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Cover image / ‘Alex of the Moment’ by Jim Hanlon

November 2012

Read his review of the Barbican’s Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60’s and 70’s exhibition on page 9

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Christmas seems to be pushed forward every year but November seems an acceptable time of year to get in the mood, full-throttle. Fulham will flick her switch and light up the streets on 23 of this month, in such a spirit. But there are plenty of other festivities peppered about too; the month will kick off with a bang at Bishops Park fireworks’ display on 2 November and then Remembrance Sunday parades will add a necessary, pensive tone on day 11. Read more about all these events in The Notebook (pages 10-11). Rich food-stuff seems to be the order of the month. We celebrate all sorts of openings and seasonal offerings on pages 14-15, and also interview one Sands End chap who is keeping Fulham residents’ tummies warm with his excellent sausage rolls and exotic pies (pages 12-13). He has an inspirational personal tale of transition too. The Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham, Councillor Belinda Donovan, is over-brimming with positive news on page 24. If you’re looking for a darker tale, brave our opening story on the at-once charming and menacing history of The Doll’s Hospital that was a popular haunt for little ones and their little friends in the 50s and 60s. You’ll find it a captivating read. Plough on through the winter with your trusty Journal to accompany you during tea breaks and bus rides!

Above / ‘Fugitive Moment’ by Jim Hanlon See page 21 for the artist’s review

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The Calendar

Diary dates for residents looking for the best in the local area’s events

Family crisis

An easy hop, skip and jump away from Fulham territory, the Lyric Hammersmith is worth a visit to catch the closing performances of Desire Under The Elms which comes highly recommended. The well-received revival of Eugene O’Neill’s scandalous tale of family jealously which rocks a small New England farm, has garnered rave reviews from the critics, thanks to a stellar performance from rising star, Morgan Watkins as the envy-ridden Eben Cabot, who struggles to keep a lid on his lust for his elderly father’s new young wife. The resulting ill-fated affair, which smacks of Greek tragedy, and Eben’s battle with his own sense of entitlement makes for a gripping plot, sustained by some compelling acting. But don’t take our word for it; make you own judgement and catch it while you can before the production comes to an end on 10 November. Lyric Square, King Street 020 8741 6850

Pamper pit-stop Just in time for the party season, a new day spa and blow dry bar has opened on our doorstep. The third sister spa to other popular local beauty haunts, The Chelsea Day Spa on King’s Road and Hollywood Road’s The Chelsea Day Spa Boutique, this latest venture, which graced Wandsworth Bridge Road with its sleek, bijoux presence last month, offers a huge array of covetable beauty treatments. The signature ‘The Chelsea Blow Dry’ (£15 for shorter hair, £20 for long hair) will no doubt prove popular over the coming non-hair-friendly winter months. Finished off with a partial or full flat iron or tongs (£10) the treatment will transform tatty manes into swish-worthy, glossy locks. The exclusive pre-party package is great news for time-pressed beauty queens; Comprising ‘The Chelsea Blow Dry’ and a ‘New York manicure and pedicure’ (£50) it is the perfect quick-fix for anyone who wants a glamorous make-over in time for an evening out.

A right page turner

If you’re stumped for a novel to dip into next or you require a much-needed jolt to get you reading, the Modern Book Club held at the fabulous Nomad Books is a great, local source of literary escapism. Swimming Home, Deborah Levy’s shortlisted Man Booker Prize novel, will be up for scrutiny this month on Monday 5 November. The relaxed discussion kicks off at 7.30pm, so arrive in plenty of time to mull over your thoughts, however trivial or profound, catch up with other book-worms and secure a comfy seat. If you fancy a period page-turner, the bi-monthly Classic Book Club returns on Monday 19, when Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, a prototypal American urban novel about a young woman who moves from rural isolation to the big city in pursuit of the American dream, will be debated over a glass of red. 781 Fulham Road, 020 7736 4000

Sunday snip

Harassed mothers can look forward to a bit of a breather, champagne flute in hand, when they take their offspring to Bigoodi, the fun concept salon with both children and adults in mind. Every Sunday until 14 November, as the tots clamber into the toy car chairs to have their hair styled with corkscrew curls and fishtail plaits (£16) or fidget their way through a manicure or pedicure (£9 for one, or £16 for both) grown-ups can enjoy a complimentary glass of bubbly, when they book ahead. Due to popular demand, Bigoodi has also added more lines to their excellent organic skin and hair care range for mums. Treat yourself to Kadria Skincare’s indulgent balancing face oil or sweet-smelling haircare products from the Original Sprout Tahitian range as your darlings get their nails done. 52 New King’s Road, 020 7736 4768

The secret

garden

Spend a morning engrossed in the intricacies of modern-day alchemy at a botanical oils workshop at Fulham Palace on 24 November, and blend your own potions inspired by the horticultural heritage of the edifice’s secluded and serene walled garden. Under the guidance of clinical aromatherapist Tanya Moulding, participants will be able to rifle through endless vials of organic essential oils, and measure and mix concoctions which incorporate the vitality of the beautifully restored walled garden, a fragrant and fertile patch of herbs, plants and colourful blooms. Over the course of the session, which lasts from 10am until 1pm, attendants will acquire the know-how to create both a herbal-infused culinary oil and a beautifying bath and body oil and leave armed with samples to douse on salads and swirl into bath water. There will be recipes to attempt at home too, for those who feel adventurous enough to raid their own windowsill herb gardens. Tickets cost £30 per person and must be booked in advance by calling 020 7751 2432. Bishop’s Avenue www.fulhampalace.org

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Fair time

As the season of goodwill gets underway, support a worthwhile local cause at The Mission Hall Christmas Fair on 1 December from 2-8pm. Held in aid of children’s centre Ray’s Playhouse, the fair promises all the usual festive cheer, including the illumination of the Christmas tree on Parsons Green. There’s also a Santa’s Grotto where little ones can rattle off Christmas lists to the cheery man in red, while grown-ups surreptitiously search for stocking fillers from the abundance of stalls.

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Fireworks Display 2012’ 20 Oct-27 Jan – ‘Hollywood Cos tume’ at the V&A 6 Nov-27 April – ‘The Bodyguard ’ at Adelphi Theatre 2 Nov-6 Jan – ‘Natural History Museum Ice Rink’ 29 Nov-3 March – ‘Valentino: Master of Couture’ at Somerset House 17 Nov-6 Jan – ‘Tower of London Ice Rink 2012’

The Mission Hall, Parsons Green Lane Words / Lauren Romano

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Illustrations / Mai Osawa

All dolled up Lauren Romano uncovers the turbulent history of The Doll’s Hospital, a half-way house for convalescing dolls, which bestowed joy to the many children whose play things it nursed and became the unlikely spoil of a notorious serial killer

sanatorium for the on-their-last-legs dolls of the decades gone by, The Doll’s Hospital at 16 Dawes Road was a bastion of the make do and mend sensibility that existed in the beginning half of the last century. The premises were first listed as a toy shop with toy dealer Albert E Wickes at the helm, back in 1937’s Kelly’s Directory. Inside, the cornucopia of spare parts, a sort of eccentric mad-cap Geppetto’s workshop filled to the rafters awaited; one where benches were strewn hodgepodge with replacement limbs and piercing glass eyes. The Doll’s Hospital and its patient craftsmen who beavered away to turn out near carbon copies of precious playthings,

‘The shop’s owners,Dr Archibald Henderson and his wife Rose, vanished without trace’ became a beacon for children, both in Fulham and further afield, who appeared in their droves, clutching beloved and bedraggled dollies in need of urgent attention. So widespread was the appeal of the dollmending emporium that news of its existence spanned the globe. The Illustrated Sydney News reported: ‘One of the most curious of the many curious institutions in London is The Doll’s Hospital […] Patients are admitted for broken heads, or fractured limbs, loss of hair, eyes, nose, teeth, fingers, hands, toes, and wasting away of the body. Operations take place every day between 9am and 8pm. The same doll may be brought

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to the hospital over and over again for a broken head, arm, or leg. But the little nurse never leaves her without many kisses and a promise from the attendant to be very good to her. “How many patients have you in the hospital today?” asked a visitor of an attendant the other day. “Not more than twenty-five; but come and see them […] There’s a family of four over there. The mother has a broken head, and her soldier son has lost his head and one arm. The two girls are a good deal battered. One looks as if she were going bald. This doll has lost one eye and the tip of her nose; but it can easily be mended, because she has a waxen face. Here’s a doll with a gash down one side of her face; and it’s so deep that I am afraid she will be obliged to have a new head.” ‘ There was a brief blip in the hospital’s wholesome heyday however. In 1948, it was unexpectedly embroiled in one of Fulham’s most shocking crime investigations. In February of that year, the shop’s owners, Dr Archibald Henderson and his wife Rose vanished without trace. It later emerged they had been the victims of the acid bath murderer, John George Haigh, a notorious serial-killer who dissolved his victims’ bodies in barrels of concentrated sulphuric acid. Haigh lured Dr Henderson to a workshop in Crawley and shot him in the head with a revolver he had stolen from the doctor’s house. Rose also walked into the trap and was shot too, her body left to decompose alongside her husband’s in an acid-filled drum. The Fulham Chronicle of 1949 reported that Haigh forged deeds of transfer and

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sold all of Henderson’s possessions for £8,000, including the illustrious business, which passed into the hands of one Albert Clarke. Under Clarke’s ownership, the shop managed to recover from the taint of the gruesome tragedy and formed a constant backdrop for many Fulham residents growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, who speak fondly of its stasis amid the evolving ebb and flow of the area. In her memoirs, Baggage: My Childhood, former Fulhamite Janet StreetPorter describes the locale thus: ‘Fulham was the epicentre of my entire world. I knew all the streets, the shops, the parks, the local gangs. We played rounders on Parsons Green, tennis in Hurlingham Park, walked across Eel Brook Common to Fulham Broadway and through South Park to the River Thames […] I’d learned to swim in Fulham Baths and had the only dolly I’d ever owned mended at the Doll’s Hospital off Fulham Broadway.’ Others too recall the shop as ‘a familiar and friendly’ presence, ‘one of the many simple, seemingly unimportant and small constants that live long in the memory of children.’ Its demise was sorely lamented: ‘The non-descript bar that replaced The Doll’s Hospital was not ‘world famous’. But The Doll’s Hospital was indeed

‘Fulham was the epicentre of my entire world’ – Janet Street-Porter

‘world famous’. It had those very words written on the sign above its shop front and people would send their dolls from all corners of the globe to be mended, primped and restored there. And I walked past it every day, waving at the two old gentlemen who sat inside, behind their workbenches, lovingly returning pink plastic to former glories.’ (From Michael Volpe’s blog, Noisy at the wrong times.) In more recent times, the business was run by Clarke’s son-in-law, John Smith, until he shut up shop for good in 1987. The legacy of The Doll’s Hospital has proved rather more enduring however, charmingly imbued with the pleasant glow of rose-tinted spectacles. Spare a thought for all the dolls since who have long languished into a state beyond salvage, or those even older relics, a token from the playtimes of grandparents, which stay wrapped up in tissue and stashed in cardboard boxes, preserved in lofts under a blanket of dust.

That was

Then S

amuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet and founding member of the Romantic Movement, lived intermittently at 7 Addison Bridge Place (formerly 7 Portland Place) as a guest of his friend John Morgan, between 1810 and 1811. At the time he was in the throes of an opium addiction, reportedly consuming a pint of laudanum a day. Whilst there, he worked for The Courier newspaper and walked from Hammersmith to the paper’s office in The Strand to save on carriage fairs, so the story goes... Coleridge’s reputation as a journalist, lecturer and preacher had already spread wide, but it was difficult to choose between the conflicting careers. The London newspaper offer was superficially the most tempting […] He wrote to Poole, ‘I love Bristol & I do not love London - & besides, local and temporary politics have become my aversion. They narrow the Understanding, and at least acidulate the Heart: - but those two Giants, yclept BREAD & CHEESE, bend me into compliance. I must do something. If I go, farewell Philosophy! Farewell, the Muse! Farewell, my literary Fame!’ Professionally he was being drawn in three different directions at once […] Coleridge’s personal compass would oscillate round these three cardinal points – the West Country, London and the Lakes – for many months to come; and in some ways his uncertainty about his true direction would dominate his life for the next four years.

Journalism would also eventually draw him back towards London – again, partly against his will – and this tension between a poetic existence in the provinces, and a journalistic one in the metropolis […] was to shape a great deal of his career. The financial considerations were important. A retainer of a guinea a week […] would cover about half his annual expenses, which he recalculated in January 1789 as ‘£100 a year – or but little more…’ [...] Journalism could keep him afloat. At this time, Treasury tax-figures show, for example, that a skilled worker such as a printer earned approximately £90 a year, while a gentleman with a small household and a servant in London could live comfortably on £200 a year. Coleridge’s target for bread and cheese was thus a very modest competency by contemporary standards, but probably rather less than Sara [Southey, his wife] hoped for. He plunged back gratefully into metropolitan society, seeing Godwin, Davy, Lamb and many others. ‘I saw so many People on Monday and walked to & fro so much, that I have been ever since like a Fish in air, who, as you perhaps know, lies panting & dying from excess of Oxygen.’ Extracts from ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ by Richard Holmes; p. 176, 243, 312, 346 & 359; published by Hodder and Stoughton 1989

Compiled by/ Bryony Warren Illustrations / Mai Osawa

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The Notebook A local news round-up for November in Fulham

Charity begins at home

A Fulham community group which provides budget price holidays for senior citizens and the retired has been recognised by this year’s Fast Track small grants scheme. Rampage Holiday Project, one of twenty-three groups selected to enjoy a share of £67,500 worth of funding, recently received a sum of £1,200 which will be put to admirable use to provide a pick-up service for holiday-goers with limited mobility. Rampage also organises trips to Morecambe, the Cotswolds and Torquay from its Bishop Creighton House base on Lillie Road, Now in its sixth year, the Fast Track Scheme has propped up some fivehundred worthwhile organisations that might not have been able to survive otherwise, since 2007. Other groups in line for a share of the funding include Voice 4 Somali Community Altaqwa Supplementary School (based on Dawes Road), the Fulham Camerata, Fulham Palace Trust and Fulham FC Foundation.

Snap, crackle and

pop!

It’s bobble hats to the ready at Bishops Park on Friday 2 November, as bonfire night gets underway. An anticipated 20,000 strong crowd will descend on the park to watch the sky explode with zigzagged flashes of colour, swiftly swallowed up into the night’s velveteen folds. The gates will open at 6pm for families who want to secure a spot for the children’s fireworks display which gets underway at 7.15pm. Following this warm-up burst, visitors will have time to wander over to the food stalls and refuel with warming refreshments before the main spectacle erupts with a bang at 8pm. A funfair will run in tangent to the display and carry on into the evening for those wanting to prolong the entertainment. Arrive in good time as there will be no admittance after the displays begin. To beat the queues and save a few pennies to boot, tickets can be purchased in advance for £5 per person (free admission for under-fives) via the Lyric Theatre box office, at www.lyric.co.uk or on 020 8741 6850 up until 5.30pm on the day of the event. Otherwise, tickets are available on the gate, priced at £7.

Keeping it

local

Give the West End and its snail-pace shoppers a wide berth and shop locally this Christmas, safe in the knowledge that you are supporting Fulham businesses as well as saving yourself a whole lot of time and stress. Plus, there are plenty of incentives for shunning the world and his wife in Zone 1 in favour of SW6. For one, the return of the Odd Man Out Christmas competition, back for its third year, which will help bring a little fun to the whole ordeal. For those not in the know, the game, which runs between 1-21 December, requires shoppers to spot small household objects in participating shop windows that are out of place; a tin of peaches in a DIY store or a teabag in a florist, for example. Participants can pick up a competition form from The Durell Arms at 704 Fulham Road, the council website or any of the participating shops, which will be announced later this month. As well as adding to the general cheer, eagleeyed odd-one-out spotters will be in with a chance of winning a hamper crammed with over twenty prizes donated by the retailers involved. Any businesses that are keen to join in have until 12 November to express their interest and complete an application form.

Reading from the

same page

Fulham library-card holders can now borrow books from twenty-one libraries across Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council, after the ‘One Library card’ initiative was rolled out last month. This means voracious readers are able to dip into an athenaeum of one million books with ease, without having to replace their existing library cards. As well as being offered a more varied choice of literature, library-card holders can also access specialist collections, including the impressive assortment of fine art books lining the shelves at Fulham Library. The borough book-hopping policy is just one of several initiatives adopted by the triborough council, who has combined the management of many departments in order to prevent our local libraries from going the way of many others and shutting their doors due to lack of funds. To celebrate the union, a new online book forum, ‘Text Tribe’, will be launched at 6.30pm on 6 November at Kensington Central Library by bestselling author Mark Billingham. Although existing library cards can be used to borrow books, readers will need to fill out a short registration form when they borrow a book from a different borough’s library for the first time. The book must then be returned to the same borough it was loaned from; a small price to pay for access to a catalogue of countless resources.

Remembrance

Sunday returns

Remembrance Sunday will be marked by a procession and an open air service on Sunday 11 November. Residents who wish to commemorate the occasion together can gather at Parsons Green Lane for a prompt 10.20am start and walk in unison via New Kings Road to the Fulham War Memorial in Vicarage Garden, which flanks All Saint’s Church. Vicar of the church, The Reverend Joseph Hawes will then conduct a mass of remembrance in the pleasant and peaceful surrounds of the garden where the congregation will be invited to pause and reflect. Following the service, those who wish to, can join the march back to the Royal British Legion situated at 247 New Kings Road where the Deputy Major, Cllr Frances Stainton will take the salute.

Prelude to Christmas Fulham Broadway will be all aglow from Friday 23 November as the countdown to Christmas officially gets underway when the lights are switched on. The big illumination will take place at 6pm, with the Mayor, Cllr Belinda Donovan, doing the honours and flicking the all important switch. The fun will get under way from 3.30pm with a Santa’s grotto, a charity raffle and a stilt walker milling among the crowds. There will be music from Fulham Cross Girls’ School and Sir John Lillie Primary School choir and live performances from tribute bands Take All That and Bootleg Bee Gees.

Words / Lauren Romano Illustrations / Russ Tudor

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In Residence

What an entrepreneurial pastry chef am I! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a new era of eating; one of relaxed cuisine where the giant sausage roll deserves as much respect as the squirrel. Alice Tozer discovers more to the mindset of James Hughes Davies, the adult in charge at Little Jack Hornerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastry stalls

Illustration / Russ Tudor

t Parsons Green Farmers’ Market, luminous yellow and bloody red rainbow chard sit in King’s School playground opposite popular playmate beetroot soup. In the corner, Little Jack Horner’s (anything-but-steakand-kidney) pies and twenty-first century sausage rolls appear quietly confident. There are no squirrel pies today because this furry pest is all sold out. James Hughes Davies tells me these grey squirrels are Norfolk-born and bred (all food at the sixteen London Farmers’ Markets has to be sourced within 100 miles from the M25). The garden pet of many, they might seem a little close to home to eat. But that’s just a psychological hurdle one must clearly overcome. Formerly a local news journalist in the Shetland Islands (‘I’m romantic like that’), James sought a new career in his mid-20s; one in which he could ‘turn the engine off at the end of the day.’ He retrained as a chef based on his love of eating hearty grub. He had been no child prodigy in the kitchen (confessing, ‘my cheese on toast at university was a running joke’) but his so-called ‘gluttony’ gave him the focus to learn the art and, after a few cheffing jobs, he decided aged thirty that ‘it was now or never’ to go it alone. That was just two years ago. ‘Starting a business isn’t as hard as people think. You’ve got to be resourceful. I thought, where are there kitchens sitting full of equipment not being used? Pubs. And that’s how I started. If I can do it anyone can.’

‘My cheese on toast at university was a running joke’ Slabs of sausage roll on the LJH trestle table may seem a sideline to the pies (Little Jack Horner ‘sat in the corner, eating a Christmas pie,’ and all) but they have, in fact, become its future. ‘I’d been selling the pies and someone said “no one does good sausage rolls.” It’s true; sausage rolls are generally such a depressing experience. They’re floppy and fall apart in your hands. I made them big and changed the ratio of filling to pastry. People went bonkers.’ The choice is Black Pudding and Apple; Pork and Sage; or Chicken and Mushroom. Their herbaceous zing smacks. The warm pastry is

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biscuity and offers a mere border to a generous meat quantity. At £2.50 they’re a snatch; a meal. ‘People from abroad are flummoxed by the sausage roll. The Aussies are all over them as they have a similar pastry history.’ Little Jack Horner’s played to the sound of the sausage roll tune at this year’s Wilderness Festival and was a sell-out with all 3,000 hunks of roll finding their respective tummies. They must be the perfect pep-me-up food for the tipsy. ‘We always ask to be placed near the beer tent,’ James smiles. In time, the grand plan is to open a British comfort-food canteen which would be ‘fun, egalitarian and respond to our heritage.’ It’s not the first time James shows an affinity to the past. Beyond resurrecting war-time squirrel in the kitchen, there’s also the fact that his pies come in Victorian soap-dish style blue-and-white enamel tins sealed with the Little Jack Horner chubbychild logo. If you return the tin (you probably wouldn’t want to, as they make handy key trays too) you get a little money back. His bestselling pie is based on an English classic: pheasant, butternut squash, sage, bacon and walnut. James thinks Fulham definitely benefits from the Farmers’ Market culture. ‘People come to Fulham in transience. The market [a year old] has recreated a little of that community they crave at large.’ James has lived twenty years in the area and now resides at Sands End. ‘The other stallholders are my heroes,’ he says. ‘Working hard, earning little money, supplying excellent produce.’ Are the markets a pricey way of doing your weekly shop? ‘I don’t think so. But anyway, I think people should cut down on their bottle of wine of an evening and spend the rest of the money on top-quality ingredients instead of eating Tesco sausage rolls.’ When James isn’t doing a wedding buffet or a music festival, he’s to be found at a farmers’ market at Pimlico, Balham, Parliament Hill, near Westfield Centre or Parsons Green. Hammersmith is next up. His trusty little helper is Tomasz, the apron-clad Pole who stands by his side and assists him in the making of some 200 pies and 700 sausage rolls per week. James is in the process of constructing a Victorian façade for his stall and wants ‘to nail the festival scene’. Not far from the current reality, he says he wants to create a ‘travelling sausage-roll circus.’ Step aside Mr Whippy, for savoury is the new sweet.

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Food for thought The best of local gastro news for Fulham foodies

Seasonal sustenance

The stallholders at Parsons Green Farmers Market are now stocking their trestle tables with rust-toned winter roots and Christmas puds. Start your market forage at Ted’s Veg stall, which groans with seasonal purple artichoke globes and portly pumpkins, just begging to be turned into hearty soups. Malcolm Stone’s rare apple varieties – the delightfully named likes of the Peasgood Nonsuch and the St Edmund’s Pippin – are similarly seasonal. Portland Seabass fisherman Jason hauls the freshest selection of bass, Dover sole, mackerel, crabs and whatever else the boats bring in from Weymouth each week, while market newcomer Flitteriss Park Farm has carnivorous cravings covered, with its fine cuts of Gloucester Old Spot Pork. And to indulge in a spot of festive naughtiness, visit new baker Lara over at her Cakehole stall every Sunday between 10am and 2pm. www.lfm.org.uk/parsons-green

Branching out from bubbles Popular Parsons Green champagne bar, Amuse Bouche, is adding another string to its bow with some new dining options, rustled up by chef Claude Compton. The sleek and discerning drinking destination is the place to be seen whilst sipping Crémant de Bourgogne or splashing out on an extra special Louis Roederer Brut Premier NV from the extensive champagne list. And from 7 December patrons will have the option of a little more sustenance to accompany their flutes of fizz. The new restaurant menu and bar snack options will focus on organic and seasonal British produce combined in rustic ways to create simple yet hearty dishes. 51 Parsons Green Lane, 020 7371 8517 www.amusebouchelondon.com

In the celebratory mood To celebrate the 45th birthday of Kings Road’s exclusive drinking den, Raffles, the members’ club has launched a new tipple. Cocktail 45 has been crafted from a delicate blend of gins, which have been infused with herbs and aged for forty-five days for optimum taste-bud teasing flavour. Dipping into the annals of the club’s history and the drinking preferences of one gin-loving Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the colonial mogul after whom the club is named, the bar team, headed up by Gabriel De-vere, has chosen a special combination of herbs noted by Sir Raffles in his 1817 book, A History of Java. The new beverage can be enjoyed two ways – either straight up or with bubbles. The former mixes the aged gin with a sloe gin, served with a twist of zingy grapefruit and a glazed cherry, while the latter incorporates a dash of Javanese papaya and is presented with a frozen fan of custard apple. 287 Kings Road, 020 7351 4964, www.raffleschelsea.com

Festive

Fulham Dining The height of sophistication We can think of few better ways to spend a winter’s eve than propping up the beautiful baroque-style bar at Mao Tai with a lychee martini and a few dishes of delicious dim sum scattered around. The 1940s-inspired Shanghai bar, which deals in Pan-Asian cuisine served beneath the soft, romantic glow of its striking goose feathered lights is a calmer choice for those wanting to escape the mêlée of highly-spirited festive drinkers. Intimate and sophisticated, the well-established bar and restaurant is the place where classic cocktails with a contemporary fleck are mixed with the utmost care and attention and savoured amid pleasant background babble. The beautifully presented parcels of dumplings and tempting small plates dressed with razor clams, seafood wasabi ceviche and rock shrimp tempura make the whole drinking and dining experience feel like a real treat. 58 New King’s Road, 020 7731 2520, www.maotai.co.uk

An eastern influence For those who have never exactly been tantalised by the culinary zenith that is the traditional British Christmas dinner, or who wish to avoid overindulging in turkey before the big day, a trip to Del’Aziz, the colourful deli and restaurant dealing in dishes hailing from eastern Europe and north Africa, will provide a welcome respite from pigs in blankets. The Christmas offerings here comprise of a glorious mix of cold and hot mezze, encompassing taboula, baba ganoush, dolma, mint and feta cheese borek. These moorish mouthfuls can then be followed by the likes of Persian saffron chicken or Moroccan spiced lamb shish, glorious tagines bubbling with preserved lemons, green olives and tender beef rib or loaded platters of Persian mixed grill. 24-32 Vanston Place, 020 7386 0086, www.delaziz.co.uk

Festive grub at the pub North End Road’s Cock Tavern is one cosy bolthole of a pub. The watering hole is decked out with maverick touches, miss-matched furniture and a vintage style telephone booth where punters can ring in their orders without having to queue at the bar. But far from being self-consciously trendy, its ebullient staff and relaxed atmosphere make walking through its doors to enjoy a Meantime craft beer feel like a welcome release at the end of a long day. Therefore we can’t think of a more charming place to celebrate Christmas and bookings are now being taken for the festive period. Expect sharing platters of everything from honey parsnip cigars, rare beef Yorkshire puddings and smoked salmon blinis to a three-course Christmas Feast crowned with an English rose turkey and all the trimmings (with pan-roasted sea bass or slow braised venison shank for the non-traditionalists). The pub is also open on Christmas day from 11am until 3pm for those who would rather leave the hours of preparation and the mountain of washing up to the professionals. 360 North End Road, 020 7385 6021 www.cocktavern.co.uk

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Planning &Development Urban development and changes to logistics in the Fulham area

Sands End Community Centre to become new homes The Sands End Community Centre on Broughton Road will be transformed into luxury new homes after development proposals were given the green light by the council. Developers, Verve Properties, now have the go-ahead to begin the building process which will convert the plot into nine three-bedroom residential units. The decision to sell the Victorian property is part of the council’s drive to prioritise front-line services in the borough, although a number of residents have raised objections over the future use of the building, citing the lack of parking and loss of privacy and community services as a cause for concern. The developers however have insisted that the character of the building will be sympathetically retained and improved with sensitive new additions, such as roof terraces and that, once completed, the property will also possess improved curb appeal thanks to the mews-style paving and planting. The services which the centre formerly housed – including the library – have now been relocated. The Sands End Library’s new base at the Hurlingham and Chelsea School will open to the public this winter.

noveMBER: Planned road works & closures STREET

PLANNED WORK

DATES

WORKS OWNER

Bishop’s Road

Alter domestic service and relay 15m from main in carriageway

8-14 November

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

Blake Gardens (from junction of Harwood Road into junction of Blake Gardens)

Connection works

14 November28 January

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

Bowerdean Street

Construction of a new manhole to house an anti-flooding device outside nos.50-52

22 October6 November

Thames Water 0845 9200 800

Britannia Road

Lay and connect new section of mains from Junction of Moore Park to junction with Kings Road

15 October12 November

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

Broomhouse Lane

Lay 7 metres of new domestic piping from main in carriageway

8-14 November

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

Effie Road

Connection work from junction of Harwood Road into the Junction of Effie Road

14 November28 January

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

Fulham High Street

Installation and signal controller upgrade. Temporary traffic signal and lane closure both directions for day works from 9.30am-4pm

5-7 November

Transport for London 0845 305 1234

Fulham Road

Network operations maintenance to replace link box

2-12 November

UKPN East & Lon 0800 028 4587

Harwood Road

Pipe works from junction of New Kings Road to junction of Effie Road

14 November28 January

National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677

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Streetwise

Local retail news for the Fulham resident

Too good to share

The sweet offerings from Demarquette are made for those who prefer to indulge in only the finest chocolates. New for this year, Marc Demarquette has created the Christmas Caramel Collection of hand-painted chocolate globes, full to bursting with a fondant ribbon of viscous caramel. The marbled spheres are dribbled with distinctively festive flavours, from a cranberry encased concoction to a pairing which pits zingy clementine against the bitterness of a dark chocolate shell. Prices range from £18 for twelve to £64 for a rather heftier batch of forty-eight, so are perfectly priced for either a stocking filler or a main gift; they can also be purchased online for added convenience. www.demarquette.com

Snap that Know any shutterbugs daunted by the sheer magnitude of switches and settings on their DSLR camera? Enrolling budding snappers on a Creative Photography for Absolute Beginners workshop led by Martin Richardson at his Parsons Green studio, is one way of helping them realise their creative potential. The three-day workshops, which take place either 25-27 January or 15-17 February, will suit those looking to rid their photo-taking from the shackles of automatic functions and fully get to grips with more adventurous manual settings. Over the course of the lessons,

participants will get to know their cameras inside out, with tuition on aperture and shutter-speed settings, tips on focusing and image composition and advice on how to capture colour and light. A full low-down on lens choices will be outlined in the class notes and put into practice through various artistic challenges. The culminating exhibition, comprised of each participant’s favourite images captured over the weekend, will be a great way to show you, the gift giver, that the course was £350 well spent. In any case, the tuition is one way of ensuring a few

more flattering snaps make it into the family photo album and recipients will have ample opportunity to hone their skills in time to capture the post-prandial somnolence, ill-fitting paper hats, and plundered mince pie mountains of next year’s festive hoorah. Before securing a spot on the course, Martin will be on hand to answer any questions on Monday 12 November in Fulham Broadway Shopping Centre, on the ground floor outside Sainsbury’s. The Worx Studios, 10 Heathmans Road 07890 149657

Love the lustre

Pamper to

perfection

Bathroom cabinets are beginning to be plundered as the invitations to Christmas dos roll in, so now is the time to perk up your loved ones’ beauty supply with a few well-chosen potions. Parsons Green beauty emporium Space NK has a plethora of gift sets featuring the most coveted skincare labels. Those continually looking to revitalise their getting ready routines will be pleased as punch by the beautifully presented Acqua di Parma Magnolia Coffret, which is crammed with enough of the fragrance house’s signature eau de parfum and scented body cream for them to douse, spritz and slaver themselves to perfection. The Aromatherapy Associates Ultimate Collection of nine different bath oils (£50) meanwhile is the wonderful treat for stressed-out parents. Combine with a ‘do not disturb’ sign for the bathroom door so they can shrug off tensions and pour heavenly scented vials into their bath tubs, utterly undisturbed.

Seasonal sparkle For those looking to treat the fashionista in their life to a LBD with extra festive oomph, this sassy Libelula Birdie Dress (£345) available at local boutique Katie & Jo, is the epitome of seasonal sartorial chic. With a sequin-encrusted body, sumptuous sash and three-quarter length sleeves, this little number offers a contemporary and highly flattering re-vamp of a classic evening-wear look. Show-stopping enough to stand out from the crowd at a party yet still subtle enough to be paired down with a blazer and carry the wearer from a lunch date to the bar with ease, this dress will make an elegant staple over the festive fortnight and beyond.

We blame it on the countless hours spent watching the likes of The Great British Bake Off but the sorry-looking, magpie assortment of chipped mugs and bowls stacked up in our cupboards no longer pass muster; and we’re sure we’re not alone in our kitchen overhaul. Carefully chosen crockery can elevate the most modest of meals to the stuff of fine dining, and the new lustre range from Emma Bridgewater, with its mottled cranberry tones will bring a certain dash of seasonal je ne sais quoi to place settings this Christmas. All pieces are made from English earthenware and finished with a glaze to give a highly eye-catching, iridescent finish. From the cute dove candle (£29.95) – ideal for creating that all important dinnertime ambiance – to an ample serving bowl (£75) commodious enough to hold enough cocktail sausages to feed a small army, the tableware items will be put to good use during upcoming family mealtimes. Imagine too, how overjoyed recipients will be, sitting down to enjoy a rather generous serving of hot toddy or cocoa served in the half-pint mug (£29.95) – it is Christmas after all! 739 Fulham Road, 020 7371 5264

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205 New King’s Road, 020 7736 6728

Soft touch

As the home is at the heart of most winter festivities, sumptuous soft furnishings make thoughtful, not-to-mention useful presents. Give the gift of a strokeably soft throw and the glad recipient will spend their evenings in front of the box wrapped in a comfortable cocoon. OKA deals in the kind of throws, quilts and blankets with a subtle contemporary flourish that will easily suit both minimalist and more traditional interiors. The delicate faux mohair throw (£39) available in either a faint grey, navy blue or teal, boasts great insulating properties and will add instant warmth to living rooms when draped over sofas and armchairs, while the heritage feel of the floral embroidered Manili quilt (£199) makes it a timeless investment piece. It will keep recipients toasty both this Christmas and for many more to come. 155-167 Fulham Road, 020 7591 6950 Words / Anna Castaldi

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Art Focus

The cream of the crop of London’s November art

EXHIBITION REVIEW

Jim Hanlon visits Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s at the Barbican and revels in the challenging medium’s ability to record and shape history

hotography from the 60s and 70s immediately brings to mind today’s proliferation of washed and grainy images produced by the popular mobile phone app, Instagram. Those images take you back to the black-and-white and vivid kodachrome colours of family photo albums, fading, un-regarded and stashed away for a rainy day that never comes. This show sets out to tell the history of photography at large, through the photographing of unfolding history. The lower floor is biased towards straight-forward reportage and social documentation. Ernest Cole and David Goldblatt’s black-and-white work tells the story of apartheid with a frank intimacy. The exhibition begins with Goldblatt’s personal record of the mining community of his boyhood and the rise of apartheid with an objective compassion. This regressive path of mounting oppression and dislocation is in ironic contrast to events across the Atlantic. Bruce Davidson’s pictures document the rise of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, beginning with his own involvement in the Freedom Riders’ protest of May 1961. His photos are populated by proud black protestors and nervous National Guard soldiers, many with fixed bayonets in their rifles. The erect posture of defiance seems otherworldly compared to Goldblatt’s images of shackled and immobile resignation. Despite the medium, (and the well-worn maxim, the camera never lies) Davidson’s images tell the story of a man who is a

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sympathiser struggling to remain objective. The idea of photography as art really gets going on the upper floor, with the works of seven lesser-known artists. The German, Sigmar Polke, photographed a grim sequence of pictures in Afghanistan in 1979 showing a public bear fight. A delighted Afghan crowd look on, as two white dogs tear into a chained bear. The narrative is made more disturbing by Polke’s distressing each print surface with photographic chemicals. The struggle of the animals is seen as prophetic, representing the coming occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet Russia. Meanwhile in Soviet dominated Ukraine, Boris Mikhailov sought ways of circumventing the strict censorship on artistic expression. At this time it was illegal for photographers to shoot nudes. Mikhailov, sacked from his job as a mechanical engineer for taking such pictures of his wife, developed a technique that would keep him safe from the police and enhance the creative process. Building his images by projecting pairs of slides, each innocent enough in itself, Mikhailov created a potent art of social commentary, surreal intuition and dark comedy.

This show blurs the boundaries between photojournalism and photography. It highlights the extraordinary imaginations of artists willing to push and mold photography into art in the face of accepted norms. Until 13 January www.barbican.org.uk

Top / ‘Pilgrim and Ambassador Car’ by Raghubir Singh (1977), © 2012 Succession Raghubir Singh Above / ‘Yesterday’s Sandwich’ by Boris Mikhailov, Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin © Boris Mikhailov, DACS 2012

The reviewer, Jim Hanlon, is a London-based artist: www.jimhanlon.co.uk Left / ‘Fugitive Moment’ by Jim Hanlon

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The Classroom Key news and diary dates regarding your local schools

New music hub launches in the borough

The Jessie Mylne Education Centre officially opens The Jessie Mylne Education Centre at Fulham Palace has been declared officially open. The well-equipped learning hub has made its home in the converted stable blocks lurking behind a glorious Grade I listed residence, and is already a hive of activity. The new space is set up to host learning activities for school children and family drop-in events and these sessions will soon be joined by classes for young people and adults. The education service welcomes over onehundred school classes a year to engage with the past through hands-on sessions, which cover everything from toys to Tudors and involve dressing up and examining artefacts from the museum’s handling collection. The opening celebrations also recognised Fulham Palace Trust’s recent receipt of the Sandford Award for Heritage Education. The commendation acknowledges the exceptional onsite educational facilities and the tireless work of outgoing Education Officer for eighteen years, Jenny Kershaw, and the new Learning Officer, Eleanor Sier. The diverse learning programme echoes the direction of the Fulham Palace Trust, which strives to communicate the heritage of the site and its beautiful River Thames skirting grounds to a wider audience.

An innovative collaboration between the Royal Albert Hall and its partners, the Royal College of Music and Aurora Orchestra, and Hammersmith & Fulham Council will give more young children the chance to engage with music. The new initiative, which is now in operation across our borough and the neighbouring boroughs of Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, means that countless children between the ages of five and eighteen will now have the opportunity to learn to sing or play an instrument with their peers as part of a choir or orchestral ensemble. It is hoped that the move will not only champion the value and enjoyment of music but give young people in the borough a rounded education and an outlet for expressing their creativity and developing new skills. CEO of the Royal Albert Hall, Chris Cotton has praised the unprecedented approach, commenting, ‘It is our aim to inspire, influence and champion the future of music in the UK and we believe we can make a real difference.’

‘It is our aim to inspire, influence and champion the future of music in theUK and we believe we can make a real difference’

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ARK Conway Primary

Friday 21 December

Wednesday 9 January

Eridge House Preparatory School

Thursday 13 December

Monday 7 January

Godolphin and Latymer School

Wednesday 19 December at noon

Tuesday 8 January

Hurlingham and Chelsea School

Friday 21 December

Tuesday 8 January

Lady Margaret School

Friday 21 December at noon

Monday 7 January

Latymer Upper School

Friday 14 December at noon

Tuesday 8 January

L’Ecole des Petits

Wednesday 19 December at noon

Monday 7 January

Bishop’s Avenue, 020 7736 3233, www.fulhampalace.org

The London Oratory School

Wednesday 19 December

Monday 7 January

The Moat School

Friday 14 December

Monday 7 January

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Sinclair House School

Friday 7 December

Monday 7 January

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Residents’ Culture A forum for the Fulham resident’s daily concerns and activities

The Mayor’s November diary T

his month has been extremely exciting. I have been racing all over our wonderful Borough but also going up to the City of London, to watch maypole dancing in the Courtyard of Guildhall, followed by a display of morris dancing and then going to the Bow Bell’s Church. I was very excited to meet the 25th (All Saints) Brownies who came into the Mayor’s Parlour. I am told it is the tradition every year that the Brownies visit the Parlour and polish the very wonderful silver items that have been accumulated over the years. They also saw a display of the various Mayoral items, like the tri-cornered hats that Mayors wear for very formal occasions. I visited the fabulous second-hand clothes shop that has been started at St Paul’s Girl’s School on Brook Green – what a wonderful idea – and of course I am especially pro this scheme as they are supporting one of my chosen charities, West London Action for Children which supports families under stress to develop their confidence and skills to cope with the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of family life. Whizzing to the north of our Borough, I opened the revamped cattery at the Mayhew Animal Home, this is another of my chosen charities. It was established in 1886 and is the place to contact if you would like to adopt a cat, dog or rabbit. I myself, along with Charlie, my youngest, adopted our much loved cat, Tilly, from the Mayhew some three years ago. Tilly was found, apparently, abandoned, wandering the streets and I have to say that my whole household has revolved around her ever

since we adopted her! A great pleasure this month has been to open the new Education Centre at Fulham Palace. For those of you who have not discovered the delights of Fulham Palace, it is in Bishops Park Road and one of the real jewels in the crown of our Borough. This Grade 1 listed building, situated in extensive grounds by the River Thames, was a country residence of the Bishops of London right up until 1973. Since April 2011 the Palace has been managed by the Fulham Palace Trust, a registered charity.

‘Fulham Palace is in Bishops Park Road and one of the real jewels in the crown of our Borough’ I opened The Jessie Mylne Education Centre in the old stables at Fulham Palace and I would really recommend a visit. It is dedicated to providing an interesting and well-equipped space for the learning activities of school children. To top off this wonderful event I was able to try on some of the superb costumes available and view ancient cooking equipment. I visited the newly relocated Bush Theatre this month; it is now in the old Shepherds Bush Library and was really taken with the wonderful set up there – it is a real community hub. I was particularly impressed with their stage setting – a shore line complete with boat and you can sit

right up so that you are inches away from the actors. They have promised me a Mayoral visit to a performance and I can’t wait. I went to visit the most wonderful play centre for children in Sands End. It is called Ray’s Playhouse and named after a local resident who sadly died and left funding to this fabulous facility – a wonderful one stop shop for frantic working mothers during half-term, for example. This month I have also had the huge privilege of going to services at both St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. We were given the opportunity of putting our robes on in an amazing 14th-century room where Edward the Confessor died and the new King was crowned. On a final note, as Mayor, part of my work for the year involves fundraising and my first event is on 30 November at LaLa, 2 Queen Caroline Street, at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £40 to include dinner and some great music. Please do contact me on belinda.donovan@lbhf. gov.uk to enquire about tickets. Cllr Belinda Donovan Mayor, Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Star letter to The Editor

Dear Editor

Whilst reading your excellent publication, I came across the article in the October issue of the Fulham Residents’ Journal, ‘Play Up, Play Up and Play the Game’ by Bryony Warren. It is, I agree, a matter of public record that Sir Henry Norris was banned from football following a payment made to his chauffeur from the sale of the Arsenal team bus. But let’s put this in perspective. This man built much of Fulham, including all the streets off Fulham Palace Road and much more besides. He was Mayor and MP, employed thousands of local men and women and was known as a tough but fair man. Craven Cottage would not exist today without him. Nor would Arsenal FC, for whom he built Highbury stadium, cash-flowing an empty arena during the Great War years. Were it not for Sir Henry Norris, it is highly likely that Arsenal and Fulham would not exist today. On a recent trip to Hong Kong I had dinner with the commercial team from Arsenal FC and was asked whether I had any connection with the club. I said that I supported Fulham, but that Sir Henry Norris was my great-grandfather and he was part of Arsenal’s history. They were bowled over, saying that he WAS Arsenal, and that the club simply would not exist without him. My mother, a Fulham resident for many years, grew up with Sir Henry. He provided for family and friends with great generosity, a legacy that lives on today, not just for us, his descendants, but for hundreds of thousands of people whose lives he has touched. Soccer fans, globally, who support either Arsenal or Fulham, families who live in the houses he created, built to last by hard working craftsmen of the day, all owe him a debt of gratitude. Giving his chauffeur £125 from the sale of the team bus (which he bought!) pales into insignificance against his achievements, too numerous to mention here. Yours faithfully, Edward Atkinson, London SW3

Dear Edward Thank you for writing to us. I very much appreciate that as a close family member you will have a better hold than we possibly can on Sir Henry Norris’s character. The points that you bring to the table are profound and highly interesting. I’m so happy to be able to use the Residents’ Culture space as a forum to put across another side to the story. No-one knows someone better than their family. I hope you find the Journal a good local resource and have found what you consider to be total veracity, and good reads, within other elements! Alice (Acting Editor)

CLUB CULTURE

The Hammers rugby club

Upcoming Mens 1st XV fixtures DATE

OPPOSITION

COMPETITION

LOCATION

3 November

Ickenham II

Middlesex Merit Table

Away

10 November

Bulldogs

Middlesex Merit Table

Away

17 November

Ealing

Away

They think it’s all over…

Fulham resident, Caroline Garvey, was a Team London Ambassador at the summer’s Olympic Games. Less conspicuous than the Games Makers, perhaps, the Ambassadors were ‘The Knowledge’ of London whilst taxi drivers escaped the city to holiday. They were otherwise known as the Boris Babes and set up camp in tents across the city. Caroline was an Ambassador Manager which meant she took charge of six others. The Ambassadors were versed in all sorts of quirky London trivia, which might be of use or amusement to the visitor. Did you know that Nelson’s Statue is the same height as the length of the mast on his ship? Or that people leave a drink for Oscar Wilde next to his bench near The Strand? There were 8,500 Ambassadors in total. Caroline, of Sedlescombe Road, took to her role like a duck to water. In the 60s, she managed a disco in the Algarve and then led a very colourful life in South Africa for twenty-seven years.

The Stones

return to the stage

The Rolling Stones, who were once Fulham residents, are on tour in celebration of fifty years of making music. They will be performing at The O2 in Greenwich on 25 and 29 November. Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards moved into a flat on 102 Edith Grove in late summer 1962 and shared it throughout the year and in 1963. In their memoirs, the rockstars recall living in a ‘grimy second-floor apartment at 102 Edith Grove in Fulham, amongst dirty dishes, two beds and no furniture.’

Image / cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com

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The Fulham

DIRECTORY

A compendium of the area’s key establishments

Estate Agents John D Wood & Co 287 New King’s Road 020 7717 5152

Marsh & Parsons 105 Moore Park Road 020 7736 9822

Belvoir! 632 Fulham Road 020 7736 2786

Knight Frank 203 New King’s Road 020 7751 2400

Savills 191 New King’s Road 020 7731 9400

Strutt & Parker 701 Fulham Road 020 7731 7100

Property Search Agent Penn Holmes London Ltd 55 Langthorne Street 07884 180480 07989 746499

Fashion Essam Guenedy 267 New King’s Road 020 7371 8010

Iceblu 24A New King’s Road 020 7371 9292

Health & Beauty Barber

Crew Experience 911 Fulham Road 020 3010 1096

Dentist

The Fulham Dentist 9 Salisbury Pavement, Dawes Road 020 7385 8366

Doctors

The Fulham Medical Centre 446 Fulham Road 020 7385 6001 Dr S Jefferies & Partners 139 Lillie Road 020 7385 7101

Home Antiques

A&L Antiques 284 Lillie Road 020 7610 2694 Nimmo & Spooner 277 Lillie Road 020 7385 2724

Architects & Design Hogarth Architects Ltd 186 Dawes Road 020 7381 3409

Barroll Webber Architects Unit 8H Michael Road 020 7731 3094

Finishing Touches Artbeat (framer) 703 Fulham Road 020 7736 0337

Cologne & Cotton (linen) 791 Fulham Road 020 7736 92

Zaeem Jamal ‘Luxury, hand-embroidered evening gowns decorated with radiant gem stones.’ 309 Kings Road 020 7100 2072

Fitness Virgin Active ‘Gym with pool and spa, as well as club lounge.’ Fulham Pools, Normand Park Lillie Road 0845 270 9124 (enquiries) 020 7471 0450 (members)

Galleries

Piers Feetham Gallery 475 Fulham Road 020 7381 3031 Joanna Grigson Interior Design The Mews, Harwood Road 07803 008 514

Interior Design B Lowe 10 Atalanta Street 020 7381 9207

Marc Wallace 261 New King’s Road 020 7736 6795

Hair Salon

Gina Conway 612 Fulham Road 020 7731 7633

Spa

Amara Spa 18-20 Fulham High Street 020 7384 9111

Stationer

Perry’s 777 Fulham Road 020 7736 7225

Wood Flooring Bembé UK Ltd ‘German craft since 1780.’ 315-317 New King’s Road 020 7371 9090

Hotels B&B

Fulham Thames Walk B&B 91 Langthorne Street 020 7381 0198

Boutique

La Reserve Hotel 422-428 Fulham Road 020 7385 8561

Guest House

Fulham Guest House 55 Wandsworth Bridge Road 020 7731 1662

Luxury

Millennium & Copthorne Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road 020 7565 1400

Schools & Nurseries Chelsea Independent College 517-523 Fulham Road 020 7610 1114

Godolphin and Latymer School Iffley Road 020 8741 1936

Latymer Upper School 237 King Street 0845 638 5800

Sinclair House School 159 Munster Road 020 7736 9182

Eridge House Preparatory School 1 Fulham Park Road 020 7371 9009

Hurlingham and Chelsea School Peterborough Road 020 7731 2581

L’Ecole des Petits 2 Hazlebury Road 020 7371 8350

The London Oratory School Seagrave Road 020 7385 0102

Fulham Cross Girls’ School Munster Road 020 7381 0861

Kensington Prep School 596 Fulham Road 020 7731 9300

Millie’s House Nursery & Pre-School 163 New King’s Road 020 7731 0440

The Moat School Bishop’s Avenue 020 7610 9018

Fulham Prep School 200 Greyhound Road 020 7371 9911

Lady Margaret School Parsons Green 020 7736 7138

Parayhouse School New King’s Road 020 7751 0914

Thomas’s Fulham Hugon Road 020 7751 8200

Food & Drink Bakery Well Bread ‘A family-run bakery with three fully qualified and professional chefs. Makers of bespoke cakes to-order in any size, including birthday and wedding cakes with any picture or shape.’ 383 North End Road 020 7385 7474

Bars

Kona Kai 515 Fulham Road 020 7385 9991

Kosmospol 138 Fulham Road 020 7373 6368

Cafés

Drawing Room Café Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue 020 7736 3233 Pottery Café 735 Fulham Road 020 7736 2157

Confectioner

Demarquette 285 Fulham Road 020 7351 5467

Greengrocer

Pots & Co 133 Munster Road 020 7384 0133

Pubs

Restaurants

Brasserie de l’auberge 268 Fulham Road 020 7352 1859

The Rose Pub 1 Harwood Terrace 020 7731 1832

Fabrella Eating House 786 Fulham Road 0871 971 7654

The Rylston 197 Lilie Road 020 7381 0910

Mao Tai 58 New King’s Road 020 7731 2520

The Hurlingham 360 Wandsworth Bridge Road 020 7610 9816

Vingt-Quatre 325 Fulham Road 020 7376 7224

Services Bookmaker

Cleaner

Motoring

Post Office

Charity

Florist

Newsagent

Printing

Childcare

Library

Pharmacy

Travel

Ladbrokes Plc 344 North End Road 0800 022 3454

Cancer Research UK 350 North End Road 020 7381 8458

Fulham Nannies 69 Stephendale Road 020 7736 8289

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Vanston Dry Cleaning & Laundry 1 Vanston Place 020 7381 3609

Town and County Flowers 131 Wandsworth Bridge 020 7736 4683

Fulham Library 598 Fulham Road 020 8753 3879

Triangle Garage 2 Bishops Road 020 7385 1193

Filmer Newsagents 14 Filmer Road 020 7385 2953

Palace Pharmacy 331 Fulham Palace Road 020 7736 3034

Fulham Road Post Office 815 Fulham Road 0845 722 3344

Paramount Press Ltd 129 Munster Road 020 7731 0900

The Ultimate Travel Company 25-27 Vanston Place 020 7386 4646 027

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1 EXCEPTIONAL FOURTH FLOOR APARTMENT the piper building, sw6 Reception/kitchen/dining room ø study ø recreation space ø master bedroom suite ø further bedroom ø shower room ø laundry room ø cloakroom ø 175 sq m (1,885 sq ft)

Guide £1.1 million Leasehold, approximately 983 years remaining

Savills Fulham Sebastian Hipwood shipwood@savills.com

020 7731 9400

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1 ELEGANT HOME WITH FLEXIBLE ACCOMMODATION moore park road, sw6 Open-plan reception room ø study ø kitchen/dining room ø master bedroom suite ø 4 further bedrooms ø further bathroom ø shower room ø guest cloakroom ø patio garden ø 178 sq m (1,916 sq ft)

Guide £1.8 million Freehold

Savills Fulham Emma Stead estead@savills.com

020 7731 9400

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1 CHARMING HOUSE ON AN ATTRACTIVE TREE LINED ROAD st. maur road, sw6 Reception room ø dining room ø kitchen ø 5 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø roof terrace ø 184 sq m (1,981 sq ft)

Savills Fulham Rosalind Watson rwatson@savills.com

020 7731 9400 Guide £1.75 million Freehold

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1 A BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED FAMILY HOUSE fulham park gardens, sw6 4 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø reception room ø kitchen/breakfast room ø playroom ø garden and roof terrace ø garage ø 157 sq m (1,689 sq ft)

Savills Fulham Kate Rotheram krotheram@savills.com

020 7731 2692 £1,400 per week Unfurnished

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Bovingdon Road SW6 £2,150,000 This exceptional property has recently undergone a complete programme of refurbishment and is beautifully presented throughout. Offering well balanced accommodation, the house includes a ground floor reception room, a kitchen/dining room complete with concertina doors leading out to a private patio garden, a further lower ground floor reception room, a large master bedroom with en suite shower room, five further bedrooms (one en suite) and a family bathroom. Freehold.

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Kingwood Road SW6 £995,000 A delightful mid terrace Victorian house with a large garden located within the popular Munster Village. This impressive property is beautifully presented throughout comprising a ground floor reception room with hard wood flooring, an integrated kitchen/ dining room, three double bedrooms (one en suite) and a family bathroom. The property further benefits from a large rear garden, utility room and the potential to extend (subject to planning permission). Freehold. Sole Agents.

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King’s King’s Road Road SW6 SW6 £835,000 £835,000 Located Located on on the the sought sought after after King’s King’s Road, Road, this this stunning stunning duplex duplex apartment apartment boasts boasts excellent excellent accommodation accommodation with an an exceptional exceptional open open plan plan kitchen/dining/reception kitchen/dining/reception room, room, concertina concertina doors doors leading leading out out to to a a wonderful wonderful roof roof with terrace terrace at at the the rear, rear, a a large large master master bedroom bedroom with with en en suite suite bathroom bathroom and and bespoke bespoke wardrobes, wardrobes, a a further further double double bedroom bedroom and and a a separate separate shower shower room. room. Leasehold. Leasehold. Sole Sole Agents. Agents.

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Rumbold Rumbold Road Road SW6 SW6 £1,500 £1,500 per per week week Situated Situated in in a a very very desirable desirable location location within within the the Moore Moore Park Park Estate, Estate, this this stunning stunning house house features features a a double reception reception room room with with high high ceilings, ceilings, a a bright bright kitchen kitchen with with dining dining area area and and doors doors leading leading out out double to to a a secluded secluded patio patio garden garden and and a a garage. garage. The The bedroom bedroom accommodation accommodation boasts boasts ﬁ ﬁve ve bedrooms, bedrooms, two en suite bathrooms, a family bathroom and a utility/cloakroom. two en suite bathrooms, a family bathroom and a utility/cloakroom.

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Knight Frank

Coniger Road, Fulham SW6 Five bedroom Lion house

A lovely five bedroom house with magnificent open plan reception room and elegant conservatory dining area. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 shower rooms, double reception room, family room, kitchen, conservatory, utility room, guest WC, garden. Approximately 227.8 sq m (2,452 sq ft) Freehold Guide price: ÂŁ2,250,000 (FLH120168)

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Fulham Road, Fulham SW6 A large family house with parking

A rare and substantial period villa with off street parking, a private garage and a large south facing garden. Master bedroom suite, 4 further bedrooms, family bathroom, 4/5 reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, study, garden, balcony, guest WC, off street parking, garage. Approximately 276.9 sq m (2,980 sq ft) Freehold Guide price: ÂŁ2,850,000 (FLH110128)

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Marsh & Parsons (located on 105 Moore Park Road) is offering a spacious loft-style apartment with glorious riverside views for a guide price of £1,050,000. The commodious living space comprises two bedrooms, a stunning reception room, mezzanine level and a balcony from which to enjoy the lofty vantage point out across the River Thames, which laps gently below. Located on the fourth floor of the exclusive The Piper Building, the property is blessed with soaring ceiling heights and an overwhelming sense of space, which is flooded with natural light and finished to the most exacting of contemporary standards. The master bedroom benefits from an en suite shower and bath area, while the mezzanine floor boasts a shower room and walk-in wardrobe. The bespoke kitchen, fitted out with Miele appliances and sleek stainless-steel worktops opens out onto a dining and living area, for ease of entertaining. Secure off-street parking, round the clock security and a convenient location, close to Parsons Green, complete the package. 020 7736 9822 www.marshandparsons.co.uk

Dash to downsize The Savills Fulham office (191 New Kings Road) has noted an increase in the number of tenants downsizing within the family house market, due to rising rental prices in South West London. This means tenants are having to up sticks and move around to secure more affordable homes. While rental renewals have dropped, Savills has noted an increase in the number of applicants looking for a pad in Fulham as more and more people become priced out of prime central London dwellings and properties down the road in Chelsea. A move further along

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the Kings Road is proving a wise strategy in the quest to secure greater living space and better value for money at a time when the spiralling costs of day-to-day living mean budgets are being squeezed. Overseas families residing in the area are also downsizing in a bid to keep hold of their purse strings. The market however remains hugely active, particularly in the £900 to £1,300 per week bracket. 020 7731 9400, www.savills.co.uk

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Fulham Park Gardens | London | SW6 1,733 sq ft (161 sq m)

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Parsons Green | London | SW6 3,897 sq ft (362 sq m)

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Parsons Green Lane | Fulham | SW6 2,088 sq ft (194 sq m)

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Chesilton Road | Fulham | SW6 1,970 sq ft (183 sq m)

An immaculately presented four bedroom house on the favoured side of one of the best roads off the Fulham Road and moments from Parsons Green. Drawing room | Kitchen/dining room | Master bedroom with en suite bathroom | Three further bedrooms | Bathroom | Cloakroom | Cellar/utility room | South west facing garden and roof terrace Asking price ÂŁ1,950,000 Freehold

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Fulham Park Gardens | Fulham | SW6 3,272 sq ft (304 sq m)

Fulham Sales 020 7225 3866

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A new batch of potential buyers has just arrived. As Knightsbridge and Belgravia remain the prime destinations for overseas property investment, it continues to attract a wealth of international buyers. In the last six months, 75% of our registered buyers and tenants were from overseas. If you want to market your property now or would like to talk about how we can help you, do call either Charlie Willis, head of sales or Nina McDowall, head of lettings. 66 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SH. Call 020 7235 9959 or email Knightsbridge@struttandparker.com today

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