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7 unusual facts about Hammersmith


Carol White

White, the daughter of a scrap merchant, was born in Hammersmith.

Henry Charles Andrews

He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.

Joseph Bosisto

Bosisto is the son of William Bosisto and Maria née Lazenby, of Cookham, Berkshire, and was born on March 21, 1827, at Hammersmith.

Leea

The genus was named by Linnaeus after James Lee, the Scottish nurseryman based in Hammersmith, London who introduced many new plant discoveries to England at the end of the 18th century.

Persoonia lanceolata

Andrews also described some plants which he had grown from seed in a nursery in Hammersmith as P. latifolia, which turned out to be the same species.

William Brenton

Austin and other historians give his place of origin as Hammersmith in Middlesex, England (now a part of London), but in reviewing the evidence, Anderson concludes that his place of origin is unknown.

Xentrix

The rest of 1991 saw Xentrix headlining a United Kingdom tour, taking out the new band Skyclad and a return to Hammersmith, this time opening for Brazilian Thrash metal band Sepultura.


1830 in sports

10 August — the Wingfield Sculls, amateur championship of the River Thames, is founded at the instigation of barrister Henry Colsell Wingfield and raced from Battersea to Hammersmith.

Andy Pape

Born in Hammersmith, Pape played club football in England and Denmark for Feltham, Queens Park Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Ikast FS, Crystal Palace, Harrow Borough, Enfield, Barnet, Woking, Dagenham & Redbridge, Sutton United and Aldershot Town.

Augustinian Province of England and Scotland

As of 2013, there are 6 Augustinian communities around the UK; St. Mary's, Harborne, St. Joseph's, Broomhouse, Edinburgh, Clare Priory in Suffolk, St. Augustine's, Hammersmith, St. Monica's, Hoxton and St. John Stone's, Southport.

Billy Nicholls

William Morris "Billy" Nicholls Jr (born 15 February 1949, White City, Hammersmith, London) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musical director, who first gained fame in the 1960s while still a teenager with his Pet Sounds-influenced album, Would You Believe, originally released on Immediate Records.

Bull baronets

Bull was Admitted solicitor, 1928, served as Honorary solicitor to the Royal Life Saving Society, the Royal Society of St George and the League of Mercy, as Governor of the Upper Latymer Foundation School, as a Member of the Board of Management of the West London Hospital and Vice-Chairman of South Hammersmith Conservative Association and was Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers of the City of London.

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.

David Farmer

Two UK tours including residencies at Lyric Hammersmith, Watermans Arts Centre and Derby Playhouse.

Francesca Fowler

Francesca Fowler (born 1985, Hammersmith, London) is a British actress, best known for her appearance in the 2007 thriller movie Straightheads alongside Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer; she is also recognised for her appearances in Rome HBO, and various BBC TV series.

Frederic Austin

The restoration of the musical score for The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Dr Pepusch (originally produced in 1728) was undertaken by Frederic Austin and completed in 1920 in time for the production by Nigel Playfair, with artistic designs by Claud Lovat Fraser, which opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on 6 June 1920 and ran for a record number of 1,463 performances until 23 December 1923.

G. H. Elliott

He made several appearances in television variety shows and was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London.

Greater London Council election, 1970

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks (Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport) and Sir George Young (Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major).

Halbwelt Kultur

During May and June 2013, the show was incorporated into Ruby In The Dust's production of The Great Gatsby musical at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London.

Hammersmith Academy

Hammersmith Academy is a non-denominational, all-ability, co-educational secondary academy for 11-18 year olds specialising in Creative & Digital Media and Information Technology, located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London, England.

Hammersmith Broadway

It is also served by two tube stations, both named Hammersmith.

Hammersmith Is Out

Hammersmith Is Out was the first film financed by John Crean, the founder of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. a producer of recreational vehicles, travel trailers (including fold-down tent trailers) and manufactured housing.

Harriet Vane

Harriet Vane (Lady Peter Wimsey) was portrayed by Emily Richard in the 1988 stage adaptation of Busman's Honeymoon at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

Headlines! Live from the Hammersmith Apollo

Live from the Hammersmith Apollo is the first live DVD by British girl group The Saturdays.

Henrietta Rae

Born in Hammersmith, London, she was the youngest of seven children of a civil servant; her mother was musically talented, a former student of Felix Mendelssohn.

James Massara

James Massara (born in Hammersmith, London) is the Player Performance Manager at the London Broncos and former head coach of Championship One side London Skolars.

Ken Suttle

Kenneth George 'Ken' Suttle (born 25 August 1928 at Brook Green, Hammersmith, London; died 25 March 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius) was an English cricketer.

Live at Hammersmith '79

Live at Hammersmith '79 is a live album by Ted Nugent, consisting of a performance originally broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour, recorded during the second set of a sold-out night at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 and not released until 1997.

London Underground C Stock

The additional rolling stock was required to increase the frequency of the service (particularly given the introduction of automatic electro-pneumatic signalling which allowed less headway between trains), plus the four-tracking of the section west of Hammersmith which allowed a greater frequency of trains to and from Richmond.

Michael Rawlins

His post-graduate training in clinical pharmacology and general medicine was completed at St Thomas' and the Hammersmith hospitals, with a year at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Moses Angel

He was educated at H.Solomon’s Boarding School at Hammersmith and entered University College School in Bloomsbury at the age of fourteen.

Oberkorn

In addition, Depeche Mode also used the Oberkorn song as a prelude to the My Secret Garden song from the A Broken Frame album when recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, now named HMV Hammersmith Apollo.

Paul Graener

Graener is recorded in the United Kingdom Census of 1901 as a "musical director (theatre)" living at 3 Poplar Grove in Hammersmith together with Maria (born in Kiel), their first two children (Heinz and Paul, aged 4 and 2) and Graener's author cousin, George.

People's Convention

The Convention was the initiative of the Hammersmith Trades Council and Labour Party and Denis Nowell Pritt, Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith, who had both been expelled from the Labour Party in 1940.

Richard Cadette

Born in Hammersmith, Cadette began his career in non-league football with Wembley, before playing professional football in both England and Scotland for Leyton Orient, Southend United, Sheffield United, Brentford, Bournemouth, Falkirk, Millwall and Clydebank.

Shaun Prendergast

Christmas of 2010 saw Shaun play the role of Sarah the Cook in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, directed by Steve Marmion.

Shepherd's Bush station

Shepherd's Bush tube station, now known as Shepherd's Bush Market tube station, on the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground

Sidney Richard Percy

#Herbert Sidney Percy Williams (18 Feb 1863, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire − 8 Oct 1932, Hammersmith, London)

Simon Goddard

Originally planned to mark the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s July 1973 “retirement” concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, the book’s release ended up coinciding with Bowie’s 2013 comeback album The Next Day and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s record-breaking David Bowie Is exhibition.

Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet

He promptly slipped away to Oxford, where he was warmly welcomed by the King, but his houses in Hammersmith and Lime Street were ransacked.

Tessa Wyatt

Wyatt married property developer Bill Harkness at Hammersmith Register Office in 1986, and they have two children, Joanna and Jack.

The Latymer School

Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by bequest of Edward Latymer, a London City merchant in Hammersmith.

The Manhattan Transfer Live

The Manhattan Transfer Live was recorded by The Manhattan Transfer live at Manchester on 23 April 1978, Bristol on 28 April 1978, and the Hammersmith Odeon Theatre, London, on 2 May 1978.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

A Dewar Challenge Shield, donated by Dewar's granddaughter Alice Dewar, is competed for annually by three rowing clubs in Hammersmith, West London: Furnivall Sculling Club, Sons of the Thames and Auriol Kensington Rowing Club.

Woodside Morris Men

The early years for the club were taken up with local social and community events, regular involvement with Morris Ring meetings, and privately arranged trips to various locations, though Deal, Kent was a particular favourite, in the company of Westminster Morris Men, and later joined by the Hammersmith Morris Men.


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