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Richmond and Sheen – St Helena Boathouses
1833 - Edward Collins buys the Richmond Friary Site, stretching to the river Thames and St Helena Wharf
c. 1835 - Edward Collins builds ten brick-arch boathouses on St Helena Wharf in Richmond, replacing the previous wooden boatsheds
c. 1835 - The St Helena Boathouses are mostly let to the three major Richmond lightermen families of Downs, Jackson and Wheeler, for storage of freight and coal
1901 - On the death of Edwin Downs, and the collapse of the Jackson family’s business, Stephen Wheeler is left as the last of the lightermen to use the St Helena boathouses for coal and freight, and increasingly switches the focus of his business to the trade of boat-hiring.
c. 1975 - Mark Brown is the last craftsman to build and hire rowing boats in the St Helena Boathouses, as the arches gradually become adapted to non-commercial purposes
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Sources — for this page Blomfield2, 107, 214), Cloake4, 45 and local knowledge
Contributors to this page DB (RLHS)
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