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| 1952 |
| | | The Queen’s Head pub in Mortlake closes | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Barn Elms burns down, and its grounds are converted to school playing fields | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The Jehovah's Witnesses first convention at Twickenham rugby ground takes place. | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Ellaline Terriss, heart-throb of the Edwardian stage and now in her eighties, moves into 1 St Helena Terrace | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Milbourne House, seriously damaged in World War II, is restored and divided into two separate dwellings | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The first accurate caesium clock is developed at the National Physical Laboratory | |
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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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| c. 1960s |
| | | The remaining part of Whitton Tower or Whitton Castle, a gothic tower built in the grounds of Whitton Park in the 1740s, is demolished. | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Mrs Ionides lealves the Octagon, stables and the site of Orleans House to the Borough of Twickenham to be used as a public gallery | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Dickens Close, with eight new houses, is built on 3.5 acres of the Elm Lodge gardens | |
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