Black history trail 4

Location 1: Putney Bridge Station

Station Approach, SW6 3UH

On 5 May 1878, The Midland Railway began running a circuitous service known as the 'Super Outer Circle' from St Pancras to Earl’s Court via Cricklewood and South Acton.

Location 2: All Saints Church

Putney Bridge Approach, SW6 3LA

All Saints Church sits in All Saints Churchyard and is witness to the longetivity of Black history in Fulham. On the records, you will see the following records in Baptisms (birth records) of black people:

• 30 March 1684, recorded as A Black from Justice Shalses
• 10 July 1736, recorded as Lydia, a black woman

Burials of Black people:

• 23 January 1695/6, recorded as Lucy, a Black Woman
• 13 February 1737, John Clements, recorded as a Blackamoor
• 16 July 1740, recorded as Henry Africanus

Location 3: Burial place of Granville Sharp

All Saints Churchyard, Putney Bridge Approach, SW6 3LA

Granville Sharp was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. His Grade II listed tomb in

Location 4: Fulham House

87 Fulham High Street, SW6 3JS

This is where Granville Sharp saw an enslaved African in 1765 called Jonathan Strong who had been beaten and left on the street by his slave master.

He became a pioneer of the Abolition movement playing an important role in abolishing slavery in the British Empire.

Location 5: Fulham Palace - the former home of Beilby Porteus

Bishop’s Avenue, SW6 6EA

Beilby Porteus lived at Fulham Palace between 1787 and 1809 while he was Bishop of London. Porteus began battling the slave trade as Bishop of Chester. He pressed the Church of England, owner of a Barbados plantation, to set an example and teach slaves Christianity.

In a 1783 sermon he asked fellow bishops to back him and was disappointed when they refused. In the House of Lords he championed the 1807 Slave Trade Act which ended the British trade in enslaved people an stepping stone to total abolition.