His father, Camille, visited, and also painted the area. Members
of the family still live at The Brook, the house set back from
Stamford Brook Road, which Lucien leased. W B Yeats grew up here.
17th-century maps show evidence of the Brook, which used to flow
into the moat surrounding the mansion in Ravenscourt Park, which
was bombed and destroyed during World War II. Made up of three
small brooks that converged east of Ravenscourt Park, Stamford
Brook flowed south to The Creek in Hammersmith and into the Thames.
Now the streams are all underground sewers – not nearly
as romantic.
Shopping
Restaurants, bars & pubs
Sport
Kids
Health & beauty
Nurseries
Schools
Hospitals
Churches
Houses of note
Property
Estate agents
Shopping
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Most of the shops in Stamford Brook are on the little parades
where King Street meets Chiswick High Road. There you can
buy almost everything you need day to day. A little walk
up the High Road to number 126, you'll find Adamou
and Sons, tel: 020 8994 0752, for fresh fruit and
veg, pitta and wonderful humous and olives, where they not
only know your name but the names of all your children.
Royal Dry Cleaner
395 King Street
tel: 020 8741 9875
Go in a few times and they never need to check your name:
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Hollywood Rentals
at Super Foods and Wine
366 King Street
tel: 020 8748 9239
Small and cheap video library saves going up to Hammersmith or
Chiswick for that last-minute "quick there's nothing on the
telly" moment
Flower seller
in front of the tube is definitely of note. A good selection of
flowers and he’s there until the evening
Gingko Garden Centre
located just inside Ravenscourt Park
tel: 020 8563 7112
has lots of lovely plants, garden furniture and some pretty cards.
They also run a garden design and maintenance service.
Wine is available from...
Unwins
372 King Street
tel: 020 8748 2916
Threshers
345 King Street
tel 020 8748 4535
Divina Delicatessen
369 King Street
tel: 020 8748 1003
Wimbledon Wine Cellars
a little stretch up the High Road
A wonderful selection and very good advice
Chemist
Pestle and Mortar
10 High Road
tel: 020 8994 1428
Joy
393 King Street
tel: 020 8741 8183
Quirky gifts and cards, also clothes, bags and jewellery - always
something unusual
Post Office
King Street
useful and friendly
Kings Cars
a reliable mini cab company
tel: 020 8741 9000
Interiors
Port Out Starboard Home
6 Chiswick High Road
tel: 020 8995 5554
Indonesian furniture, picture frames, accessories for house and
garden
Architectural Antiques
351 King Street
tel: 020 8741 7883
Lots of old mirrors and fireplaces - definitely worth a look
Timney Fowler
355 King Street
tel: 020 8748 3010
Relatively new interiors shop with interesting fabrics
The Natural Floor Company
389 King Street
tel: 020 8741 4451
Lovely floor coverings for when there are no more accidents on
your carpets
The Back Store
330 King Street
tel: 020 8741 5022
Those lovely highchairs, beautiful cots, ergonomically sound chairs
and tables and really good advice
System 180 UK Ltd
387 King Street
tel: 020 8748 6200
Innovative construction system using tubular steel components
to build great shelving and display units - a Design Award Winner
in 2001
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Restaurants, bars
& pubs
There are an amazing number of good restaurants in such a small
area. Local favourites are:
Azou
376 King Street
tel: 020 8563 7266
North African cooking and great couscous
Eat Well Chinese
315 King Street
tel: 020 8748 4390
Always busy (lots of Chinese people). Unfortunately no takeaway
delivery service but worth getting off the sofa for
Haweli
357 King Street
tel: 020 8748 7408
Our favourite of the many Indian restaurants on offer on the strip
Pug
68 Chiswick High Road
tel: 020 8987 9988
Not strictly in the Stamford Brook area but of note for its child-friendly
attitude (book your highchair in advance as it really is popular
with families); lively bar and packed restaurant in the evening
East Way
352 King Street
tel: 020 8746 6888
Absolutely delicious Vietnamese food eat in or a takeaway delivery
service
The Raven
opposite Stamford Brook Tube station
Don't be deceived by the exterior of this pub - inside are friendly
staff, 4 different areas (including an open air courtyard) and
lots of character. Food is served in the dining rooms and bar
snacks including tapas are available all day
Divina Delicatessen
369 King Street
tel: 020 8748 1003
Our favourite café - great Italian cheeses, pizzas, salads,
best caffé latte in the area; also sells wines, pasta and
delicious sauces. Busy at lunchtime and no room for strollers,
but good for picking up a morning coffee and some Italian essentials.
Alba.com
£1 per hour internet access and very good coffee - our au
pair's favourite
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Sport
Hartswood Lawn Tennis Club
Hartswood Gardens
31-33 Hartswood Road
tel: 020 8747 4750
Membership Secretary - Nick de Jongh
A real hidden treasure - no grass courts, but six all-weather
ones, three with floodlights. There is an annual memership fee
to play club and social tennis, and to use the clubhouse facilities.
They also organise children’s sessions in the school holidays
and at weekends (non-members can apply for these, too)
Public tennis courts
Ravenscourt Park
(£5 per hour)
Bowls Club
Ravenscourt Park
members only
Sport Dimensions Club
under the arches in Wilson Walk
by Stamford Brook tube
Gym facilities and personal trainers available
Fitness Network
22 Chiswick High Road
tel: 020 8995 7700
Sells a vast range of at home sports equipment
The Hogarth
Health Club
Airedale Avenue
Chiswick
tel: 020 8995 4600
A friendly members-only health club. Planning permission has just
been granted to add new facilities, including an enlarged creche
(to accommodate children all day seven days a week), a second
studio and beauty therapy department
For more information contact Jo or Angela
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Health and Beauty
McNeill Hair and Beauty
tel: 020 8748 1948
The excellent senior stylists are Simon and JJ; they will do children's
hair with great care for £9; there is also a beauty treatment
room offering facials and manicures etc
The Ayurvedic Shop
tel: 020 8563 0303
For dietary advice, massages, yoga classes, all following ancient
Indian Ayruvedic principles
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Kids
Tennis at Hartswood
(see sport above)
Ravenscourt Park
One O’Clock Club, tennis, three playgrounds
Playground
Stamford Brook Common (in a bit of a dark corner)
Ballet lessons
with Miss Jo
tel: 020 7722 1829/07950 401972)
Blueberry Playsongs
Holy Innocents Church
Paddenswick Road
tel: 020 8677 8671
contact: Margo
The Ship playground
Ashort walk down to the river, at the end of Hammersmith Terrace
Very popular, with lovely views of the river. Hours of fun just
looking at all the boats going up and down the Thames
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Nurseries
Beanstalk Montessori
St Peter’s
Black Lion Lane
tel: 020 8563 7508
headteacher: Mrs Camilla Peshall
Jordans
tel: 020 8741 3230
Howard House
tel: 020 8741 5147
Just on other side of the park
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Schools
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
tel: 020 8846 9143
An excellent fee-paying prep for boys and girls up to eleven
St Peter's C of E Primary
St Peter's Grove, W6
tel: 020 8748 7756
Latymer Prep School and Upper School
King Street
tel: 020 8748 0303
To be co-ed from this September 2002
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Hospitals
Stamford Brook Hospital
Private patients hospital facing the park
Queen Charlotte's
Has moved to a new site next to Hammersmith Hospital, the land
being redeveloped with houses, flats, community centre, doctors’
surgery and local shops
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Churches
St Mary's used to be the parish church,
but has now been turned into flats
St Peter's on Black Lion Lane and St
Michael's and All Angels at the
top of Bath Road are the nearest C of E churches
There is a Seventh Day Adventist church
on Stamford Brook Road
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Houses of Note
Stamford Brook House - a beautiful Georgian
house facing onto the common - The Brook Home for forty years
to Lucien Pissaro
The Grotto - a tiny folly built in
1838
Oakbrook - a gothic villa built in
1831, which used to be part of the Queen Charlotte's Hospital
and is listed so will remain as part of the new development
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Buying a Property
What you can expect to pay for a ...
Two-bedroom flat: £250,000 upwards
Three-bedroom house: £400,000 upwards
Five-bedroom house: £800,000 up to over a million
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Estate Agents
Quintons
415 Goldhawk Rd
tel: 020 8563 1233
Fletcher Estates
Turnham Green Terrace
tel: 020 8987 3000
Barnard Marcus
45 Turnham Green Terrace
tel: 020 8994 5432
Foxtons
225 Chiswick High Road
tel: 020 8996 6000
Tate Partnership
92 Chiswick High Rd
tel: 020 8996 0000
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First published in angels
and urchins, Summer 2002
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Where? Stamford Brook covers the
area just on the borders of Chiswick and Hammersmith. There are
lovely residential streets, its very own underground on the District
Line, a great selection of cafés and restaurants, useful
and unusual shops, the open space of Ravenscourt Park on the doorstep
and the convenience of being able to shop in Hammersmith or Chiswick.