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107.
General. Observations. The Metropolitan Borough
of Fulham extends oyer 1,700 acres and is surrounded
on the south and the west by a bend in the River Thames
being linked up with Wandsworth by the Wandsworth
and Putney Bridges over the river. It lies to the west
of Kensington and Chelsea from which it is separated
by the West London Extension Railway; it is however
in communication with Kensington by the Addison and
Stamford Bridges and with Chelsea by the Stamford and
Stanley Bridges
The Borough is geographically more closely connected
with Hammersmith than with other boroughs
as the Baron's Court district of West Kensington is
partly in the one borough and partly in the other. At
its north-east corner Fulham reaches to Addison Bridge
which separates Kensington from Hammersmith and
Fulham. Cadby Hall and Olympia are in the Borough
of Hammersmith while the buildings on the opposite
side of Hammersmith Road are in Fulham.
The Borough of Fulham is mainly a residential
area but also contains a considerable number of large
and small factories, workshops and wharves, more
especially near the banks of the river. One of the
commonest industries is laundry work.
The situation of the Borough is such that it is used
as a dormitory by persons employed in other parts of
the Metropolis and in districts to the west of the metropolitan
area. Taking the borough as a whole, by far
the largest proportion of houses are of the working class
type, but in almost all parts of Fulham there is a considerable
mixture of other types of houses and this is
more especially the case in Baron's Court (West Kensington)
and Hurlingham. The Baron's Court Ward is
mainly characterised by rows of large well-built houses,
let in maisonettes, many with deep and dark basements
occupied separately, a large number of working class
terrace houses of various sizes and types, large blocks
ot flats rented at several hundred pounds a year; blocks