Everything about Kelmscott House totally explained
Kelmscott House is a historic building in
Hammersmith, the
London home of
William Morris from April 1879 to his death in October 1896.
Originally called "The Retreat", Morris renamed it after the Oxfordshire village of
Kelmscott where he'd lived at
Kelmscott Manor from June 1871.
Kelmscott House is a
Georgian brick mansion at 26
Upper Mall in
Hammersmith, overlooking the
River Thames. Nearby, Morris began his "adventure in
printing" with his private press, the
Kelmscott Press, which he started in 1891 at 16 Upper Mall, Hammersmith.
The building is a private house, though the basement and coach house (entrance serve as headquarters of the William Morris Society, and may be visited by appointment.
It was at Kelmscott House that
Sir Francis Ronalds set up a primitive
telegraph in
1816. He ran eight miles of cable (encased in glass tubing) through the back garden and succeeded in getting an electrical signal along the full length. He contacted the
Admiralty, but they were not interested at that time in telegraph.
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