Hammersmith Broadway, W6

Hammersmith Broadway is a major transport node and also the name of a shopping centre.

Extension of the Piccadilly Line station in Hammersmith Broadway (1930)

London Underground proudly announce that the works will relieve unemployment.

Beatrice Lillie and Nellie Wallace are billed at the Coliseum in the West End.
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Hammersmith Broadway 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.

The Hammersmith Flyover was built in 1961 through the Broadway area. The resulting gyratory is one of London’s busiest traffic junctions.

The shopping centre opened in 1994, on the site of many demolished buildings, including The Clarendon Hotel and Palmers Department Store.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Milson Road, W14 Added: 17 May 2023 11:50 GMT	Milson Road (1908 - 1954) My grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents the Manley family lived at 33 Milson Road from 1908 to 1935. My grandad was born at 33 Milson Road. His parents George and Grace had all four of their chidren there. When his father Edward died his mother moved to 67 Milson in 1935 Road and lived there until 1954 (records found so far, it may be longer). Before that they lived in the Porten Road. I wonder if there is anyone that used to know them? My grandad was Charles ’Ted’ Manley, his parents were called George and Grace and George’s parents were called Edward and Bessie. George worked in a garage and Edward was a hairdresser. Reply
Joan Clarke Mary Place Workhouse Added: 2 Feb 2021 10:54 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens My late aunt Ivy Clarke (nee Burridge) lived with her whole family at 19 Avondale Park Gardens, according to the 1911 census and she was still there in 1937.What was it like in those days, I wonder, if the housing was only built in 1920? Reply
Admin Olympia Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:17 GMT	TV comes to Olympia Over 7000 people queued to see the first high definition television pictures on sets at the Olympia Radio Show. The pictures were transmitted by the BBC from Alexandra Palace, introduced by Leslie Mitchell, their first announcer. Reply
ken gaston Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Added: 16 Jan 2021 11:04 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens My grandmother Hilda Baker and a large family lived in number 18 . It was a close community and that reflected in the coronation celebration held on the central green . I grew up in that square and went to school at Sirdar Road then St. Clements it was a great place to grow up with a local park and we would also trek to Holland Park or Kensington Gardens .Even then the area was considered deprived and a kindergarden for criminals . My generation were the first to escape to the new towns and became the overspill from London to get decent housing and living standards . Reply
Jonathan Penner Pennard Road, W12 Added: 11 Sep 2021 16:03 GMT	Pennard Road, W12 My wife and I, young Canadians, lodged at 65 (?) Pennard Road with a fellow named Clive and his girlfriend, Melanie, for about 6 months in 1985. We loved the area and found it extremely convenient. Reply
john ormandy Mary Place Workhouse Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:48 GMT	Mary Place Workhouse There was a lady called Ivy who lived in the corner she use to come out an tell us kids off for climbing over the fence to play football on the green. Those were the days. Reply
john ormandy Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Added: 14 Mar 2021 18:59 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens, W11 We moved to number 6 in 1950 an family still live there now. I think i remember a family name of Larter living in the house you mention also living in the Gdns were names Prior, Cannon, Parsons Clives at number 26 who i went to school with. Reply
Brian Lucas Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Added: 15 Mar 2021 16:02 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens, W11 I also lived here at No. 15 1854 then move to No. 23 The Lucas Family Reply
john ormandy Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:21 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Remember the Lucas family think the eldest was about same age as me cant remember his name though seem to rember had several younger sisters may have been twins!! Reply
john ormandy Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Added: 20 Mar 2021 18:02 GMT	Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Went to that coranation party with my two younger brothers who both went to St Clements along with Alan Mullery the footballer. I went to St James before moving on to St Johns along with Alan who lived in Mary Place where we were both in the same class. Reply
Runcorn Place, W11 Added: 19 Jun 2022 16:58 GMT	Runcorn Place, W11 Runcorn place Reply
Ken Herlingshaw St John’s Notting Hill Added: 17 Jun 2023 18:34 GMT	St John the Evangelist - Spire The top of the church spire fell off during WW2 (presumably during a bombing raid ?) and for many years after that the spire had a flat top. I don’t know when it was restored. Definitely not in the early fifties when I went to Sunday School there. Reply
Ken Herlingshaw Clarendon Road, W11 Added: 17 Jun 2023 18:35 GMT	Clarendon Road - post WW2 I used to live at 62 Clarendon Road, from about 1947 to 1956. It was one of four prefabs on the site, numbers 60, 60A, 62 and 62A. The original building there (on the corner with Lansdowne Rise) was bombed during WW2. Prefabs weren’t very popular with the up-market Kensington Borough councillors, however, and at the earliest opportunity they were demolished and we were moved to Henry Dickens Court. We inherited a telephone line from the original occupier, a band leader, when we moved into the prefab and the phone number was BAYswater 0050. But we didn’t know anybody else with a phone to call. Reply
mh Clarendon Road, W11 Added: 21 Jun 2023 12:15 GMT	Clarendon Road, W11 Interesting.... Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Hammersmith Hammersmith is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, approximately eight kilometres west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames.

Hammersmith

Hammersmith to Goldhawk Road walk This is a proposed walk between Hammersmith and Goldhawk Road along the Hammersmith & City Line.

Hammersmith to Goldhawk Road walk

Lyric Hammersmith The Lyric Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith) is a theatre off King Street, Hammersmith.

Lyric Hammersmith

Sacred Heart High School Sacred Heart High School is a Roman Catholic girls secondary school in Hammersmith.

Sacred Heart High School

St Paul’s Girls’ School St Paul’s Girls’ School is an independent school which accepts students between the ages of 10 and 19.

St Paul’s Girls’ School

NEARBY STREETS

Adie Road, W6 Adie Road leads west from Hammersmith Grove.

Adie Road, W6

Albion Mews, W6 Albion Mews is a street in Hammersmith.

Albion Mews, W6

Aldensley Road, W6 Aldensley Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Aldensley Road, W6

Angel Walk, W6 Angel Walk was previously Angel Road before 1938.

Angel Walk, W6

Argyle Place, W6 Argyle Place is a street in Hammersmith.

Argyle Place, W6

Ashcroft Square, W6 Ashcroft Square is a street in Hammersmith.

Ashcroft Square, W6

Aspen Gardens, W6 Aspen Gardens serves the blocks of the Aspen Gardens Estate.

Aspen Gardens, W6

Aynhoe Road, W14 Aynhoe Road is a street in West Kensington.

Aynhoe Road, W14

Banim Street, W6 Banim Street is a street in Hammersmith.

Banim Street, W6

Beadon Road, W6 Beadon Road runs down to the Hammersmith and City Line station in central Hameersmith.

Beadon Road, W6

Black’s Road, W6 This is a street in the W6 postcode area

Black’s Road, W6

Blades Court, W6 Blades Court is a street in Hammersmith.

Blades Court, W6

Bridge Avenue, W6 Bridge Avenue is a street in Hammersmith.

Bridge Avenue, W6

Bridge View, W6 Bridge View is a street in Hammersmith.

Bridge View, W6

Broadway Chambers, W6 Broadway Chambers is a street in Hammersmith.

Broadway Chambers, W6

Broadway Shopping Centre, W6 Broadway Shopping Centre is a street in Hammersmith.

Broadway Shopping Centre, W6

Brook Green, W14 Brook Green runs either side of the green of the same name - the W14 section runs north of the green.

Brook Green, W14

Brook Green, W6 Brook Green runs both side of the green of the same name.

Brook Green, W6

Brook House, W6 Brook House is a block on Shepherds Bush Road.

Brook House, W6

Bute Gardens, W6 Bute Gardens is a street in Hammersmith.

Bute Gardens, W6

Butterwick, W6 Butterwick is a road in the W6 postcode area

Butterwick, W6

Caithness Road, W14 Caithness Road is a street in West Kensington.

Caithness Road, W14

Cambridge Court, W6 Cambridge Court is a street in Hammersmith.

Cambridge Court, W6

Cambridge Grove, W6 Cambridge Grove was previously called Cambridge Road.

Cambridge Grove, W6

Cambridge House, W6 Residential block

Cambridge House, W6

Carnegie House, W6 Carnegie House is a block on Shepherds Bush Road.

Carnegie House, W6

Chalk Hill Road, W6 Chalk Hill Road is a road in the W6 postcode area

Chalk Hill Road, W6

Charlotte House, W6 Charlotte House is one of a number of local blocks named after female members of the British Royal Family.

Charlotte House, W6

Colet Gardens, W14 Colet Gardens is a shadow of its former self.

Colet Gardens, W14

Dimes Place, W6 Dimes Place is a street in Hammersmith.

Dimes Place, W6

Down Place, W6 Down Place is a street in Hammersmith.

Down Place, W6

Glenthorne Road, W6 Glenthorne Road is a major thoroughfare in Hammersmith.

Glenthorne Road, W6

Great Church Lane, W6 Great Church Lane is a street in Hammersmith.

Great Church Lane, W6

Griffin House, W6 Griffin House is a block on Hammersmith Road.

Griffin House, W6

Hammersmith Bridge Road, W6 Hammersmith Bridge Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Hammersmith Bridge Road, W6

Hammersmith Flyover, W6 The Hammersmith flyover is an elevated roadway which carries the A4 arterial road over the central Hammersmith gyratory system.

Hammersmith Flyover, W6

Hammersmith Road, W6 Hammersmith Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Hammersmith Road, W6

Kilmarsh Road, W6 Kilmarsh Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Kilmarsh Road, W6

Kings House, W6 Kings House is sited on Hammersmith Road.

Kings House, W6

Kings Mall, W6 Kings Mall is a street in Hammersmith.

Kings Mall, W6

Latymer Court, W6 Latymer Court, when opened, was the largest block of flats of its type in the country.

Latymer Court, W6

Linacre Court, W6 Linacre Court is a block on Unnamed Road.

Linacre Court, W6

Lower Mall, W6 Lower Mall is a street in Hammersmith.

Lower Mall, W6

Luxemburg Gardens, W6 Luxemburg Gardens is a street in Hammersmith.

Luxemburg Gardens, W6

Lyric Square, W6 This is a street in the W6 postcode area

Lyric Square, W6

Macbeth Street, W6 Macbeth Street is a street in Hammersmith.

Macbeth Street, W6

Mall Road, W6 Mall Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Mall Road, W6

Margravine Gardens, W6 Margravine Gardens runs west from Barons Court station.

Margravine Gardens, W6

Mercers Place, W6 Mercers Place is a road in the W6 postcode area

Mercers Place, W6

Metro Building, W6 Metro Building is sited on Chalk Hill Road.

Metro Building, W6

Metropolitan Station Arcade, W6 Metropolitan Station Arcade is a row of shops connected to the Hammersmith & City/Circle Line station in Hammersmith.

Metropolitan Station Arcade, W6

Overlord House, W14 Overlord House can be found on Colet Gardens.

Overlord House, W14

Overstone Road, W6 Overstone Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Overstone Road, W6

Queen Caroline Street, W6 Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV, lived and died in nearby Brandenburg House.

Queen Caroline Street, W6

Rowan Road, W6 Rowan Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Rowan Road, W6

Rutland Grove, W6 Rutland Grove is a road in the W6 postcode area

Rutland Grove, W6

Ship Lane, W6 Ship Lane was formerly known as Bridge Street.

Ship Lane, W6

Shortlands, W6 Shortlands commemorates a local field name, first mentioned in the reign of Henry V.

Shortlands, W6

Souldern Road, W14 Souldern Road is a street in West Kensington.

Souldern Road, W14

Southerton Road, W6 Southerton Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Southerton Road, W6

Sussex Place, W6 Sussex Place is a road in the W6 postcode area

Sussex Place, W6

Tabor Road, W6 Tabor Road is a street in Hammersmith.

Tabor Road, W6

The Arches, W6 The Arches is a street in Hammersmith.

The Arches, W6

The Square, W6 The Square is a road in the W6 postcode area

The Square, W6

Waterhouse Close, W6 Waterhouse Close is a street in Hammersmith.

Waterhouse Close, W6

Wellington Walk, W6 Wellington Walk was a former street of Hammersmith.

Wellington Walk, W6

Wolverton Gardens, W6 Wolverton Gardens is a street in Hammersmith.

Wolverton Gardens, W6

Worlidge Street, W6 Worlidge Street is a street in Hammersmith.

Worlidge Street, W6

Yeldham Road, W6 Yeldham Road is a location in Fulham

Yeldham Road, W6

York House, W6 A street within the W6 postcode

York House, W6

NEARBY PUBS

Basing Hill Park

Belushi’s And St Christopher’s

Blue Anchor The Blue Anchor is an iconic pub on the banks of the river Thames at Hammersmith.

Blue Anchor

Duke of Edinburgh The Duke of Edinburgh was located at 52 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith.

Queen’s Head The Queens Head is a pub on Brook Green.

Queen’s Head

Royal Sussex Arms The Royal Sussex Arms stood at 26 Hammersmith Broadway.

Royal Sussex Arms

Six Bells The Six Bells was open between 1826 and about 1959.

Six Bells

Stonemasons Arms, W6 The Stonemasons Arms lies on the corner of Glenthorne Road and Cambridge Grove.

Stonemasons Arms, W6

The Cannon The Cannon was situated at 80 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith.

The Cannon

The Dartmouth Castle

The Distillers Arms The Distillers Arms marks the boundary between Hammersmith and Fulham.

The Rutland Arms The Rutland Arms lies along the River Thames at Hammersmith.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, approximately eight kilometres west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames.

One of west London’s key transport hubs and commercial and employment centres, and home to several multinational company offices, Hammersmith is focused on the two London Underground stations, a bus station and as an important road network node.

Hammersmith’s pedestrianised riverside is popular for its many pubs, its excellent views of the river and the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race which passes by.

The area has provided a location for several TV programmes - for instance, The Flying Squad were Hammersmith-based in the 1970s TV series The Sweeney.

Hammersmith is served by two tube stations, one is the western terminus of the Hammersmith & City Line, the other by the Piccadilly and District Lines. Both are called Hammersmith. The latter tube station is part of a larger office, retail and transport development, locally known as The Broadway after its large encompassing roundabout.

The present Hammersmith & City station is situated on Beadon Road and opened on 1 December 1868, replacing the original station slightly north of here which opened on 13 June 1864 when the line extension was built from Paddington. The Circle line has served Hammersmith since 13 December 2009.

The Piccadilly and District line station was opened on 9 September 1874 by the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line) as the western terminus of the railway when it was extended from Earl’s Court.

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Shepherd's Bush Road, W6 TUM image id: 1488542121 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith (2013) Credit: Wiki Commons/Chmee2 TUM image id: 1668683030 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Stage hands at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith (1897) Later called the Lyric Theatre, it had been redesigned in 1895 and opened by Lille Langtry TUM image id: 1668694178 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Addison Gardens, W14 Old London postcard TUM image id: 1623764925 Licence:	Horse-drawn cab outside the station in Beadon Road (1894) Staffords - the shop next to the station - repaired and sola umbrellas. TUM image id: 1668094349 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Cambridge Road (now Cambridge Grove) during the Edwardian period. A District Line train is crossing the bridge. TUM image id: 1668685689 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Carthew Road, W6 TUM image id: 1466548214 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Castelnau (1910) with Hammersmith Bridge in the background Old London postcard TUM image id: 1600620265 Licence:	Colet House Credit: The Study Society TUM image id: 1605092347 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith Artist: Adam Raven (1952–2006) Credit: Hammersmith Library TUM image id: 1668731003 Licence:
Margaret House - an original section of the Caroline Estate built in the early twentieth-century. The London County Council extended the estate in 1953. In the background, you can see a tall red-brick building with prominent chimneys. This was another housing estate, which was owned and run by the Peabody Trust. Previously, the site had been home to the Convent of the Good Shepherd, which closed in 1920. Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1668017325 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Glenthorne Road looking east towards St John’s Church (1901) TUM image id: 1668706259 Licence: CC BY 2.0	10-16 Grove Mews, c. 1906 Finch & Son occupied 10-11 for several years and expanded to no.9 from 1912. TUM image id: 1668685345 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Charlotte House, Hammersmith stands on the location of The Cannon pub, pictured here in 1900 TUM image id: 1668015171 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Brick makers in Hammersmith In the mid 19th century, the area from Brook Green to Shepherd’s Bush and east to Counter’s Creek was almost wholly devoted to brickmaking. Lakeside Road lay in the heart of the gravel pits between Shepherd’s Bush and Brook Green, known as the ’Ocean’ owing to its marshes and lying water caused by digging for brick clay. TUM image id: 1563206149 Licence:

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Shepherd's Bush Road, W6
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Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith (2013)
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Stage hands at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith (1897) Later called the Lyric Theatre, it had been redesigned in 1895 and opened by Lille Langtry
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Horse-drawn cab outside the station in Beadon Road (1894) Staffords - the shop next to the station - repaired and sola umbrellas.
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Cambridge Road (now Cambridge Grove) during the Edwardian period. A District Line train is crossing the bridge.
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Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith Artist: Adam Raven (1952–2006)
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Margaret House - an original section of the Caroline Estate built in the early twentieth-century. The London County Council extended the estate in 1953. In the background, you can see a tall red-brick building with prominent chimneys. This was another housing estate, which was owned and run by the Peabody Trust. Previously, the site had been home to the Convent of the Good Shepherd, which closed in 1920.
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Glenthorne Road looking east towards St John’s Church (1901)
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10-16 Grove Mews, c. 1906 Finch & Son occupied 10-11 for several years and expanded to no.9 from 1912.
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Charlotte House, Hammersmith stands on the location of The Cannon pub, pictured here in 1900
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