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Blast from the past Sep 02 2010

50 years ago: September 2, 1960 MINISTER SAYS NO TO 19-STOREY OFFICE PLANRead

Pulling out all the stops Sep 02 2010

THIS grandiose facade at the eastern end of Uxbridge Road and Shepherd's Bush Green formed one of the two principal entrances to the exhibitions at White City.Read

Builder preferred new homes on park land Jul 21 2010

SOUTH Park was officially opened on Whit Monday, May 25, 1904, a pleasant day for 'the quiet little ceremony'.Read

Looking back in our archives Jul 21 2010

50 years ago: July 22, 1960 TRIPLE CAR CRASH FATALITY - A HOLIDAY tragedy in which a street trader's son was killed and three other members of the family injured has shocked stall-holders in the North End Road market.Read

Screen star lights up fuel economy exhibition Jul 02 2010

A CROWD await the arrival of Jane Carr, the screen and stage star of the day, at Fulham Central Library in 1947.Read

Looking back in our archives Jun 23 2010

50 years agoRead

Looking back in our archives Jun 16 2010

POLICE loudspeaker vans toured Fulham streets during the weekend warning persons who had bought paraffin at a local garage not to use it.Read

Looking back in our archives Jun 02 2010

REPRESENTATIVES of every aspect of the borough's public and social life were in the council chamber when Cllr Mrs Florence Charlotte Pusey was elected mayor of the borough for the ensuing year.Read

Looking back in our archives May 27 2010

THIS is a story to warm all hearts - a Good Samaritan act which made it possible for a Fulham woman to fly to America to visit her sick daughter.Read

Raising a cup to the new King and Queen was no cake walk May 27 2010

TWO parties for 600 pensioners each were held at Fulham Town Hall to celebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1937.Read

Looking back in our archives May 14 2010

50 years ago: May 13, 1960 Surprise party celebrates Royal wedding Read

Why little work was done that day May 14 2010

CROWDS started to assemble in Hammersmith Broadway at 11.50am on November 11, 1918 as news spread that the First World War had ended.Read

Looking back in our archives May 06 2010

50 years ago: May 6, 1960 Power station and gas-washing plant Read

Welcome to wacky races of 1910 May 06 2010

THE plane shown here being constructed in the hangar at Wormwood Scrubs belonged to the aviator Claude Graham-White, competing in the London-Manchester Aeroplane Race in April 1910 for a prize of £10,000.Read

Mayor starts penny trail to buy beds for the hospital Apr 29 2010

MONEY to endow beds at West London Hospital was raised by the novel means of the 'million penny fund' in 1925.Read

Looking back in our archives Apr 29 2010

50 years ago: April 29, 1960 WHEN the nomination papers of the three candidates in the Fulham Council's Barons Court ward by-election were handed in at the town hall on Tuesday, there was a surprise.Read

Looking back in our archives Apr 23 2010

A PASSENGER in the sidecar, a young wife who is expecting her first baby in September, watched horror-struck as her husband, Alan Kallmeier, aged 21, of Elbe Street, was fatally injured when his motorcycle came into collision with a lorry in Bagley's Lane, near the junction with Sandilands Road. Read

Swinging time after the war Apr 23 2010

PEACE Day at Hurlingham Club, September 1919.Read

Looking back in our archives Apr 14 2010

50 years agoRead

Trip to the country to escape horrors of war Apr 14 2010

THE children of Addison Gardens School, Hammersmith, were evacuated in September 1939 to various locations in Buckinghamshire, including Maids Moreton, Akeley, Chackmore, Thornborough, Turweston, Padbury and High Wycombe.Read

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