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Rudyard Kipling's last outing in 1936 was to Burgh House, to visit his daughter. [1] From 1937–46 Burgh House was unoccupied. It was bought and restored by Hampstead Borough Council in 1946. The barrack blocks in front of the building were pulled down and in 1947 it reopened as a community centre with a Citizen's Advice Bureau in its basement.
The centre is located on 1.5 acres (6,100 m 2) of land directly on Yonge Street in Richmond Hill's downtown core, at the corner of Yonge and Wright Streets. The centre includes: Main Auditorium , seating 631 guests, the largest seating capacity of any theatre in York Region .
Richmond Hill lies close to the Leeds Inner Ring Road, and major routes in and out of the city which provides the area with many bus services. Most bus services are operated by First Leeds . The route 4 bus runs to the city centre , Seacroft , Gipton , Harehills , St James' Hospital , Wortley , Bramley and Pudsey .
The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts offers theatre productions, concerts, comedy, and other shows in a multi-purpose space that includes a 631-seat auditorium. [19] The Richmond Hill Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 2008, offers a variety of concerts throughout the year at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. [20]
Formerly the house of prominent local leader and Parliamentarian Amos Wright, 1809-1886, it adjoins a park also named for Wright. [1] One of the signature flowers in this garden is the rose, especially since roses form part of the town emblem and since rose growing was once an important industry in Richmond Hill.
Richmond Hill in Richmond and Petersham, London, is a hill that begins gently in the north and north-east side of Richmond town and through its former fields, orchards and vineyard to a point just within Richmond Park, the deer park emparked and enclosed by Charles I.
Mayoralty house, now commercial premises on North Quay [104] Drogheda: Louth: 1770 Formerly The Tholsel, now council offices [105] Drumkeeran: Leitrim: c. 1850 [106] Retail premises: Dublin 2: Dublin: 1816: Formerly, the Corn Exchange, Burgh Quay. [107] The façade of the building still stands as of December 2022. Dublin 7: Dublin: 1728
Part of the Royal Manor of Richmond since Domesday, Richmond Park was enclosed by King Charles I around 1635 as a post-medieval deer park. The manor was mostly agricultural land in the early 18th century, but Terrace Walk was laid out at the top of Richmond Hill in the later 18th century, followed by construction of further grand houses, including Downe House.