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Post to the west Richmond
Church Road
Middle class villas built on tbhe eastern slopes
Chancellors. Old
established estate age ts 1890s. Albert Chancellor Mayor in 1902.
Bridge. Oldest spans over the east end of the
platforms. Jack arches on next iron arch
girders. Joseph Butler Co. Stanningly
Iron Works near Leeds 1858.
Another bridge
like this west of the station.
Signal box
southern railway type 1937/8
Mile stone. VIII miles from Hyde Park Corner erected when
the road was widened in George III so the old road through the royal estates
could be closed under an Act of 1766.
Gainsborough Road
Gainsborough Road Secondary School Built by Richmond
Council 1912
Grove Gardens
Grove Gardens Chapel. Richmond Cemetery. Gothic chapel with tracery and a mosaic
triptych. Was a cemetery chapel but now a community building. Blomfield
architect. 1873
Kew Foot Road
Entrance to Old
Deer Park
Royal Hospital.
The core is the home of the writer James Thomson.c1750 and bought in 1868, when
it was Rosedale House, from the Earl of Shaftesbury. Opened as Richmond Infirmary by Earl Russell
Additions of 1896 by Smith & Brewer; rehabilitation unit in Evelyn Road by
Hutchison, Locke & Monk,1980.
Royal Richmond Horseshow Ground.
15 Triple Crown. Free house near Richmond Athletic
Ground. Small and narrow with tables
outside and a balcony.
19-23
39 late c 18, four bays, and
another c18 house incorporated in the Royal Hospital
Royal Laundry.
Campanile. Built to Cubit’s designs for Prince Albert.
Sagittarius
horse's foot
Kew Road
The name Horse
Lane on the Roque map and on zodiac is on the Sagittarius horse
45 Orange Tree. Trams ran from here to Kew Bridge
1883-1912. Now arts centre and theatre.
125 office and stables of Kew Road horse tramways. 1883. The
tramway ran from Richmond Station to Kew Bridge. It closed in 1912. The premises extend a long way back and provided stabling for 30 horses
and a covered yard for 6 tramcars.
Between 1912 and 1932 they underwent various changes of use, including
as workshops for Whitehead Aircraft Ltd., in 1918-19. From 1932 to 1963 they served as the Richmond
Fire and Ambulance Station and the front was much altered. Now an annexe of Richmond Adult College.
Richmond Fire and Ambulance
Station. later
part of Richmond Adult College. Built pre-1080 for the Kew Volunteer Fire
brigade, which was amalgamated with the Richmond brigade in 1893, when it
became their Station. Closed 1923.
Mile Stone, corner of Lower Church Road . VIII miles from
Hyde Park Corner. One of two milestones
on the Kew Road, probably erected when the road was widened at the expense of
George III, to enable the former road through the royal estates to be closed,
under terms of an Act of 1766
Christ Church, 1893, Blomfield
St. John the Divine. 1831-6 by Lewis Vulliamy: a Commissioners' church. It cost £5,633.
Chancel, chapel, and vestries added 1904-5 by A. Grove. Vulliamy's facade is of
grey brick, with the craziest w spire and senseless flying buttresses from the
porches up to the nave. Grove's end is a fine composition in free Gothic, with
thin lancets flanking a sturdy buttress with a Crucifixion beneath its gable.
On the side, sympathetically designed flats above the vestries, part of the
alterations of 1980-1 by Dry Hastwell Butlin Bicknell which include a new hall
on the side of the church. Aisleless nave with a flat ceiling. Pretty balconies above the gallery, their parapets projecting on a ribbed coving.
The area beneath was partitioned off by an attractive wood and glass screen in
1980-1 when other facilities were added to make the church usable as an
occasional concert hall. At the end an excellent collection of Anglo-Catholic
furnishings, mostly by Grove, including woodwork, especially in the Lady
Chapel, with decidedly Art Nouveau touches.
Of the copious painted decoration by N. H. J. Westlake, only the ceiling
of the chancel, the upper part of the wall, and the large painted triptych
of 1909 remain. Iron Screen and Gates to
the Lady Chapel by Bainbridge Reynolds; simple reticulated patterns. Good stained glass of 1912 in the Lady
Chapel. window by Christopher Whall, figured panels on clear glass. Two-light window by Mabel Esplin. Stations of
the Cross by Freda Skinner, 1955-70, in the tradition of Eric Gill's work at
Westminster Cathedral.
1 Bull and Bush,
was the Station Hotel. In the 1960s was
the Crawdaddy Club where Korner and the Rolling Stones played. Boswell's Wine Bar at the back where the club
space is -the storage area in 1990
123 Shaftesbury
Arms
United Reformed Church, 1884-5 W. Wallace. Opened May 1885 with seats for 500.
Mortlake Terrace at the junction with Mortlake Road.
Some demolished for road widening in the 1930s.
Methodist Church.
Foundation stone laid on 11th October 1871 by Mr.Foster Newton,
rebuilt and stone relaid 20th March 1937.
Lawns Crescent
Part of the Lichfield Estate.
Lower Mortlake
Road
Right side demolished for road widening in the 1930s.
Freeman & Co,
boot and shoe manufacturer
5-7, Tudor, dated 1853, adjacent to the Kew Road
roundabout.
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Laboratories for Electronic Instruments Ltd. 1954. Visible from afar. At the corner of Crofton Terrace. by Llewelyn
Smithy Waters. a tall modern block.
Richmond
Originally
Sceon. Probably means shelter. 1125 Henry I owned it. Edward I raised Scots Commission here after
executing William Wallace. Edward I died
there in 1377. Also Anne of
Bohemia. Richard II pulled it down
because of it. Rebuilt by Henry V. Name
of town changed to Richmond by Henry. I.
Henry IV there and did 1509g Philip of Spain there too. Wolsey.
Elizabeth died there in 1603.
Held by Parliament in 1649 that dismantled then restored by Henrietta
Maria, George, and his queen. Very
little left. Queen Victoria.
Selwyn Avenue
Estate stretched to Lichfield Road. Named after George
Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield
St.John's Grove
11
St John's Road
Church Hall by
Grove, 1910-11, brick, with an Art Nouveau carved stone doorway reminiscent of
Harrison Townsend.
St.Mary's Grove
villas. an enclave of mid c 19 small stuccoed villas,
The Mitre.pub to match
Sheen road
Ex-fire station
and clock tower
95 Dunstable House large,
late c 18 of five bays plus lower wings.
131 some modest early c19 terraces and villas on the
Hickeys Almshouses. Hickeys Almshouses were built 1832-5 by Lewis Vulliamy of grey brick,
and consist of three big multi-chimneyed neo-Tudor blocks linked by walls.
There are many later additions. The front railings and enlargement to porter's
lodge date from 1850-3; the upper floor
to the lodge is 1934. The Chapel was enlarged by A. W. Blomfield in 1863. At
the back is another range with eight houses, built in 1850 by Mr. Long, and
one-storey houses built 1973 by Manning, Clamp
Richmond Church Estate Almshouses 1843 by William Crawford Stow, lively neo-Norman design in polychrome brick
Our Lady of Peace RC Goodhart Rendel 1953 Broadbent & Curtis,
Ritz Cinema
Queen's Hall
145 Belvedere
181 Black Horse
Lichfield Court giant blocks of 1935 flats by
Bertram Carter in modern ocean liner style. On the edge of the town, quite
out of scale with their surroundings, streamlined balconies,
Houses two pairs of late c
18 houses with recessed entrances, and a short terrace.
The Black
Horse, 181 Sheen Road Formerly a music pub, this house on the road east out
of Richmond upon Thames closed down on 28 February 2006, demolished and the
site redeveloped in 2006-7.
The Quadrant
Really the start of Kew Road but taking this grander name
in the 1890s.
Richmond
Station.
Opened 27th July 1846
on the Richmond & West End Railway.
the original terminus of line from Clapham Junction. The Main-line station here was opened by the London
and South Western Railway to Windsor in
1848 and it opened westwards to Datchet and the station
was moved and rebuilt to the north of the original site. In 1868 the Line from
Kensington Olympia going via Hammersmith was opened and eventually this link
moved to the North London Railway lines. In 1869 it was rebuilt and in 1877 first used by the
Metropolitan District Line from Mansion House,
electrified in 1905. In 1938 present
station built of steel framed brick clad in Portland Stone in an Art Deco style
by J.Robb Scott and in 1939 it was taken over by the Southern Railway. A goods yard and car park were provided to
the rear. The Station has arched bay platforms and canopies and the only parts of the
station pre-dating the 1936-8 re-building are the bay platforms and their
canopies. The oldest spans of the Lower Church Road overbridge at the east end
of the platforms are formed of jack arches supported on cast-iron arched
girders, marked Joseph Butler & Co., Stanningley Iron Works, Nr Leeds,
1858, with parapets of cast-iron flanged plates. Part of the 1935 rebuilding was a long
concrete overbridge between the platforms.; The District and North London lines
are now in a reverse position
Richmond signal box, beyond the bridge, is of typical Southern
Railway pattern, c. 1937-8 - brick, with semi-circular ends and
overhanging flat concrete roof.
29 South Western Hotel – became Drummond’s wine
bar
23a auction rooms
Railway Hotel
The Square
Dome Buildings was Mechanics Institute 1908. built 1843.
Hall became swimming pool in 1855 and now shops.
Fire Brigade Station, for the Richmond Voluntary Fire brigade. Built 1870, when the
Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed.
The portion to the left of the clock tower is later; it was at first the
town's mortuary and subsequently enlarged as an extension to the fire
station itself. Closed 1932.
later the Clocktower Boutique and a public convenience. Note the carved stone heads of firemen above
the former doorways
Townshend Road
Holy Trinity Church. 1870 by R. Brandon. Tower by Luck, 1880, demolished c. 1970.
Whithead Aircraft Co. began here in the Drill Hall in 1915 to make aircraft and soon
spread to Gretna Road and Manor Park. Closed and ended in 1922.
Waterloo Place
Richmond Electric Light and Power Co.
generating station. 1894. Ceased
generating 1914, when its chimney was demolished - the base remains - and it
became a sub-station for supplies from London.
Nineteenth
century cottages
Worple Way
Houblon Almshouses with the dates 1757 and 1758, consists of three
separate blocks around a lawn, very plain.
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