{"id":1797,"date":"2022-05-18T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pittvillehistory.org.uk\/wpt\/?page_id=1797"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:51:57","slug":"67-prestbury-road","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pittvillehistory.org.uk\/wpt\/places\/67-prestbury-road\/","title":{"rendered":"67 Prestbury Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

67 Prestbury Road (previously 3 Selkirk Parade)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This listing gives information on owners and occupants until 1945: ownership information is shown in green<\/span>.<\/em>

\"\"<\/span>1847-50 <\/strong>The earliest known occupant was Harriet Belson<\/strong> (although in 1848 the occupant was briefly given as a Mrs Blome). Harriet Belson and her two sisters were teachers who had previously run a girls\u2019 boarding school in Worcester.

1851<\/strong> The occupants were Charles Elliott<\/strong>, aged 27, a marble polisher, his wife Ann, aged 38 and his daughter Mary, aged 3.

1853\u201362<\/strong> The property was \u201cin Chancery\u201d from c 1853 \u2013 c 1862. It was one of three Cheltenham properties which had been given as security for a debt owed by George Fenner Hughes<\/strong>, who died intestate. In 1853 it was described as \u201csometime unoccupied\u201d.<\/span>

1854 <\/strong>The occupant was Rev. J. Dixon<\/strong>.

1855-8 <\/strong>The occupants are variously described as Mrs B. L. Bamber<\/strong> or the Misses Bamber. The rent was \u00a330 per annum.

1858<\/strong> The house was inherited by Arnold Francis Galen Hughes<\/strong> of 177 Maida Hill, Paddington, then a minor. It was described as \u201clong unoccupied but recently let to a Tenant <\/em>[Mr Bamber<\/em>] from year to year at \u00a330 per annum.<\/em>\u201d Arnold Hughes was apprenticed to an apothecary in 1862, but in 1866 he was declared to be \u201cof unsound mind\u201d.<\/span>

1859<\/strong> The occupant was Dr Hartford<\/strong>.

1860<\/strong> The occupant was Mrs Leigh<\/strong>.

1861 <\/strong>The occupants were Edwin Tovey<\/strong>, aged 27, a plasterer, and his wife Eliza, aged 31.

1862-70 <\/strong>During this period the occupant was Mrs Pottinger<\/strong>, who paid \u00a330 a year. She was the first long-term occupant, staying for eight years. During 1867-70 the Misses Hill are also shown as living with her.

1865<\/strong> The house was put up for sale by auction, together with no 4 Selkirk Parade, but did not sell. It was described as follows:<\/span>

A Freehold Dwelling House with a Garden at the Back thereof<\/em>
and a Small Garden in Front \u2026 in the occupation of Mrs. Pottinger,<\/em>
a tenant from year to year, at \u00a330 per annum. The House contains \u2013<\/em>
On the Basement Floor \u2013 Kitchen, Back ditto, Coal Cellar,<\/em>
Larder, Water Closet.<\/em>

On the Ground Floor \u2013 Entrance Hall, Dining Room and Drawing Room<\/em>
communicating with folding doors, Breakfast Room.<\/em>

On the First Floor \u2013 Three Bed Rooms and Dressing Room.<\/em>

There is a small Garden at front and at the back thereof.<\/em><\/center>
1866<\/strong> Having failed to sell at auction the previous year, the property was eventually sold in 1866 to Mrs Ann Maria Wood<\/strong> for \u00a3380. (65 Prestbury Road, then 4 Selkirk Parade, was sold to George Nicholson Lailey for the same price.)<\/span>

1871<\/strong> The occupants were George Blakemore Bayfield John Roberts<\/strong>, aged 23, an Oxford undergraduate at Oriel College, and his wife Ida Catherine Villiers Roberts, aged 24, with their baby daughter Ida, aged 1 month. George Roberts later became a clergyman and was Vicar of Uckington. His wife Ida (n\u00e9e Law) was the eldest of three illegitimate daughters of the Earl of Ellenborough. She and George had married in 1869. Also living in the house was their nursemaid Mary Gibbons, aged 47, their servant Hannah Tribble, aged 57, and Hannah\u2019s husband Richard, an unemployed coachman.

1872-4<\/strong> George Roberts continued to live at the property for three years.

1874-86<\/strong> In 1874 Mrs Ann Maria Wood let the house to Miss Caroline<\/strong> Frances Lawson<\/strong> of 9 Pittville Villas (on the other side of the street), a lady of independent means, for seven years. She actually stayed for twelve years, until 1886. For at least part of this time her adopted niece Julia Beal was living with her.

1881<\/strong> The occupants were Caroline Lawson<\/strong>, aged 60, living on a private income; Julia Beal, aged 39, her adopted niece; Jemima Pritchard, aged 65, her cook; Elizabeth Spragg, aged 21, her housemaid; and Marianne Keeling, age 58, a visitor.

1882<\/strong> The owner, Mrs Ann Maria Wood, died and ownership of the house passed to her son Frederick Wood<\/strong>, a chemist.<\/span>

1887-90<\/strong> The occupant was Miss Whitehouse<\/strong>.

1891 <\/strong>The occupants were Catherine Abrahall<\/strong>, aged 71, another lady with a private income; her stepdaughter Louisa Abrahall, aged 47, described as a Mildmay Deaconess; her daughter Dora Abrahall, aged 20; a servant, Alice McCoy, aged 25; and Amelia Webb, a cook, aged 38, who was visiting.

A missionary training school for women was established at Mildmay Road,<\/em>
Islington, in the 1860s. The trainees were known as Mildmay Deaconesses.
These women worked as missionaries and social workers, both with the poor<\/em>
of London and abroad. They also acted as nurses and ran evening classes<\/em>
and other groups.<\/em><\/center>
1892<\/strong> Frederick Wood, who had owned the house for 10 years, sold it to Mr John Barra Buckwell<\/strong>, a furnishing warehouseman, who took out a mortgage with the Cheltenham & Gloucestershire Permanent Mutual Benefit Building Society.

1892-8<\/strong> The occupant continued to be Mrs Abrahall, who occupied the house for seven years in total.

1895<\/strong> John Buckwell sold the house to Mr. Richard Staite<\/strong>, a cab proprietor, of Berkeley House Stables.<\/span>

1900 <\/strong>The occupant was Mr R. Wood<\/strong>.

1901<\/strong> The occupants were Robert Wood, aged 66, a commercial traveller; his wife Elizabeth, aged 66; his daughter-in-law Florence Wood, aged 37; and his granddaughters Gwendoline, aged 12, and Dorothy, aged 10.

1903<\/strong> The house was sold at auction to Mrs Louisa Gill<\/strong> of Hinton Lodge, St Georges Road, for \u00a3405.<\/span>

Let at \u00a328 per annum (nett), and containing on the Ground Floor, Entrance Hall, Drawing Room, communicating by folding doors with Dining Room, Study, opening into Conservatory with steps to Garden; on the Top Floor and Half-Space, Three Bedrooms and w.c.; and in the Semi-Basement, Housekeeper\u2019s Room, Kitchen, Pantry, Scullery, and other offices, paved area in rear. There is a Flower Garden in front and long Garden in rear, with back entrance from good road. Gas and Corporation Water laid on. This house is in an excellent state of decorative and substantial repair, and the sanitation is modern.<\/em><\/center>
1903<\/strong> The occupant was Miss W. S. Boys Smith<\/strong>. The rent at this time (\u00a328 per annum) was lower than it had been forty years earlier in the 1860s.

1911 <\/strong>The occupants were Elizabeth Waghorne<\/strong>, aged 70, a widow of independent means, and her three unmarried daughters, Susannah (aged 41), Caroline (aged 38), described as a grocer\u2019s clerk, and Georgina (aged 37).

1928<\/strong> The house was bought by Annie Morris<\/strong>, wife of John Morris of 6 Bayshill Terrace, a schoolmaster, for \u00a3455.

1938<\/strong> The house was bought by William Goddard<\/strong> (a retired Insurance Superintendent) for \u00a3550. It was now known as 67 Prestbury Road.

1939 <\/strong>At the outbreak of the Second World War t<\/strong>he house was occupied by William and Jessie Goddard. William, aged 61, had bought the house in the previous year, possibly on his retirement. He is described as a retired Superintendent of an Assurance Company and Jessie, aged 58, is a housewife. This appears to be the first time that the house was owner-occupied.

1940<\/strong> The house was bought by Miss Daisy Barnfield<\/strong> of \u2018Landour\u2019, 136 Hewlett Road, for \u00a3600.

1945<\/strong> The house passed on Miss Barnfield\u2019s death to her brother, Alfred<\/strong> Barnfield<\/strong>, a nurseryman.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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