Bombed nuns !!

[Lydart]

Thanks for that Shropshire Lass ! 

Its just occurred to me, that perhaps that was the bomb, the blast of which  that split my mothers ear-drum, and left her deaf in one ear for the rest of her life ?  She was living with her parents in Peabody Cottages at the time (cottages mentioned at the end of the article where someone - I suspect Grandfather - has indicated with black inky X's).  I still have two or three bits of the shrapnel from that bomb and also a nose-cone (?) thing ... I said earlier she never threw ANYTHING away in 93 years !!!  But her hoarding is proving to be so interesting ...

What amused /astonished me about the article, was the bit about the child who had left the shelter to go and get fish and chips, and her only comment, despite having been out on the streets during bombing, and loosing a parent, is recorded as 'I am a lucky girl' ... (she could even conceiveably read this !)

Question ... does anyone have any maps of that area of Hammersmith/Fulham at that time, or can anyone point me to a web-site where I might find Peabody Cottages ??

Grandfather was a postman; Granny worked in a Lyons Corner House ... remember those ... so neither worked in a hospital.

Lydart

[stockman fred]

The paper says the cottages were opposite the hospital entrance and on the edge of an adjoining borough, which might help pinpoint them.
I've had a look on Gt Uncle's prewar street map (I think it's the one his Bomb disp. people  used to locate incidents) and I can see 3or4 hospitals.
The queen Charlottes and Freemasons hospitals are together at the W end of Hammersmith off Goldhawk Rd.
The W London is in the centre of Hammersmith off Hammsmth Rd.
The Fever Hosp. is down in Seagrave Rd near Chelsea football ground in Fulham.
There could be others but your eyes go crossed if you look at the tiny writing too long. 
They might provide a start, though
Fred

[stockman fred]

Just a couple of extra points- On Uncle's map, the convent is shown on the S side of Hammersmith road, just west of Colet St and St Paul' school.

From "the London Rich" by Peter Thorold: "The money...(For some other workers' housing in London) was provided by a trust set up by American businessman George Peabody, a leading figure in the City of London, the project one version only of a number of purpose-built Peabody Estates distributed around London." The development mentioned (not the one we want!)was located in Great Wild St. and built in the 1870s
Fred.

[newbie]

Lydart, sorry, have had visitors this weekend, husband says he remembers a Peabody Road, but it's hrrmmm, +25 yrs (and a bit more!) since he lived in Fulham.
Re old maps, there are several links on this site for old maps. but again the local studies centre should be able to help you with that.
good luck,
newbie

[newbie]

found one link on here -
http://www.yourbooksonline.co.uk/
newbie
there is one member who specialises in old maps, - "Hackstaple"

[newbie]

Lydart,
there is a link on  the "useful links " board for maps
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,289.0.html
newbie

[Sylviaann]

Have you tried a search for Peabody Cottages Hammersmith.  There are a few sites.  It seems there was a Peabody Estate just off Fulham Palace Road.  If you look at a modern map , multimap or streetmap and search for Chancellors Road Hammersmith.  Just above it is a place called The Square.  This is where the Peabody estate was.


The convent on Hammersmith Road is still shown on Streetmap/multimap.  Type in Colet gardens and you will see it.  Must have been rebuilt.

Sylviaann

[stockman fred]

 sylviaann wrote It seems there was a Peabody Estate just off Fulham Palace Road.
Hi, it's interesting to compare the modern A-Z with uncle's map- Peabody estate is shown in 2001 but not 1930s although it must have been there then.
There are lots of changes around the convent area, I suppose thanks to the Hammersmith flyover.
 The modern Charing Cross Hospital in Fulham Palace Rd.is shown on the old map as "Fulham Institute"
The pre war fever hospital is now roughly where Brompton Park is today while the Charlotte's and Freemasons Hospitals of the 30s are now shown as a white blank between Ravenscourt Sq and Goldhawk Rd.
Fred (wish I could scan it in!)
ps I've just read that the modern Charing Cross hosp was opened in 1957 on the site of the old Fulham Hospital- as that's only a few yards from Peabody Estate, that must surely be the place the bomb fell.

[Lydart]

Thank you SO MUCH for the info you have provided; I have Multi-mapped and then Google Earthed, and have an image now of where my mother lived before her marriage ... and a rough idea of where that bomb landed (I suspect more than one if you look on a map at the area covered in the article).

(Am I allowed to put on a Google Earth image ?  Moderator, remove if necessary !!)

But here it is, the cottages right in the centre of the image.  I'm already planning a trip to London ... maybe later this year, and I'll see if I can get some modern photos of where she lived until 1941. 

Isn't it strange how one query leads onto something quite different !

Lydart