{"id":129,"date":"2012-12-31T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:40:59","slug":"no-30-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/publications-2\/journal-2\/no-30-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond History 30 (2009): The Journal of Richmond Local History Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our 2009 journal was remarkable for the number and rarity of the pictures that illustrated the articles.<\/p>\n

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Detail from Leigh\u2019s Panorama<\/p><\/div>\n

This detail from Leigh\u2019s Panorama of 1830 depicts a scene that has changed remarkably little in the intervening years. It shows Water Lane with the White Cross to the left and Collins Brewery (now the Slug and Lettuce) to the right. In the Journal\u2019s leading article John Cloake traced the rise and decline of the immensely successful Collins family, their brewery and the pubs they owned.<\/p>\n

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Giles Gibert Scott\u2019s design for the Star and Garter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Edwin Cooper\u2019s design for the Star and Garter<\/p><\/div>\n

These two architectural drawings of the Star & Garter Home \u2013 the first by the eminent architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, and the second by the less well-known Edwin Cooper \u2013 provide evidence of an unseemly battle that raged in the First World War over the building of Richmond\u2019s most iconic building.\u00a0 Steven Spencer, the former archivist at the Home, told the story of how Scott resigned under pressure from the management of the Home, and how his successor, Cooper, took over the original design and took the credit too.<\/p>\n

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Richmond Palace (attributed to Augustin Heckel)<\/p><\/div>\n

This view of the entrance to Richmond Palace in 1726, http:\/\/healthsavy.com\/product\/ventolin\/<\/a> very similar to the view today, is attributed to Augustin Heckel, and provides a vital clue to John Cloake\u2019s solution to the mystery of Madame de la Tour du Pin, one of several members of the French nobility who took refuge in Richmond from the French Revolution.<\/p>\n

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Cruikshank drawing<\/p><\/div>\n

The original of this Cruikshank drawing has been presented to the Museum of Richmond.\u00a0 Ron Berryman, who lives close by the house with the balcony, told the story of how its owner, the eminent Professor Sir Erasmus Wilson, born just 200 years ago, inspired the creation of public baths throughout Victorian Britain.<\/p>\n

Also in this issue of the Journal are articles on \u2018The Arrival of Party Politics 1918\u20131928\u2019 by Michael Lee, \u2018A Spy in Richmond: the Adams Espionage case of 1939\u2019 by Steven Woodbridge, \u2018Roman Catholic Education and Worship in Ham and Petersham\u2019 by Len Chave, and \u2018Finny v. Govett \u2013 a disputed will\u2019 by John Govett.<\/p>\n

**This issue is now out of print<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find out more about other issues of Richmond History<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n