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Description: | Our next picture shews a view from Richmond Bridge taken from the middle of the bridge looking down the river towards the iron Railway Bridge. - - At one time Richmond possessed a Royal Palace, which was a favourite residence of several of the Kings of England, Henry I is said to have been the original builder of it. Richard II dismantled it because his wife died there: Henry V rebuilt the palace and it was a favourite residence of Edward IV and held in equal regard by Henry VII who rebuilt it after it had suffered from fire. When Wolsey gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII the latter gave Richmond to Wolsey. His downfall restored it to the King. Edward VI and Mary spent much time here and subsequently it was the habitation of several of our Monarchs and Queen Elizabeth died here. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | ThamesPilot | Subjects: | Lantern slide Parker Source to Sea | Temporal: | start=1911-01-01; end=1911-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Parker, W | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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