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London timeline
The Queen’s School moves from Kew Green to Cumberland Road
Victorian extensions are stripped away, to return Asgill House to its original perfection both inside and outside
Extensive repairs are carried out to the roof beams and walls at St John's where dry rot has penetrated and the organ is rebuilt
A new Queen’s School is built in Cumberland Road, becoming Kew’s only Anglican school after the closure of the neighbouring St Luke’s School
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London
The Orleans House Gallery is opened to the public, mounting a regular series of temporary exhibitions
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
Thames Water Authority takes over from the Metropolitan Water Board and Hampton waterworks becomes part of Thames Water which is later privatised
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London
Work starts on a new building for the Public Record Office on the site of former government offices in Kew, Surrey
Mark Brown is the last craftsman to build and hire rowing boats in the St Helena Boathouses, as the arches gradually become adapted to non-commercial purposes
The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London
Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London,
The new building for the Public Record Office in Kew is first opened to the public, on the seventeenth of October
A fire destroys St Mary's church in Barnes except for the tower and the south and east walls of the medieval chapel
Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London
British artist Richard Long lays out his Slate Circle at the Tate Gallery in London
A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia
Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral in London
New South Stand built at Twickenham rugby ground.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, based on the Old Possum poems by T.S. Eliot, opens in London
Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end
New additions to St Mary's are completed, designed by Edward Cullinan, to replace the parts destroyed by the fire of 1978
Live Aid, an all-day concert for famine relief in Africa, is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia
