Dealing with the pigeons in the church tower 90 years ago …
Edward (Ted) Morris* recalled in 1991 how the problems caused by the pigeons were handled in the 1930s… ‘While Assistant Tower-Keeper in...
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Diana Wells
May 312 min read
The VI that fell on Gotham Villas on Twickenham Riverside.
An intriguing enquiry was received in 2021 via the Parish website: “My mother who is 90 is stuck with a memory of her uncle Cecil (Bore)...
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Diana Wells
May 243 min read
The Question of Alexander Pope’s Skull
Alexander Pope died in 1744 and was buried in St Mary’s by the chancel step, probably below a square stone incised “P”
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Diana Wells
May 172 min read
Heating problems in St Mary’s 100 years ago
Heating the large space enclosed in stone walls and with metal-frame windows has been a cause of much angst and expense in most church...
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Diana Wells
May 102 min read
No Such Person as a Vicar of Twickenham?
A lively correspondence began on the letters page of the Richmond & Twickenham Times on 11 December 1954, the details of which were...
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Diana Wells
May 34 min read
The East Window, St Mary’s Church, Twickenham
As you sit in church your eyes may be drawn upwards above the altar and the Victorian reredos with its Corinthian pilasters to light
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Diana Wells
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Christmas 1918 and New Year 1919 in St Mary’s Parish Magazines
After the excitement of the November Armistice and four long years of war the contents of the Parish Magazines returned very quickly to norm
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Diana Wells
Oct 22, 202214 min read
The Nuremberg Chest and the support of Ted Morris
For many years the “Ancient Chest”, so-called by local historian Ted Morris in the 1980s, has sat unobtrusively in a dark corner of St...
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