DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London

English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground

English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London

English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London

The beams and threshing stones of a seventeenth-century barn from Oxted, Surrey, are reassembled in North Sheen (now Kew) to form the first barn church in Britain

English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia

The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London

Starting in 1930, the fourth Hampton Court Bridge is constucted, slightly downstream from the previous bridge, of ferro-concrete faced with red brick and portland stone in the Wren style

A new West stand is completed at Twickenham rugby ground increasing spectator capacity to 74,000, and an additional 6 acres of land are purchased.

Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton

English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic

A public outcry over the building of Temple House joined onto Garrick's Temple runs very high. The Council purchases the site for public recreation and demolishes the house

The fourth Hampton Court Bridge, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is opened by the Price of Wales, on 3 July 1933, who also opens Chiswick Bridge and Twickenham Bridge on the same day

Draughtsman Harry Beck, inspired by electrical circuits, produces a classic map of London's underground

In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times

British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London

The bottom of Kew Pond is concreted

Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup provide a modernist pool for the penguins in London Zoo

Marie Rambert's London-based company, deriving originally from her school, takes the name Ballet Rambert

Salvador Dali creates a stir by attending the opening of London's Surrealist exhibition in a diving suit

Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London

Richmond Bridge is widened, to accommodate modern traffic, with the original stones used to clad the extension

Cambridge House in Twickenham is demolished.

William Joyce defects from Mosley's Union of Fascists and founds his own National Socialist League in London

British pianist Myra Hess begins a wartime series of lunchtime concerts in London's National Gallery