Archive (Sub-series) - Subject File, Elm House, 72 Walpole Street (Kew), 1983

Archive (collection) - Subject Files, Kew Historical Society, 1958-present

Provenance

Sally Ann Venables

Purpose/Function

Reference, Research, Information

Arrangement

Provenance (Donor) Order

Content

Subject file containing a school research assignment completed by Sally Ann Venables of the history of Elm House (later Cloverlea), 72 Walpole Street. The 15-page report was completed in 1983 while Sally was a pupil of Kew High School. Owners of the house recorded in the report include Horace Samson, George Gray Allan, George Brinsden Vasey, Matthew Montgomerie Wilson, and Ethel Dalton. The writer contends that at some stage, the house operated as a dairy.

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