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Title: Walpole house in Peel
Post by: Jarvey50 on Saturday 17 May 14 17:06 BST (UK)
Does anyone have any information on a guest house in Peel owned by Caroline Jane McMurdoch who died in 1950.
We assume she gave up the guest house and then lived in Stanley Road Peel.
Title: Re: Walpole house in Peel
Post by: KGarrad on Saturday 17 May 14 17:43 BST (UK)
Walpole House is now flats!

See: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41793538.html  for a picture.
Title: Re: Walpole house in Peel
Post by: Frances_mnb on Sunday 18 May 14 20:55 BST (UK)
these houses were requistioned during WW2 as an internment camp - one of several on Island - Peel housed British Fascists (several Police from East London were moved to Peel as they were familiar with controlling them!)  + also some IRA + some Italians - surrounded by barbed wire to top of Walpole road where a couple of houses were also requisitioned - there was one escape attempt made that dug a tunnel under the Peel-Ramsey road that runs at top of Walpole drive