Warren Wood doorway on Shooter's Hill
Warren Wood doorway on Shooter's Hill
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Warren Wood doorway on Shooter's Hill
SC_PHL_01_559_80_1537 (Collage 145250)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
Close-up of the front doorway of Warren Wood, Shooter's Hill. The building is photographed prior to demolition with all the windows either missing glass or boarded up. Built some time between 1861 and 1871, the property first appears on the 1871 census in the hands of Edward Archer Wilde, a barrister. It is latterly occupied by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt, a civil engineer who specialised in harbours and river engineering, and subsequently by Henry Kinsey, a leather manufacturer originally from Bermondsey. By 1911 the house belonged to army colonel and local historian Arthur Henry Bagnold and his family, including his daughter Enid, a famous author, who wrote National Velvet, the book was later turned into a film which first made Elizabeth Taylor famous. After World War II the house became a children's home, until it was demolished in the late 1980s.
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