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Lillie Road, looking east. Lillie Road is a major street in the north of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.Named for the Peninsular War veteran, John Scott Lillie, it is a mixed residential and commercial thoroughfare, and is the westerly continuation of the Old Brompton Road, the A3218 road, running from Lillie Bridge to the A219 Fulham Palace Road.
The canal bridge was used to carry the road over the railway to the London and North Western Railway yard which had replaced the canal basin and wharves behind Reckitt Street, Fulham. [4] Remaining arch of 'Lillie' 's 1826 Kensington Canal bridge Steps onto 1826 Canal bridge at West Brompton, Fulham side. A new much enlarged road bridge was ...
The Lillie Bridge Grounds was a sports ground on the Fulham side of West Brompton, London. It opened in 1866, coinciding with the opening of West Brompton station . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was named after the local landowner, Sir John Scott Lillie (1790–1868) and the Lillie bridge over the West London Line , that links Old Brompton Road with Lillie Road.
Public tennis courts are located in Bishops Avenue, off Fulham Palace Road and on Eel Brook Common. Rugby is played on Eel Brook Common and in South Park. [50] Normand Park in Lillie Road is the entry into the Virgin Active-operated Fulham Pools swimming facilities and neighbouring tennis courts. [51]
The building is named after the Empress Hall which formerly stood on the site, and in tribute to the Empire State Building. [1] It was completed in 1962 for the Admiralty [2] on the site of the former Empress Hall and ice rink as a commercial building and was 100 metres (328 ft) tall with 28 floors, designed by Stone, Toms & Partners and was briefly the tallest commercial building in London ...
Lillie Bridge Depot is a historic English traction maintenance depot on the London Underground Piccadilly and District lines, situated between West Brompton and West Kensington stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The early Fulham buildings were associated with freight transport such as the wharves in today's Rickett Street and Roxby Place, south of Lillie Road, and a brewery to offer refreshment to the canal, barge and later railway workers as well as the builders of the nearby Westminster and Brompton Company's new 40 acre cemetery opened in 1840. The ...
Lillie Rec, The Lillie Road Recreation Ground, a park at the junction with the Fulham Palace Road; Lillie Bridge Railway Depot, 1872, engineering workshop for London Underground; Lillie Hall, Seagrave Road, Fulham - briefly a roller-skating venue, then taken over by Charles Rolls (later of Rolls-Royce company) in 1903 as a car showroom (demolished)