Sands End

Coordinates: 51°28′23″N 0°10′48″W / 51.473°N 0.180°W / 51.473; -0.180
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Sands End
Sands End is located in Greater London
Sands End
Sands End
Location within Greater London
Population12,760 (2011 Census.Ward)[1]
OS grid referenceTQ265765
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Region
CountryEngland
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Post townLONDON
Postcode districtSW6
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51°28′23″N 0°10′48″W / 51.473°N 0.180°W / 51.473; -0.180

Sands End is an area of the ancient parish of

Chelsea Creek and the old Peterborough estate, west of Wandsworth Bridge, its northern edge is New King's Road. While wharves, industrial acres and workers' cottages gave way to intensive re-development such as Chelsea Harbour
and Imperial Wharf in the last quarter of the 20th-century, it still contains some 300-year-old cottages and 19th century streets.

History

1898 map showing Sands End with the Fulham Gas Works
A map showing the Sands End ward of Fulham Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916

For centuries, this swampy place was a rural backwater, cut off from other villages and the main thoroughfares into the

King Henry VIII granted the manor of Sandford to the Abbot of Westminster, but that in 1549 it returned to the Crown
.

Ten years later,

Grade II* listed.[2] Another reputed resident was Nell Gwyn.[3]

A Victorian terrace in Sands End

Origins

The historian of Fulham, Charles Féret (1852-1921), devotes several chapters of his 3 volume work to the origins of Sands End. As distinct from ownership, settlement of the area did not begin till the

Virgin Queen that we hear of the 'End,' from which we may infer that the nucleus of a tiny village was only then in course of formation. The earliest instance of the name is in 1566, when mention is made of the 'bridge at Sandeande.' In 1575 John Powell, gent, was required to make his fence between 'Gill Hale' and the premises of John Burton at 'Sands Ende.' Two years later this John Burton was ordered to scour his ditches (foveas) at 'Sand End', between 'Gilhalle' and 'Peasecroft' (see vol. ii. p. 83)[4]

Industrialisation

William and Evelyn De Morgan lived and worked in Sands End

In spite of its rural charms, the area was affected by flooding, dampness and the effluent descending from Counter's Creek, sometimes referred to as a sewer, so by the early 19th-century, the estate was in decline. Dr Barton MD, author of 'the Lost Rivers of London', quotes a colleague from the West London Medical Journal, who had observed that rheumatism was unusually common on both sides of Counter's Creek from Shepherd's Bush to Chelsea.[5]

In 1824, twenty acres of the estate were bought by the

Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, the first public utility enterprise in the world. So began almost two centuries of industrialisation and manufacturing. Craftsmen and artists were still attracted to its fringes, most notably, William De Morgan, a friend of William Morris and a member of the Arts and Crafts movement.[6]

The growth of the Temperance movement produced yet another brewery in Fulham, only without any alcohol content. On an eight-acre site in Sands End, just east of Wandsworth Bridge, the Polish-born entrepreneur, Henry Lowenfeld built the Kops Brewery that started production in 1890. It lasted to the dawn of World War I when it was turned into a margarine factory and later turned to food logistics.[7]

In 1901,

MacFarlane Lang had established its biscuit factory nearby. Sands End became noted as a close knit working class community in the industrial heartland of Fulham with its gas works, power station and petrol depot providing work for generations of local families.[8]

  • Joseph Addison by Michael Dahl lowres
    Joseph Addison by Michael Dahl lowres
  • Gasholder at the former Imperial Gasworks
    Gasholder
    at the former Imperial Gasworks
  • William De Morgan (c. 1890), Sands Ends Pottery: a tile inspired by Middle Eastern patterns.
    William De Morgan (c. 1890), Sands Ends Pottery: a tile inspired by Middle Eastern patterns.
  • The Queen Elizabeth public house, Pearscroft Road
    The Queen Elizabeth public house, Pearscroft Road
  • The Castle Club, Daisy Lane, Fulham
    The Castle Club, Daisy Lane, Fulham
  • Chelsea Harbour Lock
    Chelsea Harbour Lock
  • The former Kops Brewery, Townmead Road, Sands End
    The former Kops Brewery, Townmead Road, Sands End

21st-century

A property boom begun in the 1970s coupled with the advent of oil-fuelled processing of North Sea oil led to a process of Gentrification with offices and studio businesses and flats on the market for prices more customary in the centre of the capital.[9] On the northern bank of the

Imperial Wharf, a brownfield development of the former Imperial Gasworks which is growing to include a mixture of affordable housing, both private and public, shops, a park and a new railway station.[citation needed
]

Also in this part of Fulham is South Park. Wandsworth Bridge Road runs through Sands End and has restaurants, tile and pine furniture shops, the Church of England parish church of Saint Matthew.[citation needed]

Transport

Imperial Wharf station

Because of the notoriously poor transport links for the area (including Chelsea Harbour), including the absence of tube stations due to the many medieval plague pits which deterred their building in Victorian times, the nearby

C3.[citation needed
]

Chelsea Harbour Pier

River bus services are provided at peak hours by

Blackfriars Millennium Pier.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Hammersmith and Fulham Ward population 2011". Neigfhbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Sandford Manor House, Kings Road SW6 (1286723)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  3. ISBN 0-948667-43-5
    .
  4. ^ Féret, Charles (1900). Fulham Old and New, vol.I-III. Vol. III. Leadenhall Press. pp. 267–87. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. ISBN 0-948667-15-X
    .
  6. ^ "William De Morgan and the Arts & Crafts Movement". Antique Marks. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  7. ISBN 0-948667-43-5
    .
  8. ISBN 9781840335262
    .
  9. ISBN 9781840335262
    .
  10. ^ "Boats from Chelsea Harbour Pier" (PDF). Transport for London. Spring 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2017.

External links

In October 2008 an interactive local history website, Sands End Revisited, was published with photos and memories from residents closed in 2015, but e-mail contact available.[1]

  1. ^ "Welcome to the SandsEndRevisited.net". Archived from the original on 23 January 2009.
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