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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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| 1929 |
| | | The beams and threshing stones of a seventeenth-century barn from Oxted,
Surrey, are reassembled in North Sheen (now Kew) to form the first barn church in Britain | |
|  | The Barn Church in Kew
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| 1934 |
| | | The bottom of Kew Pond is concreted | |
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| 1959 |
| | | After nearly a century as a museum, the Orangery reverts to citrus cultivation before taking on its current role as Kew Gardens' main refreshment building. | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Kew Pond is registered as common land under the Commons Registration Act 1965 | |
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| 1970 |
| | | A new Queen’s School is built in Cumberland Road, becoming Kew’s only Anglican school after the closure of the neighbouring St Luke’s School | |
|  | The Queen's School at Kew
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| 1970 |
| | | The Queen’s School moves from Kew Green to Cumberland Road | |
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