please empty your brain below
The Secret Jam Jar strikes again!
To be continued...

Leuconoe | 17.01.10 - 8:11 a.m. | #

"About twenty litres later..."
It was a little wet then? How do we guess the distance on a dry day?

B | 17.01.10 - 10:12 a.m. | #

On your trek from Richmond’s Old Town Hall you walked past the Grade 2 Listed Odeon Cinema
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/6260/
I worked there in 1962!.

Opposite the Old Town Hall is the site of the old Castle Hotel, Richmond where the ballroom was very popular. The new development facing
the riverside are built mainly on the Castle Hotel site and the Palm Court
Hotel site. There was also a Gaumont cinema near the Old Town Hall, which had its auditorium backing on to the river.

As you walk up the hill past the Odeon, the road forks, one road taking the lower course along the riverside (the 65 bus goes along this
road), the other road steeply going up the hill. The area in the middle where these roads part, which is now grassed over, was at one time houses and shops,including a nice pie and mash shop!

At the top of the Hill before you entered Richmond Park you would have past the Star and Garter Home.
This may be closing as a home in 2013 and relocating its guests to a new building at Hampton Court.

In Teddington High Street, there was at one time a fine cinema the Savoy,a bit more about old Teddington here:
http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/tour_detail.asp?TourID=69
Teddington is also home to The National Physical Laboratory,and a fairly large TV studio, which started life as Warner Brothers film
studios.
The Lensbury Club is also by the Riverside in Teddington.

I hope you enjoy your visit to the areas I grew up in. I lived in Twickenham from 1945 until 1995

John | 17.01.10 - 10:39 a.m. | #

And there is a fine Wimpy in Teddington.

Debster | Homepage | 17.01.10 - 11:30 a.m. | #

A musical bench? Another classic bit of British eccentricity. :-)

Andrewh | 17.01.10 - 2:55 p.m. | #

You didn't come across Two Ton Ted then?

Rob.Stoke | 17.01.10 - 4:42 p.m. | #

Oh is the Wimpy still there?? That was a regular haunt in my student days!!
This borough is proving to be a nice trip down memory lane!

CornishCockney | 17.01.10 - 4:46 p.m. | #

Sorry you picked the worst weekend of the year (not that there *have* been many weekends of the year...) to go to Richmond. I lived there for a few years and it usually puts up a better show than that.

I think this is also the first time I've ever heard anyone describe Twickenham Church Street as having 'most of what anyone would need'!

hampshireflyer | Homepage | 17.01.10 - 4:54 p.m. | #

What a difference a day makes! - today in Richmond it was a beautiful, mild, bright sunny, cloudless day!

Nick | 17.01.10 - 7:15 p.m. | #

Pity the rain blocked the view from King Henry's Mound -it always amazes me how close central London seems

Small pedantic note: there are 2 accepted spellings in French bistro and bistrot but the second is the more usual. So once again Teddington
gets it right!

elaine | 17.01.10 - 8:17 p.m. | #

A pedant writes:
Scotland has its own poppy appeal, poppyscotland (though I think its proper name, The Earl Haig Fund Scotland is rather more dignified.)
Its 4m poppies are made in Edinburgh.

martin | Homepage | 18.01.10 - 9:22 p.m. | #











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