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I went exploring and eventually found the Island and by shear fluke there was a piece of ground for sale and that was it but I did know that I did want to live by the river, the north bank of the river so I faced south and that I wanted direct river frontage.

I found a plot 32 years ago and then had the house built or started to have the house built and now 30 years later it is nearly finished. I am Edward Davies and live on Eel Pie Island and have done for 30 years. The riverside in Twickenham, well we have one of the finest pieces of riverside I think in the whole stretch of the Thames from here down to Tilbury and the riverside is very closely linked to the town, not least because it is accessible we have beaches, we have access slipways and it is very rare to have public access into the river very easily. More interesting is its relationship to the riverside and the poolsite as an amenity.

It has been used partly as a library at the front end and the building has been under formal threat albeit there are some beautiful staccato forms and various other things of interest. The Queen’s Hall has a very interesting background it was part of the original town hall but after the town hall was decommissioned it was used as a dance hall, it has been used most recently by the Busen Centre where thousands of children and adults have trained in various forms of martial arts and then it was used as a cinema. QUEEN'S HALL (towards the back of the Pool Site) The owner before that was Sir Ratan Tata and I believe it was his wife who actually sold the property but here lies a story of massive controversy since at least from the early 1900s when there were large quarrels by the greater people in the town in relation to where would we have our new town building, where would we have our new civic centre? (Richmond House site or York House). This house was sold to the Council eventually somewhere in the region of the mid 1920s. I do know this house which started to be built in 1633. Our colleagues Teresa and Berkley this year started it up again and we had great fun on the riverside with boat races and waterboarding and stalls and things and we hope it is going to be an annual event from now on.ĬLLR SCOTT NAYLOR (in the Members’ Room at York House, Council Offices)Ĭllr Scott Naylor, I was elected here in May 2010. His son took over, then it had to stop during the War and after the War was very difficult to raise enough enthusiasm to start it up again. This was an annual event which took place in about September and everyone had enormous fun and it went on until he died. He thought the Charlie Shore Regatta should be for children. He started off this Regatta, particularly for children because he reckoned that there were at least two regattas for grown ups. He was a very interesting chap, he was brought up here and they were Twickenham people through and through, his father and grandfather were all from Twickenham and described as waterman. Jeremy: I have done some research into Charlie Shore and his family. We used to enjoy our trips there during the summer.ĬHARLIE SHORE REGATTA, Twickenham Riverside I used to go there as a boy, it was an open-air swimming pool which stretched from one end of the site to the other it was a jolly good swimming pool.

They started actual work in 1930 on the swimming pool. John: It was bought by the Urban District Council of Twickenham in 1924 and was a swimming pool from about 1933 or thereabouts onwards. Richmond House was the house that was on the pool site, now being developed as open space. I have not got much affinity for the river but I love it dearly now.

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I used to commute to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead so I spent most of my time clunking along King Street on the way to the station. I have had boats on the River Thames for many years and I live on Eel Pie Island in the middle of Twickenham. I am John, John Perry I have been in Twickenham for many many years and I have got an affinity with the River Thames. RICHMOND HOUSE AND POOL SITE, Twickenham Embankment

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Richmond House, the Pool Site, Queen’s Hall, Charlie Shore Boat House/Regatta, Twickenham Rowing Club and Eel Pie Island (see MAP)ĭVD Transcript BTEC TV and Film Students Richmond College (2012)

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