Stock Photo - Detail of Fulham Road sign. 130 years ago Hammersmith & Fulham was a largely rural area until the advent of the railways in the borough with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway to Hammersmith via Shepherds Bush from Paddington in 1864 and as a result, the second half of the nineteenth century saw a huge increase in population, from 10,000 in 1801 to 250,000 in 1901.

Stock Photo: Detail of Fulham Road sign. 130 years ago Hammersmith & Fulham was a largely rural area until the advent of the railways in the borough with the extension of.

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