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Residents JournalS E P T E M B E R 2012 I SSU E 002

Editorfrom the

Dear Resident,

Welcome to the second edition of Fulham Residents’ Journal. We were delighted with the positive response from residents to

our launch edition and hope to continue to serve the community well with news, features and useful references brought to you with

exquisite style. It’s September and back to school for many. I thought it an appropriate month to reflect on the legacy that so-called

‘ragged schools’ of the 1800s left on the Fulham education scene (page 4). Our usual Classroom spread on page 16 brings you up to

date with 2012 local schooling news, in the form of exam result success and key diary dates.

We celebrate Fulham’s arts and antique heritage in this edition with an interview with one bespoke designer of the

King’s Road (page 14), before nodding to this season’s local design events (page 19, Streetwise). Our usual double-page spread

dedicated to local galleries and a London-wide review tops it off on page 8. This month it seemed fitting to indulge in Tate Britain’s exhibition,

Another London: International Photographs 1930-1980, since we’re all feeling so patriotic and the imagery revealed really stirred the blood.

Indeed, as the Paralympic Games get underway we appreciate the history of this unique event and invite readers to

enter a photography competition seeking images of Olympic and Paralympic spirit on the streets (Residents’ Culture, page 22).

You could even end up on our front cover. Good luck!

Illustration / Councillor Belinda Donovan Mayor, Hammersmith and Fulham Council by Russ Tudor

We would highly value any feedback that you wish to email us with:editor@residentsjournal.co.uk; or telephone us on 020 7987 4320.

It was a simple enough career move on the surface of

things. Following an accident that rendered his original

career in shipping null, John Pounds decided to become

a shoemaker. Time passed and in 1818, he began

teaching Portsmouth’s poverty-stricken children – for free.

Scooping the city’s destitute young off the street, Pounds

went on to be cited by Scottish philanthropist Thomas

Guthrie in his Plea for Ragged Schools, as the most

influential figure in the development of education for the

poor. Pounds, who became known locally as ‘The Crippled

Cobbler’, had pioneered a system of free education from

which Fulham benefitted directly at the time.

Indeed, the cobbler’s plea struck a chord throughout

a country where poverty and suffering were inescapable

facts of life for huge swathes of communities. The working-

class districts of rapidly increasing industrial towns

fashioned classrooms out of stables, lofts and railway

arches, whilst local workmen dedicated their mornings,

evenings and Sundays to teaching the three Rs, in a drive

to provide the next generation with the benefits of an

education, no matter how rudimentary. The schools were

called ‘ragged schools’, owing to the bedraggled clothing of

the children for whom they were created, and they sprang

up with an intensity powered by the great and the good of

British society.

Today, a busy main road runs through the corner of

Daisy Lane and Broomhouse Lane. A residential area on

the left and Sulivan Court on the right overlook the land

from either side, rendering almost inconspicuous a striking

nineteenth-century building that sits between the two. The

rich red brickwork and gothic turrets of this construction

belong to what was originally Fulham’s very own ragged

school, designed by architect Horace Francis in the name

of Guthrie’s plea for free education.

Officially entitled The Elizabethan School, the institution

was founded in 1885 by wealthy Fulham resident

An EducationBryony Warren looks at an early type of democratic schooling – ragged schools – and how it paved the way for Fulham’s excellent educational variety

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Laurence Sulivan. A local gentleman and philanthropist,

Sulivan’s family resided in Broom House, a property

that sat opposite the school until its demolition in 1911,

following the death of his daughter Charlotte. The

architecture of the Grade II listed building is as arresting

as its history, with a mock-Jacobean style and dominant

central tower. Playgrounds can be found at the rear of

the property and gardens at the front, creating at once

a secluded yet spacious patch that calls to mind the

character of Fulham in days gone by. The face of Fulham

during this period would have been barely recognisable as

the busy, urban hub we see today. Before 1900 and the

first development of terraced housing, the area was a small

village on the outskirts of London, whose farms and market

gardens provided the city with fresh fruit and vegetables.

Until recent years, there still existed a tangible sense of

the civic duty and local pride that were at the heart of the

building’s original use. The Elizabethan School became

home to the Castle Centre for young people, a youth club

run by the local council that provided constructive after-

school recreation for children between the ages of five and

eleven, and for older teenagers in the evenings. In 2008,

despite generations of adhering to Laurence Sulivan’s

pledge that the ragged school remain a place ‘for the care

of the children of Fulham’ and thus encourage opportunity

and inclusivity, the building was sold to a private buyer and

is now a luxury home.

The creation of Fulham’s Elizabethan School had come

roughly a decade after the ragged school movement as a

whole had started to gain the structure and autonomy that

made it an educational force capable of very real change.

Between the years of 1844 and 1881, over 300,000

children in London alone passed through the doors of

ragged schools, which were eventually grouped together

under an umbrella organisation known as the Ragged

School Union. Formed initially by Anthony Ashley-Cooper,

7th Earl of Shaftsbury, the union established over two-

hundred schools in eight years.

Shaftsbury was an aristocrat who dedicated his life to

philanthropic causes that many of his class would have

dismissed as irrelevant. He was particularly committed

to affecting change through the reformation of lunatic

asylums, the introduction of the ‘ten hours bill’ to improve

factory-working hours, the outlawing of the employment of

women and children in mines and measures to help the

plight of chimney sweeps. He remained president of the

Ragged School Union for almost forty years and, in 1944,

the union adopted The Shaftsbury Society as its title.

Ragged schools relied heavily upon the financial and

public support of wealthy and powerful sponsors, regularly

attracting the attention of contemporary celebrities. In

1843, Charles Dickens visited the Field Lane ragged

school in Clerkenwell and was simultaneously appalled by

the conditions in which the children lived and impressed

by the motives of the Ragged School Union. Charles

Dickens’s visit eventually inspired his 1943 novella A

Christmas Carol, and he donated money on several

occasions subsequently.

The legacy of the ragged schools revealed itself to be

much more wide-reaching and long-lasting than John

Pounds could ever have imagined when he humbly

began to emphasise the importance of education to the

children he saw playing in the streets. The popularity of

the campaign – so keenly taken up by the rich and famous

and which, more importantly, began to embed the process

of learning into communities which had previously had

access to no such thing – helped establish a series of

educational reforms that paved the way for the state-school

system that exists to this day.

England and Wales formed school boards to administer

elementary schools and, in 1870, public funding was

provided for this level of education amongst the working

classes. Demand for ragged schools inevitably declined

following the 1870 Elementary Education Act which

solidified and rendered compulsory the principles at

their root. Schools in Fulham are amongst the best in the

country, this one area alone offering establishments that

cater for a huge variety of educational needs. It is all a far

cry from the days of Sulivan’s Elizabethan School, when

education in Fulham was a cause to be fought for rather

than a privilege to be taken for granted.

‘Charles Dickens’s visit to a ragged school eventually inspired

“A Christmas Carol”’

Illustrations / Mai Osawa

A local news round-up for September

The Notebook

Fulham’s favourite business, as voted at the inaugural H&F Brilliant Business

Awards this summer, is a dance studio in Imperial Wharf owned by Strictly

Come Dancing winner, Karen Hardy. The awards paid heed to the vitality,

vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit that local businesses bring to the area and

made sure that the smallest of locally cherished companies received their share of the limelight. More

than a thousand people voted for their favourite local ventures and the initial candidates were whittled

down to a shortlist of forty-three before the final winners were announced and accolades awarded in

front of a 120-strong audience at Brasa restaurant on the Fulham Road.

The organisers, Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s economic development team, joined forces

with big borough businesses including Kings Mall, Fulham Broadway Shopping Centre, Westfield and

West12 Shopping Centre in Shepherds Bush, in order to sponsor each of the five categories. Aside

from Karen Hardy Studios, proving popular was Darlings of Chelsea, the Fulham High Street sofa store,

which fought off tight competition to be named the business offering best customer service. The Best New

Business Award went to pet-grooming shop, Bishops Bark, whilst community financial services provider

H&F Credit Union won Best Business Supporter of the Community. Tim Fouracre of online accounting

system Clear Books was named Best Young Entrepreneur for his time-saving book keeping system.

Fulham Palace will be hosting free tours around its

nooks and crannies for one weekend only, whilst

seven hundred of the capital’s architectural marvels

usually kept under lock and key throw open their

doors in tandem. Dominated by a Tudor courtyard

with Georgian additions and Butterfield chapel,

Fulham Palace was reopened after Lottery-funded

restorations in 2006. Free tours will take in areas

of the palace usually closed to the public and

there will be architecture-related family activities in

the Jessie Mylne Education Centre. September’s

showcase of London’s most remarkable edifices

will be marked by the release of a commemorative

hardback book: Open House London: An Exclusive

Glimpse Inside 100 of the Most Extraordinary

Buildings in London by Victoria Thornton.

Sunday 23 September, 11am-3pm

Bishops Avenue, 020 7610 7169

www.fulhampalace.org www.londonopenhouse.org

Cycling fevrour must be met by better safety measuresAn increase in serious cycling accidents in Fulham has prompted local campaigners, the government and the council to readdress safety

protocols, in order to protect bike riders pedalling the area’s roads. More bike rides reputedly take place in the borough than in any other

London constituency and at least eight cyclists have been seriously injured or killed by traffic accidents in it since 2006. A collaborative

project between Transport for London and Hammersmith and Fulham Council has outlined plans for a cycle superhighway, due to

be unveiled next year. However local cycling campaign group, Hammersmith and Fulham Cyclists (the local branch of the London

Cycling Campaign) believe more could be done, including the introduction of a 20mph speed limit in notoriously busy areas like

Hammersmith Bridge, where an eighteen-year-old student narrowly escaped serious injury after being crushed against a lamppost

in June this year. The group also questions the route proposed for the cycling superhighway, which they say would take the

majority of cyclists on a detour through the area.

If you feel strongly, you can attend the next Hammersmith and Fulham Cyclists’ AGM which takes place on 4 September

at 7.30pm: www.hfcyclists.org.uk Image / Bikeworldtravel at Shutterstock.com

the keyholeThrough

Strictly business

F U L H A M R E S I D E N T S ’ J O U R N A L 007

It’s official: Fulham boasts some of the best parks and green spaces to be found anywhere in the country.

This is the conclusion of environmental charity, Keep Britain Tidy. In recognition of the sweep of undulating

parks and well-manicured community spaces dotted about the locale, our leafy postcode has scooped a

grand total of nine Green Flag Awards.

The borough’s best bucolic spots include Ravenscourt Park, Frank Banfield Park and Margravine

Cemetery, which have all been honoured with the coveted Green Flag status for the fourth year in a row.

Normand Park has picked up the award for a third time and St Peter’s Square in Hammersmith has collected

a second Green Flag. Meanwhile, Hurlingham Park, South Park, Hammersmith Park and Norland North on

the Edward Woods Estate have all won their first Green Flags, recognising our outdoor areas’ high standards

and the way in which these, and a good deal of pride, are maintained across the board in the borough.

The trophy cabinet-worth of Green Flags were awarded to safe, clean and well-maintained parks with

excellent facilities, where residents were directly involved in looking after and improving their local stamping

grounds in partnership with local authorities. Friends of South Park, a group of residents dedicated to

enhancing South Park, was instrumental in recent improvement works and new children’s play area

facilities installed there. Evidence of parks being managed in an environmentally aware manner, in order to

conserve natural features, wildlife and historic buildings, also earned green spaces brownie points. On such

a celebratory note, we feel a picnic coming on. So long as there are glimmers of sunshine, let’s make the

most of our local outdoor blessings well into those upcoming days of autumnal breeze.

Traffic wardens in Hammersmith and Fulham

will become the first in London to be fitted with

body cameras in a bid to help catch abusive

motorists. The decision to introduce the

cameras, which have been designed to sit in

a harness attached to wardens’ high-visibility

jackets, has come after a spate of increasingly

violent assaults on civil enforcement officers.

Stab-proof vests and GPS tracking systems may

also be in the pipeline, to be issued over the

next few months in a further attempt to control

the number of verbal and physical attacks which

have more than doubled since 2008. Whilst it

is hoped that the sixty-five cameras due to be

issued will help gather valuable police evidence

in tackling the problem, the response to

the decision by local residents has been

mixed. Even though conceding that there

is no excuse for violence against

wardens, many stated the over-

zealous work ethic of traffic

wardens, who are paid on a

target basis, as a possible

bone of contention.

Others felt that motorists’

frustrations were exacerbated

by confusing parking

regulations, calling for an

upgrade to the local paying

systems, including pay-by-

text facilities similar to those

available in Wandsworth.

Fulham FC football fans can celebrate ratified plans to increase

Craven Cottage football stadium by 4,300 seats. The stadium,

historic home of the club since 1896, currently has the capacity to

accommodate 25,700 fans but will soon boast 30,000 seats. The

Riverside Stand will be partially demolished and a new upper tier

will wrap around the current stand and encompass a new hospitality

space, riverside façade and roof. In addition, the riverside walk along

the Thames – currently only opened on match days – will be opened

on non-match days, creating a pleasant waterside footpath for

pedestrians travelling between Putney and Hammersmith.

In an attempt to alleviate some residents’ concerns about the

impact of the stadium’s expansion on the local community, Craven

Cottage has agreed to donate £600,000 towards the restoration

of Bishops Park. It has also agreed to ten years of annual

contributions towards the park’s ongoing maintenance and to

funding for improving CCTV as well as pedestrian and road safety

measures in the area.

Council clamps down on traffic warden attacks

Park life

Words / Lauren Romano Illustration above / Russ Tudor Left / Michal Kowalski at Shutterstock.com

the keyhole

More the merrier

Art FocusThe best of September’s local art and a wider look at the London scene too

A brush with still lifeOil and acrylic paintings are the order of the month at Fulham Road’s Piers Feetham

Gallery. Its autumnal exhibition roster kicks off with a retrospective of bright still life

compositions by Pauline Hazlewood, whose bold sweeps of colour swirl and blend to

shape intriguing abstract forms. An emphasis on lines and colour also weaves its way

through Wendy Winfield’s oil on canvas works. Rolling rural backdrops and everyday

scenes are rendered striking in a palette of mottled, light-flecked tones.

11-15 September (Pauline Hazlewood)

19 September-6 October (Wendy Winfield)

Piers Feetham Gallery: 475 Fulham Road, 020 7381 3031

www.piersfeethamgallery.com

The winners of The Brian Mercer Stone and Bronze

Residencies will display the end-results of months

of chiselling and casting at an exhibition hosted

by the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Halima

Cassell and Kate McLeod were both selected to

spend three months honing their sculpting skills,

working with stone and bronze respectively, under

the watchful eyes of master artisans in Pietrasanta,

Tuscany. The autumn display at the studio gallery

is a not-to-be-missed showcase of their collective

flair, creativity and craftsmanship.

Post-exhibition, Susan Forsyth’s impacting site-

specific work, ‘Jacobs’s Ladder II’, sits boldly in the

beautiful Sculpture Forecourt and is also well worth

a look. It is hard to miss; propped up against the side

of the historic façade, the gilded geometric plane

stands at eight metres tall and glistens in gold leaf,

making an arresting focal point which challenges the

traditional perceptions of sculptural practice.

27 September-2 November

RBS Studio Gallery: 108 Old Brompton Road

020 7373 8615, www.rbs.org.uk

Watercolour artist Nikki Stevens has captured big cats and safari animals

that have a myth or superstition attached to them in her latest exhibition at

Cricket Fine Art. Entitled Fierce Friends, Stevens’s leopards, tigers, zebras

and horses, cast in their luminous pigments and fluid watercolour stains, look

simultaneously fierce and cunning yet delicate and dangerously beautiful.

Depicted in a range of predatory and playful poses, the hypnotic dots and

stripes of their pelts propel their mythical status further and make a refreshing

break from the mould of traditional wildlife art.

25 September-6 October

Cricket Fine Art: 2 Park Walk, 020 7352 2733, www.cricketfineart.co.uk

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

Image / ‘Bow Wave’ by Halima Cassel

(BM Residency)

Image / ‘Blueprint Tiger Regal’ by Nikki Stevens

perfectionSculpted to

Words / Lauren Romano Right / ‘Into the light’ (left) and ‘Ape’ (right) by Wendy Winfield

F U L H A M R E S I D E N T S ’ J O U R N A L 009

England has not felt too comfortable about its

patriotic status in recent years. We shy away

from the brash, flag-waving of Americans and

remark the superior haughtiness of the French. We

lament the state of our country’s transport system,

question the importance of our Queen and equate

our flag with football hooliganism. Well, that was

then. For, it would seem that we have collectively

been living a lie. The Olympics awoke a sleeping

lion of civic exuberance and one that could not

have been forced. The time was ripe and London,

as the scene of most of the joy, will forever be

synonymous with the roar.

A new exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Another

London: International Photographs 1930–1980 taps

into renewed British pride, showcasing photographs

that demonstrate how palpable affection towards

London goes above

and beyond two brief

weeks in August. The

exhibition focuses on the

work of photographers

from all over the world,

some of whom paid

only a fleeting visit to

the city, whilst others

moved to England and

adopted London as their

home. The photographs

of each of the forty-

one artists featured

demonstrate a version of

London encountered by

Bryony Warren jumps on the bandwagon of Olympic national pride, via photographic stimuli at Tate Britain

London’s calling

outsiders; a foreign perspective that often perfectly

captures its vibrant eccentricity, pinpointing the

interplay between tradition and novelty that defined

much of the twentieth century. Bruce Davidson’s

‘Queen’s Guard Marching’ (1960), for example,

zooms in on a peculiar London ritual that exists

to this day. ‘English Nanny’, taken in 1965 by

Polish-born photographer Jeanloup Sieff, achieves

something similar. The austere black dress of the

elderly lady in the foreground forms a stark contrast

with the pretty, mini-skirted young girl behind her,

encapsulating the way in which life for women

changed dramatically during that era.

The photographs do not shy away from

depicting the more uncomfortable aspects of life in

London over the twentieth century; often they are

unflinching in their presentation of the disparities

in wealth and lifestyle that have always

existed in the city. Neil Kenlock’s ‘Keep

Britain White’, for example, makes for

rather uncomfortable viewing. Taken in

Balham in 1972, it is a striking portrayal

of the daily struggle against racism faced

by many Londoners. Equally, Bill Brandt’s

‘Footsteps Coming Nearer’ offers an

insight into a seedier side of city-living,

as we see a man walking down a dingy

backstreet to approach a woman waiting

on the kerbside.

Yet, the overwhelming feeling of the

exhibition is very much in keeping with

the resurgence of post-Olympic London

pride, and how it has manifested itself

in decades gone by, too. Martine Franck’s ‘The

Queen’s Silver Jubilee’ (1977) captures a little girl

dressed head-to-toe in timeless Union Jack-themed

party clothing and is endearing and patriotic in

equal measures.

The life stories of the photographers themselves

are testament to the inherent warmth of our city.

London became the adopted home of artists

such as Felix H. Man and Dorothy Bohm as they

fled persecution and intolerance in their native

countries. The honesty, eccentricity and humour

apparent in the photos exhibited are exemplary of

the qualities that have long made London a city to

be proud of. When looked at with this timeline of

events and emotions in mind, the success of The

2012 Olympics seems somewhat a blast from the

past and by no means a freak event.

‘Palpable affection towards London goes above and

beyond two weeks in August’

Top / Bruce Davidson’s ‘Queen’s Guard Marching’ (1960) © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos Above right / Wolfgang Suschitzky’s ‘Lyons Corner House, Tottenham Court Road, London’ (1934) © W. Suschitzky Left / Martine Franck’s ‘The Queen’s Silver Jubilee’ (1977) © Martine Franck / Magnum Photos

EXHIBITION REVIEW

Diary dates for residents looking for the best in the local area’s events

The Calendar

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the annual Open House London

weekend gives Londoners the opportunity to poke about behind the

scenes at some of the capital’s most celebrated architectural gems.

For Fulham’s Francophiles, a short trip to South Kensington is the

closest thing to stepping into France this side of the Channel. This

month, the Institut Français in the same neck of the woods will have

particular appeal. The culturally curious – Gallic-blooded or otherwise

– will receive the low-down on the building’s history, heritage and

unique architecture thanks to a series of guided tours and an

exclusive documentary, The Institut français: Behind the Scenes. For

an additional soupçon of culture, take the opportunity to browse the

copious fiction and non-fiction titles, DVDs and CDs on sale at greatly

reduced prices, all part of a French book sale running in tandem. As

a final incentive for a visit, one month’s free membership will be up

for the taking for anyone crossing the art deco threshold of the edifice

during Open House weekend.

22-23 September

17 Queensberry Place, 020 7871 3515

www.institut-francais.org.uk

Chardonnay rebrandedIf you’re not much of a wine connoisseur,

trying to settle on a variety you can customarily

order may prove thirsty work. Cue Vagabond,

the independent wine retailer near Fulham

Broadway. Its ingenious DIY bar, with one

hundred different wines on tap, means visitors

can try what’s on offer before thinking about

their wallets. With 20ml samples priced from just

50p and glasses from £4, punters can sip their

way through the wine list to find something that

really appeals, without breaking the bank. Tasting

events are also held regularly. On the agenda

for September: an introduction to Sicilian wines

(Thursday 6); a wine and charcuterie matching

masterclass with Charlotte Harbottle (Thursday

13); a vodka tasting (Thursday 20); and a

brilliant sounding reappraisal of Chardonnay,

entitled ‘Chardonnay: Not a Footballer’s Wife’

(Wednesday 26). All classes kick off at 7pm.

18-22 Vanston Place, 020 7381 1717

www.vagabondwines.co.uk

On y va!

F U L H A M R E S I D E N T S ’ J O U R N A L 011

Locals looking to shape up for a late-summer

getaway should take note of the BeachReady

exercise sessions held outdoors on Eel Brook

Common. Intensive, hour-long workouts

involve tyre flipping to strengthen core

muscles, kettle-bell swinging to tone the upper

body and lap sprinting to envigour. Instructors

arrange classes of up to twenty-five, or one-

on-one personal training sessions are available

in Hurlingham Park. If you appreciate the

benefits of exercise with a Vitamin D boost

(including that soaked up through the clouds),

this is your organised answer.

Wednesdays 7.15pm, Sundays 10.15am

& 11.30am, 020 7291 4582

www.freedom2train.com

Correct two left feet with a dance class

at Karen Hardy’s Imperial Wharf studio,

project of the Strictly Come Dancing and

World Number 1 Latin American dance star.

Whether you’re looking to perfect your salsa

moves or just want to throw some shapes

in a less haphazard fashion, book to learn

the waltz, foxtrot, tango, Viennese waltz,

quickstep, cha-cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso

doble, jive or the Argentine tango. Lessons are

suitable for all abilities, from the beginner to

the more advanced mover, and personalised

dance programmes combine private tuition

with technical lessons in small groups, so

participants progress faster. Regular lifestyle

dance experiences, including the Sunday

Rumba Lounge, mean members can enjoy

a drink and practise their steps in a relaxed

setting, with instructors on hand from 7pm

until 9pm. If you’re unsure whether to opt

for Latin or ballroom, book a free twenty-five

minute taster session first.

10 The Boulevard, Imperial Wharf

0845 567 1155, www.karenhardystudios.com

Give it a whirl

Lights, Camera, Algarve?The London Film Academy on Walham Grove is an exceptional resource for all budding

filmmakers and anyone looking to master the hobby, alike. Throughout this month, those wishing

to channel creativity in slightly more sunny surrounds than the four walls of a studio might

well be tempted to take one of the short courses offered on location in the Algarve, Portugal.

Participants can choose from one-day workshops designed to jolt aspiring screenplay writers into

action; weekend courses on documentary filmmaking, practical filming, editing and distribution

sessions; and two-week filmmaking foundation courses.

Next courses on location in Faro, the Algarve include the following –

‘Documentary: Filmmaker’s Toolkit’ (2 days): 15 September, £250

‘Writing: Screenplay in a Day’: 15 September, £150

‘Documentary Foundation’ (5 days): 15 September, £595

‘Acting for Directors’ (3 days): 17 September, £420

020 7386 7711, www.londonfilmacademy.com

And in other news...London-wide events of interest for the discerning Fulham culture-venture

8-9 Sep: ‘Thames Festival’ between Tower and Westminster BridgesUNTIL 3 Nov: ‘King Lear’ at the Almeida Theatre

14-23 Sep: ‘London Design Festival’ ACROSS LONDONUntil 28 Sep: ‘More London’ OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE FESTIVAL at The ScoopUntil 14 Oct: ‘Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012’ at Serpentine GalleryUNTIL 9 Sep: ‘London Live’ PARALYMPICS SCREENINGS at Trafalgar Square

Blood, sweat & beach

A gardener’s hands are never idle; the summer might only just be lulling towards its departure

– taking its swathes of fragrant blooms with it – but the time for planting bulbs for next spring

has already arrived. An opportune moment then, to pop over to Fulham Palace Garden Centre

and pay attention to a spring flowering bulbs demonstration. Pick up horticultural tips and

green-fingered inspiration, and (perfect for space-deprived gardeners, in particular) learn

about which bulbs thrive best when grown in pots and window baskets. The team on hand

will suggest plant and colour combinations which complement each other to ensure a

prismatic array of bright shades on your particular patch all season long.

Thursday 20 September, 11am-12pm

Fulham Palace Garden Centre: Bishops Avenue, 020 7736 2640

BloomInFull

Words / Lauren Romano

Belinda Donovan, 54, is still over-brimming with

pride at her election as Mayor of Hammersmith and

Fulham, some four months after being chosen for

the role in May. ‘It is an absolute pleasure,’ she beams.

‘And it came as a great shock.’ Belinda was telephoned

and asked if she would like to carry local mayoral colours

on the day before the anniversary of the death of her

brother, adding to the poignancy of the moment.

She had previously been deputy mayor for a year. This

is the usual order of play and – in a complete role reversal

– Councillor Frances Stainton, who was mayor before

Belinda, is currently her deputy. Belinda has taken the

reins with zeal, publicising her desire to be here-there-and-

everywhere at once. ‘It’s my residents who got me here,

so it’s my duty to be there for them now with local issues,’

she says with generosity. Belinda was elected Councillor

for Addison Ward in 2006 (an area sandwiched between

Shepherd’s Bush Station to the north and Kensington

Olympic Station to the south; falling to the west of both).

There are thirty-three London borough mayors.

It was Belinda’s grandfather who inspired her career.

‘It was his extreme dedication that marked me,’ she says

of the man who, for thirty years, was an active member

of Beaconsfield Council before rising to mayor of the

same. ‘My aunt was a soloist with The Royal Ballet, so

they moved to London for her eventually.’ It was here that

Belinda was brought up, in the early 60s, in the Ladbroke

Grove area.

She might get the political bug from her upbringing

but Belinda’s current mandate as mayor requires her to

a-politicise herself somewhat; a fact I learn as I fish for

an opinion on the local town hall’s transformation into a

shopping centre. ‘I have to take off my political hat. Being

mayor is very much a civic role,’ is her diplomatic response.

Alice Tozer meets Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham, Belinda Donovan, to find out what the day-to-day job calls for and what exactly motivates a woman to wear the borough’s chains

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The mayor typically chooses a charity to represent but

Belinda wanted to champion more than one cause, and

raises funds for The Mayhew Animal Home in Kensal Green

and West London Action for Children. ‘Dangerous dogs

and abandoned animals are a real concern in the area.

Domestic violence is also a big concern and one which

crosses all boundaries and walks of life.’ Being mayor, and

all the positive ambassadorial protocols it involves, accounts

for one half of her working week. The other is spent carrying

out the everyday Conservative councillor duties that her

‘other’ jobs involve, namely Cabinet Assistant for Crime and

the same for Culture.

Appropriately, it is in the realm of crime prevention that

Hammersmith and Fulham borough has really excelled,

with its unique neighbourhood watch scheme. Lord

Douglas, a resident, founded the initiative in 1983. In it,

residents are actively involved in spreading the message

that simple steps can be taken to reduce the opportunities

for crime. Neighbourhood watches are based on streets

and street co-ordinators within. Crime has fallen for six out

of the past seven years in the borough as a result.

Some have lamented in the past the ephemeral nature

of the year-long tenure of mayor and the lack of real powers

accredited to the role. Belinda sees her influence as one of

‘linking different groups together’ and she’s currently laying

the groundwork for a French Society, to bring together the

‘It’s my residents who got me here, so it’s my duty to be

there for them now’

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Illustration / Russ Tudor

increasing number of French residents. Belinda has an

entirely pro-active approach to her role as mayor. ‘It’s such a

pleasure to see change. Housing issues are one area where

I’ve been able to change peoples’ situations. To come across

individuals who haven’t seen change for years and make

something happen for them is just great.’

She seems a non-extravagant type and has made

do with a bicycle to get around town for years. Boris

would be proud. Thankfully, she only has to don the

mayoral chains on official occasions. ‘It’s a real honour

to wear the chains. They carry so much history.’ There

is one chain representing Fulham and another for

Hammersmith. Belinda laughs about how her ‘tiny

shoulders’ found the weight a little difficult to bear at

first, until she learnt a shoulder-shifting technique.

Then there’s the pleasure of finding out all sorts about

the area’s past. She remains fascinated by ‘the many

hidden gems in the borough’.

Belinda makes the role of mayor into a family affair,

frequently taking her children (aged 25, 23 and 13) to

events. The diary is evidently packed – ‘I do try to pop

home for a cup of tea with my youngest when he gets

home from school,’ Belinda says proudly. It’s a lifestyle

choice, I get the sense. And one which Belinda has

fully embraced. Being female may not be a novelty in

the mayoral kingdom, but Belinda does agree that she

brings different qualities to the role as a woman. ‘I get my

children involved. I am a mayor and I am a mother.’

Nestled among the string of interior-design

emporiums that line the King’s Road is the

colonnade-style entrance to Gatley, showroom for

the interiors world of William Heenan. The imposing façade

is an indication of the timeless designs that await inside.

‘People tell us it’s our service that makes a difference, and

I think it’s the quality of the products as well,’ says William

in his affable Scottish accent as he guides me through a

space bubbling with intricately-designed matter.

Word has spread in the three years since Gatley

opened on the King’s Road and the company’s reputation

precedes itself. Heading up a design team duo as well as

two first-class groups of fitters, Heenan has brought twelve

years of experience in the bespoke furniture business to

his latest venture, deciding on Fulham as a fitting location

for his high-quality, beautiful, handmade furniture, which

is manufactured in workshops in Kent and Yorkshire.

Although kitchens account for around seventy percent

of the business at Gatley, bedroom furniture and home

cabinetry needs are also catered for. ‘We do quite a few

libraries too and we’ve done a couple of media rooms,’

Williams reveals. The design options on offer range from

exquisitely crafted hard wood to hand-painted furniture,

notwithstanding contemporary stainless steel and high

gloss touches. ‘I think people go for both,’ says Heenan

when I probe him on whether modern styles are favoured

over a more traditional look in the local neighbourhood.

‘A lot of people these days have a traditional house but

they’re often after a more contemporary style.’ My eye is

drawn to a traditional-looking larder cupboard painted

in duck-egg blue, something which seems to confirm

his point entirely, being simultaneously modern and

reminiscent of period style. ‘Honestly, I don’t think we’ve

done a kitchen since we’ve been here that hasn’t included

some variation on that,’ William confesses. ‘There are a lot

of companies out there that are claiming to be bespoke,

but are not truly so; it’s all about attention to detail.’

The cabinets and units on display in the showroom

are a compendium of this painstaking attention to detail;

dovetailed joints abound and each cupboard and drawer

houses a Mary Poppins-esque selection of hidden

compartments, all innovatively incorporated for maximum

When it comes to enviable interiors, it’s always that old chestnut – quality – according to William Heenan, director of furniture-design enterprise, Gatley. He spoke to Lauren Romano over coffee

Thoseinner qualitiesinteRiORS

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functionality. After all, we are a generation of hoarders.

From inconspicuous inner cupboards apt for hiding

unsightly pipework to knife racks that are integrated into

blissfully silently closing drawers, every conceivable flash

of design ingenuity has been woven in, to cater for all the

demands of a modern family in its modern home. Even the

design process concerns itself with the minutiae of detail,

and nothing is left to chance. ‘We talk to homeowners about

what style they’d like and I work from architects’ plans, but

I always like to go and visit the property too,’ Heenan says.

‘Even if the room has already been planned, it’s still good

to visit in order to take note of factors such as where the

natural daylight is coming from. It’s quite important to see

how that will affect things – like oak, say; it’s going to age

and change colour if it’s in direct sunlight.’

A tight-knit team structure also ensures projects are

undertaken smoothly: ‘I’ve got two fitting teams which are

very, very good. I’ve got one guy who I’ve worked with for

years and people feel very comfortable having him in their

house. Behind the scenes we have a fantastic bunch of

people. I mean this is hand painted [he points me in the

direction of a set of white kitchen units] and you cannot see

a brush stroke.’

At the moment, Heenan and team are installing a

kitchen in the basement of a Grade II listed property that

has a vaulted ceiling; a relic of its former use as a fish

smoking room. With a network of arches supported by

rows of pillars, converting the space proved a logistical

conundrum. The decision to take out the two middle pillars

and put in a glass ceiling which will also serve as a striking

patio in the garden above, has the happy effect of flooding

the kitchen below with daylight. ‘It shows that we’re more

than capable of working on listed properties and is further

proof of our committed and experienced team,’ Heenan

tells me, and I don’t doubt it.

Some projects can be quite extravagant, but Heenan

admits he has to reign himself in most of the time, even

when presented with a substantial budget. He maintains

that certain attributes are worth the investment, particularly

the ability to wear well (‘all the insides of our cabinets come

treated’) and being designed to fit. ‘You could spend between

£10,000 and £15,000 on kitchen units at a high-street

retailer or you could spend £15,000 to £20,000 with us

for far, far superior quality,’ Heenan declares. Carpenters

have come in here and commented on the quality, then

recommended us on. ‘When your competition is buying the

product, it has to be good.’

Although the majority of clients are local, Gatley’s

expertise has far-reaching appeal too. ‘We have designed

kitchens and sent them over to the south of France; we’re

doing one now which is being made in Italy and then

shipped over to Bermuda. Over there, wood tends to bend

and buckle in the heat so we’re doing a stainless steel

job.’ It’s this level of service and superior quality that has

earned Gatley a loyal customer base.

‘They do come back,’ Heenan enthuses. ‘We did a

library in a house just up the road about a year and a half

ago and we’ve made two pieces for their hallway since.

Having real belief and faith in your products being the best

is essential. I honestly believe that.’

586 King’s Road, 020 7731 1456

www.gatleylondon.co.uk

‘There are a lot of companies out there that are claiming to be bespoke, but are not truly so; it’s

all about attention to detail’

Key news and diary dates regarding your local schools

The Classroom

Latymer Upper on Exam Results HighFor yet another consecutive year, Latymer Upper School is celebrating a fantastic set of A-level and GCSE results. Ninety-

four percent of A-level grades came in at A*, A or B with seventy-three percent of all papers graded at A* or A. On average,

pupils achieved over 461 UCAS points each, a new record for the school’s leavers. Headmaster Peter Winter, who is retiring,

said: ‘I am thrilled for our students. They have been a wonderfully talented year group and they have fully embraced the

challenge of our new linear approach to examinations (taking all AS and A2 exams in the upper sixth), whereby we have

sought to avoid constantly preparing students for the next test and to offer them a broad-ranging education beyond the

sometimes constraining limits of the A-level specifications.’ He continued: ‘These results demonstrate that Latymerians can do

outstandingly well in their examinations without a narrow and cramping focus on them, which for too long has been a curse

of English education. These results are also very encouraging in the light of the government’s instruction to exam boards to

be sparing with top grades, to counter any accusation of grade inflation. I have no doubt that my successor, David Goodhew,

will lead Latymer to even greater heights in the coming years.’ The school’s GCSE results were similarly impressive, with 113

pupils achieving at least five A* grades, whilst ninety percent of all grades were A or A*. Above / Simon and Iona with their results

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SCHOOL AUTUMN TERM 2012 START DATE HALF-TERM DATES AUTUMN TERM END DATE

OTHER DATES OF INTEREST

ARK Conway Primary 60 Hemlock Road 020 3249 1180

15 September 24/10/2012-28/10/2012

16/12/2012 31/10/2012 | Inset day07/11/2012 | Inset day

Eridge House Preparatory School 1 Fulham Park Road 020 7371 9009

6 September 22/10/2012-02/11/2012

13/12/2012 22/10/2012 | Inset day23/10/2012 | Inset day06/10/2012 | Open day (9.30am - 1.00pm)

Godolphin and Latymer School Iffley Road 020 8741 1936

5 September 22/10/2012-02/11/2012

19/12/2012

Hurlingham and Chelsea School Peterborough Road 020 7731 2581

3 September 29/10/2012-02/11/2012

21/12/2012

Kensington Preparatory School 596 Fulham Road 020 7731 9300

6 September 22/10/2012-26/10/2012

14/12/2012 19/10/2012 | Staff study day (no school)

Lady Margaret School Parsons Green 020 7736 7138

5 September | years 7, 12 and 136 September | all other year groups

29/10/2012 -02/11/2012

21/12/2012 (school finishes at 12 midday)

10/10/2012 | Inset day

Latymer Upper School King Street 0845 638 5800

5 September 25/10/2012-02/11/2012

14/12/2012 30/11/2012 | Merit half-holiday 04/09/2012 | Year 7 induction, photographs and biometric

registration (1pm- 4pm)

06/09/2012 | Parents’ Gild Officers lunch,Alumni event

08/09/2012 | Open morning (9am-13pm)15/09/2012 | Parents’ Gild second-hand uniform sale

(10:30am, Sports Hall)

L’Ecole des Petits 2 Hazlebury Road 020 7371 8350

6 September | Grande Section 7 September | Moyenne Section 10 September | Petite Section7 September | 2nd Level10 September | 1st Level

26/10/2012-12/11/2012

19/12/2012

Parayhouse School New King’s Road 020 7751 0914

6 September 29/10/2012-02/11/2012

20/12/2012 30/11/2012 | Staff inset day

Sinclair House School 159 Munster Road 020 7736 9182

3 September 22/10/2012-26/10/2012

07/12/2012

Schooling Agenda

One of the few schools in the UK to offer the international

baccalaureate, Godolphin and Latymer, has again achieved very

impressive results. The school has offered the IB since 2005, and has

consistently been in the top ten highest-achieving schools. The year 2012

was no exception: the average point score amongst pupils was thirty-

nine, with the maximum score obtainable being forty-five (which,

for the second year running, two girls did achieve). Similar success

was seen in the school’s A-level results, which – going against the

national trend – saw an increase in the percentage of A* grades

achieved, with seventy-one percent of all grades at either A* or A.

Indeed, the school’s A* rate of 32.5 percent compares extremely

favourably with the national rate of 7.9 percent.

Your reference for important upcoming dates

Words / Bryony Warren

Baccalaureate a worthy investment for Godolphin and Latymer

If you have schooling news you would like us to feature please email: education@residentsjournal.co.uk

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On the much-coveted arts, interiors and antiques trails of Fulham

Streetwise

An emporium of elegance and timeless, stop-

in-your-tracks furniture and trinkets, Maison

Artefact is the local place to go for classic,

continental styling. Rustic, artfully distressed

looking French cabinets, tables and chests

from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

are beautifully presented together with ornate

chandeliers, opulent foxed mercury mirrors

and a wonderful array of knick knacks.

Tableware and upholstery abound in

whites, creams and taupes.

273 Lillie Road

020 7381 2500

Whereas spring may traditionally be the opportune moment to

de-clutter, September is that time of year to invest in new additions to

the home. With a season of long, cold nights on the horizon, ensuring

abodes are fit for autumnal hibernation seems only sensible and Fulham

residents have not one but two fantastic interiors events to help them.

For those who like to dabble in design, the Focus/12 event – taking place at

the Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour – is a great way to stay ahead of the curve

and engage with the very essence of the creative process. A beacon for designers

and architects wishing to showcase their cutting-edge ranges, inspiration comes in

the form of collection launches and ‘in conversation’ sessions with some of the most

distinguished names in the business, including Rosita Missoni and Kelly Hoppen.

Meanwhile, for collectors, connoisseurs and those who like to follow their own instincts,

The Chelsea Antiques Fair (London’s longest running antiques event) provides a priceless

opportunity to source a one-off memento of a bygone era. The thirty-seven highly specialised

exhibitors setting up camp in the elegant Old Town Hall have been carefully selected to ensure the

highest possible quality of antiques. This year’s highlights include rare Continental scent bottles and

glassware shown by Richard Hoppé whilst

returning favourite, Roger de Ville, brings his

collection of early English pottery to the table.

Focus/12 –

26 September

Design Centre: Chelsea Harbour, Lots Road

020 7225 9166, www.dcch.co.uk

The Chelsea Antiques Fair –

19-23 September

Chelsea Old Town Hall: Kings Road

01825 744074, www.penman-fairs.co.uk

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kitsch, 52 meters deals in the sort of striking and unusual home

touches that will last the test of time. Specialising in twentieth-

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minimalist clean lines and striking shapes of fifties,

sixties and seventies design, the lamps, mirrors and

armchairs make great statement pieces and would

add a hint of yesteryear cool to both period and

contemporary homes.

291 Lillie Road, 020 7381 1774

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For three weeks this summer, Fulham’s

late-night peckish partygoers had to make

do with toast and tea at home to abate their

early morning munchies. Meanwhile, after-hours

dining institution Vingt-Quatre was performing the

speediest of refurbishments. A nifty turnaround

under the hands of Shoreditch-based designers

‘i-am’ associates and the bijoux restaurant now

exudes a pinch of east London flair with its

reflective mirror walls and red leather booths.

Together with the revamped menu, the sleek

transformation is a reminder that VQ (its new

simpler moniker) doesn’t just dabble in hangover

alleviating sustenance but is an altogether more

discerning dining destination.

Sitting down for a late lunch on a drizzly Tuesday

afternoon, I’m slightly overwhelmed when I’m first

presented with the menu. It covers a lot of ground:

from eggs rustled up every which way to inventive-

sounding salads scattered with pomegranate

jewels, butternut squash and honey roasted pine

nuts; and from burgers to great hulking steak

sandwiches. Fortunately the quality doesn’t suffer

from this finger-in-many-pies approach. Eventually

I decide to bypass the buttermilk pancakes with

maple syrup, mixed berries and crispy bacon (a

VQ classic) and am swayed instead into the path

of the chicken Milanese (£11.50) with a side order

of sweet potato fries (£4), a posh twist on chicken

and chips. My companion opts for chargrilled

swordfish served with caponata (Sicilian vegetable

stew, £13.95).

My breadcrumb-coated butterflied chicken turned

out to be one of the least greasy variations of the

dish I’ve sampled, and served with a simple garnish

of lemon and a salad of peppery rocket leaves and

cherry tomatoes drizzled with a mustard dressing, it

proved a comforting plate of food. The sweet potato

chips, something of a revelation and a nice change

from the traditional fried spud, made the dish just

satisfying enough for lunch. The swordfish was

the real winner though, with the meatiness of the

fish offset by the tender and delicate compote of

vegetables, a ratatouille of tomatoes, garlic and celery.

As for the drinks, the wine list is short with just

five reds and whites apiece and one solitary rosé

but all are – conveniently – available by the glass,

the carafe and the bottle. The fruity house red, Le

Chêne Rouge 2011, France (£4.25 a glass) goes

down just fine. The champagne options are a little

more extensive and fizz lovers can quaff Laurent-

Perrier from £15 for a quarter bottle or splash out

up to £79 for the whole hog.

With just enough room for pudding and

spurred on by the recommendations of the

lovely French waitresses, we select banoffee pie

(£5.95) and chocolate brownie (£5.50) as the

sweet dénouement to our meal, both of which

are quite simply divine. The banoffee pie, laced

with toffee rivulets and crowned with cream is

an indulgent affair which will satisfy the sweetest

toothed of diners. The brownie meanwhile, served

warm, drenched in thick, molten chocolate sauce

and topped with a blob of vanilla ice cream was

everything it should be and more.

The thing with VQ, I suppose, is you get what

you get depending on the time you go. Pop in on

a midweek lunchtime, like I did, and it’s a very

relaxed affair: a business meeting was taking place

over fluffy clouds of scrambled eggs and a few

other people were hunched over Kindles or tapping

away at laptops whilst taking advantage of the free

tea and coffee refills. Swing by in the small hours

of the weekend and inevitably you will witness the

atmosphere approach high octane, with revellers

hungry for double cheeseburgers all round, slow

cooked beef ribs for the more patient among them,

or just a few gentle night caps before bed.

325 Fulham Road, 020 7376 7224

www.vingtquatre.co.uk

‘The banoffee pie, laced with toffee rivulets and

crowned with cream is an indulgent affair’

Appreciating the local food scene

Food for thought

Lauren Romano swaps greasy kebabs at 3am for 24/7 dining that carries no shame

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I would like to start by thanking Fulham Residents’ Journal for inviting me to contribute this column to their new Journal. I was really pleased to read the first issue when it popped through my letterbox and thought it was such a good way of highlighting so many good things that are happening in our borough, as well as the wonderful heritage that we have locally.

This month of course has been special for our borough because of the Olympics. As part of the occasion, it was fabulous to go to Fulham, to Shepherd’s Bush and also to the BBC where I was able to catch a glimpse of Bruce Forsyth as he took the flame. This was right near the finishing line of the 1908 Olympics in White City which gave the whole occasion a real sense of history.

We were lucky enough to have the Olympic cycling race running through our borough – the huge bonus with this was that there was no price to pay for tickets! I noticed many people brought step ladders to get a better view; a very good idea as the crowds were really banked up. The atmosphere was great, despite some rain, and it was fun to wander into the beautifully renovated Bishops Park afterwards and see the big screen and stalls. Whenever I walk through Bishops Park I have to remind myself that I have not wandered into the gardens of some stately home by mistake; of course they were the grounds to the fabulous Bishops Palace, and they do really look extremely regal now.

Recently, I was invited to Sainsbury’s on Townmead Road where the Paralympic torch was brought for a sneak preview before its journey began. It was a great opportunity for shoppers to have their photo taken with it.

We should all be aware of the Olympic legacy for our borough – I had the great honour of opening the new netball and

basketball facility at Ravenscourt Park; this allows completely

free and open access, so anyone can go along to play either

of these sports in this beautiful park. The funding came from

business donors, which is wonderful news!

Councillor Belinda Donovan Mayor, Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Many congratulations on your

new Fulham Residents’ Journal

− presented with great style,

very interesting local stories and

thankfully minimal adverts for

expensive London property, unlike

many other local freebies. Keep

it going! What a great story about

the first free Fulham boys’ school

which will be a solid alternative

for cash-strapped young families

[...] giving their children every

possible educational opportunity.

I was drawn to this because I am

a governor of the new Skinners’

Academy in Hackney offering the

same vision.

Kind regards

Robert, St Maur Road resident

It was a pleasure to read your letter.

Thank you so much. We are thrilled

with the response to our first edition.

Keep reading!

The Editorial Team

I enjoyed reading the article in your

recent edition about the Peterborough

Estate, however it mentions that the

houses in Studdridge Street from

numbers 193 to 207 were designed

to have shops on the ground floor and

residential accommodation above.

I live in Studdridge Street and the

house numbers go up as far as 149

only. I would very much like to know

which James Nichols lion houses

on the Peterborough Estate were

originally designed to have shops on

the ground floor. I look forward to

hearing from you.

Claire, Studdridge Street resident

We’ve looked into the confusion and

have to apologise for a mistake, as

you suspected. It was the New King’s

Road we should have been referring

to and not Studdridge Street; very

well spotted! Apologies to all readers

confused by the error.

The Editorial Team

Dear Editor

Dear Editor

Dear Editor

Dear Claire

Dear Robert

Dear Lindsay

The Mayor’sSeptember diary

I was so impressed to read your Fulham Residents’ Journal. As a Fulham local,

it’s incredibly exciting to find a publication specifically tailored to the Fulham area.

I particularly enjoyed the article on Eileen Bentley. I’m a daily visitor to Elizabeth

King and her friendly face is very familiar to me.

Kind regards

Lindsay, Winchendon Road resident

We are still trying to restrain ourselves from over indluging in Elizabeth King’s

oversized meringues and general deli delights! Eileen was a pleasure to meet

and we wish her many more happy years serving residents top-notch produce.

The Editorial Team

The Editor

Image / The mayor and son Toby Lucas with the

Paralympic torch

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During the Second World War, neurosurgeon Ludwig

Guttmann believed that for those who were injured or

disabled, sports was the best therapy. This concept

was put to the test for the first time in 1948 when

he decided to launch a wheelchair competition to

coincide with the London Olympics. Gutterman had

imagined it to be a worldwide spectacle and twelve

years later this became a reality. The first Paralympic

Games were held in Italy, and involved four hundred

competitors from twenty-three countries. In this year’s,

there are 1,100 athletes and 147 nations.

Designed to emphasise the achievements and

not the disabilities of the athletes, contenders are

put into six different categories, rendering similar

their level of capability. These are: amputees, visually

impaired, wheelchairs, intellectual disabilities,

people with cerebral palsy and les autres which

groups those whose disability doesn’t fit into any of

the other groups. Two events are specifically for the

Paralympics: boccia and power lifting.

After some speculation, it was scientifically ruled

out that having prosthetic limbs gave South African

twenty-five year old double amputee victim Oscar

Pistorius an unfair advantage, rather just minimising

his disadvantage. This allowed his access into the

able-bodied 2012 Olympics, making him the first

double-leg amputee to be in the Olympics (in the

men’ s 400m and the 4 x 400m relay). He will

defend the Paralympic titles he won in Beijing in

London, namely the T4 100 metres and the T42-T46

4 x 100m relay. Pistorius believes firmly, along with

so many others, that the London 2012 Paralympics

can change the world’s perception of disability.

The prefix ‘para’ in the context of paralympics

means ;alongside’. ’Parallel Olympics’ is the the

intended meaning. Its motto was ‘Mind, Body,

Spirit’ until 2003, and is now ‘Spirit in Motion’. The

Paralympics will continue until 9 September.

Everyone’s got the Olympic athletics bug, haven’t they? Whether

you’re looking for some company to start the sport, or are a seasoned

runner new to the area, Fulham Running Club is the local answer.

Started in September 2004 and fully affiliated to England Athletics,

the club unites runners who meet every Wednesday at 6.45pm ‘at

the modest looking gates in the north corner of Bishops Park,’ says

club secretary and coach Charlie Craven, who adds that ‘as a guide

to be comfortable on our Wednesday runs you should be able to run

four miles (6.5km) in forty minutes.’ Wednesday group sessions offer

a choice of two routes from 7k to 10k plus, and average forty-five

minutes. Interval sessions to increase speed are on offer on Mondays

at 7pm, for those seeking personal bests. The club also meets on the

second Wednesday of every month in a local pub. Run along then!

www.fulhamrunningclub.org.uk

Ful-On Tri is a triathlon club based in and around Fulham and operational since 2003. It reports a

huge surge in demand for membership following the Olympics. We are delighted to be able to offer a

platform in Fulham Residents’ Journal for publishing the club’s recent results and upcoming events.

The club encourages participants from all levels, from beginner to elite, and in September it will have

several athletes racing at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas. Something to aspire

to indeed.

Selected club results from August’s competitions

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Residents’ Journal Photography CompetitionWe invite Fulham residents to send us a

picture representing community spirit during

the Olympic or Paralympic Games 2012.

Send to culture@residentsjournal.co.uk by 30

September. The winner will be announced in

the November issue and selected images will

be reprinted in the Journal, with the added

possibility of becoming the front cover image.

Henley Sprint Triathlon, 19 August: 750m swim, 18km bike, 5km runNAme CAT / PoS oveRAll

PoSiTioNSwim T1 Bike T2 RuN ToTAl

Fearghal Swords

Msen / 13 27 - 07:33:08 00:24:44 00:00:56 00:18:32 01:02:45

Joanna Greenfield

Fsen / 6 29 - 07:33:04 00:25:52 00:00:42 00:17:51 01:02:54

monster middle Distance Triathlon, ely, Cambridgeshire, 19 August: 1.9km swim, 90km bike, 21km runNAme CAT / PoS oveRAll

PoSiTioNSwim T1 Bike T2 RuN ToTAl

Pete Doubleday M40-44 / 1 5 00:27:32 00:01:09 02:21:48 00:01:27 01:29:25 04:22:52

Emma Partridge F35-39 / 1 14 00:29:12 00:01:21 02:35:59 00:00:53 01:27:23 04:36:20

Matt Bidwell M35-39 / 25 130 00:31:41 00:02:39 02:45:04 00:02:19 02:23:08 05:46:51

Upcoming events15 SePTemBeR: The annual Legs of Steel cyclosportive in the Surrey Hills, covering many of the

roads used for the Olympic Road Race. The proceeds from this event, which is a sell-out again

this year, go to the Dave Aitchison Sports Aid Trust which raises money to fund the development of

talented young triathletes in London.

29 SePTemBeR: The also-annual club relay triathlon at Dorney Lake. It ends the season light-heartedly,

with an event in which teams of three variously swim, bike and run in turn.

Training timesFul-On Tri uses Virgin Active on Lillie Road as its base. Thursday night is the main training night, with

swim, run and spin-session options getting underway at 7.30pm. For sessions on other days see the

club website. Members congregate socially at The Rylston on Lillie Road after Thursday sessions.

www.fulontri.com

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CLUB CULTURE

Spotlight on triathlon

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Meet the runners

Urban development and changes to logistics in the Fulham area

Planning & Development

The West London skyline will soon be dominated by a skyscraper soaring to

one-hundred-and-forty-one metres after planning permission was approved

for a major new White City development. The regeneration of the White City

former BBC site, which will be transformed into a new state of the art Imperial

College campus, is expected to create over 3,000 jobs and deliver millions of

pounds worth of community benefits.

The 5.22-acre plot, known as the Woodlands site on Wood Lane, was

earmarked by Imperical College for the second phase of an extensive

regeneration project that includes research and teaching buildings, with a public

school of health and a dedicated start-up space for new hi-tech businesses along

with new homes. The academic campus will be joined by an underground car

park and a hotel, built around a 4,000-square-metre public square.

The benefits to the local community are expected to be considerable,

and together with creating thousands of job opportunities, the development

will bring £8 million worth of investment to the area, including £2.4 million

towards the Crossrail project and £4 million for a proposed east-west London

pedestrian link which is expected to be built under the West London rail line.

The rest of the funds will be put towards local highways, crime prevention

measures and green initiatives.

Work on part two of the development will begin early next year as work on the

first phase – over six hundred self-contained flats for post-graduate students, a

new multi-use community facility and gardens – draws to a close this month, in

time for students to move into the accommodation before the start of the new

academic year. The thirty-five-storey skyscraper will form a visual pinnacle of

the second development phase, and will bring many additional flats to the

site, arranged over its imposing structure. Once built, the neck-craning tower

will knock the 117-metre high Empress State Building off the top spot as the

borough’s tallest building.

Chelsea supporters should take note that proposals to enlarge Stamford

Bridge could well be on the cards again as the club’s move to Battersea

Power Station looks dubious. Hammersmith and Fulham Council has

made it known to The European Champions that they are willing to discuss

the possibility of expanding Chelsea’s historic Stamford Bridge stadium,

which has been home to the club for one-hundred-and-seven years.

Chelsea’s hopes of a new multi-million pound stadium at the iconic

Battersea Power Station look to be fading, after it was revealed that a joint

proposal by Malaysian firms SP Setia and Sime Darby for a £400 million

housing regeneration project has been confirmed as the winning bid.

Presently Stamford Bridge, the eighth largest ground in the Premier

League, has a capacity of 41,837 fans. Chelsea Football Club, however,

is keen to generate extra match-day income so the club is able to

compete with rival teams like Manchester United and Arsenal on a more

even playing field.

Last year, Chelsea’s bid to buy the freehold from current owners,

Chelsea Pitch Owners, was rejected but Councillor Nicholas Botterill has

urged the club to up efforts to expand the Stamford Bridge stadium. He

said: ‘The Council remains committed to working with the club to explore

all possible avenues for keeping the Blues here at their original home,’

adding: ‘The door is open and the council is again ready to sit down and

discuss how Stamford Bridge can be appropriately upgraded.’

A West London version of

the Shardto be built in Shepherd’s Bush

Chelsea Football Club could remain at Stamford Bridge

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Work is underway to transform the derelict Fulham Wharf into a vibrant new district of

restaurants, shops and apartment blocks, some of which will stand seventeen storeys high

and command an impressive outlook over the urban cityscape below.

Planning permission has been granted to building firm Barratt London and developers

L&Q to revitalise the empty site with 463 flats, a Sainsbury’s supermarket (which will

eventually replace the existing one in Townmead Road) and a lively hub of cafes, bars and

convenient facilities for new residents, including a crèche and a gym.

The redevelopment will strive to secure a number of eco-conscious credentials too, and

a dedicated ecological habitat will be introduced to a large disused jetty in an attempt to

attract wildlife to the area. A pathway running along by the river will also be created along a

stretch of the Thames that has been inaccessible for years, so local residents will be able to

fully appreciate the scenic waterside surrounds.

The development will be undertaken in two phases, with priority given to completing

the sizeable supermarket and half of the residential units in the first instance. The second

stage of proceedings will see the existing supermarket demolished and the remainder of

the several hundred flats built, with a proposed deadline for completion of 2017.

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ThenThat was

tipped off Garvey about the intriguing prospect

of alternative employment at the newly launched

African Times and Orient Review. The paper was

run by the Egyptian-born Dusé Mohamed Ali […].

After almost a year of fetching and carrying down

at the docks, Garvey had been taken on by Dusé

Mohamed Ali, and he could sense his luck was

changing. It was an extraordinary piece of good

fortune to have arrived at the birth of one of the

most exciting journals to come out of London in

decades. [...]

At the end of May 1940, Marcus Garvey

sat cold and forgotten in the tall and draughty

rented house at 53 Talgarth Road in West

Kensington, London. Recovering from a stroke

which had left him partially paralysed, he was

sorting through the newspapers that his secretary,

Daisy Whyte, had placed beside his bed when

he came across a headline which he knew could

not be true: ‘Marcus Garvey Dies in London.’ He

scanned the other papers, some of which also

carried notices of his death. They were not kind

obituaries. It took almost a week for many of the

papers to issue corrections. By then, wakes and

memorials had been held for Marcus Garvey in

the Caribbean and the United States. […]

Reading through the damning accounts, written

by former friends and enemies, Garvey had

suffered another massive stroke: he died two week

later, on 10 June 1940.

Extracts from ‘Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall

of Marcus Garvey’ by Colin Grant; pp 1-2 & pp 36-

38 & p 43; published by Vintage 2009

Jamaican political leader and Pan-Africanism activist Marcus Garvey made his office on 2 Beaumont Crescent whilst bedding down at 53 Talgarth Road, his home until his death in 1940

Illustrations / Mai Osawa

WHEn LLOyD GEORGE was not on the floor,

the House was in recess, or the debates proved

lacklustre, the twenty-five-year-old admirer of

the cut and thrust of a good argument might

soon wend his way to Hyde Park, drawn by the

impassioned and irreverent opinions at Speaker’s

Corner, that were not too far removed from

the roiling arguments outside the rum shops

of Kingston. To the uninitiated, this people’s

parliament would appear the site of a dizzying

array of competing voices, both toxic and

benevolent. […] Commandeering a soapbox,

Garvey energetically made his first faltering

attempts at extempore public speaking, pitting

himself against the regulars, vying for the attention

of the curious, the committed and the cynics who

gathered in great numbers each Sunday.

Colour was his unique calling card; British

citizens were largely ignorant about life in the

outposts of empire. There were so few black people

in England that they were considered exotic.[…] If

the masses at Speaker’s Corner were to close their

eyes as Garvey spoke, they might have imagined

themselves in the presence of almost a gentleman –

an English gentleman no less.’

THE METROPOLIS WAS A bewildering

place to navigate, and the prospects for paid

work among London’s black population was even

bleaker than for the white working class.[…]

Pride or luck seems to have intervened, though,

because eventually Garvey found piecemeal work

on London’s dockyard […]

It was one of these brother seamen who

OnE DAy I WAS WALKInG along north End

Road when I met Marcus Garvey. He was from

Jamaica. He was a big built chap and lived in

Fulham. […] I went to his house a few times and

chatted to him. There was a big corner house

where the Post Office is in north End Road, and

that was where Marcus Garvey lived. He was a

nice chap. Very, very kind. But he knew what the

English people were up to. He wasn’t treated with

respect like I was because he said “The English are

no good. no good, and I said: “But there are some

good people in this world”. Then he told me he was

going home to Jamaica and I never saw him again.

Marcus Garvey was a middle-class gentleman,

and didn’t make many friends in Fulham. He would

say: “Good afternoon” and raise his hat to people but

I wasn’t like that. I would say: “Hello love”, or “Hello

mate”, because that was the way I was brought up.

When I went shopping in north End Road market

and met the costers they would say: “Hello Esther.

How are you keeping? What are you having today,

love?” But if you were middle-class they wouldn’t

have a conversation with you. They’d just serve

you and that would be that. Marcus Garvey was

middle-class and the costers wouldn’t speak to him.

It was a class difference. It didn’t matter what colour

you were. We were working class. We had our own

tongue. People like Marcus Garvey didn’t speak the

same language as us.

Extract from ‘Aunt Esther’s Story’ by Stephen

Bourne and Esther Bruce; published by

Hammersmith and Fulham Ethnic Communities

Oral History Project, 1996

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John D Wood & Co287 New King’s Road020 7717 5152

Knight Frank 203 New King’s Road 020 7751 2400

Crew Experience 911 Fulham Road 020 3010 1096

Fulham Dental Care 516-518 Fulham Road 020 7610 9400

A&L Antiques 284 Lillie Road 020 7610 2694

Nimmo & Spooner277 Lillie Road020 7385 2724

Hogarth Architects Ltd 186 Dawes Road020 7381 3409

Marsh & Parsons 105 Moore Park Road 020 7736 9822

Savills191 New King’s Road020 7731 9400

Belvoir!632 Fulham Road020 7736 2786

The Fulham Medical Centre 446 Fulham Road020 7385 6001

Dr S Jefferies & Partners139 Lillie Road020 7385 7101

Virgin Active‘Gym with pool and spa, as well as club lounge.’Fulham Pools, Normand ParkLillie Road 0845 270 9124 (enquiries)020 7471 0450 (members)

Gina Conway612 Fulham Road020 7731 7633

Amara Spa 18-20 Fulham High Street 020 7384 9111

Barroll Webber Architects Unit 8H Michael Road020 7731 3094

Artbeat (framer)703 Fulham Road020 7736 0337

Cologne & Cotton (linen)791 Fulham Road020 7736 92

Piers Feetham Gallery475 Fulham Road020 7381 3031

Joanna Grigson Interior Design The Mews, Harwood Road 07803 008 514

B Lowe10 Atalanta Street020 7381 9207

Perry’s777 Fulham Road020 7736 7225

Bembé UK Ltd ‘German craft since 1780.’315-317 New King’s Road020 7371 9090

Hotels

Fashion

Fulham Thames Walk B&B91 Langthorne Street020 7381 0198

Essam Guenedy273 New King’s Road020 7736 3536

La Reserve Hotel 422-428 Fulham Road 020 7385 8561

Iceblu24A New King’s Road020 7371 9292

Fulham Guest House55 Wandsworth Bridge Road 020 7731 1662

Marc Wallace261 New King’s Road020 7736 6795

Millennium & Copthorne Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road 020 7565 1400

Zaeem Jamal‘Luxury hand-embroidered evening gowns decorated with radiant gem stones.’73 New King’s Road020 7736 3536

Barber

Dentist

Doctors Fitness Hair Salon

Spa

Antiques

Architects & Design

Galleries

Finishing Touches

Interior Design

B&B Guest HouseBoutique Luxury

Stationer

Wood Flooring

Strutt & Parker‘Working in partnership with clients to deliver goals spanning residential, commercial, rural and property development.’701 Fulham Road020 7731 7100

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Services

Schools

Ladbrokes Plc344 North End Road0800 022 3454

Cancer Research UK350 North End Road020 7381 8458

Fulham Nannies69 Stephendale Road020 7736 8289

Vanston Dry Cleaning & Laundry1 Vanston Place020 7381 3609

Town and County Flowers 131 Wandsworth Bridge 020 7736 4683

Fulham Library598 Fulham Road020 8753 3879

Triangle Garage2 Bishops Road020 7385 1193

Filmer Newsagents14 Filmer Road020 7385 2953

Palace Pharmacy331 Fulham Palace Road020 7736 3034

Fulham Road Post Office815 Fulham Road0845 722 3344

Paramount Press Ltd129 Munster Road020 7731 0900

The Ultimate Travel Company 25-27 Vanston Place020 7386 4646

Bookmaker

Charity

Cleaner

Florist

Library

Motoring Post Office

Printing

Travel

Newsagent

PharmacyChildcare

Well Bread ‘A family-run bakery with three fully qualified and professional chefs. Makers of bespoke cakes to-order in any size, including birthday and wedding cakes with any picture or shape.’383 North End Road 020 7385 7474

Food & Drink

Kona Kai 515 Fulham Road 020 7385 9991

Kosmospol 138 Fulham Road 020 7373 6368

Drawing Room CaféFulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue020 7736 3233

Pottery Café 735 Fulham Road 020 7736 2157

Demarquette285 Fulham Road 020 7351 5467

Bakery

Confectioner

Greengrocer

Bars

CafésPubs

Restaurants

Chelsea Independent College 517-523 Fulham Road020 7610 1114

Eridge House Preparatory School 1 Fulham Park Road 020 7371 9009

Fulham Cross Girls’ School Munster Road020 7381 0861

Fulham Prep School 200 Greyhound Road 020 7371 9911

Godolphin and Latymer School Iffley Road020 8741 1936

Hurlingham and Chelsea School Peterborough Road 020 7731 2581

Kensington Prep School596 Fulham Road020 7731 9300

Lady Margaret School Parsons Green020 7736 7138

Latymer Upper School 237 King Street0845 638 5800

L’Ecole des Petits2 Hazlebury Road020 7371 8350

Parayhouse School New King’s Road 020 7751 0914

Sinclair House School159 Munster Road 020 7736 9182

The London Oratory SchoolSeagrave Road020 7385 0102

The Moat School Bishop’s Avenue 020 7610 9018

Thomas’s FulhamHugon Road020 7751 8200

Pots & Co 133 Munster Road 020 7384 0133

The Rose Pub1 Harwood Terrace020 7731 1832

The Rylston 197 Lilie Road020 7381 0910

The Hurlingham360 Wandsworth Bridge Road020 7610 9816

Brasserie de l’auberge 268 Fulham Road 020 7352 1859

Fabrella Eating House786 Fulham Road0871 971 7654

Mao Tai 58 New King’s Road020 7731 2520

Vingt-Quatre325 Fulham Road020 7376 7224

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Savills FulhamJustin Theobaldjtheobald@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £2.3 million Freehold

Reception room ø kitchen/dining room ø 4 bedrooms (1 en suite) ø 2 furtherbathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø cellar ø west-facing garden ø potential to extend(subject to planning permission) ø 231 sq m (2,486 sq ft)

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Savills FulhamEmma Steadestead@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £3.25 million Freehold

Double reception room ø playroom ø media room ø study ø kitchen/dining roomø 5 bedrooms (1 en suite) ø 3 further bathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø utility roomø garden ø 341 sq m (3,670 sq ft)

SUPERB SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE CLOSE TO BISHOP'S PARKellerby street, sw6

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savills.co.uk

Savills FulhamJustin Theobaldjtheobald@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £2.3 million Freehold

Reception room ø kitchen/dining room ø 4 bedrooms (1 en suite) ø 2 furtherbathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø cellar ø west-facing garden ø potential to extend(subject to planning permission) ø 231 sq m (2,486 sq ft)

A BRIGHT AND CHARMING LION HOUSE WITH POTENTIALchiddingstone street, sw6

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savills.co.uk

Savills FulhamEmma Steadestead@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £3.25 million Freehold

Double reception room ø playroom ø media room ø study ø kitchen/dining roomø 5 bedrooms (1 en suite) ø 3 further bathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø utility roomø garden ø 341 sq m (3,670 sq ft)

SUPERB SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE CLOSE TO BISHOP'S PARKellerby street, sw6

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Savills FulhamEmma Steadestead@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £2 million Freehold

Reception room ø open plan kitchen with dining area ø master bedroom suiteø 3 further bedrooms ø shower room ø guest cloakroom ø utility roomø landscaped garden ø 236 sq m (2,540 sq ft)

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020 7731 2692

£2,000 per week Unfurnished

5 bedrooms (2 en suite) ø study/bedroom 5 ø double reception room ø media/playroom ø contemporary eat-in kitchen ø family bathroom ø utility room ø guestcloakroom ø landscaped garden ø 261 sq m (2,809 sq ft)

STUNNING SEMI-DETACHED BISHOP'S PARK FAMILY HOMEcloncurry street, sw6

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Savills FulhamEmma Steadestead@savills.com

020 7731 9400

Guide £2 million Freehold

Reception room ø open plan kitchen with dining area ø master bedroom suiteø 3 further bedrooms ø shower room ø guest cloakroom ø utility roomø landscaped garden ø 236 sq m (2,540 sq ft)

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Savills FulhamSophie Curtisscurtis@savills.com

020 7731 2692

£2,000 per week Unfurnished

5 bedrooms (2 en suite) ø study/bedroom 5 ø double reception room ø media/playroom ø contemporary eat-in kitchen ø family bathroom ø utility room ø guestcloakroom ø landscaped garden ø 261 sq m (2,809 sq ft)

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Stokenchurch Street SW6 £1,950 per week

FULHAM: 020 7736 9822 lets.ful@marshandparsons.co.uk

This stunning ‘Lion House’ is presented in excellent condition, offering great living and entertaining space arranged over four fl oors. The property comprises a stylish double reception room, a kitchen/dining room with doors leading out to a private garden, a utility room and a guest cloakroom. The bedroom accommodation comprises a stunning master suite and fi ve further bedrooms served by two family bathrooms.

Bradbourne Street, Fulham SW6A superb six bedroom houseA superb, elegant and unusual mid terrace house in one of the most sought after streets on the Peterborough Estate within a stone’s throw of the shops and restaurants on Parsons Green. Master bedroom with en suite bathroom, 5 further bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms, dining room, kitchen, utility room, guest WC, storage areas. Approximately 263 sq m (2,832 sq ft)

Freehold

Rivermead Court, Fulham SW6

Share of FreeholdGuide Price: £2,695,000Guide Price: £1,725,000

River fronting corner flatA magnificent river fronting corner flat in Rivermead Court which is a popular purpose built portered block of flats adjoining The Hurlingham Club. 3 bedrooms, bathroom, shower room, reception room, dining room, kitchen, utility room, communal gardens, 24 hour porter, parking. Approximately 153.3 sq m (1,650 sq ft).

(FLH120075)

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020 7751 2400fulham@knightfrank.com

Knight FrankKnight Frank

Knight Frank

(FLH120086)

Bradbourne Street, Fulham SW6A superb six bedroom houseA superb, elegant and unusual mid terrace house in one of the most sought after streets on the Peterborough Estate within a stone’s throw of the shops and restaurants on Parsons Green. Master bedroom with en suite bathroom, 5 further bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms, dining room, kitchen, utility room, guest WC, storage areas. Approximately 263 sq m (2,832 sq ft)

FreeholdGuide Price: £2,695,000

KnightFrank.co.uk/Fulham

020 7751 2400fulham@knightfrank.com

Knight Frank

www.johndwood.co.ukFULHAM 020 7731 4223 ful.sales@johndwood.co.uk

ELLERBY STREET, SW6A semi-detached house offering superb proportions as well as the potential to extend further up to approx. 3,500 sq ft. (STPP). Wonderfully located for the newly renovated Bishops Park.

5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, reception, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom, roof terrace.

Freehold Guide Price £2,250,000

DONERAILE STREET, SW6An elegant end-of-terrace house of wonderful proportions superbly situated next to the Vicarage providing the most wonderful green and private outlook. Potential to extend further (STPP).

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, double reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, south facing garden, cellar.

Freehold Guide Price £2,495,000

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www.johndwood.co.ukFULHAM 020 7731 4223 ful.sales@johndwood.co.uk

CRESFORD ROAD, SW6A recently refurbished ‘Lion’ house in the Peterbrough Estate with a basement conversion.

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 shower rooms, 2 reception rooms, kitchen/dining room, garden.

Freehold Guide Price £1,900,000 1872 - 2012

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www.johndwood.co.ukFULHAM 020 7731 4223 ful.sales@johndwood.co.uk

ELLERBY STREET, SW6A semi-detached house offering superb proportions as well as the potential to extend further up to approx. 3,500 sq ft. (STPP). Wonderfully located for the newly renovated Bishops Park.

5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, reception, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom, roof terrace.

Freehold Guide Price £2,250,000

DONERAILE STREET, SW6An elegant end-of-terrace house of wonderful proportions superbly situated next to the Vicarage providing the most wonderful green and private outlook. Potential to extend further (STPP).

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, double reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, south facing garden, cellar.

Freehold Guide Price £2,495,000

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www.johndwood.co.ukFULHAM 020 7731 4223 ful.sales@johndwood.co.uk

CRESFORD ROAD, SW6A recently refurbished ‘Lion’ house in the Peterbrough Estate with a basement conversion.

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 shower rooms, 2 reception rooms, kitchen/dining room, garden.

Freehold Guide Price £1,900,000 1872 - 2012

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Duncan CrosseyOwner and DirectorBelvoir! Chelsea and Fulham

Hello! We would like to introduce ourselves as Fulham’s newest letting agent and property manager, Belvoir!With over 15 years’ experience and 145 locally-owned and managed branches across the country, we are an award-winning national network with the key benefit of local insight.

The tree-lined streets of Victorian terraces, red brick mansion blocks and stucco townhouses all give our neighbourhood its distinct character and us our passion for property.

We are proud to be the lettings specialist, offering a professional yet personal service to Landlords and Tenants.

If you are thinking of letting your property or renting a property this year, please get in touch and give us the chance to show you what we can do.

To book your free, no-obligation property appraisal and up to date rental valuation or register your property search requirements, please call us on 020 7736 2786 or pop into our Fulham Road office.

We look forward to meeting you!

632 Fulham Road | London | SW6 5RT020 7736 2786 | fulham@belvoirlettings.com

www.belvoirlettings.com/fulham

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Weighing up the options concerning the best of local property on the market

Home Comforts

Savills (191 New King’s Road) is offering

the freehold to a discreetly placed

property, built in the mid-nineteenth

century. Sculptor Peter Induni (1893-

1956) took up residency in the Grade II

listed house with his family and remained

there for several decades, working and

producing his artwork in the property’s

studio, which is now used as a spacious

kitchen-diner. The house is reached by a

path with off-street parking large enough

to cater for two cars, and is slightly

removed from the rest of the street by

a private, walled garden. Built over two

storeys, this is only the second time in

around eighty years that the charmingly

unique house has been featured on

the property market. The ground floor

retains many of the building’s original

period features, from ceiling cornices to

fireplaces, and the space offers scope for

a variety of different living arrangements.

The kitchen-dining room offers views of

the generous rear garden, whose fruit

trees create an orchard-like aesthetic,

and the rooms upstairs will more than

adequately meet the needs of a busy,

growing family. Within easy reach of

Bishops Park and Parsons Green tube

station, the property is also perfectly

situated for a wide range of family-centred

activities and interests. The guide price

sits at £5.2 million.

020 7731 9400, www.savills.co.uk

Situated in conformist fashion in the middle of a row of

terraced houses, this period property with a guide price of

£2,350,000 is far from banal. Offered by Marsh & Parsons

(the agency located on 105 Moore Park Road), renovations

at the property have introduced light and space into the

rooms, to an incredibly chic end. Spanning four floors, the

family house was designed to an exceptionally high standard

with two lower floors of commodious living space, including

a sizeable reception room finished with a floor of solid

walnut. A bespoke kitchen-dining room sits on the ground

floor and an open-plan office and games room perch on the

floor above. Two double bedrooms are fitted with en-suite

bathrooms and share a kitchenette. The master bedroom

suite features a balcony and a roof section that can be

pulled back. Fulham Broadway and Eel Brook Common are

within easy reach.

020 7736 9822, www.marshandparsons.co.uk

If you’re looking for a lettings agency with a little

zest, Belvoir! Chelsea and Fulham (632 Fulham

Road) is your local answer. It is a recent addition

to West London following the initiative of former

solicitor and Fulham resident, Duncan Crossey,

who decided to put his legal and professional

experience to a different occupational use, opening

already nationally successfully Belvoir’s doors

to those looking for property in his local area.

Designers Brigid Stevens and Tom Dixon have

ensured that the new Belvoir! is in possession of a

particularly chic, red interior, making the offices far

from inconspicuous. The company will be playing

a very visible role in the community during the

coming months, with sponsorship of various local

causes, such as Twice Times

Nursery School’s autumn

fair and The Octavia Appeal

for The Friends of Royal

Brompton Hospital. Welcome

indeed!

020 7736 2786

www.belvoirlettings.com

Belvoir! is in town

Property for

Terraced treasure

Image / Belvoir’s smart red officesLeft / Duncan Crossey

Image / Immaculate interiors at the Moore Park Road property

Words / Bryony Warren Above / The property in Fulham Park Gardens

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Avalon Road | Fulham | SW6 948 sq ft (88 sq m)

Asking price £1,100,000 Freehold

Fulham 020 7331 7100

Drawing room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Three bedrooms | Bathroom | Garden

An excellent three bedroom house on this cul de sac a few minutes walk from Chelsea.

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Burnthwaite Road | Fulham | SW61,066 sq ft (99 sq m)

Asking price £850,000 Freehold

Fulham 020 7331 7100

Drawing room | Kitchen/dining room | Three bedrooms | Bathroom | Cloakroom | Garden

A charming three bedroom house on this attractive road, moments from both Fulham Broadway and Parsons Green.

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St. Maur Road | Fulham | SW62,217 sq ft (206 sq m)

£1,750 per week Unfurnished

Fulham 020 7731 7100

Double reception room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Five bedrooms | Three bath/shower rooms | Cloakroom | Roof terrace | Garden

A fantastic five bedroom house with excellent entertaining space, situated on this highly desirable residential street.

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A new batch of potential buyers has just arrived.As Knightsbridge and Belgravia remain the prime destinations for overseas property investment, it continues to attract a wealth of international buyers.

In the last six months, 75% of our registered buyers and tenants were from overseas.

If you want to market your property now or would like to talk about how we can help you, do call either Charlie Willis, head of sales or Nina McDowall, head of lettings.

66 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SH.Call 020 7235 9959 or email Knightsbridge@struttandparker.com today

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