JD Wetherspoon is to open its latest pub on Tuesday (8th July). The Walham Green has cost £3 million to develop. Ninety new jobs have been created.
This distinctive property comprises the grade II listed former entrance building and ticket hall of Fulham Broadway tube station. Designed by the railway company architect Harry W Ford, the Edwardian baroque-style entrance was built in 1910 on the site of the original station entrance, which first opened on 1 March 1880.
The station was called Walham Green, after the village which occupied what is now Fulham Broadway. More than 70 years later, in 1952, the name was changed to Fulham Broadway.
At the end of the month (29th July) Wetherspoon will open the Dictum of Kenilworth, in the town of the same name.
On 31st October, 1266, a pronouncement was issued — the dictum de Kenilworth — to reconcile the rebels of the Second Barons’ War with the royal government of England. After the baronial victory at the Battle of Lewes (1264), Simon de Montfort had taken control of the royal government, but was later killed at the Battle of Evesham (1265), with Henry III restored to power. However, a group of rebels, whose resistance proved difficult to crush, held out in the stronghold of Kenilworth Castle.
