Teddington Key Dates
This section gives keydates for Teddington events to stand alongside the main TBC Multimedia History.
Before 1850
| 1811 | first Teddington Lock built |
| 1812 | Teddington Weir built |
| 1832 | Teddington Public School opened (now St Mary's and St Peter's CofE School) |
1850
| 1857 | Teddington Lock rebuilt |
1860
1870
| 1871 | Rules of Hockey codified by Teddington Hockey Club (born out of Cricket Club) |
| 1872 | new Teddington Police Station "occupied" |
Teddington's population grew from 4,000 to 14,000 between the 1871 and 1901 Censuses. In this period, Teddington began to be better known than previously for a number of reasons. For example:
- Hockey invented and codified by Teddington Cricket Clubin the summer of 1871 and a national Hockey Association based on Teddington's rules is established in 1886.
- Bushy Park became a popular weekend trip - thousands came by train and bicycle in the 1880s.
- Teddington Lock and weir - the first lock encountered as you sail up the Thames - became well known to people sailing and rowing on the river at weekends.
- The National Physical Laboratory - the keeper of the UK standards for mass, length and time opened in Bushy House, Teddington in 1900.
| 1875 | Teddington and Hampton Wick Memorial Hospital opened in Elfin Grove |
| 1879 | Teddington Cemetery opened in Shacklegate Lane Teddington Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel opened |
1880
| 1881 | Recreation Ground opened in Manor Road Teddington Baptist Church founded (Place in TBC History) |
| 1882 | Over 2000 cycles gathered in Bushy Park for Bicycle Meet |
| 1886 | Town Hall opened in the Causeway (destroyed by fire in 1903) |
| 1889 | St Alban's Anglican Church consecrated (unfinished) Suspension Bridge across the Thames opened at Teddington Lock |
1890
| 1892 | Shooting banned in Bushy Park |
| 1895 | Teddington Baptist Church - new church building opened (Details, Place in TBC History) |
1900
| 1900 | Bushey House (sic) offered by the Queen to be the home of the newly established National Physical Laboratory (website) Elmfield Cinema opened (later renamed Savoy Cinema and rebuilt in 1937) |
| 1902 | National Physical Laboratory officially opened in Bushy House |
| 1903 | Electric trams reached Teddington (London United Tramways) |
"There are those who think that the very sleepiness of Teddington and Hampton Wick is part of their charm. So it is, but nobody cares to eternalise narrow and newly impossible lanes, and in broadening and straightening the roadway the company has done a permanent service."
Teddington Baptist Church Sunday School formed a lawn tennis club in 1908. This club began by using courts owned by Charles Deayton which they rented for £10 a year. In 1914 the club moved to a site in Vicarage Road which it still uses today. On moving, it changed its name from the Queens Road Tennis Club to Teddington Lawn Tennis Club. The Club is still operating in Vicarage Road but no longer has any connection with the Church.
| 1908 | Bushy Park "hurricane" on 1 June 1908 |
1910
| 1912 | Ec-Ko Films opened in Broom Road - renamed as Teddington Film Studios in 1928 |
| 1914 | St Michael's and St George's Anglican Parish formed Great Storm flooded much of Teddington on 14 June 1914 |
1920
1930
| 1925 | Chemical Research Laboratory opened on NPL site (later known as National Chemical Laboratory) Woodland Gardens opened in Bushy Park |
| 1927 | Paint Research Association (founded 1926) established in Waldegrave Road |
| 1927 | Teddington Theatre Club formed |
| 1929 | new Teddington Memorial Hospital opened in Hampton Road |
1940
| 1940 | Major bombing raid hits Teddington on 29 November 1940 (Details,Place in TBC History) |
| 1942 | American Forces set up Camp Griffis in Bushy Park |
| 1944 | Eisenhower heads Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) in Camp Griffis, Bushy Park Methodist Church destroyed by bombing on 23 August 1944 |
| 1946 | Teddington Old People's Welfare Committee founded |
1950
| 1956 | new Baptist church building opened (Details, Place in TBC History) |
1960
| 1960 | Savoy Cinema closed |
| 1962 | Buses replaced trolleybuses |
| 1963 | Teddington Council of Churches founded (Details, Place in TBC History) |
| 1965 | National Chemical Laboratory closed with some work going to NPL |
| 1967 | St Alban's replaced by St Mary's as the Anglican parish church |
| 1968 | Tearfund founded (as The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund) (Details) |
1970
1980
| 1980 | new premises opened for St Peter's and St Paul's Anglican Church |
| 1983 | National Maritime Institute privatised |
| 1984 | Teddington Business Park opened in Station Road on site of old coal yard |
| 198? | Admiralty Research Laboratory closed |
| 1987 | Great Storm hit most of Southern England on 18 October 1987 National Weights and Measures Laboratory officially opened on 9 April 1987 (website) |
| 1989 | Laboratory of the Government Chemist officially opened on 10 July 1989 (website) |
1990
| 1994 | Teddington wired for cable television and telephone |
| 1995 | St Alban's Church reopened as Landmark Arts Centre |
| 1997 | Launch of Wot? - What's Online for Teddington? (Place in TBC History) |
| 1997 | Normansfield Hospital closed |
| 1998 | Teddington Society celebrated silver jubilee and launched website (Details) |
2000
| 2000 | Millennium Celebrations of the birth of Jesus Christ |
| 2002 | Teddington Lifeboat Station opened |
| 2003 | Langdon Down Centre Trust acquired some of Normansfield Hospital land |
| 2004 | Teddington Methodist Church opened refurbished premises Teddington Baptist Church opened refurbished premises |
| 2005 | Paint Research Association moved to Hampton |
| 2006 | Haymarket Publishing moved to Teddington Studios |
| 2007 | Haymarket Publishing renamed as Haymarket Media Group |
2010
| 2011 | Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability established on Normansfield Hospital site |
| 2012 | Travelodge opened hotel in Teddington Olympic Cycle Road Race passes through Teddington Teddington Railway Station given Grade II listed status |
| 2013 | 150th anniversary of Teddington Railway Station |
| 2015 | Haymarket Media Group closes Teddington Studios site for redevelopment |