Dial House becomes the home of the Bishop of Kensington

For the Queen's Jubilee Mark Edwards builds an eight-oared royal shallop, Jubilant, a replica of an eighteenth-century original owned by the National Maritime Museum

All Saints is converted into a private house

Mark Edwards builds a working version of a seventeenth-century wooden submarine, by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, which is rowed underwater in the BBC programme Building the Impossible

The west end of the Barn Church in Kew is redesigned by Keith Murray to accommodate the Darby Room (named after the vicar, Nicholas Darby), a gallery and ancillary facilities for community use

The Asgill House Beech receives a riverside plaque recording it as one of the Great Trees of London

The Public Records Office and the Historic Manuscripts Commission come together to form The National Archives

Permission is granted for 3 concerts a year at Twickenham rugby ground and the Rolling Stones play the first concert.

Mark Edwards builds replicas of the boats used in 1829 in the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the universities race them again over the original Henley course

The footbridge at Kew Gardens station is restored with the help of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant

The Governors of the Royal Star & Garter Home announce plans for it to be replaced by three new purpose-built care homes elsewhere in the UK, and the building is put up for sale

The National Physical Laboratory develops a new system of measuring time by bombarding a single strontium atom, frozen to -273C, with tiny packages of light

Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour

A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist

The Pagoda in Kew Gardens is reopened to the public, providing a wonderful view for those willing to pay extra and climb the 253 steps to the top.

After extensive restoration, what is now called Kew Palace (previously the Dutch House) is opened again to the public.

New South stand opens at Twickenham rugby stadium increasing capacity to 82,000.

A lease on Strawberry Hill house is granted to the Strawberry Hill Trust and restoration of the house begins.

After major damage by fire, the elegant Grade 2 house of West Hall is restored by the Bissell Thomas family

War Horse, a play with life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company,. opens at London's National Theatre and goes on to have an astonishing international success

A huge fire at Garrick's Villa does enormous damage to building and several flats are gutted

The Orleans House Gallery reaches the final shortlist of four for the prestigious £100,000 annual prize awarded each year by the Art Fund

Prince William marries Kate Middleton in London's Westminster Abbey in a ceremony watched by millions of viewers around the world

Brilliant new ballerina Natalia Osipova leaves the Bolshoi Ballet to have more artistic freedom, and from 2013 is with the Royal Ballet in London

The Shard, an 87-storey building in London designed by Renzo Piano, is completed, becojming the tallest building in the European Union