Our Trail Begins... Thanks to Caroline We started our exploration of Brook Green MacMillan for her support BROOK GREEN just outside Addison Primary School, and knowledge on the history of Brook Green. Please visit walking first to Augustine Road to discover www.westlondonwalks.co.uk for Discovery Trail what this area used to be like. Looking more information on guided Explore your at this map, we realised that there were walks in the local area. once fields where the school is now. local environment Fields, orchards and a few buildings. It is amazing to think about how much the area has changed in just 200 years!

With additional thanks to Year 6 children at Addison Primary School, Addison Primary Staff and helpers, Friends of Brook Green and the Archives and Local History Service at Library.

Addison Primary School with ©2015 Hammersmith & Urban Studies With thanks to funding from Hammersmith United Charities Centre explored the local area of Brook Green to make this Discovery Trail. Look

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AD to Olympia RO ITH Q6: Look out for the Georgian Houses as you walk Q9: Girdlers Road. The Girdlers Company, a livery of the SM ER MM HA along Brook Green. What do you notice about how City of London was established in 1327. It was involved in to Hammersmith these are different from others surrounding the green? making belts (girdles). Perhaps people who made belts Q7: Holy Trinity Church & St James Almshouses. The lived here? What is the total number of belts being worn Q12: Berghen Mews. This area used to be buildings Victorian Gothic Revival style church was completed by the group you are with today? full of laundries with slum housing surrounding in 1852. In 1862 a tower was added. Next to the site Q10: Blythe House (right) was built in 1899 as the Head them. Before her career in politics, former Prime of the church, a Catholic Almshouse was opened in Quarters of the Post Office Savings Bank. Men and women Minister Margaret Thatcher worked nearby 1851, St Joseph’s House, to provide housing for elderly had separate entrances and worked on different floors. Now as a chemist researching ice cream for food people. How many faces can you spot on the front of it is used as a store for many of London’s big museums such manufacturer J. Lyons and Co. What is your favourite the church? as the V&A. flavour of ice cream?