North End, Fulham
North End was, until the last quarter of the 19th-century, a scattered hamlet among the fields and market gardens, between
County of Middlesex.[1]
In connection with the development of the
Sir John Scott Lillie built the 'North End Brewery' complex in 1832. The attached public house was called the 'Lillie Arms' (today's Lillie Langtry in Lillie Road, misnamed later for an alleged local connection with the Jersey socialite) and had a frontage of 140 feet along the newly laid out road running from Lillie Bridge (Fulham) to North End Lane. According to Féret the landlady was a Miss Goslin.[2] All that remains of North End in memory is the North End Road, Fulham. In the 1880s, the area became known as "West Kensington", at the request of developers Gibbs and Flew who were having trouble selling their newly built houses in a Fulham backwater.[3]
Metropolitan District Railway, was originally called 'Fulham - North End'.[5]
Notable residents
- Samuel Richardson
- Samuel Foote
- Francesco Bartolozzi
- Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner
- Thomas Elliot Harrison
- Sir John Scott Lillie
- Arthur Lillie
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Georgiana Burne-Jones
- William Hurlstone
References
- ^ Walford, Edward. Fulham: Walham Green and North End, in Old and New London: Volume 6 (London, 1878), pp. 521-528. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp521-528 [accessed 23 October 2016]
- ^ Féret, Charles. (1900) Fulham Old and New, volume II, p. 271-3.
- ^ Féret, Charles (1900). Fulham Old and New, vol.I-III (PDF). Vol. III. Leadenhall Press.
- ISBN 0-948667-43-5.
- ^ "Metropolitan Railway Projects". The Times. No. 24729. 30 November 1863. p. 7. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
51°29′27″N 0°12′25″W / 51.49083°N 0.20694°W
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