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  Thread: Parkfield House, Perry Vale-tragedy & slavery!
Post: RE: Parkfield House, Perry Vale-tragedy & slavery!

Hi Michael, Only because your the only response (so far)to my posting -what's your interest in all this? Are you a Perry Valean? Paul
grosehodge SE23 Topics 5 8,588 23-01-2013, 10:32 PM
  Thread: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School
Post: RE: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School

Hi Steve, Yes I realised a short while after posting it that I got that detail wrong. Not too significant, I guess. I've started a new thread (is this the right term) updating everyone re: Parkfiel...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 10 12,561 17-01-2013, 09:36 PM
  Thread: Parkfield House, Perry Vale-tragedy & slavery!
Post: Parkfield House, Perry Vale-tragedy & slavery!

Hi Everyone, I posted a few messages a while back re: Parkfield Ladies College, Parkfield House, Perry Vale. Marianne Strickland took over the school in 1874 and ran it until 1886. I am researching ...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 5 8,588 17-01-2013, 03:55 AM
  Thread: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?
Post: RE: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?

Thankyou Triangle I wasn't aware of the Southwark map site and had no trouble accessing them. Yesterday I became a "reader" at the British Library. I WILL see old Goad maps of Perry Vale - if th...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 4 6,483 29-01-2012, 10:08 AM
  Thread: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?
Post: RE: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?

Thanks very much for that. About a hundred years too late for my purposes though! I should of been clearer about the period I am hoping for. Those modern ones lack the magic of the old ones, don't the...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 4 6,483 26-01-2012, 08:40 AM
  Thread: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?
Post: Goad Maps of Forest Hill ?

No, not "road maps". GOAD MAPS! Charles Goad produced fire insurance maps for cities around the world, especially London. Risk of fire was ever present in Victorian London- all those coal fires in ev...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 4 6,483 25-01-2012, 10:43 PM
  Thread: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School
Post: RE: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School

Hi Roz Apologies, I must be totally blind !!!! Clearly I didn't read you message properly as I would of seen your attached map You even said it was attached!. Sorry about that-so a belated thanks. ...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 10 12,561 08-01-2012, 12:04 AM
  Thread: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School
Post: RE: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School

Hi every one I have attached a bomb damage map which hopefully makes it a little clearer. Why didn't I do that to begin with? Silly me. Roz, your thoughts on the acreage might be spot on. It may...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 10 12,561 04-01-2012, 12:05 PM
  Thread: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School
Post: RE: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School

Dear Roz Thank you for the prompt reply. Parkfield College for Ladies, Parkfield House, Perry Vale closed in 1886/7. I am researching the proprietress, Mary Anne Strickland, her students and sta...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 10 12,561 03-01-2012, 12:39 PM
  Thread: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School
Post: Motorbikes, Omnibuses and a Ladies School

I am researching Parkfield House Ladies College that was at 8/9 Rutland Villas, Perry Vale in the 1870s-80s. In the 1891 census it is renumbered 70-72 Perry Vale and is now occupied by Edwin Mil...
grosehodge SE23 Topics 10 12,561 02-01-2012, 03:22 PM