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A3219 Road
Dawes Road or the A3219 is a street in Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ..., London. It runs roughly west to east from Munster Road to North End Road. The Doll's Hospital at no 16 was a toy shop and the scene of a triple murder in 1948. References {{Coord, 51.48100, -0.20810, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title Fulham Streets in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulham Baptist Church, Dawes Road - Geograph
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, 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. 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. It originally included today's Hammersmith. Between 1900 and 1965, it was demarcated as the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham, before its me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munster Road
Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties. Munster has no official function for local government purposes. For the purposes of the ISO, the province is listed as one of the provincial sub-divisions of the State ( ISO 3166-2:IE) and coded as "IE-M". Geographically, Munster covers a total area of and has a population of 1,373,346, with the most populated city being Cork. Other significant urban centres in the province include Limerick and Waterford. History In the early centuries AD, Munster was the domain of the Iverni peoples and the Clanna Dedad familial line, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North End Road, Fulham
North End Road is an ancient thoroughfare linking the former hamlet of North End, renamed " West Kensington", with the former village of Walham Green, renamed "Fulham Broadway" in Fulham in London. It starts at Hammersmith Road (the A315), close to the Olympia exhibition centre, and runs south to Fulham Road (the A304), near Fulham Broadway. Its main junctions are with the A4 at West Kensington tube station, and with Lillie Road near the Clem Attlee Estate. The street is signed as the B317 for its entire length except for the short final section between Dawes Road and Fulham Road, which is part of the A3219. From its Northern end, when it was still part of the County of Middlesex, it was the site of several notable 18th-century villas, long since demolished. Among residents were Samuel Richardson, and latterly Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones at "the Grange", and further south Samuel Foote, then Sir John Scott Lillie at "The Hermitage", with neighbours, Francesco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doll's Hospital
The Doll's Hospital (or Dolls' Hospital) was a toy shop at 16 Dawes Road, Fulham, London that was in operation for over 100 yearsLewis, Ron, Blood-Curdling History of a Doll's Hospital, Middlesex County Times - Friday 25 August 1989, page 13, via British Newspaper Archive and repaired dolls sent by postal mail. The business eventually acquired an international reputation for its restoration workshop, including media coverage in the '' Illustrated Sydney News'', "Patients are admitted for broken heads, or fractured limbs, loss of hair, eyes, nose, teeth, fingers, hands, toes, and wasting away of the body. Operations take place every day between 9am and 8pm." In 1948, the owners of the Doll's Hospital building were victims of the serial killer John Haigh, the so-called Acid Bath Murderer, who was himself hanged the following year. History In the 1800s, a "doll's hospital" opened in the nearby Fulham Road. The hospital eventually came into possession of Herbert Wicks. In 1937, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
