Boat-building by Richmond Bridge BG
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Richmond and Sheen – Richmond Bridge Boathouses
c. 1840 - Four new boathouses are built by Richmond Bridge, to be occupied chiefly by the watermen families of the Chittys, the Peasleys and the Wheelers, for boat-hiring and boatbuilding.
1992 - Mark Edwards re-establishes traditional boatbuilding at the Richmond Bridge boathouses, next door to Stan Peasley, the last of the traditional watermen/boathirers.
2002 - For the Queen's Jubilee Mark Edwards builds a ten-oared royal shallop, Jubilant, a replica of an 18th-century original owned by the National Maritime Museum
2002 - Mark Edwards builds a working version of a 17th-century wooden submarine, invented by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, which is successfully rowed underwater in the BBC programme Building the Impossible
2004 - Mark Edwards builds replicas of the boats used in 1829 in the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the universities race them again over the original Henley course
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Richmond and Sheen timeline
Sources — for this page Blomfield2, 169-70 and 231, and local knowledge
Contributors — to this page DB, BG (RLHS)
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