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Story of Wandsworth

Tudor and Stuart times

Portrait of William Brodrick, King James I's EmbroidererWandsworth's villages were now well established. The influence of London was increasingly felt. The growing city provided local farmers with a ready market for their produce. The Thames, a vital link with the capital, supported the traditional local trades of fishing and ferrying. As London became crowded and unhealthy, wealthy merchants and court officials moved away to the surrounding countryside; some settled here in Wandsworth, building substantial houses.

William Brodrick, The King's Embroiderer

William Brodrick (pictured) came to London from Richmond in Yorkshire. He was an embroiderer and soon established a successful business in the City, becoming embroiderer to James I. By 1605, he had a country house in Wandsworth, probably in the present Putney Bridge Road. This portrait was painted in 1614 when Brodrick was 56.

  1. Introduction
  2. Prehistoric times
  3. Roman lives
  4. Medieval villages
  5. You are here: Tudor and Stuart times
  6. Civil war
  7. Refugees from Europe
  8. Georgian Wandsworth
  9. The Mayor of Garratt
  10. The Surrey Iron Railway
  11. The railway revolution
  12. Factories and furnaces
  13. Building the suburbs
  14. Schools and other services
  15. Time off
  16. Radical Battersea
  17. The First World War
  18. The 1920s and 1930s
  19. The Second World War
  20. Into the 50s
  21. A new landscape
  22. The Festival of Britain and the Coronation
  23. The 1960s – amalgamation of the boroughs
  24. The Changing face of Wandsworth

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