Fulham Chronicle - News - Nostalgia & History

Builder preferred new homes on park land

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Looking back in our archives

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Screen star lights up fuel economy exhibition

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Looking back in our archives

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:00:00 GMT

50 years ago

Looking back in our archives

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Looking back in our archives

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Looking back in our archives

Wed, 26 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Wed, 26 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Looking back in our archives

Thu, 13 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Why little work was done that day

Thu, 13 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Looking back in our archives

Wed, 05 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Welcome to wacky races of 1910

Wed, 05 May 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Mayor starts penny trail to buy beds for the hospital

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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

Looking back in our archives

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Looking back in our archives

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Swinging time after the war

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

PEACE Day at Hurlingham Club, September 1919.

Looking back in our archives

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

50 years ago

Trip to the country to escape horrors of war

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Looking back - 50 years ago

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

MANY young men may one day have a cause to bless Queen's Court Secondary Girls' School, in Star Road.

Hair today - and gone tomorrow

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

THIS photograph, published in the Weston Mercury and Somersetshire Herald in January 1940, shows trainee hairdressers from the Regent Street Polytechnic, who had been evacuated to Weston-super-Mare, cutting the hair of girls from Brackenbury Road School.