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| 1833 |
| | Edward Collins buys the Richmond Friary Site, stretching to the river Thames and St Helena Wharf | |
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| 1834 |
| | St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | St Helena Terrace is built beside the Thames, on land sold by the Crown in 1833 | |
| ![](/images/treasures/sthelenaterrace100.jpg) | St Helena Terrace BG
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| c. 1835 |
| | Edward Collins builds ten brick-arch boathouses on St Helena Wharf in Richmond, replacing the previous wooden boatsheds | |
| ![](/images/treasures/StHelenaBoathouses100.jpg) | St Helena Boathouses
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| c. 1835 |
| | The St Helena Boathouses are mostly let to the three major Richmond lightermen families of Downs, Jackson and Wheeler, for storage of freight and coal | |
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| 1835 |
| | Henry Bevan buys Cambridge Park with 30 acres of land and enlarges the mansion which becomes known as Cambridge House. | |
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| 1837 |
| | The King's Free School in Kew, changing its name by now according to the sex of the sovereign, becomes the Queen's Free School | |
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| 1837 |
| | The Taylor estate of East Sheen and West Hall passes to the Leyborne-Pophams of Littlecote in Wiltshire | |
| ![](/images/treasures/KewWestHallHarriott100.jpg) | West Hall in Kew, by William Harriott, 1819
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| 1837 |
| | William IV returns a small section of the Green to the inhabitants of Kew. | |
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| 1838 |
| | Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public | |
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