This gallery contains images of Ham Pre-1900.
Earliest Times
Saxon period church on site of St Peters Petersham
17th Century
1610 Ham House built
Early 17th century Stafford Cottages
1650’s first inn on New Inn site
1688 Selby House built
1688 Hardwicke House built
18th Century
c 1700 original Fox and Duck built
Early 18th century Douglas House built
Early 18th century Manor House built
1715 Ormeley Lodge built
1720 Rutland Lodge built
1742 Newman House (previously Grove and Grey Court) built
c 1750 Orford Lodge and Avenue Lodge built
c 1780 Beaufort House built
1787 Petersham lock-up erected
Late 18th century Morgan House (now Cassell Hospital) built
19th Century
1804 Plough and Harrow became Dysart Arms
1811 first Teddington Lock built
1817 Ham National School established
1832 St Andrews Church built
1840’s Latchmere House built? (1808?)
1849 Russell School started
Mid 19th century Wiggins Cottages built
1854 Surrey Comet began publication
1856 St Marys Catholic chapel set up in grounds of Beaufort House (lasted until 1870)
1861 Hand and Flower licensed
Late 1970’s Manor House garden sold off for the Orangery
1865 Petersham Hotel built
1870’s New Rd built
1873 Richmond and Twickenham Times began publication
Early 1880’s Petersham Stores built
1884 Evelyn Road built
1888 footbridge connecting Ham and Teddington opened
1890 St Andrews School (Ham School) opened
1890’s first part of Lock Road built
1891 Tollemache Almshouses built
1892 Petersham became part of borough of Richmond
1894 Ham Urban District Council established
1895 Construction of All Saints Petersham started
20th Century
Early 1900’sHam and Petersham Rifle and Pistol Club established
1902 Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act. Petersham Meadows and Common given to Richmond Corporation for open space for public use. Ham Common vested in Ham UDC and in return Lammas rights extinguished over 176 acres of Ham Fields.
1904 The Dysarts leased area to Ham River Grit Company.
1908 Hammerton’s ferry started operation
1908 Petersham and Ham Sea Scouts established
1918 Secrett family took over Manor or Hatch Farm
1923 Craig Road
1926 Polo Club established?
1928 Ham Free Independent Evangelical Church erected in Lock Rd
1929 Secrett family took over farm in Ham St
1933 Ham Urban District council abolished and split between Richmond and Kingston and Ham combined with Petersham in Sudbrook ward with three councillors
1933 HPA founded as the Ham Ratepayers Association, then Ham and Petersham Ratepayers and Residents Association and in 1989 Ham and Petersham Association.
1934 Original Crooked Billet replaced opposite the Brewery Tap
1943 Russell School destroyed by bomb
1949 Sale of Dysart Estate
1946 prefabs built in Ham Close and Woodville Road
1948-9 Beaufort Court built
1949 Sale of Dysart Estate
1949 Orford House purchased by the Community of the Sisters of the Church
Early 1950’s ownership of the Avenues and Petersham Copse conveyed to Richmond Council
1951 Houses at 57 and 59 Ham St designed by Stefan Buzas (founded James Cubitt and Partners)
1951 Burnell, Randle and Simpson Roads
1951 Orchard Junior School opens
1952 Ham Library built
1952 Meadlands School built
1953 Chapel of Ease of St Elizabeth’s Catholic Church in Richmond opened
1953-1956 Parkleys built
1954 Petersham Russell Infant School built
1954 Petersham council estate built
1955 -1956 Ham Farm Road houses built
1956 Grey Court School opens
1957 Lou Secrett gave up farm
1958? Farm demolished replaced by council by thirteen units of shops with flats above
1962 Sudbrook School began in Petersham Lodge
1964 Sudbrook School moves to Village Hall
1964 -66 Ham Close flats
Ham Hall and Clinic?
1964- 1970 Wates Estate built
1966 St Richard’s church consecrated
1966 St Richards’school opens
1967 Water Gipsies pub opens
1967 Riverside Playgroup start in Ham Hall
1967 part of Gordon House garden sold for Mornington Walk
1969 Martingales Close built
1970 Riverside Playgroup becomes Acorns Playgroup and moves to Youth Club building in Back Lane
1971 Federal Republic of Germany buys Douglas House
1974 Ham School purchased to be new Catholic church now St Thomas Aquinas
1981 Orchard Junior School and Petersham Russell Infant School combine
1983 Acorns Playgroup moves to St Richard’s School when Youth Club buildings demolished
1983 Locksmeade Estate built
21st Century
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