museum
Anthony Beckles Willson, 1720
25 The Embankment, Twickenham, TW1 3DU
Grade II listed former waterman's cottage c1720. Restored and converted into a museum celebrating the rich history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons.
Richmond
Twickenham
H22, R68, R70, 290, 490, 267, 281, 33
Walking distance from nearest bus stop: 3-5 minutes. Trains stations also at Richmond and St Margaret's.
No lift access to the first floor. Two steep steps from the outside into the museum.
Some internal steps are quite steep so a level of physical mobility is needed to ascend to the 1st floor Exhibits Room.
Situated next to St Mary’s church, 25 The Embankment lies at the heart of historic Twickenham. First indicated on Moses Glover’s 1635 survey of the Isleworth Hundred, the idiosyncratic footprint of the building and exposed internal brickwork date the building to this time.
The Georgian symmetry of its present appearance is disturbed by an 18th century side extension over a former passageway, with the whole faced with nineteenth century London stock.
Believed to have once been owned by the Twining tea family, it was home to a branch of the local Hammerton watermen, ferrymen and boatbuilder family who lived here from 1896 until 1939 or later. The last private owner was local conservation campaigner Jack Ellis who left the property to become a museum for the old borough of Twickenham when he died in 1994 .
The museum will be open on Saturday 14th September between 11 and 3pm with a special house managers 10 minute introduction talk on the hour at 11, 12, 1 and 2pm.
