In 1950 Fulham became the final side in the first division to erect floodlights.

She began her education at Dulwich Preparatory School, before moving on to Kent College, Pembury where she was friends with Sarah Sienesi, with whom she subsequently shared a flat in Fulham and who later became her Lady-in-Waiting.

In 1933, the Fulham East by-election became known as the " peace by-election ".

She left school aged 16, and became a journalist with a local newspaper in Fulham, covering births, marriages and deaths.

A keen football fan, Norris first became a director of Fulham, during which the time when the Cottagers won promotion from the Southern League to the Football League.

In 1910, Norris became the majority shareholder of the ailing Woolwich Arsenal ( after the club had gone into voluntary liquidation ) while still retaining his post on the Fulham board, and became club chairman two years later.

The second eldest in a working-class family of three children, Bindon went to St Mark's Church School in Fulham where he became a noted rugby union junior, but left at the age of 15.

In 1927 the inadvisability of matching the larger more elaborate trend became apparent and the 9 hp Fulham with fabric body was introduced at £ 185.

His Fulham teammate Johnny Haynes became the first £ 100 player.

He quickly became club captain, and led Fulham to promotion under manager Kevin Keegan in 1998 – 99 to the First Division.

Starting her career as the Rector's Assistant at Glasgow University ( 1972-3 ), she became a History and English teacher at the ( RC ) London Oratory School in Fulham ( 1974 – 86 ) and later Head of Careers ( 1984-6 ) before switching to John Archer School ( sold off for housing ) on Sutherland Grove in Wandsworth as Head of Careers between 1986-8.

Gregory's spell at Villa is also notable as he became the last manager to field an all English starting 11 in the Premiership, until Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough did the same against Fulham on 7 May 2006.

The transfer was notable as Charles became one of the first British professional players to be signed for an overseas team after John Fox Watson led the way moving from Fulham to Real Madrid in 1948.

Stewart had contested the Lewisham West constituency in 1931 and 1935, and Fulham East in 1936 ; after the war he became MP for Fulham East 1945-55, then for Fulham 1955-74, and Hammersmith, Fulham 1974-79.

* 18 October 2005 — Johnny Haynes, the former Fulham and England player who became Britain's first £ 100-a-week player in 1961, dies aged 71, the day after he suffered a brain haemorrhage at the wheel of his car in Edinburgh.

On 29 July 2010, Hughes became the new manager of Fulham, following the departure of Roy Hodgson to Liverpool.

At about this time, he became enamoured of a Miss Lucia Green of Fulham, but faced strong disapproval from his parents when he broached the idea of an engagement.

Kamara also revealed he would left Fulham if Roy Hodgson stayed in charge of the club ( whih he became manager of Liverpool ).

In December 2006, English club Fulham offered MLS $ 4 million for the transfer of Dempsey, then the largest amount ever offered for an MLS player and became another American addition to the Cottagers roster.

On 21 April 2001, he made his debut in a 1 – 1 draw against Portsmouth, at Fratton Park, and became a vital player for Fulham in its debut season in the Premier League, eventually serving as captain under countryman Jean Tigana.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

It wasn't until after Fulham first reached the top division, in 1949, that further improvements were made to the stadium.

They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

' Heggy ' Hegazi, an Egyptian forward, was one of the first non-British players to appear in the Football League, though he only played one game for Fulham in 1911, marked with a goal afterwards playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet.

After finishing 5th, seventh and ninth ( out of twenty-two teams ) in their first three seasons in the Third Division South, Fulham won the division in the 1931 – 32 season.

On 20 May 1951, Fulham played one of their first ever games in North America in an exhibition match against Celtic F. C.

He was a one-club man, spending his entire first class career at Fulham, where he played a club-record 658 games and scored 158 goals between 1952 and 1970.

There were fears that Fulham would not return to the Cottage, after it was revealed that Al-Fayed had sold the first right to build on the ground to a property development firm.

* May 11 – Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.

However, his talents lay more in salesmanship and motoring pioneering than practical engineering ; in January 1903, with the help of £ 6, 600 provided by his father, he started one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co. based in Fulham, to import and sell French Peugeot and Belgian Minerva vehicles.

During his first spell at Fulham, Robson participated in two ambassadorial Football Association tours in the West Indies in 1955 and South Africa in 1956.

Raynsford was first elected a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Labour Party in a by-election in Fulham Constituency in 1986, but at the 1987 General Election lost to Conservative candidate Matthew Carrington.

The first bridge of any kind between the two parishes of Fulham and Putney was built during the Civil War: after the Battle of Brentford in 1642, the Parliamentary forces built a bridge of boats between Fulham and Putney.

The first permanent bridge between Fulham and Putney was completed in 1729, and was the second bridge to be built across the Thames in London ( after London Bridge ).

The former Lillie Bridge Grounds ( which hosted the second FA Cup Final and the first ever amateur boxing matches ) was also in Fulham.

Fulham remained a working class area for the first half of the twentieth century, but was subject to extensive restoration between the Second World War and the 1980s.

Owen's goal in the 2 – 0 defeat of Fulham on 22 March 2008, which marked Newcastle's first win under Kevin Keegan's second spell as manager, also marked the first time in his Newcastle career that Owen had scored more goals for Newcastle than against them.

" The Of Plymouth Plantation manuscript disappeared by 1780, " presumably stolen by a British soldier during the British occupation of Boston " and reappeared in Fulham, England.

They had some exposure after sponsoring Fulham F. C., but British Telecom were very sceptical of Demon's projected growth and did not provide for expansion, resulting in a regular shortage of lines and regular redigs of the top end of Hendon Lane, Finchley, north London to lay down additional cables.

Leigh achieved a 1 – 1 draw against Fulham in the club's first FA Cup first round appearance in 16 years, and received attention of the British media.

This was allocated funds from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the British parliament.

Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC ( 6 November 1906 – 13 March 1990 ) was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.

The Bears, played their first fixtures against two British club sides: York and Fulham.

He made his debut for Fulham in 2004 in the Premier League at Anfield against Liverpool, and by doing so he was able to garner some media attention from British Asian groups by being the first British Asian player to play in the top division of English football.

Slaughter worked for the British Safety Council, a charity based in Hammersmith Broadway, and for Hammersmith & Fulham Council in libraries around the borough and at Fulham Town Hall.

The county of London formed in 1889 was bounded by Stamford Brook and it runs along the boundary of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Borough of Hounslow under British Grove.

Bob Simmons ( Fulham, England, March 31, 1923 – October 21, 1987 ) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Susannah " Suzy " Lamplugh (; born 3 May 1961, Gloucestershire ) was a British estate agent reported missing on 28 July 1986 ( aged 25 ) in Fulham, South West London, England.