Kingston Upon Thames
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Bearsted Maternity Hospital
1948 was the year I was born. My parents were living in Twickenham at the time. My mother was admitted to The Bearsted in Hampton and I was born there. It stands only about 100 yards from Hampton Court Palace front gate, in the road directly opposite. It was apparently a Very hot summer! This summer I went back to Hampton, as aprt of a 60th birthday treat my husband organised for me and found the building the maternity home had been in. It has recently been converted into luxury flat and is called The Rotary. It was however as my father described it as a large Victorian buliding, with gardens that swept down to the bank of the Thames. ...read more here
A memory of Hampton Wick contributed by susan morley
Pubs in Hampton Wick
If the pub was in High Street, Hampton Wick, could it have been:
The Forester's Arms, the Railway Tavern, The Rose and Crown, The Swan, The White Hart, or perhaps The Old Kings Head at the end of Sandy Lane.?
A memory of Hampton Wick contributed by Elizabeth Mann
My Quality Time Spent In Hampton Wick !
I was stationed at Bushy Park with the U.S. Air Force from 1957 to 1960 and I have many memories of Hampton Wick, most good but some not so good. I never ever thought I would forget the name of our favorite pub and taxi service but alas I did. We would walk down town and congregate there at the pub. If I needed to get from point A to point B, all I had to do was call for my car. It was really great. I really did love the lady that owned the pub and was sad when I left, we both shed a little tear. She was special to me. I loved that area and did think about ...read more here
A memory of Hampton Wick contributed by Thomas Cook
Grandmother's flat above the shops
My family's house, just off the Kingston Bypass (now known as the A3) in Tolworth, was damaged as the result of enemy action in September 1940 and my parents and I stayed for a while with my grandmother in Surbiton. Her flat was on the first floor at the far corner above the shops on the left of the photo, just before the Odeon Cinema which lay slightly back from the building line. One of my enduring childhood memories is of kneeling at the window of her sitting room and watching the trolleybuses attempt to turn the very sharp corner from St Mark's Hill into Claremont Road without their two poles leaving the overhead electified wires. The crossover points of these ...read more here
A memory of Surbiton contributed by Noreen Ayton
Extracts From Kingston Upon Thames & Surrey books
The Tamesis has had a premier
role in the development of dinghy
racing on the River Thames. It
was founded in 1885, with the
first clubroom at Alfred Burgoine’s
boathouse here at Hampton Wick,
where club members moored
their boats. The coming of the
railway in 1870 opened the river
to commuters and pleasure
boaters, increasing the use of gigs,
dinghies and canoes. The Tamesis
Club joined with four other river
sailing clubs to form the Sailing
Boat Association in 1888, and
was responsible for formulating
many of the rules. The river sailing
season began each year with the
Easter regatta at the Tamesis Club.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
Work on buildings up the foreshore (the Barge Walk) is in progress behind the hopeful anglers. On the Hampton Wick side,
hidden by the trees, are Walnut Tree House and Grove Cottage, with Wick Lodge Boathouse just beyond the motor launches.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
A close inspection of the
shops to either side of the
Market Hall reveals their
late medieval origins.
The plots are small, and
to use the land to its best
advantage the owners have
built upwards, not quite like
a modern skyscraper but
daring for its time. The small
independent trader was able
to increase his earnings by
renting the upper floors – an
example is the hairdresser’s
salon in the right-hand side
background. Transport was
still dependent on the horse,
and the pedestrian had to be
careful crossing the roadway
so as to avoid the droppings.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
The bandstand at Canbury Gardens was a gift to the people of Kingston from a former mayor,
C E Nuthall. The bandstand was removed in the 1950s, but a replacement has been installed. Free
concerts are given nowadays on Sundays at the bandstand.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
The Queen came here in her Jubilee year, 1977, to unveil a stone commemorating the crowning of
her predecessor Edward the Elder on this site 1100 years ago. Egbert, King of Wessex, held his great
council here in 838, and Athelstan and Ethelred the Unready were two of the Saxon kings of England
crowned here in the 10th century. The church has a 14th-century wall painting of St Blaise, and the
impressive 16th-century tomb of Sir Anthony Benn; the 17th-century marble font is attributed to
Sir Christopher Wren. In the tower are twelve bells and an 18th-century carillon. The great west
window is 19th-century, and the magnificent Frobenius organ was installed in 1988.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".