Richmond Local History Society

Exploring the history of Richmond, Kew, Petersham and Ham

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        • No 44 (2024)
        • No 43 (2023)
        • No 42 (2021/22)
        • No 41 (2020)
        • No 40 (2019)
        • No 39 (2018)
        • No 38 (2017)
        • No 37 (2016)
        • No 36 (2015)
        • No 35 (2014)
        • No 34 (2013)
        • No 33 (2012)
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        • No 29 (2008)
        • No 28 (2007)
      • Books on Ham and Petersham
      • Books on Kew
      • Books on the Second World War
      • The Ferry from Ham to Twickenham
      • Kew at War 1939-1945
      • Old Palace Lane
      • Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond
      • Richmond’s Links with North America
      • Richmond Palace: its History and its Plan
      • Royal Gardeners at Kew – The Aitons
      • The Streets of Richmond and Kew
  • Resources
    • John Cloake: Forty Years of Richmond History
    • East Twickenham Belgian Refugees Project
    • Ebenezer Robbins, Kew’s centenarian ironmonger and Secretary of Duke Street Church
    • Ham: Walnut Tree Meadow Allotments
    • Inoculating the royals
    • Kew: St Anne’s Church
      • “Queen Anne’s Little Church”
      • Kew: The pew cushions in St Anne’s Church
    • Saving Kew Gardens
    • Peaky Blinders on Kew Green
    • Manor Road, Richmond: London’s first Council housing
    • Richard Francis Burton
    • Richmond’s almshouses
    • Richmond at War 1914-1918
      • Wings in Richmond
    • Richmond in the 1937 coronation
    • Kew at War 1939-1945
      • The Battle of Kew
    • Richmond at War 1939-1945
      • The Blitz spirit
      • Flight from the East End
      • Gibraltar on Thames
      • The postmen who never came back from the War
      • Bombs on Crown Terrace
      • Surviving the Blitz in the garden
      • V-E Day in Richmond, 8 May 1945
      • Winston Churchill in Richmond
      • Unique air raid shelter at Manor Road allotments
    • Richmond Park
      • Two incorrect myths concerning Richmond Park
      • The “Deer Leap” of Richmond Park
    • Richmond Old Burial Ground
    • Vineyard Passage Burial Ground
    • Richmond Poor Law Union records
    • Richmond Wells
    • Richmond’s Congregational Church in The Vineyard
      • Thomas Wilson 1764-1843
      • Pleasant Sunday afternoons in late Victorian Richmond – a glimpse at 1893-94
      • The preacher with red hair
      • A story of war and peace at The Vineyard Congregational Church, Richmond
      • The role of women in leadership at the Vineyard Church, Richmond
      • Revd Henry Beresford Martin 1808-1844: a remarkable young Victorian Minister
      • The Victorian burial plot of the Vineyard Chapel – from graveyard to garden
    • The Royal Star and Garter Home
    • The Selwyn Family and the development of Richmond
    • The servant problem
    • “Thresher” Duck on Richmond
    • Transport
      • Railway to nowhere
      • Transport: Richmond’s early horse-drawn trams and motor buses
    • The Vineyard, Richmond: An Online History
    • War memorials
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      • Annual General Meeting, Monday 13 May 2024
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Contacting the Society

Honorary Secretary
Elizabeth Velluet
9 Bridge Road
St Margarets
Twickenham
TW1 1RE
Tel: 020 8891 3825
Email: rich.hist@yahoo.co.uk

Membership Secretary
Mark Lucas
Email: membership@richmondhistory.org.uk

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The RICHMOND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY explores the history of Richmond, Kew, Petersham and Ham and the people who have lived here.

We hold evening talks, usually on the second Monday of the month, organise walks and visits, and publish an award-winning journal (Richmond History) and books on topics of local interest.

Forthcoming Events

09 Dec
Talk: The almshouses of Richmond by Juliet Ames-Lewis
9 Dec 24
Richmond
13 Jan
Talk: Gordon Pask, cybernetician, inventor and polymath by David Upton
13 Jan 25
Richmond
10 Feb
Talk: Henry VII by Nathen Amin
10 Feb 25
Richmond
10 Mar
Talk: The building history of Ham into the 21st century by Richard Woolf
10 Mar 25
Richmond
05 Apr
West London History Conference: Threads Through Time - textiles and clothing in West and South-West London history
5 Apr 25
Richmond
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