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Hampton Court, on the River 1896 (ref. 38341) | The passenger launch
SS 'Queen Elizabeth'
has almost beached to
disembark and take on
board passengers.
A gangplank has been laid
to the foreshore. In the
background is the third
bridge at Hampton, opened
in 1865; its wrought iron
lattice girders of five spans
were replaced with the
present bridge in 1933.
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Hampton Court, the Gardens c1960 (ref. H17115) | There are over 60 acres of gardens
at the palace; these were begun by
Cardinal Wolsey in the 16th century
and remodelled by William III and
Mary II in the Baroque manner.
The great vine and the maze are
the two most popular items to visit,
but there is also the orangery, the
Tudor garden, and the privy garden,
restored in 1995. To the south of the
palace are the Pond Gardens. These
three sunken gardens were originally
ornamental ponds used for holding
freshwater fish until they were
needed in the kitchens for cooking.
Today they have been transformed
with impressive displays of spring
and summer bedding.
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Hampton Court, Palace 1899 (ref. 43045) | This is the south-east front, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1689 and 1700.
The palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey in the early 16th century, but seeing his sovereign's
displeasure, Wolsey was forced to offer the magnificent palace to Henry VIII. Five of Henry's
wives lived here at some point; Anne Boleyn spent her honeymoon at Hampton Court during its
construction. William III and his Queen, Mary, instructed Christopher Wren to rebuild and remodel
the Tudor palace and landscape its surroundings. The overwhelming grandeur of Hampton Court's
thousand rooms, its royal art collection, its formal gardens and its yew maze leave an unforgettable
impression on visitors.
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Hampton Court, Guard Chamber 1890 (ref. 27272) | The King's Guard Chamber contains one of
the world's greatest displays of weaponry.
Entrance to the private and state
apartments was not granted by the Yeoman
of the Guard until the visitor had passed
through the King's Guard Chamber. Here
undoubtedly ambassadors, emissaries
and other distinguished visitors were
challenged and searched for weapons.
With the display of over 3000 arms laid
out in a decorative pattern by William
III's gunsmith Harris, anyone attempting
mischief would have been put off.
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Hampton Court, c1955 (ref. H17057) | The stone drawbridge entrance to the Great Gatehouse to the palace was buried when Charles II had the moat filled in.
The Ministry of Works had the moat dug out again in 1909-10, and discovered Henry VIII's bridge. It lacked the parapets on
either side, which were rebuilt, together with the supporters of the royal arms, known as the King's Beasts. The Beasts were
renewed in 1950.
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Hampton Court, the Palace, the Lion Gates c1960 (ref. H17067) | Those who come to Hampton
Court Palace by way of Bushy
Park or from Kingston enter
through the Lion Gates, which
face the end of the splendid
avenue of chestnut trees. This
approach gains its name from
the carved lions on the piers.
Queen Anne built the gates, and
carved on the columns are her
initials. The wrought-iron work
is very fine, and is believed to
have been done by the French
master of wrought iron work,
Tijou. In the upper panels the
letter' G', which stands for King
George, has replaced the 'A'. The
famous maze is just inside the
Lion Gates.
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Tolworth, the Broadway c1955 (ref. T262028) | With the opening of the
Kingston by-pass in 1927,
housing development
gathered pace; by 1931, 6.5
miles of roads had carved
across the farmland and
arable fields for the erection
of 1,300 houses and 57
shops to accommodate
1,300 residents, with over
600 more houses planned
for that year. What had been
a small hamlet had within
four years become a small
dormitory town of its own.
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Tolworth, the Broadway c1965 (ref. T263029) | The Broadway shopping parade was built in the 1930s with easy access for pedestrians. However, thanks to its position as
a main route to the A3, traffic has increased; the thoroughfare has been cut in two by a central barrier, so that pedestrians
now have to use an underpass. In the distance is the Odeon cinema, opened in 1934 and closed by 1959. It was demolished,
and Tolworth Tower was built on the site in 1963.
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Hampton, High Street c1950 (ref. H369002) | The village of Hampton
is quite compact and
largely ignored by those
rushing through in their
cars. Beyond the car on
the right is the sign for the
Jolly Coopers public house,
now the oldest in Hampton,
still on its original site and
within its original building.
The Jolly Gardeners pub
(near right) was closed in
1955, and has been used
since by the Heath family,
the boat builders. Barclays
Bank on the left was built
in 1908.
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Teddington, the Anglers Hotel and the River 1890 (ref. 23538) | Teddington was earlier called Todynton
and Tuddington. It is the site of the first
lock on the Thames, which has been
rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock
for the passage of pleasure boats. The
river is at this point scarcely affected by
the tides, which are two hours later than
at London Bridge, and the low and high
water levels are respectively 16½ and 1½
feet higher, the bed of the river rising
about one foot per mile. Robert Porter
opened his boatyard here in 1891 (right);
it became Porter & Brice by 1895, but did
not survive beyond 1910. The Anglers
Inn with its slipway and landing stairs is
to the left of the Albion boathouse. The
ferry, although largely superseded by
construction of the footbridge in 1889,
was operated here until about 1950.
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Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899 (ref. 43056) | The vicar of St Mary's, F Leith Lloyd, wanted a larger church for his congregation, and engaged William Niven to design
this enormous church at a cost of £30,000. It looks like a Gothic cathedral with its flying buttresses; an intended west tower
was never built. The church was consecrated in 1896 and unveiled as the new parish church in 1889. Owing to a falling
congregation, St Alban's was made redundant in the 1960s; St Mary's once again became the parish church. St Alban's has
found use as a centre for the performing arts.
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Teddington, the Bridge 1899 (ref. 43051) | An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks
the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port
of London Authority and the Environment
Agency. Before Teddington Lock was
constructed in 1811, the river was tidal as
far as Kingston. The pound lock was an
early attempt to control the high tides,
which in the 19th century were around ten
feet above the level in Roman times. Today
the tide flows up to Teddington, but the
half tide lock at Richmond prevents too
strong a current and keeps the river level.
In 1888-89 this footbridge was built to the
designs of G Pooley, and replaced the ferry
at Teddington. Two footbridges of different
designs meet on the island here.
The bridge spanning the river from
the Middlesex bank to the island is a
suspension bridge, while the shorter
structure crossing from the Surrey bank
has a girder design.
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Teddington, Broad Street c1955 (ref. T19020) | Teddington remained a
rural farming area until
the arrival of the railway
in 1863. New housing and
shopping facilities near the
station were soon erected.
The main shopping centre
is in the High Street to the
east, leading away from
the parish church, and
Broad Street to the west.
The shops on the left
were added onto the front
gardens of private houses.
Motorists were few in the
1950s, and parking appears
to be available for anyone at
the kerbside.
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Teddington, the Lock c1955 (ref. T19007) | The motor launch
'Hurlingham' is
negotiating the lock at
Teddington. A weir is first
mentioned here in 1345,
and the first lock was
built in 1811 with only a
single opening for larger
craft. The new locks were
rebuilt in1904 as double
locks, as we see here. The
rollers for smaller craft
are to the left.
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Twickenham, the River 1899 (ref. 43058) | The photograph was taken from Eel Pie Island, facing towards the parish church and C Shore's
boathouse and Island Ferry. C Hammertons, who continued operating the ferry and hiring out
canoes, punts and dinghies, took over Shore's in 1926.
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Twickenham, Church 1899 (ref. 43059) | The parish church of
St Mary's oldest part
is the tower, which
probably dates from
the 14th century. The
rest of the church was
rebuilt in red brick
after the earlier had
collapsed in April
1713. The Thames
barges are moored
alongside Bowyer's
wharf, built in 1897
for the storage of coal
and corn; they were
not finally demolished
until 1960, after being
criticised for many
years for spoiling
the river view of the
church. The Queen's
Head public house
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Twickenham, the River c1955 (ref. T91036) | The island ferry was
largely superseded by
the construction of
Snappers footbridge
in 1957. The main
channel of the Thames
is on the Surrey side of
Eel Pie Island.
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Twickenham, the Ferry 1899 (ref. 43057) | The White Swan public house, first mentioned
in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the
beached punts to the left of centre. Twickenham
had two ferry crossings - the Island Ferry over
to Eel Pie Island, and Twickenham Ferry itself,
plying from the foot of Ferry Road, the slipway
on the right, over to Ham on the Surrey shore.
This ferry stopped running about 1970. The large
building on the right is Mount Lebanon, built in
the 1790s. From about 1866 to 1871 this was the
residence of Francois, Prince de Joinville, third
son of Louis Philippe and father of the Duchesse
de Chartres, who lived at Morgan House. Mount
Lebanon stood in large grounds alongside
Orleans House. The grounds were being sold
of for development at beginning of the 20th
century; Lebanon House was being used for
furniture storage when it burnt down in 1909.
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Twickenham, London Road c1955 (ref. T91022) | The railway station at
Twickenham was opened
in 1848, and the shopping
district quickly developed
nearby; it was gradually
being improved with new
shops in the late Victorian
and early Edwardian period.
York Street, on the right
to the other side of the
Midland Bank, was cut
through only at the end of
the 19th century to improve
traffic flow to Richmond;
traffic previously had to
funnel through the narrow
Church Street, to the right
of Barclays Bank.
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East Molesey, 'Coming Over the Rollers' 1896 (ref. 38346) | On the left are the four rollers which allow
smaller craft to negotiate the weir. The
passengers had to disembark and push
and pull the punt or canoe over the rollers
instead of going through the lock - that
was more for larger craft, such as the small
steam pinnace on the right.
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