The road outside Garrick's Villa is widened for the coming of the trams and the house is bought by London United Tramways. General Manager Clifton Robinson occupies the villa

The Metropolis Water Act of 1902 places the original water companies and Hampton Waterworks in the hands of the Metropolitan Water Board (established 1903)

Jane Burt finally wins admission to Houblon's Almshouses, on the nineteenth attempt

Radnor House is bought by Twickenham Urban district Council.

US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures

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.

An eight-storey riverside brick building, for use in the process of malting, is added to the ever-expanding Mortlake brewery

Radnor House and grounds are opened to the public.

A new nave, chancel and north aisle, designed by Charles Innes, are added to St Mary's

J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London

The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London

Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman

Joseph Stapley dies at 92, after living for 12 years in the Richmond Workhouse

A new tram service is launched by London United Tramways on 1 Mar 1906 that crosses Kingston Bridge

The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher

York House is bought by Sir Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist, who makes some alterations to the house and many to the grounds, including the sunken garden, the stone bridge and the lavish waterfall with marble statuary.

The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium

The National Physical Laboratory begins an ongoing and still continuing task, testing for accuracy the meters of taxi cabs

The Rugby Football Union buys 8.9 acres of land which becomes known as Billy Williams Cabbage Patch from its former agricultural use.

Jack London's novel Iron Heel foresees a future repressive capitalist regime in the USA

A new weekly 'table of diet' is approved by the committee of the National Orphan Home for Females, in Ham

The sides and ramp of Kew Pond are concreted and railings erected all round

All Saints is completed, and for thirty years is used for worship as a satellite of St Peter’s, but it is not consecrated

Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden

US entrepreneur Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on London's Oxford Street