.
It contained a monument to Crispe as well as a bronze bust of
King Charles I by
Hubert Le Sueur
Hubert Le Sueur (c. 1580 – 1658) was a French sculptor with the contemporaneous reputation of having trained in Giambologna's Florentine workshop. He assisted Giambologna's foreman, Pietro Tacca, in Paris, in finishing and erecting the equestria ...
. In 1696
Sir Samuel Morland was buried there. The church was completely rebuilt in 1883, but the monument and bust were transferred to the new church.
In 1745, two Scots,
James Lee and Lewis Kennedy, established the
Vineyard Nursery
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, over six acres devoted to landscaping plants. During the next hundred and fifty years the nursery introduced many new plants to England, including
fuchsia
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and the standard
rose tree.
1804 saw the trial of Francis Smith for the murder of Thomas Millwood in Beaver Lane, Hammersmith. Called the
Hammersmith Ghost murder case
The Hammersmith Ghost murder case of 1804 set a legal precedent in the UK regarding self-defence: that someone could be held liable for their actions even if they were the consequence of a mistaken belief.
Near the end of 1803, many people cla ...
, it set a unique standard in English legal history.
In 1868, Hammersmith was the name of a parish, and of a suburban district, within the hundred of Ossulstone, in the county of Middlesex. Major industrial sites included the
Osram
Osram Licht AG is a German company that makes electric lights, headquartered in Munich and Premstätten (Austria). Osram positions itself as a high-tech photonics company that is increasingly focusing on sensor technology, visualization and tre ...
lamp factory at
Brook Green
Brook Green is an affluent London neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located approximately west of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Kensington, Holland Park, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith and Brackenbury Vi ...
, the
J. Lyons
J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884 by Joseph Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Lyons’ first teashop opened in Piccadilly, London in 1894, a ...
factory (which at one time employed 30,000 people). During both
World War
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s,
Waring & Gillow
Waring & Gillow (also written as Waring and Gillow) was a noted firm of English furniture manufacturers and antique dealers formed in 1897 by the merger of Gillows of Lancaster and London and Waring of Liverpool.
Background Gillow & Co.
The fir ...
's furniture factory, in Cambridge Grove, became the site of aircraft manufacture.
Hammersmith Borough Council had provided the borough with electricity since the early twentieth century from
Hammersmith power station. Upon
nationalisation
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of the electricity industry in 1948 ownership passed to the
British Electricity Authority and later to the
Central Electricity Generating Board
The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was responsible for electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales in England and Wales from 1958 until privatisation of the electricity industry in the 1990s.
It was established on 1 Januar ...
. Electricity connections to the
national grid rendered the 20
megawatt
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(MW) coal-fired power station redundant. It closed in 1965; in its final year of operation it delivered 5,462
MWh of electricity to the borough.
Economy
Hammersmith is located at the confluence of one of the arterial routes out of central London (the
A4) with several local feeder roads and a bridge over the Thames. The focal point of the district is the commercial centre (the Broadway Centre) located at this confluence, which houses a shopping centre, bus station, an
Underground station
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and an office complex.
![King Street, Hammersmith, UK - panoramio](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/King_Street%2C_Hammersmith%2C_UK_-_panoramio.jpg)
Stretching about westwards from this centre is
King Street, Hammersmith's main shopping street. Named after
John King, Bishop of London, it contains a second shopping centre (
Livat Hammersmith), many small shops, the
town hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
, the
Lyric Theatre, a cinema, the
Polish community centre and two hotels. King Street is supplemented by other shops along Shepherds Bush Road to the north, Fulham Palace Road to the south and
Hammersmith Road
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
It ...
to the east. Hammersmith's office activity takes place mainly to the eastern side of its centre, along Hammersmith Road and in the
Ark
Ark or ARK may refer to:
Biblical narratives and religion Hebrew word ''teva''
* Noah's Ark, a massive vessel said to have been built to save the world's animals from a flood
* Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses
Hebrew ''aron''
* ...
, an office complex to the south of the
flyover which traverses the area.
Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central Lond ...
on Fulham Palace Road is a large multi-disciplinary
NHS
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hospital with accident & emergency and teaching departments run by the
Imperial College School of Medicine
Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) is the undergraduate medical school of Imperial College London in England, and one of the United Hospitals. It is part of the college's Faculty of Medicine and was formed by the merger of several hist ...
.
Architecture
"The Ark" office building, designed by British architect Ralph Erskine and completed in 1992, has some resemblance to the hull of a sailing ship. Hammersmith Bridge Road Surgery was designed by Guy Greenfield.
22 St Peter's Square, the former Royal Chiswick Laundry and
Island Records
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HQ, has been converted to architects' studios and offices by
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is a practice of architects, urban designers and masterplanners established in 1986 and practising out of London.
History
Alex Lifschutz and Ian Davidson met working on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters ...
. It has
Hammersmith SocietyConservation award
plaque (2009) and has been included in tours in Architecture Week.
Several of Hammersmith's pubs are listed building
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s, including the ''Black Lion Black Lion, Black Lions, or Blacklions may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
* Black Lion, Hammersmith, a London pub
* Black Lion, Kilburn, a London pub
* Black Lion Records, a British jazz record company
* Black Lions Films, associated wit ...
'', '' The Dove'', '' The George'', '' The Hop Poles'', the '' Hope and Anchor'', the '' Salutation Inn'' and ''The Swan
A swan is a bird of the genus ''Cygnus'' (true swans) or ''Coscoroba'' (coscoroba swans).
Swan, swans, or The Swan may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Film and television
* ''The Swan'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent film
* ''The Swa ...
'', as are Hammersmith's two parish church
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es, St Paul's (the town's original church, rebuilt in the 1890s) and St Peter's, built in the 1820s.
Culture and entertainment
Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios is an arts centre on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. The venue plays host to contemporary performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production.
Having closed for redevelopment in ...
is a cinema, performance space, bar and cafe. Originally film studios, Riverside Studios were used by the
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from 1954 to 1975 for television productions. The
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre is just off King Street.
Hammersmith Apollo
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace. Located in Ham ...
concert hall and theatre (formerly the Carling Hammersmith Apollo, the Hammersmith Odeon, and before that the Gaumont Cinema) is just south of the gyratory.
The former
Hammersmith Palais
The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007. It was the first ''palais de danse'' to b ...
nightclub has been demolished and the site reused as student accommodation.
The
Polish Social and Cultural Association
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is on King Street. It contains a theatre, an art gallery and several restaurants. Its library has one of the largest collections of Polish-language books outside Poland.
''
The Dove'' is a riverside pub with what the ''
Guinness Book of Records
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'' listed as the smallest bar room in the world, in 2016 surviving as a small space on the right of the bar. the pub was frequented by
Ernest Hemingway
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and
Graham Greene
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;
James Thomson lodged and likely wrote ''
Rule Britannia
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'' here. The narrow alley in which it stands is the only remnant of the riverside village of Hammersmith, the bulk of which was demolished in the 1930s.
Furnivall Gardens, which lies to the east, covers the site of
Hammersmith Creek
Hammersmith Creek was an outflow river of the Stamford Brook, and used to run through what is now King Street, into the Thames at the present-day site of Furnivall Gardens in Hammersmith.
Until the early 19th century the creek was navigable o ...
and the High Bridge.
Leisure activity also takes place along Hammersmith's pedestrianised riverside, home to the pubs of Lower Mall, rowing clubs and the riverside park of Furnival Gardens. Hammersmith has a municipal park,
Ravenscourt Park
Ravenscourt Park or RCP is an public park and garden located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England. It is one of the Borough's flagship parks, having won a Green Flag Award. Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park tube stations ar ...
, to the west of the centre. Its facilities include tennis courts, a basketball court, a bowling lawn, a paddling pool, and playgrounds.
![Lower Mall, Hammersmith from the river](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Lower_Mall%2C_Hammersmith_from_the_river.jpg)
Hammersmith is the historical home of the
West London Penguin Swimming and Water Polo Club
The West London Penguin Swimming and Water Polo Club, also known as the West London Penguins, is a British water polo and masters swimming club with history dating back to 1916. It was formed in 1976 as the Hammersmith Penguin Swimming Club by t ...
, formerly known as the ''Hammersmith Penguin Swimming Club''.
Hammersmith Chess Club has been active in the borough since it was formed in 1962. It was initially based in
Westcott Lodge
Westcott Lodge is a Grade II listed house in Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London.
It was originally St Paul's Vicarage, and built in 1746, with some later remodelling, and restoration after damage during World War II.
In 1962, it was the first ho ...
, later moving to St Paul's Church, then to
Blythe House
Blythe House is a listed building located at 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, UK. Originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, it is now used as a store and archive by the Vi ...
and now Lytton Hall, near West Kensington tube station.
Transport
The area is on the main A4
trunk road heading west from central London towards the
M4 motorway
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and
Heathrow Airport
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. The A4, a busy commuter route, passes over the area's main road junction, Hammersmith Gyratory System, on a long viaduct, the
Hammersmith Flyover.
Hammersmith Bridge
Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London. It links the southern part of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side of the river, and Barnes in the London Borough ...
closed in August 2020 to pedestrians, cyclists and road traffic, severing the link with
Barnes
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* Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name)
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United Kingdom
*Barnes, London, England
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in the southwest. Its cast iron pedestals that hold the suspension system in place had become unsafe.
The centre of Hammersmith is served by two
London Underground
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stations named Hammersmith:
one is served by the
Hammersmith & City and
Circle
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lines and
the other
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is served by the
Piccadilly
Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Court, ...
and
District
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lines. The latter station is part of a larger office, retail and transport development, locally known as "The Broadway Centre".
Hammersmith Broadway
Hammersmith Broadway is a major transport node and shopping centre in Hammersmith, London.
History
The shopping centre opened in 1994, on the site of many now-demolished buildings, including The Clarendon Hotel (a music venue) and Palmers De ...
stretches from the junction of Queen Caroline Street and King Street in the west to the junction of Hammersmith Road and Butterwick in the east. It forms the north side of the gyratory system also known as Hammersmith Roundabout. The Broadway Shopping Centre includes a major bus station. The length of King Street places the westernmost shops and offices closest to
Ravenscourt Park Underground station on the
District line
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, one stop west of Hammersmith itself.
Hammersmith Bridge
The first Hammersmith Bridge was designed by
William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, FRAS (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. ...
and opened in 1827 and was the first
suspension bridge
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crossing the
River Thames
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. It was redesigned by
Joseph Bazalgette
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, and reopened in 1887.
In August 2020, it closed to pedestrians, cyclists and road traffic as the cast iron pedestals that hold the suspension system in place became unsafe. Work began to improve the structural integrity of the bridge in 2022.
In literature and music
Hammersmith features in
Charles Dickens
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' ''
Great Expectations
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'' as the home of the Pocket family. Pip resides with the Pockets in their house by the river and goes boating on the river.
William Morris
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's utopian novel ''
News from Nowhere
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'' (1890) describes a journey up the river from Hammersmith towards
Oxford
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.
In 1930,
Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...
composed ''Hammersmith'', a work for military band (later rewritten for orchestra), reflecting his impressions of the area, having lived across the river in
Barnes
Barnes may refer to:
People
* Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name)
Places
United Kingdom
*Barnes, London, England
**Barnes railway station
** Barnes Bridge railway station
** Barnes Railway Bri ...
for nearly forty years. It begins with a haunting musical depiction of the River Thames flowing underneath Hammersmith Bridge. Holst taught music at
St Paul's Girls' School
St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England.
History
St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part o ...
and composed many of his most famous works there, including his ''
The Planets
''The Planets'', Op. 32, is a seven- movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is name ...
'' suite. A music room in the school is named after him.
[ Holst dedicates ''Hammersmith'': ''To the Author of " The Water Gypsies."''
]
Notable people
17th century
* John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...
(1608–1674), poet[ Lewalski, Barbara K. ''The Life of John Milton''. Oxford: Blackwells, 2003.]
* William Sheridan (c. 1635 – 3 October 1711), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh
18th century
19th century
1900–1945
1946–2000
See also
* List of districts in Hammersmith and Fulham
This is a list of districts in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 from the me ...
References
External links
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Hammersmith's local community web site
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney
by Geraldine Edith Mitton and John Cunningham Geikie
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Biography
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Geikie was the second son ...
, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
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