Misplaced Pages

#581418

24-538: Furnivall Gardens (also spelt Furnival Gardens ) is a park in Hammersmith alongside the river Thames. It was once the location of the mouth of Hammersmith Creek , which had an active fishing trade until about 200 years ago. The creek was filled in during 1936. In 1948, it was decided that there should be a public open space on bomb-damaged land between the river and the Great West Road, to coincide with

48-427: A hammer smithy or forge". 51°29′26″N 0°13′59″W  /  51.49056°N 0.23298°W  / 51.49056; -0.23298 Wharf A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings . Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage: where it is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there

72-399: Is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or perhaps a single large wharf with multiple berths, will instead be constructed, sometimes projecting over the water. A pier, raised over the water rather than within it, is commonly used for cases where the weight or volume of cargos will be low. Smaller and more modern wharves are sometimes built on flotation devices ( pontoons ) to keep them at

96-470: Is at Hammersmith, close to the river, I often hear go past the window some of that ruffianism of which a good deal has been said in the papers of late. As I hear the yells and shrieks, and all the degradation cast on the glorious tongue of Shakespeare and Milton , as I see the brutal, reckless faces and figures go past me, it rouses the recklessness and brutality in me also, and fierce wrath takes possession of me, till I remember, as I hope I mostly do, that it

120-602: Is now King Street , into the River Thames at the present-day site of Furnivall Gardens in Hammersmith . In 1936, after the decline of the creek habour, the creek was filled in and the water channelled through an underground culvert . Origins Hammersmith Creek was once the mouth of Stamford Brook , running from King Street into the River Thames , separating the Lower Mall and Upper Mall . In 1677,

144-630: Is one water-closet to four houses…in another the costers’ donkeys are led through the houses entering at the front door, and going along the passages, to the hovels in the yards at the back." As part of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 , the Hammersmith Borough Council aimed to clear the area for new housing through the Southern Improvement Scheme, conceived in 1919. In 1927, the council bought

168-604: The Duke of Kingston , towards Ravenscourt House in Ravenscourt Park and then south through King Street to meet the River Thames at what is now Furnivall Gardens . In 1839, Thomas Faulkner proposed that Hammersmith Creek gave name to the parish of Hammersmith , originating from two Saxon words: the creek constituting the ancient Hyth , or harbour , with the additional cognomen of Ham or Hame. However, others have suggested Hammersmith may mean "(Place with)

192-720: The Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House was built on the eastern bank of the creek on 28 Lower Mall . The house was later rebuilt in 1765. High Bridge In 1751, a wooden foot-bridge spanning the creek named the High Bridge (also known as the Bishop's Bridge) was built by Bishop Thomas Sherlock . The bridge was rebuilt several times, by Bishop William Howley in 1820 and Bishop Charles Blomfield in 1837. By 1915, The bridge converged four old footpaths or bridle paths ( Lower Mall and Aspen Place on

216-597: The staith spelling as a distinction from simple wharves: for example, Dunston Staiths in Gateshead and Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk . However, the term staith may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges. Quay , on the other hand, has its origin in the Proto-Celtic language . Before it changed to its current form under influence of

240-694: The 1951 Festival of Britain . The new riverside park was named after the scholar Dr Frederick James Furnivall , who founded what is now the Furnivall Sculling Club in 1896. A garden area was created on what had been the Hammersmith Friends Meeting House burial ground, destroyed by a flying bomb in the war. In 1963, a street lamp that had formerly been in West Berlin was given by Willy Brandt , then Mayor of West Berlin, to mark Hammersmith's twinning with

264-576: The Berlin (previously West Berlin) district of Neukölln . It now stands on the wall of Westcott Lodge , facing the gardens. Below it is a plaque which reads: "The lamp above this plaque was formerly used to light a street in West Berlin. It was presented by Herr Willi Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin to Councillor Stanley Atkins, L. P., The Worshipful the Mayor of Hammersmith, as a token of friendship between

SECTION 10

#1732790658582

288-530: The United States. In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier , berth , or jetty . In old ports such as London (which once had around 1700 wharves ) many old wharves have been converted to residential or office use. Certain early railways in England referred to goods loading points as "wharves". The term was carried over from marine usage. The person who was resident in charge of

312-433: The area around the creek for £8,000. In 1936, the creek was filled in and the water channelled through an underground culvert , partly beneath the present location of Hammersmith Town Hall. When Hammersmith Town Hall was built in 1938–9, architect Ernest Berry Webber incorporated two colossal heads of Father Thames in commemoration that the building stands astride the old creek. On 5 May 1951, Furnivall Gardens and

336-416: The area: "‘One of London’s poorer and apparently more hopeless districts is situated in the alleys, unpenetrated by any road, which lie between King Street and the river…and Hog Lane and Waterloo Street…The inhabitants are costers, flowersellers, casual labourers, chronic invalids; mothers habitually tired; and children, children, children…The housing accommodation is what you might expect. In one street there

360-576: The east and Upper Mall and Bridge Street on the west). Riverside development Until the early 19th century the creek was navigable for nearly a mile northward and was used for cargo transportation and a growing fishing industry, but successive embankment of the river contracted this length. The western bank was occupied by kilns, stables and malt houses which formed part of the Hammersmith Brewery (also known as Cromwell’s Brewery ) founded by Joseph Cromwell in 1780. The eastern bank

384-500: The nearby Hammersmith Pier opened on the site. Today, only a small drainage tunnel, visible from the Dove Pier , remains as evidence of the creek. The High Bridge is still marked by a raised hump in the gardens and a flowerbed. John Rocque's maps of London , produced in 1746, shows the creek running south from what is now North Acton Playing Fields towards Gunnersbury House , directly east past Berrymead Priory , belonging to

408-793: The northeast and east of England the term staith or staithe (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. The two terms have historically had a geographical distinction: those to the north in the Kingdom of Northumbria used the Old English spelling staith , southern sites of the Danelaw took the Danish spelling staithe . Both originally referred to jetties or wharves. In time, the northern coalfields of Northumbria developed coal staiths specifically for loading coal onto ships and these would adopt

432-574: The same level as the ship, even during changing tides. In everyday parlance the term quay (pronounced 'key') is common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, and may also refer to neighbourhoods and roadways running along the wayside (for example, Queen's Quay in Toronto and Belfast ). The term wharf is more common in

456-536: The two communities on the occasion of the Jumelage held in this Borough, 1st June 1963." 51°29′26″N 0°13′58″W  /  51.49056°N 0.23278°W  / 51.49056; -0.23278 This London location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hammersmith Creek Hammersmith Creek was an outflow river of the Stamford Brook , and used to run through what

480-609: The village" Writing in 1876, English antiquary James Thorne described the creek: "a dirty little inlet of the Thames, which is crossed by a wooden footbridge, built originally by Bishop Sherlock in 1751 … the region of squalid tenements bordering the Creek having acquired the cognomen of Little Wapping , probably from its confined and dirty character." Writing in 1881, English textile designer and poet William Morris described Little Wapping: “"As I sit at my work at home, which

504-642: The wharf was referred to as a "wharfinger". The word wharf comes from the Old English hwearf , cognate to the Old Dutch word werf , which both evolved to mean "yard", an outdoor place where work is done, like a shipyard ( Dutch : scheepswerf ) or a lumberyard (Dutch: houtwerf ). Originally, werf or werva in Old Dutch ( werf , wer in Old Frisian ) simply referred to inhabited ground that

SECTION 20

#1732790658582

528-507: Was my good luck only of being born respectable and rich that has put me on this side of the window among delightful books and lovely works of art, and not on the other side and the empty street, the drink-steeped liquor-shops, the foul and degraded lodgings.” In the early 20th century, the area suffered after the decline of the fishing industry in the creek harbour. The 1913 annual report of the Hampshire House Trust described

552-461: Was not yet built on (similar to " yard " in modern English), or alternatively to a terp . This could explain the name Ministry Wharf located at Saunderton, just outside High Wycombe, which is nowhere near any body of water. In support of this explanation is the fact that many places in England with "wharf" in their names are in areas with a high Dutch influence, for example the Norfolk broads. In

576-491: Was occupied by wharves , warehouses and the Phoenix Lead Mills . The creek was the scene of much industry in an area or slum known as Little Wapping , after Wapping , Tower Hamlets . Writing in 1839, English topographer Thomas Faulkner described the area: "Nearly in the centre of this Mall are several fishermen's huts, called Little Wapping, which detracts much from the respectability of this part of

#581418