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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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| 1973 |
| | Work starts on a new building for the Public Record Office on the site of former government offices in Kew, Surrey | |
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| 1977 |
| | The new building for the Public Record Office in Kew is first opened to the public, on the seventeenth of October | |
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| 1982 |
| | Local volunteers take over regular filling of Kew Pond from Richmond Council so that constant water level can be maintained | |
| | Kew Pond
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| 1987 |
| | Designed by Gordon Wilson, and replacing 26 individual glasshouses, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is opened by Diana, Princess of Wales. | |
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