Twickenham

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.

Twickenham is the English home of the Rugby Football Union, with hundreds of thousands of spectators visiting Twickenham Stadium each year.

This area has three mansions with public access: York House, Marble Hill and Strawberry Hill House.

Historically part of Middlesex, Twickenham has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames since 1965

The first Twickenham station was built by the London and Windsor Railway on the west of London Road bridge, opening on 22 August 1848 and originally called Twickenham Junction.

On 28 March 1954, a completely rebuilt station came into use with three through tracks.

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claudia s Drakewood Road, SW16 Added: 8 Jun 2023 13:57 GMT	Drakewood Road, SW16 word Reply
Loraine Brocklehurst Holcombe Road, N17 Added: 24 May 2023 14:00 GMT	Holcombe Road, N17 I lived at 23Holcombe Rd. with my parents, Grandfather , Aunt and Uncle in 1954. My Aunt and Uncle lived there until it was demolished. I’m not sure what year that was as we emigrated to Canada. Reply
Jen Williams Corfield Street, E2 Added: 20 May 2023 17:27 GMT	Corfield Street, E2 My mother was born in 193 Corfield Street in 1920.Her father was a policeman. Reply
sofia East Acton Added: 19 May 2023 08:57 GMT	43 MELLITUS STREET 43 MELLITUS STREET Reply
Milson Road, W14 Added: 17 May 2023 11:50 GMT	Milson Road (1908 - 1954) My grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents the Manley family lived at 33 Milson Road from 1908 to 1935. My grandad was born at 33 Milson Road. His parents George and Grace had all four of their chidren there. When his father Edward died his mother moved to 67 Milson in 1935 Road and lived there until 1954 (records found so far, it may be longer). Before that they lived in the Porten Road. I wonder if there is anyone that used to know them? My grandad was Charles ’Ted’ Manley, his parents were called George and Grace and George’s parents were called Edward and Bessie. George worked in a garage and Edward was a hairdresser. Reply
Rendlesham Road, E5 Added: 16 Apr 2023 15:55 GMT	Rendlesham Road, E5 I lived at 14 Rendlesham Road in the 1940s and 50s. The house belonged to my grandfather James Grosvenor who bought it in the 1920s for £200.I had a brother who lived in property until 1956 when he married. Local families were the paisleys, the Jenners and the family of Christopher Gable. Reply
Sandra Field Masons Place, EC1V Added: 15 Apr 2023 16:15 GMT	Removal Order Removal order from Shoreditch to Holborn, Jane Emma Hall, Single, 21 Pregnant. Born about 21 years since in Masons place in the parish of St Lukes. Source: Sign up Reply
Sue Germain Southwood Road, SE9 Added: 10 Apr 2023 08:35 GMT	Southwood Road, SE9 My great great grandfather lived in Time Villa, Southwood Rd around 1901. He owned several coffee houses in Whitechapel and in South London, including New Time Coffee House so either his house was named after the coffee house or vice versa. Reply

Twickenham rugby ground TUM image id: 1556889094 Licence:	Teddington Lock - probably Edwardian period The left of this view looks very different now as the gravel pits were filled after the war with rubble from the Blitz. There are still plants and trees that have grown from the soil that was taken along with the rubble. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635959403 Licence:	Isleworth Ait and a Thames barge. The Ait (a local term for a river island) is one of London Wildlife Trust’s reserves and it is rarely visited by the public. Credit: Wiki Commons/Steve TUM image id: 1608824624 Licence:	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:	Portrait for Sir Noël Coward’s last Christmas Card in 1972. Despite his upper-class image, Coward was born into a solidly middle class family in Waldegrave Road, Teddington. Credit: Sir Noël Coward TUM image id: 1626778725 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:	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. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1629903464 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:	The Island Ferry, Twickenham (c.1910) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635873726 Licence:
Teddington Lock - date unknown There’s a story here - just don’t know what it is! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1635960225 Licence:

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