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Teddington is where I have lived since 1987, with Alice, My Final Girlfriend, pitching up in 1990. Contact us here.  It is a small town in SW London, within walking distance of 3 royal parks and the River Thames, the river on which London stands.  It is 5-10 miles from the M3, M4 and M25 motorways. Heathrow Airport is 5 miles away.  Trains take about 30 minutes to reach Waterloo, the main line station serving London and destinations to the south west.

It was the home of Noel Coward and Benny Hill. The Teddington TV studios are here. Teddington Lock is the highest tidal point on the River Thames, although “Teddington” Lock is a misnomer as the lock was actually excavated from the Surrey or Ham side of the river.  It is the point at which control of the river passes from the Port of London Authority to the Thames River Authority.

As featured in Web User magazine. If you think this web site is good, I’m always interested in hearing of IT vacancies in the immediate area. 

Here’s Teddington on Google StreetView:

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Read my Career Summary and CV if you are looking for local IT staff.

Contact us here. 

Pre WWII map of Teddington marked ‘Tides flow to this weir’ on the Thames!

Also a link to an 1872 map of Teddington and several others centred on this position: Lon,Lat:(51.42302872738417, -0.33473968505859375). It has the current roads superimposed, but these can be faded out using the slider at the bottom of the map.

Weather webcam from Iver, just north west of Heathrow Airport. It shows a current weather image, and also for the previous 3 hours at 30 minute intervals. More local weather.  FlashEarth clickable zoomable aerial image of Teddington - like Google Earth but without the need for any program downloads.

“Teddington Traffic 22nd September 2006”.  Six hours of local traffic, in five minutes!  Watch the film below!

The National Physical Laboratory and LGC, formerly the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, are two of Teddington’s most famous employers, and NPL is where the Bouncing Bomb was tested. Also where standard weights and measures are maintained.

For commenting on local Teddington matters, Letters to the Editor at Teddington Online is useful.  It does, sometimes, become an undignified scrap between C-list political aspirants with too much free time on their own agendas, a great waste of a good local resource. Late 2006, this site was about to be discontinued, but in early 2007 had an injection of cash which saved it.

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames website is surprisingly good. Help keep the area nice by reporting online any problems with the streets, such as rubbish, potholes, lighting etc. Also the sitemap gives a very good overview of where everything is.  It helped me find this fascinating section on local Richmond history.

The purple circle on the above map indicates Teddington.

In early 2007 I  received the following lovely email, from a lady in California,

“A fellow Teddingtonian who lives here in the U.S. forwarded your web site.

“I have had a wonderful time this morning looking at so many familiar things and places.   What a lovely job you have done (But then again, what could I expect from a Brit.)

“I was born in Twickenham and grew up in Teddington, some of my residences were as follow.  55 Railway Road, 92 Shacklegate Lane and the last was 101 Waldegrave Road. which used to be the London Co-op Milk Depot, which my Dad managed for many years, right up until we came to the States in 1950. In fact, the last time I was there in 1999, sadly witnessed it being demolished and in a pile of rubble.

“I went to St.Peter"s and St.Paul's school and then on to St Marks.  On my last visit to England  myself and thirteen of my classmates got together after 50 years, it was wonderful and something I never thought would happen. We expect to do it again when I come back in May.

“Once again, congratulations on such an informative site.

Thanks, Lily!  I tried to write back but your address was rejected.

The purple circle indicates Teddington.

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