User:Orwell'sElephant

I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2023 and my subject interests include local history and art history.

My significant contributions have been on the pages for:

• Hampton - the London suburb where I live
• Tagg's Island - an island on the River Thames nearby
• Edward Jesse - a natural history writer, responsible for the restoration of Hampton Court Palace in the mid-19th century
• Thomas Willement - a 19th century stained glass artist (who inter alia worked with Jesse)
• Historic Royal Palaces - the charity responsible for managing London's unoccupied Royal palaces (including Hampton Court Palace)
• Metropolis Water Act 1852 - which made it unlawful for London's water companies to source domestic water from below Teddington Lock

I created the page for the Hampton Water Treatment Works.

Other pages I have added to or amended include:

• Platt's Eyot - another island on the River Thames
• Walter of Saint-Valéry - the Norman lord awarded the Manor of Hampton after the Conquest
• Hampton Railway Station
• John Lancester - a British journalist and novelist

I created 'The Hamptons' template footer (see below) to draw the pages for the Hampton area together.

I would like to record my appreciation and thanks to the wonderful staff at the libraries of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.