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snoulton
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Hello, my Grandparents worked at Moor Hall Cookham during the 1920's. Does anyone on the list know who were the owners of Moor Hall at that time?
Fingers crossed.....Brenda
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Barbara F
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Hi Brenda
Have a look at this site.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43192
It seems that in 1923 it was the property of Mr. F. D. Lambert, J.P
Barbara
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It is now the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
It was built in 1805 William Skinner, a London merchant. After his death it was leased by a Stephen Darby. He ran it as a brewery! The building was extended in 1889, the chimneys being designed by Francis Devereaux Lambert. According to the information I have, it was sold in 1919 to Captain Fodel-Phillips. It was taken over by Odeon Theatres in 1940 and after WWII, cartoons were made there until the Institute of Marketing took it over in 1971.
Now also a wedding venue.
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In the late 1960s it was a training school used by ICT and later ICL.
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snoulton
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My very grateful thanks for all the replies to my query regarding Moor Hall, Cookham, it's added flesh to the bones, so to speak.
Kind regards, Brenda
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Abiam
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Hello snoulton,
I have also been researching Moor hall as my Great x 3 Grandfather worked there as a carpenter. He was born in 1796 and in the 1851 census was living and working at Moor Hall as were several other families. The info I have is as follows:
It was built in 1805 by William Skinner and was a Regency house which was to grow into a Victorian stately home. William moved in in the Autumn of 1805 and enjoyed nine years there until his death in 1814. His son rented it out to the Darby family who raised their family there and then moved out in 1836 after selling their malting and brewing business.
In 1833 ownership passed to Captain Augustus Charles Skinner a young man who preferred not to live there. He rented out the house and grounds to support his lifestyle.
In 1840 the tenancy was taken by Joseph Hobbs and his family, he stayed there for 23 years occupying the property as his home farm from which he ran three other local farms in Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean, totaling over 300 acres.
James Harding ( my relation) and his family were living there (1851) and two of his sons have occupations as farm labourers and I imagine James was a sort of farm carpenter and the sons worked on one of the farms.
I've now reread your message and see that you are interested in the 1920's! I was so pleased to see something that I could possibly help with that I got stuck in!! Having had so much help from this site with my problems.
The Hall was bought by Francis Devereux Lambert in 1888 (who was known as King Coal Lambert having amassed a fortune in coal-brokering) and was restored and extended into a very grand luxury house. There were numerous house staff, four grooms, four full time gardeners and it became necessary to add a gate lodge, storerooms, carpenters shop, engine and boiler houses etc. etc. and staff accomodation. Even extensive hothouses, a melon house, a tomato house, a carnation house! a cyclamen house and a fernery. It must have been quite a house until.....
Lambert did not have children and his wife died just as the house was nearing completion and probably his happiest time was when the Hall became
the Lambert Convalescent Home for wounded soldiers in 1914 and so I imagine your ancestors could have been employed in many occupations from garden boy to housekeeper to matron. I think you have many choices!
Ownership for your period of interest
1917 1920 Lord Astor (landowner)
1923 1927 Mrs Barnard (widow)
1928 1933 Mrs Blundell-Maynard (widow)
This information comes from a booklet written by Richard Parkes.
I hope it will be useful to you,
Regards, Abiam
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snoulton
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Hello Abiam, thank you so much for all that information, my grandfather was the chauffeur there, and lived in the gatehouse, I have a photo of him and my grandmother standing outside, my father has written 'Our Cottage at Cookham' I have had to guess when the photo was taken and I think it would have been about the 1920's so I have a choice of employers it seems.
My kind regards, Brenda
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Hi,
Just a note I worked at Moor Hall in the 70's and 80's - a really lovely house - shame I worked in converted stable block!!!.
Julie
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Recently discovered that my father in law worked there as a cameraman just after WW2.
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russethouse
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For a short time I lived in the cottage at the entrance to the road, Moor End - always looks as if its about to fall over.......
Small world
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Abiam
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Yes, it is a small world. Are you from Maidenhead? I lived there and in the area until about 15 years ago when I moved to Spain,
Regards Abiam
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Yes, I spent the first 7 years (in the 50s) in Cordwallis Road and then we moved to Cookham. I eventially left home and became a childrens nanny , went abroad, lived in London etc then found a live in job in Cookham (Moor End) for a few months.....
I still go to Cookham each week to take my mother shopping in Maidenhead Waitrose.......and pass Moor End on the way.
My mother came from Bray and I was christened there.
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Abiam
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I was born in College Glen and lived there until I married in 1964 and stayed in the area for another 30 years. My family on both sides lived in the very poorest areas of the town Cordwallis Road, Garden Cottages, The Barracks, Denmark Street, Reform Road and Waldeck Road. They were really improving their lives when they moved to College Glen and Norfolk Park Cottages and all of my generation have worked hard and improved their lot. Unfortunately the earlier generations didn't have that opportunity.
There may be lots wrong with life today but I think we are still very lucky - how they would have loved our 'problems'
Regards, Abiam
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My father was bought up by his grandmother in Cordwallis Road, he and my mother looked after her there until she died and then they stayed there. About the mid 50s the Landlord died and his children wanted to sell the property so my father bought it, put in an upstairs bathroom and decorated and then sold it.
He used the proceeds to move to Cookham.
In my memory the houses in Cordwallis Road (68)were quite roomy, we grew veg and kept chicken and rabbits in the garden (a habit left over from the war I suspect) but the area behind was quite industrial - The Jam factory etc .....
We had a corner shop 2 doors away, the butcher was in Denmark Street, Just down the road was a small hairdressers run by a lady called Nora who sometimes used to let me go for a walk with her and her huge dog Bimbo.
We used to cycle everywhere (me on the back of a bilke) and thats how we first viewed the house in Cookham.
My father used to work in Clark and Seniors in Queen Street, but later went to work in Uxbridge.
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Abiam
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Memories eh!
I trained as a hairdresser at Joan Bennets in M'head High Street in 1958 and when trained trained a girl called Barbara Clark , daughter of Clark and Seniors! I remember going in there with my dad to buy nails by the ounce! Well at least loose.
And being taken for tea at Spindlers and Brocks. Such a long time ago now.
I was back for the 1st week in August to visit my children and grandchildren and they ( my grown up children ) can never understand why I like to have a mooch around the town as they really think it has been spoiled during their lifetime. i suppose I like to do that as it was my home for so many years and of course I see changes I don't particularly like. My biggest shock this year was the new Sainsbury - a hideous monstrosity.
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TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
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WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
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