Talk:St Margarets, London

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[edit] Estate Agent's Style

This entry suffers too much from an estate agents approach and tends to be unencyclopedic. Lumos3 01:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I presume to apply a figurative pin and knife or two. What a joy of gibberish was the contradiction of "broadly focuses". Marble Hill House ain't never no way in St Margarets (3 - = 1 big -), and York House is way beyond any pretended pale. Gone is the twee "East Twickenham" beloved by Guardian letter writers.
There are other unmentioned British St Margaretses.
"Modern St. Margarets dates from the arrival of the railway in the 1850s. Twickenham's river frontage was already the site of large eighteenth century houses and gardens" What the point of "already"? Except blurbing estate-agentese? The railway to Twickenham opened in 1848, St M station opened in 1876. If something important has gone please replace it carefully but I want no reversion war.--SilasW (talk) 13:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)--SilasW (talk) 15:24, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the estate agent style blurb ... I think that made up template has to go, though. Distances are normally measured from Charing Cross, as Central London is too amorphous. Cheers. Kbthompson (talk) 14:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for thanking me. I hoped that someone versed in WP coding would improve on my fake "template".--SilasW (talk) 20:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Generally, there's a {{otherplaces}} template, but there needs to be something to put there! Eh, thanks for thanking me, for thanking you ... we'd best stop this. Kbthompson (talk) 22:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Name "St Margarets"

Does anyone know where the name "St Margarets" comes from? That's why I looked for this page but there is no mention of it. (TSN)

There is a ""St Margarets Church Hall" opposite the station but that's a newish building. The people who would know are Richmond Local Studies Collection [[1]] (or Richmond Museum [[2]] - both closed today, Monday!). The Tourist Info. Office (always v. helpful) tell me that there was a St Margarets House once (or twice actually) after which that area was named. It was destroyed by a bomb in September 1940... Zir (talk) 12:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

St Margarets House was a large house on the site where St Margaret's Catholic Church now stands; it was originally used for Mass until the original St Margaret's Church (known to parishioners as the "Cardboard Cathedral") was built on the site which is now the church carpark. Both St Margaret's House and the Cardboard Cathedral were demolished in the late 1960s to make way for the current church. (Bengeo Bertie (talk) 17:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Home Pride

One swallow does not a summer make but to-day, before spring has officially begun, a Guardian letter writer was seen without its characteristic East before the Twickenham. Change, all is change.--SilasW (talk) 10:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)