The Parkleys Conservation Area
The first ‘Span’ development by architect Eric Lyons, now Grade 11 listed by English Heritage. Richmond Borough Conservation Area 67, designated in 2003, comprises the modern residential development of Parkleys and Ham Farm Road which were built in tandem in 1955-6 on the former site of Ham Farm Nursery. The flats at Parkleys were the […]
Thames Young Mariners
A sheltered inlet off the Thames providing watersports education. Thames Young Mariners is a well equipped outdoor watersports education centre established over forty years ago and located on a 25 acre site which includes a 10 acre lake fed by a lock gate off the Thames. The centre is under the auspices of Surrey County […]
Douglas House
Grade 11 listed mansion now the hub of the Deutsche Schule. A Stuart mansion built originally in 1680 for the Cole family who had lost their former residence in Petersham Park when it became enclosed to form part of Charles 1st hunting park. The house acquired the name Douglas House when it was inherited in […]
The Tollemache Almshouses
A redbrick & terracotta terrace in Ham Street largely retaining its original 1892 appearance. Hams first almshouses were 2 cottages by the Common gates but the pictured terrace was endowed by the Hon Mrs Tollemache of Ham House as a memorial to her late husband Algernon. The endowment provided 7 shillings per week to each […]
Richmond Park
The largest Royal Park in London and home to around 650 free roaming deer. Enclosed as a hunting park by Charles 1st, – amid much opposition, – but today offering a pastoral haven close to London with views to the City and St Pauls. Comprising nearly 2500 acres, the Park is designated as a National […]
The Market House
The former Town Hall of Kingston in the Market Place. A market has been held in the market place at Kingston for centuries and a Tudor Town Hall stood here in the sixteenth century which was refurbished during the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The statue of Queen Anne at the front dates from 1706 when […]
Vancouvers Grave
The grave of explorer George Vancouver in St Peters churchyard. A notable resident of Petersham in the late eighteenth century was Captain George Vancouver who sailed on two of Captain Cooks voyages and later himself surveyed the coasts of New Zealand, South West Australia and the Pacific Northwest of America, where he established that Vancouver […]
Langham House Close
Grade II* listed modernist development at the side of Ham Common. The first mature work of Sir James Stirling, now commemorated by the Stirling Prize for Architecture, in conjunction with James Gowan. A mixture of brutalist style after Le Corbusier and the De Stjly movement , mixed in with vernacular elements. Formed in the former […]
Out of Order
A distinctive contemporary sculpture by David Mach in central Kingston. One of the more unusual sights in Kingston is several disused red telephone boxes that have been tipped up to lean against one another in an arrangement resembling dominoes. Its actually a sculpture by David Mach which was commissioned in 1988, and its called ‘Out […]
The Thames Boundary Mark
Marking the extent of the Port of Londons jursidiction over the Thames. This obelisk on the Ham Bank just north of Teddington Lock signifies the point where the Port of London jursidiction over the tidal Thames ends and where responsibility for the upstream section passes over to the Environment Agency.
