A Day's Pleasure, 1842, E. Prentis/James Scott (detail).
Mezzotint depicting the moment when the bill is presented in the Star and Garter Hotel, with its view down to the river.
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Richmond and Sheen – Star and Garter
1738 - John Christopher builds the ‘Star and Garter’ tavern at the top of Petersham Common
c. 1803 - James Brewer doubles the site and establishes the Star and Garter as a major hotel
1822 - Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including Dickens and Thackeray
1870 - The Star and Garter hotel is destroyed by fire, then rebuilt to a design of Charles John Phipps
1870 - After years of slow decline, the Star and Garter is bought by the Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute and presented to Queen Mary to become a hospital for disabled servicemen
1924 - The ‘New Star & Garter Home’, designed by Edwin Cooper, is opened by King George V and Queen Mary
2004 - The Governors of the Royal Star & Garter Home announce plans for it to be replaced by three new purpose-built care homes elsewhere in the UK, and the building is put up for sale
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Sources for this page Cloake2, 3, 10, 14, 23; Fowler, 33; Church, 32, 46
Contributors – to this page DB (RLHS)
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