Hammersmith, Middlesex is in Middlesex.
John Evelyn's Diary. 25th October 1695. The Archbishop [aged 59] and myself went to Hammersmith, Middlesex [Map], to visit Sir Samuel Morland [aged 70], who was entirely blind; a very mortifying sight. He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious; also his wooden calendar, which instructed him all by feeling; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried £200 worth of music books six feet under ground, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays himself psalms and religious hymns on the theorbo. Very mild weather the whole of October.
On 8th April 1983 Josh Widdicombe was born to Gerard Widdicombe [aged 33] at Hammersmith, Middlesex [Map].
On 1st August 1821 at 10:25 p.m Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England [aged 53] died at Brandenburgh House, Hammersmith. She was buried at Brunswick Cathedral [Map].
1827. The original Hammersmith Bridge [Map].
Hammersmith Bridge [Map] is a bridge on the River Thames designed by Joseph Bazalgette [aged 8] opened on 6th October 1827.
Around 1862. Walter Greaves [aged 15]. "Hammersmith Bridge [Map] on Boat-race Day".
On 29th March 1939 the IRA attempted to destroy Hammersmith Bridge [Map]. Hairdresser Maurice Childs from nearby Chiswick was crossing the bridge at one o'clock in the morning when he saw a smouldering suitcase that was lying on the walkway. He realised it was a bomb and threw it over the side into the Thames, where it exploded. Soon afterwards, another bomb exploded, damaging the bridge and breaking windows in nearby houses. Childs was given an MBE for his quick-thinking.
On 3rd October 1896 William Morris [aged 62] died after several months of "general organic degeneration", at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. He died, Mackail says, 'quietly and without visible suffering' (II, 335)'
On 4th March 1924 Fanny Entwhistle aka Eaton [aged 88] died at Acton. She was buried at Margravine Road Cemetery, Hammersmith.
On 22nd April 1916 Philip Morton Shand [aged 28] and Edith Marguerite "Margot" Harrington [aged 22] were married at St Peter's Church, Hammersmith.