Sep 01
Rose Lok lived to be a very old lady. For a Londoner born in the reign of Henry VIII, to attain the age of eighty-six was in itself an extraordinary achievement. And Rose lived an extraordinary life. She grew up in a house off Cheapside in the heart of Tudor London, one of nineteen children …
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Jun 02
There is a stretch of seventeenth century garden wall left to show where the house once stood. One of many hospital carparks takes up the space that was once an ornamental lake, filled in after a nurse drowned. The Samuel Boyce Lodge, described as a “psychiatry elderly unit”, stands on what were once the gardens. …
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Dec 02
The face under the boater would look more at home in some shadowy corner of the Escorial Palace than in that slightly unkempt garden in Edwardian Berkhamsted, so perhaps the legend is true after all. My mother had a store of stories about her ancestors, some more likely than others, but this was the one …
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