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Hi Gordon(Briggo),what an unexpected email I recieved yesterday telling me you had posted on rootschat. I was very excited. We haved lived here  since December 1993 and sporadically I try to piece together the history of the house,who lived here and of course George Sibley himself. This will spur me on to get out all my information I have got so far. I was sad to hear about the scale model your father built.I saw it once when the Bourne Society came around to give a talk and the model was on display.Over the years I have mentioned it to my husband quite regularly saying I would have wished it could be united with its larger model. I did take some photographs of it at the time though.You might know the house itself was divided into 3 dwelling places by Dick Johnson sometime in the mid eighties and we live in the middle bit. Luckily most of the inside was left intact with just false walls and ceilings being put up.Over the years I have removed most of the false ceilings to reveal the lovely barrel vaulted ceilings. I know about the German gentleman who lived here but was unaware he was a spy!maybe more rumour?  Never heard about the secret underground armoury though. I have one picture postcard of the house when it was a school which I came across on ebay of all places!. I would very much like to see the documentation of the houses history and particularly the photographs  you have and will try to work out how to private message you with my email address. Also when we are past this pandemic if you want ,please come on over to have a walk down memory lane. Talk soon Carol.
PS if anyone has any information on the house between 1921 and 1947 that would be great.

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Have you thought about contacting the motor company who used to be there?
Have you contacted the local library to see if they have any old newspapers with pictures. Do the archives department have copies of the plans?

Heather

Hi Heatherjulie thankyou for coming back so quickly.I click on your hyperlink though and it just takes me back to my question??Am I doing something wrong? Carol

Hi Scrabble ,had a look at the news article.You could well be right as this may have been a handed down story which has got itself embedded in articles and local history catalogues. I will keep an open mind when searching for my missing years.For everyone who has helped me so far the really good news is I have a photo of George Sibley now and will be reuniting him with his house by way of a framed photograph taking pride of place in the hall.I would post a photo but I cant understand just yet how to do this as my jpeg is too big? Chocky