This grand Tudor palace was built by Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey, but passed to the king in 1529. His 4th queen Catherine Howard is said to haunt the gallery outside the chapel.
Europe’s largest brick building was given classical flair by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The station went off-line in 1983. In 2010 plans were approved for redevelopment into offices and homes.
Site of a famous horse-racing track was used from 1890 to 1962, when it was sold for residential development. The royal box and grandstand were burnt down by suffragettes in 1913.
The first German V-2 rocket hit London in Sept 1944, killing 3 people. The spot is marked by a memorial on Staveley Rd in Chiswick. To prevent panic, the government claimed it was a gas explosion.
Walter Hammerton opened a ferry service here in 1909, but was taken to court by owners of the Twickenham ferry. It became a cause célèbre, reaching the House of Lords, who in 1915 backed Hammerton.
In 1616 Anne of Denmark, wife of James I, commissioned Inigo Jones to build the Queen’s House, the first fully Classical building in England. The house now forms part of the National Maritime Museum.
Operating since 1909, the Double Play is one of the few visible reminders of the long-gone San Francisco Seals, a baseball team from the Pacific Coast League.
Patty Hearst spent her first week in captivity in this house in Feb. 1974 as a prisoner of urban revolutionaries who called themselves the "Symbionese Liberation Army." She would later join the SLA.
Opened on October 1, 2009, the museum features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post.
