Formed in 1927, Teddington Theatre Club is now one of the leading amateur drama groups in south-west London.

Starting out to stage Shakespeare for schools, it soon developed to stage a wide repertoire of plays for the general public, originally to raise funds for its schools programmes.

TTC’s first production, in 1927, was scenes from Twelfth Night followed in 1928 with The Merchant of Venice and scenes from As You Like It.

Having performed four or five productions a year in hired halls for many years, in 1969 the club were granted a lease of part of Richmond council’s Hampton Court House and after two years of conversion work finally opened its own theatre in 1971 with a long lease of the ballroom annex of Hampton Court House which was converted into a theatre and became its permanent home for the next 25 years.

Included in booklet: The Teddington Theatre Club Story by Kathleen Blainey, a list of past productions, The End of the Search by Lister Laurence.

Booklet, 32 pages; illustrations.