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| 1884 |
| | | The theatre, still known affectionately in Richmond as Kean's, falls on hard times and is pulled down | |
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| 1899 |
| | | A new theatre opens on the Green in Richmond, designed by a speciallist in theatre architecture, Frank Matcham | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Stephen Wheeler is left as the last of the lightermen to use the St Helena Boathouses for coal and freight, and increasingly switches the focus of his business to the trade of boat-hiring. | |
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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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