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| 1863 |
| | After more than a century of growing citrus fruits and other plants, the Orangery is turned into a museum. | |
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| 1868-9 |
| | Kew Gardens station is built, as a two-storey building in the style of a domestic Victorian villa | |
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| 1869 January 1 |
| | The first train arrives at Kew Gardens Station, on a line used both by L&SWR and the North London Line | |
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| 1873 |
| | The Joint Committee of the Corporation of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works buy Kew bridge for £53,000 and on the eighth of February tolls are abolished | |
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| 1879 |
| | Marianne North commissions her friend James Fergusson to design a gallery to be built in Kew Gardens for the pictures of flowers and plants that she has painted on extensive travels around the world. | |
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| 1883-1884 |
| | After the gallery is built in Kew Gardens at her expense, Marianne North continues to travel and paint, eventually filling it with 832 pictures. She dies in 1890. | |
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| 1893 |
| | After a gap of 30 years, work resumes on the Temperate House. Eventually, after the bankruptcy of one contractor, it opens in May 1899 as the world's largest plant house. | |
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| 1896 |
| | The Dutch House is acquired by Kew Gardens and a few years later is opened to the public | |
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| 1897 |
| | To accommodate the increasing number of children, the Queen’s School is rebuilt on three storeys | |
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| 1901 |
| | The Leyborne-Pophams start selling off the market gardens and then the farm buildings of East Sheen and West Hall for housing and cemeteries and sewage works | |
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