kew lives: reconstructing the past

Emily Ward-Willis and Audrey Collins

3 September 2015

Kew Lives: Reconstructing the Past

IR 30/34/74

Kew Lives: Reconstructing the past

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Mortlake Terrace

Some key Sources

The National Archives•1841- 1911 Census

•1910 Valuation Office Maps and Field Books•Service Records•Tithe Maps

Richmond Local Studies Library•Photographs•Trade directories•Phone Books•Yellow Pages

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Online Sources•British Newspapers Online•London Gazette•Commonwealth War Graves

•Old Bailey Online •Victoria County History

Surrey History Centre•Electoral Rolls•Parish Records

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Census

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RG 13/677

Directories

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Kelly’s Richmond Directory (KRD) 1930 KRD 1958

1910 Valuation Office Survey

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3 Mortlake Terrace

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Burglary by a Policeman in 1882

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‘William Guthrie, 25, formerly a police-constable of the V division, was indicted at the Old Bailey, on Thursday, for a burglary on the dwelling-house of Eli Marshall and stealing a florin, his property. This was a rather remarkable case, om account of the position occupied by the prisoner at the time the alleged offence was committed, he having for two years been a constable in the V division of the Metropolitan Police. Prosecutor carries on the business of a chemist and druggist in Mortlake – terrace, Kew…’

PCOM 1/122

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MEPO 4/333

MEPO 7/44

8 Mortlake Terrace

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The impact of War

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ADM 188/214

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ADM 242/7

Questions?

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