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Diana Wells

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

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

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

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

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

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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