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• #16727
Excellent work as always, oats.
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• #16728
I sense there could be water, in volume, in close proximity to this edifice.
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• #16729
"a Doric temple stood by the water's edge"?
Sounds like oats has been reading Evelyn Waugh.
I can't find this despite much searching, can we have another clue?
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• #16730
might do that tag this afternoon
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• #16731
yup, a double avenue of sweet chestnut trees, sort of visible in a wider shot:
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• #16732
Old: The Temple, Wanstead Park
It was first mentioned in the Doomsday Book, was a hunting lodge for Henry VII & then in 1775 was transformed into a grand mansion. Fast forward 90 years & it was left to a Catherine Tylney-Long, making her the richest woman in England, unfortunately for her, she made the mistake of marrying the wrong man, who then went about draining her funds & racking up a debt of £250,000 in just 10 years. To escape their debtors they did a runner to Italy but things only got worse for Catherine, with her husband being unfaithful.
She came back to England ashamed & ruined & had no choice but to sale the Estate to clear the debts. The house didn't generate any interest so it was pulled down for the timber & fabric. A house that cost £360,00 to build was sold for just £10,000.
The Temple is what remains of the building & there's also a grotto which looks like it's had some restoration work done to it since I last saw it. I used to play on the derelict grotto as a kid.
This was the estate in it's heyday
New:
The town & company...although the council weren't happy -
• #16733
I went to get this yesterday then couldn't access the tag I'd planned and had no decent alternative.
Was the MTB themed Taz sweater still there when you got the tag? I wondered if it was left as a reward by @oat44 but thought it was more likely someone had found it and put it there for it's rightful owner.
Good info by the way. The estate was huge! And who knew the Tudors had negative equity.
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• #16734
i've never seen the grotto ... where is it ?
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• #16736
Taz had gone…Sorry for bumping you, I hope you didn't travel too far to get it.
I wanted to do this tag a couple of years ago, there was a link between this & a tag in a cemetery in King Cross if I remember rightly, I never got round to doing it, so glad @oat44 did.
@dicki It's about 2 mins from the Temple. If you head towards the back of the house, you get to the Ornamental pond & the Groto is there. Although, you get a better view of it on the opposite bank.
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• #16738
Ah, I rode past that just recently and would have liked to have got it if I'd seen it in time.
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• #16739
i've never seen the grotto ... where is it ?
Don't bother, it's pretty grotty.
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• #16740
Gritting unit.
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• #16741
Sorry. Frittenbude.
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• #16742
Oh Mann. Grottenhumor.
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• #16743
Englisch.
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• #16744
Endlich.
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• #16745
Old:
The Cranbrook Banqueting Suite
182 Cranbrook Rd, IlfordNew:
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• #16746
Not, not at all, I fancied a ride anyway. Just hadn't thought of a backup new tag, but wasn't that bothered.
What's the significance of the Cranbrook Banqueting Suite?
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• #16747
Have no beer in the house. What now?
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• #16748
get down there ludwig. that new(ish) place is only a few miles from where i bumped into you the other day i reckon
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• #16749
Pressure Drop already.
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• #16750
Old: the Colnel Fawcett.
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Old: Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre, 15 Spa Road, SE16, the former Bermondsey Public Library and indeed first free public library in London
from one 'temple' to another...