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| 1854 |
| | | The Russian revolutionary and exile Alexander Herzen spends much of this year in St Helena Terrace before moving to Twickenham | |
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| 1855 April |
| | | Calling themselves Mr and Mrs Lewes, Marian and George move into lodgings at 7 Clarence Row in East Sheen | |
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| 1855 October 3 |
| | | Marian Evans (George Eliot) and G.H. Lewes move into lodgings at 8 Parkshot in Richmond, with Mrs Croft as their landlady | |
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| 1857 October |
| | | In the cramped sitting room that she shares as a study with Lewes, Marian Evans begins writing her first novel, Adam Bede | |
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| 1859 February |
| | | Marian Evans and G.H. Lewes move from Parkshot in Richmond to Holly Lodge in Wandsworth | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The last survivor of the Richmond tontine dies, at the age of 91, ending the payment of interest and making the Richmond Bridge free of tolls | |
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| 1870 |
| | | The Star and Garter hotel is destroyed by fire, then rebuilt to a design of Charles John Phipps | |
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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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