Montpelier Row, TW1

Montpelier Row was developed early in the 1720s by Captain John Gray.

Montpelier Row, Twickenham was developed in 1721 by a Captain John Gray.

It was possibly called Montpelier Row as it may have resembled the health resort of Montpellier in France.
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Montpelier Row lies to the west of Marble Hill Park in Twickenham.

Developer John Gray appears to have acquired the land but then subcontracted to it to other builders. Originally Montpelier Row consisted of a row of seventeen houses, the Montpelier Chapel - demolished in the 1940s - and a further five houses ending with South End House. The names given to most of the houses are of 19th and 20th century origin.

Why it was called Montpelier Row is not known, although it may have resembled the health resort of Montpellier in France, where the Earl of Clarendon spent some of his last years in exile.

Residents tended to be more aristocratic as the 18th century progressed, and included Lady Bute, the Earl of Macclesfield and the Lord Hillsborough.

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jim curtis

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Added: 18 Aug 2017 15:58 GMT

23 Shaftesbury Road
my grandparents lived @ no23 for many years.We used to have christmas dinner there then all walk round to great aunt mabels at 97 lower mortlake road for the great evenings fun & games,all sides of the family maybe 25-30 people.unfortunatley after granddad died it all petered out about 1960.Very sad. dont seem to have good times like those now.

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Twickenham is a suburban district situated on the River Thames some 16km southwest of Charing Cross.

The historic riverside area has a network of 18th-century buildings and pleasure grounds, many of which have survived.

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Richmond bridge (2006) Credit: Amandajm TUM image id: 1517829999 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Promenade, Richmond Old London postcard TUM image id: 1653927013 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Eel Pie Island, River Thames (c.1910) It was once a bubbling cauldron of British rock ’n’ roll. There was a five-month period in 1963 where you could see the Rolling Stones play there every Wednesday. The Who, Pink Floyd and Screaming Lord Sutch all did gigs at the Eel Pie Island Hotel, a rickety nineteenth-century ballroom that was lost to a fire in 1971. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635873407 Licence:	Lithograph of Sion Row (now Sion Road), Twickenham (1900) Sion Row and nearby Montpelier Row were both built in 1721. Credit: Thomas Way TUM image id: 1629904272 Licence:	Richmond Bridge viewed from the Twickenham side of the Thames (1904) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635961962 Licence:
Crew moor the Twickenham ferry to its jetty (1931) Credit: Getty Images TUM image id: 1653932679 Licence:	Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Tennyson moved to Chapel House, Twickenham in 1840. In 1850, Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, publishing his masterpiece, "In Memoriam A.H.H.". Later the same year, he was appointed Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth. Tennyson moved to the Isle of Wight in 1853 and on to West Sussex in 1869. TUM image id: 1649274622 Licence:	As World War One opened, Germany invaded hitherto-neutral Belgium causing an influx of Belgian refugees. Both Richmond-upon-Thames and Twickenham across the river opened their homes and their hearts to the refugees. For four years between 1914 and 1918, these two communities became a little ’Belgium beyond Belgium’. TUM image id: 1653930971 Licence:	The Island Ferry, Twickenham (c.1910) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635873726 Licence:

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Lithograph of Sion Row (now Sion Road), Twickenham (1900) Sion Row and nearby Montpelier Row were both built in 1721.
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Crew moor the Twickenham ferry to its jetty (1931)
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Tennyson moved to Chapel House, Twickenham in 1840. In 1850, Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, publishing his masterpiece, "In Memoriam A.H.H.". Later the same year, he was appointed Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth. Tennyson moved to the Isle of Wight in 1853 and on to West Sussex in 1869.
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