25 Apr
Flooring renovation
Hounslow - TW4
Enquiry from: Jane M
Start Date: Immediate
Fulham
Fulham is a district within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in southwest London. It is 3.7 miles south-west from Charing Cross, making it an Inner London district. It's on the north bank of the River Thames, between Hammersmith and Kensington and Chelsea, facing Putney and Barnes. Formerly, it had been a parish within the county of Middlesex. It's identified in the London Plan as on the list of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Fulham's reputation of industrial enterprise goes back to the 15th century, with its Mill at Millshot on the south side of what's now Fulham Palace Road. There was also a pottery, tapestry-weaving, paper-making and brewing industry during the seventeenth and 18th centuries in the area of what's now called Fulham High Street. The following 2 centuries had been identified for power production, transportation, the automotive industry, food production and laundries.
For the first half of the twentieth century, Fulham remained largely working class with pockets of wealth in the North End, along the top of Lillie Road and New King's Road. Particularly rich areas were Parsons Green, Eel Brook Common, South Park plus the area around the Hurlingham Club. The region attracted waves of immigration, and rapid changes meant that there was poverty - Charles Dickens and Charles Booth noted this, and there were poorhouses that attracted benefactors.
These days, Fulham is rated among the most expensive parts of London and also the UK overall. The typical sale price of all property in 2007 was £639,973 - and is most likely to be a lot more now.
