10 Downing Street is arguably the most famous address in the world - and where the Prime Minister of Great Britain lives.

However this has not always been the case.

While first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole lived in the house until the early 1900s the building was occasionally used to house Prime Minister's but was more of an office than an official residence.

So many Prime Ministers did not in fact live in the famous address but in other locations across London.

One such Prime Minister was Lord North.

Born Frederick North, he was Prime Minister between 1770 and 1782.

This period is fascinating because it covers much of the American Wars of Independence but for us Teddingtonians it is even more interesting as North lived in Teddington for much of his premiership!

He lived in Bushy House - a Grade II listed building on the edge of Bushy Park.

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Bushy House was first built in 1663 but then was rebuilt again in 1715 by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax.

This was Lord North's grandfather and combining this with a Central London location North made Bushy House his home between 1771 to 1792.

Lord North died in 1797 and the house was given to the future King William IV - then just a prince - and then to his wife Princess Adelaide.

Nowadays it is part of the National Physical Laboratory and has been for the past 100 years.

But Bushy House has a prestigious history with