Hammersmith Collection (page 4)

Advertisement for the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith, 1919
1919 advert for the Palais de Danse, a vast and hugely popular dance venue in West London where American jazz bands played the tunes

The Greatest Scoundrel Living by A McLeod Loader
Promotional postcard of The Greatest Scoundrel Living by A. McLeod Loader (real name Alfred M. Daylor). First produced St. Helens, 2nd March and the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 2nd November 1903

The latest craze - ballet on skates, 1929
Photographs reporting on the craze for ice dancing over normal dancing in 1929. The skaters featured were performing ice cabaret at the Hammersmith Ice-Drome which opened on 30 December 1929

William Bull MP
Sir Willam James Bull, MP (1863 - 1931) British solicitor and Conservative politician. MP for Hammersmith (1900-1918) and Hammersmith South (1918-1929). Created a Baronet, of Hammersmith in 1922

Students at a school for women chemists, WW1
Women at a London County Council school in Hammersmith, training in chemistry following the acceptance of women dispensers by the Army medical authorities during the First World War

Death Plaque of Corporal Henry Leonard Amess
Death Plaque in the name of 290043 Corporal Henry Leonard Amess, 1st/10th (T.F.) Battalion, Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment). Born Hammersmith, London. Enlisted Shepherds Bush, Middlesex

Workmen at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London
Two workmen looking at an architectural plan on the site of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. They are Stan Strowbridge (left)

Queen Charlottes birthday Ball, 1930
Queen Charlottes Birthday Ball, held at the May Fair Hotel, to raise funds for the Queen Charlotte Hospital at Hammersmith

Hammersmith Infirmary, London
The Hammersmith Infirmary, opened in 1905 on Du Cane Road, was the most visible section of a site which also included a new Hammersmith workhouse. Date: 1909

Sir William J. Bull MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR WILLIAM JAMES BULL MP, 1st Baronet (1863-1931) British solicitor and Conservative politician. MP for Hammersmith (1900-1918) and Hammersmith South (1918-1929)

Hammersmith Bridge
Hammersmith suspension bridge built by Tierney Clark. Date: 1827

Brandenburg House, on the Thames as Hammersmith, Date: early 19th century

Doves Hammersmith
The Doves public house, on the Thames as Hammersmith, Date: circa 1880

Ravenscourt Park Date: 1888

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

Sam. Richardson home 2
Samuel RICHARDSONs home in the west London suburb of Hammersmith, somewhat grander than his earlier home at Parsons Green. Date: CIRCA 1750

A flyingboat lands on the Thames, Hammersmith during trials
With limited facilities at Croydon Airport, plans for a new airport at Hammersmith, London, were considered. A flyingboat lands on the Thames during trials, with Hammersmith Bridge in the background

LCC-LFB Flooding caused by burst water main in street
An area of Hammersmith and Fulham extensively flooded following the fracture of a large diameter water main in the street

LCC-LFB AFS exercise
A London firewoman acting as a radio operator on the heavy unit from Hammersmith fire station at a combined full-time/auxiliary fire exercise

Blitz in London -- clearance and repair of bomb damage in King Street, Hammersmith, West London

The Mall, Hammersmith, London Date: circa 1910s

Hammersmith Town Hall
The Old Town Hall, Hammersmith, west London. Date: 19th century

Fulham and Hammersmith workhouse, London
An architects bird s-eye view of the Fulham and Hammersmith union workhouse, designed by Alfred Gilbert, and opened in 1849 on Fulham Palace Road, London. Date: 1849

Sketch of the interior of the Hammersmith Palais de Dance, 1926 Date: 1926

Dining Room, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
View inside the dining room of a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London, with male inmates eating at tables and queueing to be served

Entrance Hall, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
Men pass through the turnstiles in the entrance hall of a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London. Rowton Houses, of which six were erected around London, were large, purpose-built

Entrance ticket, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
An entrance ticket for a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London. Rowton Houses, of which six were erected around London, were large, purpose-built, low-cost hostels or doss-houses for working men

Hammersmith Workhouse and Infirmary, West London
The new Hammersmith workhouse and infirmary on Du Cane Road, Hammersmith, West London, were opened in 1905 by Princess Henry of Battenberg

Ashford Schools, Surrey
Located on Woodthorpe Road, at Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, and opened in 1872 as the West London District School, it provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from

Hammersmith Hospital, London
Aerial view of Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, Hammersmith, West London, originally opened in 1905 as the Hammersmith workhouse and infirmary

Hammersmith Red Cow
The Red Cow inn

Hammersmith Mall
The Thames at Hammersmith Mall

Motor Bus / Thornycroft
The first self-propelled bus (a Thornycroft) in London (route between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus)

Race between a Bicycle and Pony, Hammersmith, 1874
Engraving of a race held at Hammersmith, London, between a cyclist on a Penny Farthing or Ordinary bicycle and a rider on a pony

Female Porters / Ww1
Women working as porters in a grocery wholesaler in Hammersmith, London during World War One

Garden / Mrs Spooner 1908
Mrs Spooner in her Thames-side garden at Hammersmith, west London

Boys on Ship
Boys on board the training ship Stork at Hammersmith

Oxford V Cambridge 1866
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race : Scene at Hammersmith Bridge

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