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Commemorating the First World War in Richmond upon Thames EVENTS PROGRAMME: July - December 2014 FOreWOrD cONTeNTS

This year, a rich programme of events and activities takes place across Richmond Exhibitions 3 upon Thames to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Events July 7

The next four years will be a unique period for the borough as it refl ects upon its August 10 local history and wartime experience, alongside wider commemorations of the September 12 First World War nationally and internationally. We look forward to seeing many of you over the course of these events and hope they will leave their own legacy. October 15 We are delighted to be working in partnership with a variety of arts, cultural and community groups across Richmond. Through working together, we hope our November 18 commemorative events will bring the community together and raise awareness of the sacrifi ces made by so many local families in the war. This brochure includes December 21 information about the range of events that will take place throughout 2014. Learning Programmes 23 The programme aims to provide something for everyone; from arts engagement projects, talks, tours and theatre performances to a range of exhibitions. 2014-18 Key Highlights 25

You are invited to contribute your own stories about Richmond’s First World War Further Information Local and National 27 in our ‘Village Stories’ commemorations. This will explore family history and the way Richmond’s communities changed as a result of the Great War. We will Funding Opportunities for First World War Projects 28 collect stories from local groups and individuals within the 14 villages of our borough and First World War Partners 29 the project will culminate in an exhibition at Gallery in 2018.

Lord True CBE, Leader of Richmond Cover image and above: Postcard of Richmond Bridge upon Thames Council © Howard Webb, http://postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.com eXHIbITIONS eXHIbITIONS

A Refl ection of World War One In Their Footsteps: Richmond’s Where: OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, First World War SW13 0LF Where: Orleans House Gallery, Date: 1 – 11 July 2014 , TW1 3DJ Price: Free entry Date: 2 August – 16 November Price: Free entry – donations requested Enjoy this exhibition of art and poetry to support the Transforming Orleans marking the centenary of the First World House capital appeal War created by pupils at St.Osmund’s Catholic Primary School in Barnes. This exhibition sees young people launching Richmond’s four-year Their work is inspired by letters written commemoration of the First World War from the front line back home to loved Centenary as they explore the boroughs

Unknown photographer, Denis Conran MC, (detail), probably ones, as well as Wilfred Owen and rich, but relatively undocumented, First at Artists Rifl es School of Instruction in France, late 1914 - early 1915, Private Collection other First World War poets. For more World War heritage. Ten stories have been information please call 020 8876 9885 selected and creatively interpreted in or visit [email protected] collaboration with photographer Othello de Souza Hartley using a variety of media including installation, sculpture, drawing, Plants, People and the Products creative writing and photography. For of War: a Centenary Tribute more information contact the gallery on

Photo by Anne Purkiss Where: Library Reading Room, 020 8831 6000 or visit www.richmond. Coat and helmet from the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, , TW9 3AE gov.uk/arts Date: 1 July – 29 August Price: Free entry 1914-1918 Richmond at Home Find out about Kew’s intriguing and at War involvement in the First World War and Where: Museum of Richmond, TW9 1TP how the war shaped the gardens and Date: 8 August 2014 – 22 April 2015 the lives of the people who worked here. Price: Free entry A special Open Day will take place on Saturday 5 July with a chance to meet the Through varied displays and private exhibition’s creators and view an expanded artefacts, photographs, letters and range of artefacts. For more information reminiscences from local people, this Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. of the Royal Botanic Gardens, of Trustees with the kind permission of Board Image reproduced please call 020 8332 5414 or visit www. exhibition relates the fascinating and

An original newspaper clipping from The Hearsum Collection Photograph of ‘Frank’ in uniform from the Kew Guild Collection kew. org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on moving stories of Richmond’s First World KGU/1/9/2/142 3 4 eXHIbITIONS eXHIbITIONS

War experience, including the founding 3rd Battle of Ypres Cambrian Connections of the and the Royal Where: OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, Where: Cambrian Community Centre, Star and Garter Home. It also explores SW13 0LF Rchmond, TW10 6SN Richmond’s international links during this Date: 1 – 6 September Date: October 2014 time with stories of the Belgian refugees Price: Free entry Price: Free entry and the South African Military Hospital in . For more information Artist Jean Mounsey has created an This exhibition will tell the stories of contact the Museum on 020 8332 1141 installation piece constructed as a Richmond in the First World War including or visit www.museumofrichmond.com memorial to the 240,000 men who died the Queen’s Road Estate and surrounding in the Battle of Passchendale. The work area –encompassing Mary’s Grove and makes use of thin black silk banners Pest House Common. For more Richmond Park in the First World War suspended from a framework of high- information please call 020 8948 3351 Where: The Hearsum Collection at tension wires. For more information or visit www.cambriancentre.org Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, please contact the centre on 020 8876 TW10 5HX 9885 or visit [email protected] Date: August 2014 – December 2014 Lest We Forget Price: Free entry Where: Rugby Football Union Confl ict and Remembrance & , Richmond Park has a fascinating history Where: Octagon Room, Orleans House Twickenham, TW1 1DZ spanning four centuries since its Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3DJ Date: November 2014 enclosure by Charles I in 1637 as a royal Date: 23 – 27 October Price: Exhibition included in hunting ground. During the First World Price: Free entry Museum entry £8/£6 concessions War the Park witnessed extraordinary developments, including a secret anti- The First World War was the fi rst confl ict A small exhibition will be held inside Zeppelin experiment and the construction to generate a large library of photographic the World Rugby Museum during the of a fully-equipped hospital which treated images depicting the lives and conditions November 2014 QBE Internationals thousands of troops and one wounded experienced by soldiers and civilians from and a larger special exhibition will be pet monkey. Visit a new display by the both sides. It is therefore fi tting that unveiled in May 2015. The RFU is also Hearsum Collection at Pembroke Lodge artsrichmond’s biennial Photography coordinating a series of activities to mark in Richmond Park. Exhibition will display the work of local the extraordinary sacrifi ce of rugby players For more information please visit contemporary photographers on the during the First World War. For more www.hearsumcollection.org.uk or theme of ‘Confl ict and Remembrance’. information please call 020 8892 8877 email [email protected] For more information please call 020 8892 or visit www.rfu/museum 9446 or visit www.artsrichmond.org.uk

Lest We Forget, (detail), World Rugby Museum

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Poppy Factory Tours 2017 and 2018. For more information For more information please contact the Where: The Poppy Factory, Richmond, contact the Council’s Parks Team on 020 Cemeteries Manager on 020 8876 4511 TW10 6UR 8891 1411 or email [email protected] or visit www.richmond.gov.uk/cemeteries Date: Tours On-going Price: Free – donations requested to help war veterans Richmond Guided Walking Tour My Boy Jack Where: Meet at 11am at Richmond Where: Playhouse, Visitors are welcome on pre-arranged tours Station, TW9 2NA TW12 1NZ of The Poppy Factory. Enjoy a fascinating When: Every Wednesday until Date: 29 June - 5 July presentation and introductory fi lm about December 2014 Price: £14 non-members/ £12 the factory and its history and then visit Price: £12 (includes a donation to members the ‘shop fl oor’, giving you the opportunity The Poppy Factory) to meet Poppy Factory staff and see how In the build up to the outbreak of the poppies and wreaths are made. For more During our guided tour of Richmond and its First World War, Rudyard Kipling is information please call 020 8940 3305 or beautiful riverfront we also include a short determined that his under-age, severely email [email protected] visit to The Poppy Factory and see other short-sighted son John should enlist. John sites linked to WWI such as the former Star has twice been rejected for military service & Garter home and Richmond Park. The due to his poor eyesight. Undeterred Poppy Meadows tour fi nishes by the Museum of Richmond. Kipling pulls strings and John is given a Where: Six locations around the Booking is essential. Please call 020 3397 commission in the Irish Guards. The result borough 2797 or visit www.discoveryrichmond.com of Kipling’s actions will haunt his family Date: Meadows will fl ower in for the rest of their lives. To book tickets June – July 2014 please call 0845 838 7529 or visit www. Price: Free Cleaning of First World War Graves teddingtontheatreclub.org.uk Where: , TW2 6LD Poppy seeds have been sown at six green Date: Throughout 2014 spaces across the borough which will grow Price: Free Torch Bearers into meadows by the summer. Poppies can Where: Cambridge Gardens, be seen at Hampton Common (entrance The Cadets from 199 () Cadet Twickenham, TW1 2TA from Oak Avenue), St Albans Gardens Detachment, Middlesex & NW ACF Date: 8 July 2–3pm (Hampton Court Riverside), Murray Park are completing their Bronze Duke of Price: Free event (Whitton), Manor Road Recreation Ground Award. For their volunteering (), Green and Old Deer section they are undertaking the clearing Dramatic Edge have worked with 80 Park, Richmond (on the South/West facing and cleaning of some First World War Year 8 students from schools across the bank). Poppy meadows will continue to be graves in Twickenham Cemetery. They are also borough to develop a dance and drama Twickenham War Memorial, from original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library grown at other locations in 2015, 2016, planting bulbs in front of the headstones. performance based on the lives of First

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World War Belgian Refugees who lived in Twickenham. For more information please call 020 8783 4271 or email arts.admin@ hamptonacademy.org.uk

Concert in the Park Where: Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Twickenham, TW2 7DU Date: 13 July 3pm Price: Adults £15/ Children and OAPs £10 Poppy Appeal Honour Walk This Service of Commemoration will involve Where: British Legion Club, Richmond music, poetry and refl ections from the This concert in the Park commemorates the TW9 2RA First World War. For more information First World War and is in aid of The Royal Date: 2 August 2pm please call 020 8977 2767 or visit www. British Legion. For more information and to Price: £10 per person, group discounts stmarywithstalban.org book tickets please call 0844 884 2920 or available visit www.army.mod.uk/music

Join us for a 5km sponsored walk around Vigil Richmond to raise money for the Royal Where: , Twickenham Women at War British Legion. Tickets also include a free TW1 4RB Where: U3A, Clarendon Hall, York BBQ and entertainment after the walk, Date: 4 August 9am – 9pm House, Twickenham, TW1 3AA starting at 3:30pm. Donations will be on Price: Free event Date: 30 July 2.30pm the door for non-walkers. All participants Price: Members £1, non-members £2 will receive a t-shirt and other goodies. To To commemorate the 100th anniversary of book please call 0777 622 7405 or email Speaker Jim Barnes will talk about the declaration of war on 4 August 1914, Natalie at [email protected] women’s contribution to the two the Twickenham Branch of the Royal British World Wars and to the Air Transport Legion will be holding a vigil by the War Auxiliary. For further details please visit Memorial in Radnor Gardens. There will Service of Commemoration www.u3a-richmond.org.uk be a full programme of activities including Where: Church, a Remembrance Service, poetry reading, Teddington, TW11 9NN First World War songs and the lighting of Date: 3 August 6.30pm candles and lanterns. For details of the Price: Free event latest programme including timings please

Soldier statue on War Memorial, Richmond upon Thames contact [email protected]

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Memorial Stones Placed in Cemeteries Where: Locations across the borough Date: Installed from August 2014 Price: Free

Memorial stones will be placed in cemeteries which will show the number of service personnel resting within the grounds that fell in the First World War. The cemeteries include Richmond and From original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library From ; Hampton; Twickenham; Teddington. For more information please WW1 Battlefi elds Trek Museum of Richmond First World War contact the Cemeteries Manager on Where: Ypres Salient Battle sites Events Programme 020 8876 4511 or www.richmond.gov.uk/ Date: 17 – 21 September Where: Museum of Richmond cemeteries. Price: £50 registration fee/ TW9 1TP £1,450 Sponsorship Pledge Date: 10 September 6 – 7.45pm Price: £3 donation welcomed The Royal Star & Garter Homes is proud to announce its WW1 Battlefi elds Trek of the Watch the fi rst of a series of fi lms on the Ypres Salient Battle sites to commemorate First World War: The African Queen (1951) the start of WW1. This is a poignant experience and an opportunity to raise funds for The Royal Star & Garter Homes Where: Museum of Richmond - a charity that provides nursing and TW9 1TP therapeutic care to the ex-Service Date: 26 September 11am – 1pm community. For further information (starts at the Museum) please visit www.starandgarter.org Price: £3 or email [email protected] Join us for the fi rst of our local history walks on the First World War in Richmond. For further information please call 020 8332 1141

British Campaign Star Medal

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Know Your Place Heritage Festival: For further information please call 020 Footsteps 8734 3309 or visit localstudies@richmond. Where: Richmond Local Studies gov.uk Library, TW9 1TP Date: 12 September 2.30pm Price: Free event First World War Film programme Learn how to research the impact of the Where: Olympic Studios, Barnes First World War on the local community SW13 9HL and gain practical advice and guidance Date: September 2014 – about identifying and using a range of November 2018 First World War archive material in Local Price: Screenings priced individually Studies such as newspaper articles, maps, directories, commemorative lists and In commemoration of 100 years since the photos. For further information please First World War, there will be a selection call 020 8734 3309 or visit localstudies@ of fi lms and hosting events that look at richmond.gov.uk the Great War including the following programme: Paths of Glory (1957), The African Queen (1951), La Grande Illusion Know Your Place Heritage Festival: (1937), The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp Follow the Drum (1943), Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) Where: Richmond Local Studies For further information and costs please Library, TW9 1TP visit www.olympiccinema.co.uk Date: 26 September 2.30pm Price: Free event

Find out about the ‘Follow the Drum’ campaign and discover how military traditions combined with the existing culture of marching music; in an effort to support Recruitment Marches and enlistment in the Borough at the outbreak of the First World War. Original archival documentation including concert programmes and posters are presented.

From original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library

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Work, Love and the Vote: Plays on the eve of war Where: SS Philip and James Church, Whitton, TW2 7DY Date: 16, 17, 18 October 7.30pm Price: £1

Enjoy an evening of sketches and short comedies which form a unique picture of domestic life in the period just before the First World War, including marriage, life downstairs and the votes for women Take part in this guided walking tour and Mark Norris, Education Manager at Newquay campaign. There will be an accompanying fi nd out about the lives of individuals Zoo, talks about the botanic gardens and exhibition drawn from the church archives involved in the First World War from St zoos during the First World War. For more and the local community. For more Margarets, including Corporal Percy Davies. information please call 020 8332 5545 information please call 020 8898 2694 or For more information or to book please (Visitor Information Team) or visit www. to book in advance visit www.wegottickets. email [email protected]. You may kew. org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on com/whittonchurch also be interested in an article by local historian and writer Martyn Day about local hero Corporal Percy Davies published in Regeneration The Origins of the Treaty of Versailles the St Margarets Community Newsletter Where: , Richmond Where: Richmond Adult Community on www.stmgrts.org.uk. A further article Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ College, Parkshot, Richmond, TW9 2RE by Mr Day entitled “The Week That War When: 27 October – 1 November Date: 16 October 2 – 4pm Broke Out” is available at www. Price: £10 – £33.40 Price: £15 mystmargarets.com Marking the centenary of the First World Listen to this lecture at Richmond Adult War this new dramatisation of Pat Barker’s Community College. To book please call Such is the Price of Empire: How unforgettable Booker-nominated novel is 020 8843 7921 or visit www.racc.ac.uk botanic gardens and zoos survived adapted for the stage by OLIVER award- wartime winner Nicholas Wright (His Dark Materials). Where: Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Regeneration is a compassionate look at St Margarets ‘War Walk’ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3DS war and its devastating effects: a powerful, Where: Supplied on enquiry When: 20 October 6 – 7pm humane anthem for the youth of the First Date: Selected dates in October Price: £2 World War. For further details and times Price: Supplied on enquiry please visit www.atgtickets.com/Richmond Unknown photographer, Percy Davies, Private Collection

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Guided Wartime Tour The Origins of the Treaty of Versailles Where: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Where: Richmond Adult Community TW9 3AB College, Parkshot, Richmond, TW9 3RE Date: Daily during November at Date: 6 November 7 – 9pm 12 noon Price: £15 Price: Free with admission Listen to this illustrated lecture covering Explore the sites and stories of particular the timeline of events and the people who signifi cance from both World Wars. Tours were involved in the drawing up of the start at the Guides Desk, Victoria Plaza. Treaty of Versailles. To book please call Image credit Gravity & Levity Image credit original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library From Original Poppy Factory For further details and times please call 020 8843 7921 or visit www.racc.ac.uk 020 8332 5655 (Visitor Information team) Rites of War Museum of Richmond First World War or visit www. kew. org/visit-kew-gardens/ Where: Landmark Arts Centre, Events Programme whats-on The Armed Man – a Mass for Peace Teddington, TW11 9NN Where: Museum of Richmond, Where: Landmark Arts Centre, When: 28 (8pm) & 29 (4pm) October TW9 1TP Teddington, TW11 9NN Price: £7 adults / £5 concs Date: 28, 29, 30 and 31 October, The Teddington War Memorial Talk Date: 9 November 10am - 12pm Where: St Mary’s Church Hall, Price: £15 adults / £13 seniors / A moving new contemporary dance work Price: £4 per child Twickenham, TW1 3NJ £10 U16s by acclaimed company Gravity & Levity. Date: 3 November 7.30pm. Take part in Family Workshops in The stories of two soldiers in two wars Price: Supplied on enquiry View this semi-staged performance of a collaboration with the Poppy Factory 100 years and 3000 miles apart: the First moving work by Karl Jenkins, featuring with a First World War theme. For further World War Belgian battlefi elds and the Join The Teddington Society for an professional soloists and musicians, a information and to book please call streets of present day Kabul. Six aerialists illustrated talk that shares their research community chorus and dance students 020 8332 1141 and dancers combine rich visual language on the names and lives of the fallen on from local schools. The Armed Man with music, fi lm and news commentary all of the War Memorials in Teddington. charts the growing menace of a descent to reveal the ugly truths and unexpected For more information please visit www. into war; showing the horrors that war beauty of living and loving through teddingtonsociety.org.uk brings. It ends with the hope for peace, confl icts, then and now. Age guidance: when “sorrow, pain and death can be 12+. For further details please visit overcome”. It forms part of The Landmark www.landmarkartscentre.org Festival of Song 2014. For further details please visit www.landmarkartscentre.org

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Remembrance of Fallen Belgian while viewing historical video footage Soldiers of stories and memories of the war, in Where: Twickenham Cemetery, TW2 6LD this Multi-Media Concert featuring the Date: 11 November Barnes Concert Band and FiSH (Friendship, Price: Free event Independence, Support, Help) volunteers. For more information please call 020 8876 A commemoration for the Belgian 3555 or visit www.fi shhelp.org.uk soldiers killed in industrial accidents at the Pelabon Munitions Works will be held on Remembrance Day. For further details Richmond upon Thames Literature please visit www.easttwickenham.org Festival Where: Borough wide Date: Throughout November Requiem Mass Price: Events priced individually Where: St. Mary`s Church, Twickenham, TW1 3NJ The borough’s annual Literature Festival will Date: 11 November 6pm be marking the 100 year commemorations Price: Free event in 2014 with special events examining the First World War. There will be a Requiem Mass on Remembrance Sunday. You can also view For event details please visit the newly cleaned War Memorial at St. www.richmondliterature.com or call Mary`s Church to honour the memory of 020 8831 6000. Box offi ce: 020 8831 6494 those who were killed in the First World (from 29 September). War from the local community. For more information please call 020 8744 2693 or visit www.stmarytwick.org.uk

The Great War: Music and Memories Where: , St Paul’s Boys’ School, SW13 9JT Date: 15 November, 7pm Price: Free event

Listen to music from the First World War, From original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library

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Museum of Richmond First World War Christmas Truce – Teddington The Singing Will Never Be Done Short First World War Courses Events Programme Choral Society Where: Landmark Arts Centre, Where: Richmond Adult Community Where: Museum of Richmond, TW9 1TP Where: St James’s Church, Hampton Teddington, TW11 9NN College, Parkshot, Richmond, TW9 2RE Date: 4 December 2 – 3.30pm Hill, TW12 1DQ Date: 13 December 7.30pm Date: Throughout 2014 Price: £3 Date: 13 December 7.30pm Price: £18 (unreserved) Price: Courses priced individually Price: Cost £12 (concessions £10) Join us for a poetry event led by Twickenham Choral Society will sing There are a range of short courses available Poet in the City, in collaboration Christmas Truce, an oratorio for choir, works by Scarlatti, Vaughan Williams and related to the First World War including with the Museum of Richmond, with baritone soloist and small orchestra by Farrington - settings of poetry and prose ‘Poetry for Pleasure – WW1 War Poetry’, published poets and secondary schools Jonathan Rathbone, explores one of the by Sassoon and Whitman - refl ecting ‘The Great War: The Dawning of a Modern participating. For further information and most remarkable and poignant moments on war grief and remembrance. For Age’ and ‘WW1 and the Women’s Role’ to book please call 020 8332 1141 of the First World War - the spontaneous more information please visit www. as well as one day events such as ‘First ceasefi re at the front line in France on landmarkartscentre.org or email World War – the origins of the Treaty of Christmas Eve 1914. Taking the form of [email protected] Versailles’. For more information or to Talk: Christmas in the Trenches a narrative by a soldier who was there, it book please call 020 8843 7921 or visit Where: Museum of Richmond, TW9 1TP incorporates beautiful but long-forgotten www.racc.ac.uk Date: 4 December 2 – 3.30pm carols which were sung in the trenches as An Afternoon of Poetry and Song Price:£3 well as poetry. The concert will also include Where: All Souls Church, Twickenham, carols sung by Teddington Choral Society TW1 1PB Join us for a “Christmas in the Trenches” and St James’s Catholic Primary School Date: 14 December talk at the Museum by Nick Dobson. Chamber Choir, with opportunities for Price: Supplied on enquiry For further information and to book audience participation. For further please call 020 8332 1141 information please visit www. For more information or to book please teddingtonchoral.co.uk email [email protected]

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University of the Third Age (U3A) workshops: You can book a ‘Walk Museum of Richmond First World War Where: Clarendon Hall, York House, through WW1’ and to become a history Events Programme Twickenham, TW1 3AA detective and discover how the First Where: Museum of Richmond, TW9 1TP Date: Monthly, Wednesdays 2.30pm World War impacted lives of local people Date: Throughout 2014 Price: Members £1/Non-members £2 through investigating personal stories, Price: Events priced individually objects and photographs. and make a Monthly meetings take place at 2.30pm creative memorial badge or creative piece. For full details on the Museum’s wide range on the last Wednesday of each month, Curriculum focus: History, Local history, of autumn events on the First World War except December. There is usually a English, Art and Design, Citizenship. - including a Poetry Reading event, history speaker, with a varied programme of talks, fi lms, local walks and workshops, subjects including the First World War. INSET - CPD events for Teachers: Join us please call 020 8332 1141 or visit For more information please visit on 18 September for a CPD session which www.museumofrichmond.com www.u3a.org.uk includes a practical session and twilight view and free teachers resources to help you teach about the First World War. Orleans House Gallery: First World Art workshops for Families: Take part War Education activities in a range of exciting events happening Where: Orleans House Gallery, through the Autumn. Twickenham, TW1 3DJ Date: Throughout 2014 For further details please contact the Price: Workshops priced individually Education team on 020 8831 6000 or email [email protected] Take part in a range of First World War themed activities, including: School From the collections at the Museum of Richmond

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Football at the Front For further details please visit www. easttwickenham.org This project centres on local serviceman Frank Edwards who kicked a football ahead Diamond Jubilee Gardens of the Battle of Loos in 1915. Volunteers There will be a new First World War of all ages will research and interpret this inspired Art Work commissioned for the story through exhibitions, community Diamond Jubilee Gardens in Twickenham. performance and digital technology. Please visit www.richmond.gov.uk/WW1 to find out more. Cemetery Walks and Talks In 2015 Richmond upon Thames Council Dance Commissions will provide a booklet and hold guided During 2016 – 17 a series of dance walk/talks within borough cemeteries. The commissions around the boroughs’ war booklet will assist in identifying graves memorials. Further information will be of service personnel who lived close to the available www.richmond.gov.uk/dance cemetery, with information about the person nearer the time and the facts surrounding their death. Village Stories Exhibition East Twickenham Village Throughout 2014-18 we will work across A memorial in East Twickenham to the First the 14 villages of our borough to capture World War Belgian refugee community will the memories of those who were involved be unveiled in the afternoon on 16 May in Richmond’s First World War. The project 2015 (free event). The whole story will be will culminate with an exhibition at Orleans Courtesy of The London Irish Rifles told in a musical drama documentary the House Gallery in 2018 and an Watercolour by Lady Butler, 1916. same evening (tickets £5/students £2). accompanying publication.

25 26 FurTHer INFOrmATION FuNDING OPPOrTuNITIeS FOr lOcAl AND NATIONAl FIrST WOrlD WAr PrOJecTS Civic Pride The Civic Pride Fund is now open to projects that support the themes of the Council’s four year First World War commemoration programme. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to organisations and £1,000 for individuals. To talk through your ideas or if you require any other assistance please contact the Voluntary Sector Project Left: From original material held at Richmond Local Studies Library Left: From BL24 380_009 by permission of English Heritage NMR. Reference Reproduced Belgian refugee women at work at the Pelabon Munitions factory. Support Offi cer on 020 8831 6020 or visit www.richmond.gov.uk/civic_pride_fund Richmond upon Thames Council Website The First World War Centenary Please keep checking the website for up Partnership to date information about First World War The First World War Centenary Partnership Heritage Lottery Fund events in Richmond upon Thames at led by IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a The ‘First World War: then and now’ www.richmond.gov.uk/WW1 growing network of over 2,800 not-for- programme provides grants of £3,000 profi t organisations from 49 countries to £10,000 for communities to mark Richmond Local Studies Library planning to mark the First World War the Centenary of the First World War. The Local Studies team can assist you with Centenary. Together they are presenting For more information please call enquiries and answer questions, helping the Centenary Partnership Programme, 020 7591 6000 or visit www.hlf.org.uk you to access primary source material. For a vibrant programme of events, activities more information please call 020 8734 3309 and resources which will enable millions of people to engage with the centenary. The National Archives To take part and fi nd out what’s happening The National Archives’ First World War in your area, go to www.1914.org collection is one of the largest in the world and is open to the public to explore Visit Richmond at their Kew visitor centre or through the When visiting Richmond upon Thames to online catalogue. Trace your own family or learn more about the First World War local connections or fi nd new perspectives please see www.visitrichmond.co.uk to on this confl ict through the First World learn about what else there is to see, do War 100 programme of talks, conferences and explore during your visit. Richmond and exhibitions. For more information upon Thames has a wide variety of please visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/ accommodation from B&B to 4* star fi rstworldwar hotels and offers a wide selection of pubs First World War periscope and restaurants.

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Arts Richmond Richmond Theatre Please tell us about your events British Legion Club Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The events listed in this brochure were Cambrian Community Centre Royal Military School of Music, correct at the time of print. Event details Connaught Opera Kneller Hall can often change at short notice, so we Discovery Richmond Royal Star and Garter Homes advise you to check with the organisers Dramatic Edge Rugby Football Union that the event is going ahead before at- East Twickenham Village SS Philip and James Church, Whitton tending. FiSH Neighbourhood Care St Margarets Community Hampton Hill Playhouse St Mary with St Alban Church New events and up to date information Know Your Place Heritage Festival Teddington Choral Society will be continually added to the council Landmark Arts Centre Teddington Theatre Club webpage www.richmond.gov.uk/WW1. Museum of Richmond The Hearsum Collection If you are organising a public event in Olympic Studios, Barnes The Poppy Factory Richmond upon Thames, please tell the Optik The National Archives council about your event so that it can The Teddington Society be added to the website. Orleans House Gallery Twickenham Branch of the Royal British OSO Arts Centre Legion Richmond Adult Community College Twickenham Choral Society Richmond Local Studies Library Twickenham Museum Richmond upon Thames Cemetries University of the Third Age (U3A) Richmond upon Thames Parks Team Visit Richmond World Rugby Museum

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