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| 1914 October |
| | Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Richmond, taking rooms at 17 The Green (now also called Richmond House) | |
| | 17 The Green, Richmond BG
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| 1915 March |
| | Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, which remains their home for ten years | |
| | Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, Richmond BG
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| 1915 |
| | 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 | |
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| 1917 March |
| | Leonard and Virginia Woolf buy a small hand-press and some old typeface, launching their adventure as printers and publishers of the Hogarth Press | |
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| 1917 July |
| | The Hogarth Press publishes its first book, Two Stories, containing a new short story by Leonard Woolf and another by Virginia Woolf | |
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| 1924 |
| | The ‘New Star & Garter Home’, designed by Edwin Cooper, is opened by King George V and Queen Mary | |
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| 1937 |
| | Richmond Bridge is widened, to accommodate modern traffic, with the original stones used to clad the extension | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | Ellaline Terriss, heart-throb of the Edwardian stage and now in her eighties, moves into 1 St Helena Terrace | |
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| 1970 |
| | Victorian extensions are stripped away, to return Asgill House to its original perfection both inside and outside | |
| | Asgill House (Steel engraving, 1844)
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| 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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