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By Heidi Harrington (RIP Terry Jones) Brentford Musical Museum tells the changing story of how people have captured and listened to music...

The deceptive and waning tide of religious fervour that was to give rise to an ultimately towerless and unexpectedly short lived gothic...

Neither a marble nor a hill in sight. But there is a house … even if it’s under renovation. English Heritage, aided by the National...

As long ago as 1891 there had been a proposal for a floating swimming bath in the Thames. In 1900 the Thames Conservancy turned down a...

It's that bloke again. You may remember the generous philanthropist Mr. Carnegie from an earlier post on Teddington Library (see Post...

Most of us are content with tiling the bathroom, and perhaps the kitchen. A resident of S.W. London has taken things a bit further....

Yep. That is indeed Mick McManus and Thora Hird. But no, this isn’t a mixed wrestling tag team made in heaven, rather this unlikely...

Held annually since 1923 for just under fifty years until boring old safety concerns won out in 1970, the start of the Le Mans 24-hour...

Twickenham Exchange is a community building with, depending who you ask, a 300 or 320 seat theatre, six studio rooms, a cafe and a bar....

This moment felt quite special, rather taking me by surprise as I rested my bike against the flagpole marking the spot where General...

A brief diversion from S.W. London. Addiscombe Railway Station in Croydon is no more. Indeed, that's been the case for some time. Said to...

This Grade 1 listed Coronation Stone in Kingston is an ancient sarsen stone block, believed by some to have been the site of the...

Apparently we're blessed with “Hills” aplenty in this land of no hills, (as mentioned in my introduction to these Little Histories). As a...

As seen on the Surrey bank of the Thames between Richmond and Kingston bridges, and the Middlesex bank between Kingston and Hampton Court...

How embarrassing for the poor sod who leaned on the nearest of these old phone boxes and caused this. Or perhaps, worse for drink,...

This old concrete "skeleton" will have seen some action. There would've been a time when, particularly on a warm and sunny day, it'd have...

In 1884 the 31 year old Reverend Francis Leith Boyd was appointed the first vicar of St Mary’s in Teddington, with a congregation of 180....

Pete would see you right if you wanted to pick up some flowers on the way home from work. A little more on the "Flower Man" in a bit. In...

Of the three libraries included in A Hundred and One Little Histories, Hampton Wick is unique in that it was not funded by busy...

The only Downs in this post are an extraordinary and enlightened couple, Dr. John Langdon Down and his wife Mary, who are also...