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| 1907 |
| | | The National Physical Laboratory begins an ongoing and still continuing task, testing for accuracy the meters of taxi cabs | |
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| 1911 |
| | | A ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing | |
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| 1912-1914 |
| | | Kingston Bridge is widened and the carriageway increased from 25 to 55 feet with a new facade of Portland Stone to replicate features of the original | |
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| 1915 |
| | | The Metropolitan Water Board Light Railway, with a two foot guage, is constructed to connect the coal wharf and pumping stations in Hampton Waterworks and the Kempton Park pumping station | |
|  | Engine on the Waterworks Light Railway, c.1920
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| 1922 |
| | | Garrick's Villa is divided into seven flats by Flora Hutchinson | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Garrick's Villa Estate is split up and auctioned. Garrick's Temple and Temple Lawn are sold to Paul Glaize who builds a house, Temple House, joined onto the Temple | |
|  | Garrick's Temple and Temple Lawn, c,1910
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| 1930-1933 |
| | | Starting in 1930, the fourth Hampton Court Bridge is constucted, slightly downstream from the previous bridge, of ferro-concrete faced with red brick and portland stone in the Wren style | |
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| 1933 |
| | | A public outcry over the building of Temple House joined onto Garrick's Temple runs very high. The Council purchases the site for public recreation and demolishes the house | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The fourth Hampton Court Bridge, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is opened by the Price of Wales, on 3 July 1933, who also opens Chiswick Bridge and Twickenham Bridge on the same day | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Early tests of the Dambusters' bouncing bomb are carried out at the National Physical Laboratory's ship tank | |
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