A Walk from London to FulhamCroker, Thomas Crofton
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A Walk from London to Fulham
Croker, Thomas Crofton
London (England) -- Description and travel
A recent tenant of Munster House, the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley, who is
known to the reading public as the editor of an issue of Fox’s ‘Book of
Martyrs,’ was unacquainted with the history of the relics in the garden,
and can only remember the removal of two composition lions from the
gate-piers of Munster House,—not placed there, it must be observed, by
Mr. Croker, but which had the popular effect, for some time, of changing
the name to _Monster House_. It is now a Lunatic Asylum. Opposite
Munster House is Dancer’s extensive garden for the supply of the London
market, by the side of which a road runs leading by a turning on the left
direct back to Parson’s Green, or if the straight road is kept, the
King’s Road is reached opposite Osborn’s Nursery; adjoining which nursery
is Churchfield House, the residence of Dr. Burchell the African
traveller.
[Picture: Fulham Lodge] Fulham Lodge stood on the opposite, or south
side, of the road from Munster House, on the ground immediately beyond
Munster Terrace, which was built a short time prior to its demolition.
This cottage, for it was no more, was a favourite retirement of the late
Duke of York. An affecting story is told by George Colman the younger,
connected with his own feelings while on a visit here. He had lost sight
of an old college friend, the Rev. Robert Lowth, son of the Bishop of
London, from the year 1781 to 1822 (one and forty years!), when Colman
was surprised and pleased by the receipt of the following letter, written
and left upon his table by a gentleman who had called when he was not at
home:—
“_August_ 16, 1822.
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