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Started in 2009, the Heritage Lottery-funded project 'Between the Locks' - an oral history of the working lives of the Thames river community bounded by the locks at Richmond and Teddington - has finished. The DVD is now available from the Trust office, and segments are on YouTube. The travelling exhibition, as featured in the Museum of Richmond and the Kew Steam Museum, can be borrowed and used for displays.

This Grade II* listed building is on English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk. We are working with the Friends of Burton to secure funding for the restoration and maintenance of Sir Richard Burton’s mausoleum in Mortlake, so that this exceptional hero who bridged Christianity and Islam can be duly respected. The restoration will cost around £50,000, and we are delighted that English Heritage has awarded a grant of £21,800 towards this total. Funds have also come from private donors and the Heritage of London Trust.

Grove Gardens Chapel in Richmond was built around 1875 from the design of Sir William Blomfield. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1886 and was awarded the Institute’s Gold medal in1891. The Chapel was built in the Revised Gothic style as the Anglican Chapel for Richmond’s cemetery. The Chapel became empty in 1976 and was Listed Grade II in 1990.

We became involved with the mausoleum in 2002 to: maintain and improve the grounds; encourage people to visit this Egyptian influenced Grade II* listed monument in St Margarets; encourage restoration of the mausoleum.

The mausoleum located just off St Margarets Road in Twickenham was built in 1854 by the Earl of Kilmorey for his late mistress Priscilla Hoste. When she died the Earl commissioned the mausoleum which was built at a cost of £30,000 in Brompton Cemetery. The mausoleum has been moved twice to be near the Earl’s home. First, to Chertsey and then to its present location when he moved back to live in nearby Gordon House. The mausoleum still contains the coffins of the Earl and Priscilla.

This was one of our earliest projects started soon after our foundation.

Many of the row of eleven boathouses on Richmond riverside belonged to the houses above in St. Helena Terrace. The boathouses were under-used, or used for storage or domestic purposes.   We jumped at the chance to buy the 60 year lease of No 4 to prevent it being developed for non-river use and to help a number of families to share the boathouse and the delights of the river.

The Burial Ground which is close to the centre of Richmond was declared a public open space and a garden of rest in 1964 but sadly became unkempt and prone to litter and graffiti as the years passed by. A group of residents who are Trust members joined together in 1995. Since then they have worked to restore the Burial Ground to a sanctuary of peace and beauty. Graves were cleared and weeded; walls, monuments and headstones were restored; new shrubs, trees and bulbs were planted – a wild, woodland garden has been created.