From the legendary Irish dance halls on Hammersmith Broadway to the renowned Polish Jazz Café at the end of King Street via the Riverside where German aristocrats and French revolutionaries left their own special mark on our past, this guided walk explores Hammersmith’s unique European history.
Read MoreExplore Hammersmith in the 1930’s, discover how a ‘shabby suburb’ was transformed into a ‘modern’ shopping centre with cinemas and restaurants.
Find how American influence turned Hammersmith’s Broadway into a centre for a stylish new entertainment culture employing Hollywood glamour and the novelty appeal of ‘Jazz’ and dance band music to attract customers.
Read MoreThis guided walk explores the influence of Hammersmith on two men, William Morris, whose arrival at Kelmscott House, in 1878, marked a change in his ideas on art, design and politics and Peter Gill, in 1976, the first artistic director of Riverside Studios and like William Morris a resident of Hammersmith.
Read MoreStarting from Hammersmith Broadway, this self guided walk takes you along King Street, part of the old Turnpike Road, which carried people and goods to and from London to the West Country. Starting with the inns that supplied the stage coaches with fresh horses and their passengers with food and drink, we peel back the layers of history behind this historic street. The walk finishes in Ravenscourt Park.
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