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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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| 1903 |
| | | The present granite Kew bridge, designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry and wider and flatter than its predecessor, is completed. The Ceremonial Opening is performed by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. | |
|  | The third Kew Bridge, in 1903
Chiswick Local Studies Library
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| c. 1908 |
| | | The sides and ramp of Kew Pond are concreted and railings erected all round | |
|  | Kew Pond, c. 1888, by Charles Fitch
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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| 1912 |
| | | A footbridge, designed by François Hennibique, is built just south of Kew Gardens station with narrow deck and high walls to protect users' clothing from the smoke of trains. | |
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