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Inside, the house contains many examples of 17th century furniture, and memorabilia connected to the Pennington family. The house's musik room was prepared for the entertainment of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who visited in 1750. Later visitors to the house were Sir William Hamilton and Lady Emma Hamilton together with Lord Nelson. Lord Byron talked in the gardens with his publisher, John Murray (second of that name), while generations later, Axel Munthe talked in the same gardens with his publisher, John Murray (fourth or fifth of that name).
In the 1870s, at the bottom of the hill on land between the railway line and Worple Road, the All-England Croquet Club had begun to hold its annual championships. But the popularity of croquet was waning as the new sport of lawn tennis began to spread and after initially setting aside just one of its lawns for tennis, the club decided to hold its first Lawn Tennis Championship in July 1877. By 1922, the popularity of tennis had grown to the extent that the club's small ground could no longer cope with the numbers of spectators and the renamed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved to new grounds close to Wimbledon Park.
Raynes Park railway station was refurbished between March 2009 and July 2009. The refurbishment program involved constructing a new entrance, ticket office and gateline, and converting the previous ticket office into a new retail unit. Automatic ticket gates were installed at all of the exits to the station, which allowed the station to accept the Oyster "Pay as you go" electronic ticketing system from January 2010.[3][4] Waiting rooms, toilets, and platform areas were also refurbished to improve passenger safety and comfort.
Looking north towards footbridge
After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s. High Barnet station was first served by Northern Line trains on 14 April 1940[3] and, after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.[2] The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today.
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