Local history notes

Information from the Richmond Libraries' Local Studies Collection

The Local Studies Collection publishes a number of local history notes on a range of subjects, using resources from the collection. These include famous people, buildings and places in the history of Richmond upon Thames.

"The Thames is liquid history" - John Burns (1858-1943)

Subjects covered by local history notes

• People
• Buildings
• Roads and Streets
• Things

People

• Richard Doddridge Blackmore 1825-1900
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1837-1915
• Dickens in Richmond
• George Eliot
• Queen Elizabeth I and Richmond
• Stephen Hales DD FRS 1677-1761
• Lætitia Hawkins - external site which includes a transcript of "Travelling Diary 1824-7"
• Fred Karno and the Karsino
• Edmund Kean at Richmond
• Alexander Pope
• Bertrand Russell
• James Thomson
• Horace Walpole 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill
• Virginia Woolf and Hogarth House, Richmond
• Sir Richard Burton and Lady Isabel Burton

Buildings

• The Almshouses of Richmond(pdf, 29KB)
• Asgill House(pdf, 101KB)
• Garrick's Villa and Temple to Shakespeare(pdf, 59KB)
• The Kew Palaces(pdf, 22KB)
• The Luxor Cinema, Twickenham(pdf, 40KB)
• Marble Hill House(pdf, 56KB)
• The Observatory and Obelisks, Kew(pdf, 16KB)
• Old Town Hall, Richmond(pdf, 90KB)
• Orleans House, Twickenham(pdf, 29KB)
• Residences of the French Royal House of Orleans(pdf, 60KB)
• Richmond's Theatres(pdf, 225KB)
• The River Crane and the Gunpowder Mills(pdf, 17KB)
• Rose Hill, Hampton(pdf, 71KB)
• St Anne's Church, Kew Green(pdf, 50KB)
• St Peter's Church, Petersham(pdf, 69KB)
• Trumpeters' House(pdf, 34KB)
• White Lodge, Richmond Park(pdf, 21KB)
• York House, Twickenham(pdf, 55KB)
• Bushy House and the National Physical Laboratory(pdf, 59KB)
• Heatham House(pdf, 31KB)
• Merlin's Cave and The Hermitage(pdf, 97KB)
• Northumberland House, Petersham Road(pdf, 55KB)
• Richmond Library(pdf, 46KB)
• Richmond Palace(pdf, 46KB)
• The Original Star and Garter(pdf, 70KB)

Roads and Streets

• Cholmondeley Walk, Richmond
• Richmond Green - Properties

Things

• Law and Order in Richmond
• Performances at Richmond's Theatre Royale
• Richmond Maids of Honour
• The View from Richmond Hill
• Richmond Bridge
• Whitton Park

Paper versions of these notes are available from the Local Studies Collection in the Old Town Hall.

We would be interested to know if there is a particular aspect of Richmond upon Thames history which you would like us to deal with in this series of short notes. Please email localstudies@richmond.gov.uk with your suggestions.