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| 1738 |
| | | John Christopher builds the ‘Star and Garter’ tavern at the top of Petersham Common | |
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| c. 1760 |
| | | Asgill House, designed by Robert Taylor, is completed for Sir Charles Asgill, recently the Lord Mayor of London (1757-8) | |
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| 1760 |
| | | A new theatre opens in Richmond, with a prologue written for the occasion by David Garrick | |
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| 1774 April |
| | | A tontine is launched in Richmond to raise money for the construction of a bridge across the Thames | |
|  | Richmond Bridge, c.1850
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| 1777 January |
| | | Richmond Bridge, designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse, opens to traffic (and is now the oldest bridge in London) | |
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| c. 1803 |
| | | James Brewer doubles the site and establishes the Star and Garter as a major hotel | |
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| c. 1813 |
| | | A copper beech is planted in the garden of Asgill House, which survives into the twenty-first century in good health and at a magnificent size | |
|  | Asgill House and its famous copper beech (BG)
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| 1822 |
| | | Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including later in the century Dickens and Thackeray | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Edmund Kean takes a lease on the theatre and acts here until his death in 1833 | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Edward Collins buys the Richmond Friary Site, stretching to the river Thames and St Helena Wharf | |
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