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This is the second in a series of posts about the people who lived in a house called ‘The Cranes’. Though it was pulled down more than 120 years ago, it lends its name to four neighbouring streets in the northern part of Surbiton, close to the boundary with Kingston upon Thames: Cranes Park, Cranes…
This is the first in a series of posts about the people who lived in a house called ‘The Cranes’. Though it was pulled down more than 120 years ago, it lends its name to four neighbouring streets in the northern part of Surbiton, close to the boundary with Kingston upon Thames: Cranes Park, Cranes…
I return, with the greatest of pleasure, to one of my favourite Twentieth Century authors. Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973). He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, youngest son of Vincent Woodhouse Yorke, a wealthy landowner, businessman and manufacturer, and the Hon. Maud Evelyn, née Wyndham, second daughter of…
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