George V sat on our dining room chair to watch rugby at the RFU
	1:31pm Thu 8 May 08
	As the spectacular new developments at Twickenham stadium near completion, Connie Hill shares these photographs and memories of her childhood, when her father Jack Langley was assistant secretary of the RFU.

	Tracking down the signs
	1:29pm Thu 8 May 08
	Warkworth House was built in 1866 and in its time housed a workhouse and then became home to the manager of Kidd's Flour mill.

	A-Zeppelin of Hanworth, Feltham and Bedfont
	1:26pm Thu 8 May 08
	A novel approach to research proved a great success for the Feltham History Group, below.

Nostalgia: Dates and data

10:23am Thursday 8th May 2008

The West Middlesex Family History Society meets in the Montague Hall, Montague Road, Hounslow, 7.15pm open, talk at 8pm. Free. Society membership and further information June Watkins, 22 Chalmers Road, Ashford. TW15 1DT. www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk Meetings include talks on aspects of family or local history. In addition, many of the society's resources and indexes are normally available for consultation from about 7.15 pm. April 17: Damned civil servants; is your ancestor in the public service? Alan Ruston.

	From our files of The Richmond and Twickenham Times and the Hounslow and Brentford Times
	10:15am Thu 8 May 08
	Ten years ago The campaign to free Coronation Street's Deirdre Rachid reached Richmond this week. Days after Tony Blair spoke out in defence of the soap opera character, The Crown Pub, Richmond joined the drive to Free the Weatherfield One. Landlady Jenny Ruff and regulars drew a colourful six foot high Free Deirdre' logo on a chalkboard outside the Lower Mortlake Road pub.

When keep fit took off at Airways House

1:06pm Thursday 1st May 2008

See the Hounslow and Brentford times for photographs which accompany this article

Nostalgia

12:43pm Thursday 1st May 2008

Do you have local memories and old pictures to share with our readers? Do you have a reunion coming up? Is your organisation celebrating an anniversary? Are you trying to trace someone? Contact Gail Hébert on 020 8744 4275 or write to her at the Richmond and Twickenham Times, Second floor, Allied House, 29-39 London Road, Twickenham. TW1 3SZ, email: ghebert@london.newsquest.co.uk including a telephone number if possible.

	Mind the 70 year gap - 1938 tube classic is leaving from platform 1
	12:45pm Thu 24 Apr 08
	Self confessed Art Deco nut' Colin Hines from East Twickenham linked up last Sunday with train buffs and news editor of the Hounslow and Brentford Times Chris Briddon and Nostalgia page editor Gail Hébert for a rare journey aboard a tube train of 1938 classic design.

Nostalgia: Then and now

12:08pm Thursday 17th April 2008

See the Richmond and Twickenham Times and the Hounslow and Brentford Times for pictures which illustrate these articles.

Nostalgia: Fred's Army

12:06pm Thursday 17th April 2008

For pictures illustrating this article, see this week's Richmond and Twickenham Times

Nostalgia: Rise of the Bakers' Company

12:05pm Thursday 17th April 2008

Tony Cavan of the eponymous Hampton bakery business talked about the staff of life as the welcome guest of the Probus Club of Twickenham.

Nostalgia: Then and now in The Hounslow and Brentford Times

10:28am Thursday 10th April 2008

Top, Isleworth Blue School, Lower Square in around 1903, showing some of the pupils. Founded in 1630 as a girls' charity school, it occupied the Town House.

Nostalgia: Then and now

10:26am Thursday 3rd April 2008

Garth Groombridge's book of photographs taken in the 1970s and the present day view includes one in High Street, Teddington. Teddington, Twickenham & The Hamptons Past & Present shows A Geere, a cycle shop which had a lean to glass extension and part of the canopy and facade of Stapleton & Sons, butcher, visible on the left. The cottages behind Geere's shop are thought to date back to the 16th century. Geere's had ceased trading by 1981.

	Nostalgia: Mystery of the love letters in a Hampton attic
	10:24am Thu 3 Apr 08
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	Nostalgia: from our photographic files March 1983
	1:04pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	1983: For the first time in 20 years a member of the Chiswick St Michael's Guide Company has been awarded the Queen's Guide Badge. Fifteen years old Monika Czjkowska of The Quay, Chiswick is the second recipient the company has ever received. She is pictured here surrounded by fellow guides and brownies wishing her well with the special award. Making the presentation was Mrs B Friend, the Brentford and Chiswick district commissioner. Also present were Miss M Fletcher, local guide president, district commissioner Mrs Moffatt-Roberts, Gunnersbury district commissioner Miss B Barden, former guide guider, Monicka's mother, father, brother, godmother and grandmother, plus the 11th Chiswick (St Michael's) Brownie Pack, of which Monika was a member and pack leader for a year and its guider Miss S J Riley. In the photograph Monika holds aloft a special cake she baked the mark the occasion.

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