by adminwww | Oct 3, 2024
Captain Richard Fort (of The Elms) Richard Ford was born on 11th February 1860 in Brussels, the son of Francis Clare Ford, a career diplomat. Richard’s mother was the daughter of the Marques de Garafola in Naples. Francis Clare Ford’s career took him to postings...
by adminwww | Sep 2, 2024
The Sea Captain and the Garden Designer Joseph William Greenhill was born in 1880 in Ontario, Canada to George and Rachel Greenhill who had both been born in England but had emigrated in the 1870s. Joseph came to England in 1898 to study to become a mariner in the...
by adminwww | Jul 8, 2024
Allen Watts Upfield owned Upfield’s Stores (now Forrest Place) on Durbans Road overlooking the green. The owner of another grocer’s and general store, Thomas Garrett, was in business for some of the time that Allen Watts Upfield ran his store across the green. ...
by adminwww | May 29, 2024
Today, Allen Watts Upfield is remembered in the village by Upfield Villas, the row of houses he built on the southern side of Weavers Hill on Durbans Road. But in his lifetime he was a successful businessman, owning Upfield’s Stores and a number of properties in the...
by adminwww | May 29, 2024
Mabel Archdall Vicars, who lived at Old Tanyard Farm during and after the Second World War, was born in Clapham in 1868, the daughter of a prosperous fancy-embroidery manufacturer. She was the third of four children born to William and Elizabeth Archdall Vicars. Her...
