A SLICE of iced cake for each of the 350 pupils was just one of the ways in which Star Road Secondary School celebrated its new name - Queen's Court Secondary School for Girls - in February 1955.Read
WOMEN were seen openly weeping in the streets when the news of the death of His Majesty King George VI reached Fulham, on Wednesday morning (February 6, 1952).Read
50 years ago December 2, 1960 CHILD WHO LOVED LIFE TRAGEDY overtook a Fulham family for the second time in eight years when Julie Lillian Burman, 10, of Fulham Court, died in Great Ormond Street Hospital the day after collapsing in the playground at St John's School, Dawes Road.Read
THE Granville Theatre of Varieties, Walham Green was the brainchild of four theatre people, including Dan Leno who, having managed two other theatres thought it might be interesting and profitable to open their own music hall.Read
BUILT as a variety theatre for the theatrical impressario Oswald Stoll, the Shepherd's Bush Empire is seen here in September 1953 just before its closure and conversion into the BBC Television Theatre.Read
