Brook Green

Hammersmith (W6) "Which is favoured by the residence of noted artists, was in 1800, and still later, almost a waste space, with, I think, but an old manor-house, Catholic chapel and charity school, and some ancient almshouses; but for three days every May, during Brook Green Fair, it presented a very lively and jolly scene" (Salaman's Londoners Then and Now, p. 29) .