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  • She found that, owing to the state of the weather, the monument could not be completed for some months, but she selected the site in Mortlake

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • Ten years later, in 1979, I heard the former prime minister Harold Macmillan propose the traditional PM speech – not to No10's Premier but "Putney to Mortlake" – at the Savoy's post-Race banquet.

    Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating 2011

  • A singular beauty of the Boat Race is that although the course between Putney and Mortlake never actually changes, for sure the conditions do.

    Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating 2011

  • Seven of the cartoons were acquired by the Prince of Wales (later King Charles I) in 1623, and brought to England for use in the tapestry workshop that had been established at Mortlake a few years earlier.

    Woven into the Fabric of the Church 2010

  • On the short drive from Fulham to Twickenham, he told her he loved her twice, leaned over to give her a kiss four times, and solicitously bought her a chunky Kit Kat when he stopped for petrol near Mortlake.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • On the short drive from Fulham to Twickenham, he told her he loved her twice, leaned over to give her a kiss four times, and solicitously bought her a chunky Kit Kat when he stopped for petrol near Mortlake.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • It was in this way that Blueskin kept himself amused while they followed the path of the Thames past Westminster and St. James and then, when city started to turn into country, past the pretty village of Chelsea, with all its fine, large houses, before proceeding to Putney and Mortlake.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • If anyone reading this is thinking of letting their spare room or knows someone who is renting out a room in the Ealing, Acton, or Turnham Green areas, or in Richmond upon Thames or Mortlake, please let me know!

    Monday... Imogen 2009

  • If anyone reading this is thinking of letting their spare room or knows someone who is renting out a room in the Ealing, Acton, or Turnham Green areas, or in Richmond upon Thames or Mortlake, please let me know!

    Archive 2009-02-01 Imogen 2009

  • Yesterday: Stag Brewery to close with 180 job losses – Mortlake.

    Gordon Brown's prudence: Job losses not a pleasant read. FIDO The Dog 2009

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