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Events relating to Kew
After the gallery is built in Kew Gardens at her expense, Marianne North continues to travel and paint, eventually filling it with 832 pictures. She dies in 1890.
After a gap of 30 years, work resumes on the Temperate House. Eventually, after the bankruptcy of one contractor, it opens in May 1899 as the world's largest plant house.
The Dutch House is acquired by Kew Gardens and a few years later is opened to the public
To accommodate the increasing number of children, the Queen’s School is rebuilt on three storeys
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
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 sides and ramp of Kew Pond are concreted and railings erected all round
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.
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 bottom of Kew Pond is concreted
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.
Kew Pond is registered as common land under the Commons Registration Act 1965
The Queen’s School moves from Kew Green to Cumberland Road
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
Work starts on a new building for the Public Record Office on the site of former government offices in Kew, Surrey
The new building for the Public Record Office in Kew is first opened to the public, on the seventeenth of October
Designed by Gordon Wilson, and replacing 26 individual glasshouses, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is opened by Diana, Princess of Wales.
The old marshalling yards of Kew Gardens station are turned into a housing estate
The Palm House officially reopens, after being completely refurbished between 1952 and 1959; then taken down and rebuilt between 1985 and 1988, followed by the return of the plants.
A new extension to the Public Record Office building in Kew is completed. All the PRO’s records are now in one place and Chancery Lane is closed
In referenda held by the new Labour government, Scotland votes conclusively for devolution but Wales is lukewarm
The west end of the Barn Church in Kew is redesigned by Keith Murray to accommodate the Darby Room (named after the vicar, Nicholas Darby), a gallery and ancillary facilities for community use
The Public Records Office and the Historic Manuscripts Commission come together to form The National Archives
The footbridge at Kew Gardens station is restored with the help of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant
