This little passageway provides a pedestrian short-cut between the Quadrant (and station) and Sheen Road. The name gives a fair clue to the date of the cottages – perhaps in the 1840s rather than in the years immediately after the battle.
From a project carried out in my student days I can say that the street-plan of central Richmond has changed very little in the course of the last few centuries. The only major addition is Eton Street. On the other hand, in late Victorian times there was a campaign to remove humbler properties in the name of ‘slum clearance’. (In some cases the passages where they stood have survived – for instance Paved Court).
Photos of the lost dwellings can be seen in Richmond Library’s local collection – most were timber-framed and much flimsier than the cottages in Waterloo Place.