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c. 1975
 
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Mark Brown is the last craftsman to build and hire rowing boats in the St Helena Boathouses, as the arches gradually become adapted to non-commercial purposes See in Google maps   
1992
 
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Mark Edwards re-establishes traditional boatbuilding at the Richmond Bridge boathouses., next door to Stan Peasley, the last of the traditional watermen/boathirers See in Google maps   
Richmond Bridge Boathouses

2002
 
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For the Queen's Jubilee Mark Edwards builds an eight-oared royal shallop, Jubilant, a replica of an eighteenth-century original owned by the National Maritime Museum See in Google maps   
Jubilant, replica of an 18th-century royal shallop

2002
 
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Mark Edwards builds a working version of a seventeenth-century wooden submarine, by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, which is rowed underwater in the BBC programme Building the Impossible See in Google maps   
Replica of a 17th-century submarine


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c. 2003
 
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The Asgill House Beech receives a riverside plaque recording it as one of the Great Trees of London See in Google maps   
The copper beech in the garden of Asgill House (2008, BG)


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2004
 
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The Governors of the Royal Star & Garter Home announce plans for it to be replaced by three new purpose-built care homes elsewhere in the UK, and the building is put up for sale See in Google maps   
2004
 
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Mark Edwards builds replicas of the boats used in 1829 in the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the universities race them again over the original Henley course See in Google maps