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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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| c. 1835 |
| | | St Helena Terrace is built beside the Thames, on land sold by the Crown in 1833 | |
|  | St Helena Terrace BG
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| c. 1835 |
| | | Edward Collins builds ten brick-arch boathouses on St Helena Wharf in Richmond, replacing the previous wooden boatsheds | |
|  | St Helena Boathouses
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| c. 1835 |
| | | The St Helena Boathouses are mostly let to the three major Richmond lightermen families of Downs, Jackson and Wheeler, for storage of freight and coal | |
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| c. 1840 |
| | | Four new boathouses are built by Richmond Bridge, to be occupied chiefly by the watermen families of the Chittys, the Peasleys and the Wheelers, for boat-hiring and boatbuilding. | |
|  | Richmond Bridge Boathouses, before 1859
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| 1848 |
| | | Metternich and his family leave Vienna, in this year of revolutions, and live in Trumpeters' House until October 1849 | |
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