2-699-518 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hammersmith in 1746', (c1878). Map of an area of what is now west London, showing houses and farms, the River Thames, the mineral springs at Kensington Wells, Shepherd's Bush, and distances from Hyde Park Corner. Hammersmith originally meant '(place with) a hammer smithy or forge'. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]