Tag Archives: Brandenburgh House

Before the Riverside Studios: The Chancellors, Gwynnes Engineering and Queens Wharf

Posted on March 1, 2019 by LBHF Libraries

This was going to be a blog about the Riverside Studios in Crisp Road which are due to reopen this year. However, I found more material in the Archives than I expected on the earlier owners of the site and … Continue reading →

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The end of Brandenburg House

Posted on June 6, 2016 by LBHF Libraries

A reader of a previous blog on Queen Caroline  asked if the demolition of Brandenburg House so soon after her death had anything to do with the King: the fact that King George so disliked his wife and that she … Continue reading →

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The Panorama of the Thames

Posted on April 9, 2015 by LBHF Libraries

I looked in the Archives to see if I could find pictures to show the changes to the Fulham riverside that had taken place in the early 1800s, around 1900 and the present day, and chose three examples… Continue reading →

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Queen Caroline in Fulham

Posted on November 25, 2014 by LBHF Libraries

Queen Caroline, the wife of King George IV, lived at Brandenburgh House in Fulham, “a splendid seventeenth century mansion overlooking the Thames”, for the last two years of her life. She died there in August 1821. Brandenburgh House had been … Continue reading →

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