| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum 22:22 - Feb 18 with 2249 views | queensparker |
Family been round the area since between the wars, this makes me feel like an interloper
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Located on the Devil's Highway, an old Roman road from London to Silchester, "Sheppard's Bush Green" was first recorded as a place name in 1635.
The name Shepherd's Bush is thought to have originated from the use of the common land here as a resting point for shepherds on their way to Smithfield Market in the City of London.
Evidence of human habitation can be traced back to the Iron Age. Shepherd's Bush enters the written record in the year 704 when it was bought by Waldhere, Bishop of London as a part of the "Fulanham" estate, but over the years, all the surrounding boroughs wanted no part of the small bit that is 'the green'.
Steptoe & Son's junkyard had a fictional address — 24 Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush.
White City Stadium was built to host the Olympic Games of 1908 after the scheduled hosts Italy pulled out. It was constructed on land immediately adjacent to the Exhibition, but was a separate enterprise. Its main legacy is the modern Marathon distance, from Windsor Castle to Shepherd's Bush and around the track to the Royal Box - 26 miles 385 yards.
The Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia was declared in 1977 by squatters who had already been living for several years in buildings scheduled for demolition. Threatened with eviction by the Greater London Council, they applied to join the United Nations and issued their own stamps. Actor David Rappaport was their Foreign Minister, and playwright Heathcote Williams was their Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Wormwood Scrubs first entered the public record as Wormeholt in 1189, the year that Richard the Lionheart became King of England. Originally forest, by the beginning of the 19th century it was known as Wormholt Scrubs (or Common), and most of the trees had been cleared. In 1812 the government leased the land (and later bought it) for military exercises.
Wormwood Scrubs was leased by the government in 1812 in order to exercise cavalry horses - at the time it was feared that Napoleon Bonaparte might invade.
The War Office bought the land in 1878, and the next year Parliament passed the Wormwood Scrubs Act, allowing the military to use it for training when necessary, but to otherwise leave it for "the perpetual use by the inhabitants of the metropolis for exercise and recreation".
Under the act the military were forbidden from building any "permanent erections" other than rifle butts, and the land was to be managed by the Metropolitan Board of Works (subject to War Office approval).
These days the relevant authorities are the Ministry of Defence and Hammersmith & Fulham council - the military can order the public off the land if they need to, but it cannot be sold off unless it "ceases to be used by the citizens of London". Use it or lose it.
Wood Lane, BBC Television Centre opened in 1960 on the site of the old White City Exhibition. Many of the nation's favourite shows were made at or broadcast from "the concrete doughnut", including Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Z-Cars, Blue Peter, Jackanory, Porridge, the Morecambe and Wise show and countless others.
An early - and very famous - film featuring Shepherd's Bush is The Blue Lamp (1950), which has a dramatic car chase finale after a young Dirk Bogarde shoots Dixon of Dock Green in the Harrow Road.
Some scenes from Quadrophenia were shot in the area in 1979, including Shepherd's Bush Market, Goldhawk Road, Wells Road, Uxbridge Road, Wormholt Estate, Latimer Road, the Bramley Arms and the Wormholt Estate.
Leslie Ash, pre duck era. |  | | |  |
| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum on 22:40 - Feb 18 with 2138 views | colinallcars |
I always thought the name Fulham was a contraction of Foul Hamlet. |  | | |
| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum on 00:45 - Feb 19 with 1921 views | Boston |
At a loss to know what part of the body is referred to as the 'Harrow Road'? |  |
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| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum on 08:44 - Feb 19 with 1579 views | distortR |
| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum on 00:45 - Feb 19 by Boston |
At a loss to know what part of the body is referred to as the 'Harrow Road'? |
well, there was harry potter and the deathly harrows, so you probably don't want to be shot there. | | | |
| Enjoyed this take of Shepherds Bush from a Hull forum on 12:27 - Feb 19 with 1243 views | Wren67 |
They forgot my old school Christopher Wren on the corner of Bloemfontein and Bryony Roads. | | | |
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