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Date(s) - Friday 1 September 2017 - Friday 29 September 2017
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Now in its fifth year, Know Your Place, Richmond Library Services’ annual celebration of the heritage of Richmond upon Thames, takes place in September. There will be the usual mix of talks, workshops
and guided walks.
Here are some of the events:
- Friday 1: Local History Quiz at 7.30pm at Old Town Hall. Please get in touch if you’d like to join the Richmond Local History Society’s team
- Wednesday 6: Historic Richmond walk at 2pm from Richmond Station, finishing at 3:30pm
- Wednesdays 6 and 20: Workshop on House History, 2.30pm at Old Town Hall Richmond, finishing at 3:30pm
- Thursday 7: John Cloake Memorial Lecture by Tracy Borman on Queen Elizabeth’s Women, 7.30pm at Old Town Hall Richmond
- Saturday 9: Richmond’s Almshouses walk 11am. Talk by Tony Adler and Simon Fowler on the Poor in Richmond (with a focus on Bishop Duppa’s Almshouses), 2pm at Old Town Hall, Richmond, followed by tea and cakes
- Wednesday 13 at The National Archives in Kew: Talk on Richmond Park’s South African Military Hospital
- Sunday 17: Kew walk at 2pm from St Anne’s Church, Kew Green, finishing at 3:30pm
- Tuesday 19: Tour of the Poppy Factory on Petersham Road at 10.30am, finishing at 12:30pm
- Tuesday 19: Talk by Susan Darling on Capability Brown, 3pm at Richmond Library Annexe on Quadrant Road
- Saturday 23: Richmond Hill walk at 11am from Richmond Station, finishing at 1:30pm
- Wednesday 27: Talk by David Williams on The History of the Wates Estate, 3.30pm at Ham Library. Repeated at 7:00pm