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| 1925 |
| | | Strawberry Hill is sold to the Catholic Education Council and becomes known as St Mary's College, later St Mary's University College. | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Orleans House is demolished to allow for gravel extraction. The Octagon and stables are bought by the Hon Mrs Nellie Ionides and saved from demolition. | |
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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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| 1930-1933 |
| | | Starting in 1930, the fourth Hampton Court Bridge is constucted, slightly downstream from the previous bridge, of ferro-concrete faced with red brick and portland stone in the Wren style | |
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| 1931 |
| | | A new West stand is completed at Twickenham rugby ground increasing spectator capacity to 74,000, and an additional 6 acres of land are purchased. | |
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| 1933 |
| | | A public outcry over the building of Temple House joined onto Garrick's Temple runs very high. The Council purchases the site for public recreation and demolishes the house | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The fourth Hampton Court Bridge, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is opened by the Price of Wales, on 3 July 1933, who also opens Chiswick Bridge and Twickenham Bridge on the same day | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The bottom of Kew Pond is concreted | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Cambridge House in Twickenham is demolished. | |
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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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