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 St Bruno founds Carthusians |
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 Henry V establishes a Carthusian monastery at Shene |
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| Henry VII rebuilds Shene Palace and calls it Richmond |
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| Model of Richmond Palace
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| English king plunders monasteries |
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| Queen Elizabeth dies in Richmond Palace |
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1603 |
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| Battle of Edgehill |
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1642 |
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| Cromwell to lead Commonwealth |
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1649 |
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| Parliament sells Richmond Palace, most of which is demolished for building materials |
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1650 |
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| Monarchy restored in England |
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1660 |
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| Bishop Duppa presents two flagons, with other silver, to the parish of Richmond |
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1661 |
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| Silver flagons, 1661
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| Leonard Knyff paints the view looking downstream from Richmond Hill |
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| Knyff Terrace and View, c.1720
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| Richmond Bridge opens, costing a halfpenny to walk across |
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1777 |
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 Edmund Kean succeeds as Shylock |
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1814 |
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| Edmund Kean plays Richard III in the Theatre Royal, Richmond |
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1818 |
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| Edmund Kean gives his snuff box to an admirer |
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1821 |
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| Kean's snuff box, showing him as Richard III
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| Kean collapses on the stage of Covent Garden, playing Othello, and dies a few weeks later |
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1833 |
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| Fox Talbot exposes negative |
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1835 |
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| Fox Talbot patents calotype |
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| George Hilditch makes the Richmond riverside his special subject |
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c. 1842 |
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| George Hilditch paints the view up the river towards Richmond Bridge |
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| Hilditch, Richmond from Cholmondeley Walk
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| The railway reaches Richmond, and two years later crosses the Thames |
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| George Hilditch paints the riverside at Richmond from beneath the new railway bridge |
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| George Hilditch, View from the Railway Bridge
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| George Hilditch exhibits twenty images in the medium which now excites him, photography |
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| George Hilditch places his camera on Richmond Bridge |
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| George Hilditch, Richmond Bridge, c.1853
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| George Hilditch photographs the riverside at Richmond from the Twickenham bank |
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| George Hilditch, Richmond Riverside, c.1853
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| Fred Topham, in Kew, invents a machine for spinning thread from viscose |
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| Topham's Box, c.1895
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| An automobile show is presented in Richmond, four years ahead of the first national Motor Show |
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| Automobile Show poster, 1899
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| Britain's first Motor Show |
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1903 |
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| Samuel Courtauld & Co buys Kew Viscose and develops its product as rayon |
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1904 |
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| World War I begins |
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1914 |
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| Rationing introduced in Britain |
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1917 |
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| World War I ends |
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| Richmond's local paper takes delivery of professional equipment |
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| Compositor's desk, c1920
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| World War II begins |
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| Ration book enters British life |
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| Cardboard wedding cake, 1943
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| Cameron Brodie acquires uniforms for his wartime duties |
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