Archive (Sub-series) - Subject File, Kew Historical Society et al, GARDNER, Charles, 1958

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

Provenance

Various parties

Purpose/Function

Reference, Research, Information

Arrangement

Secondary Values (KHS Imposed Order)

Content

Notes compiled by Miss Daisy Gardner in November 1958 and provided to the Society. The 5-page handwritten document describes Charles Gardener and his family who migrated to Australia in 1884. They moved to Kew and built a two-storey house, ‘Bassem’ on the corner of Cotham Road and Atkins Street. He and his son Edgar were managers of Messrs. Cassell & Co Ltd, publishers. A descendant, W. Gardener was an architect who built the Gardeners a house on the corner of Cotham Road and Edgevale Street in which WHS Dickinson once lived. There is some confusion in the document about the exact location of the house. On the document there is a later annotation/correction by E.L. Frazer.

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