and amongst the many ‘freehold’ registrations that day was;
‘St. Helier’ became the new address for 67 Penn Road, Beaconsfield, a
substantial property built in the 1920s around the time the railway came, and
set in half an acre of private grounds in leafy suburbia beside the road leading
from Beaconsfield to the ancient and pretty village of Penn. The house as
Robert and Emily knew it no longer exists, having been re-developed in 2012
—largely on the original ‘footprint’. But the photograph in Plate 17.12 shows
the property in the mid-1960s and as the couple knew it.
In some ways Robert’s retirement mirrored that of Sir William Ramsay. He
and his wife had always been town dwellers and in all the letters Ramsay
wrote prior to retirement he never mentioned a garden. But in a letter to Emil
Plate 17.12 The house that was Robert and Emily’s retirement home. Photographs
courtesy of the le Rossignol family
444
D. Sheppard
‘St. Helier’ became the new address for 67 Penn Road, Beaconsfield, a
substantial property built in the 1920s around the time the railway came, and
set in half an acre of private grounds in leafy suburbia beside the road leading
from Beaconsfield to the ancient and pretty village of Penn. The house as
Robert and Emily knew it no longer exists, having been re-developed in 2012
—largely on the original ‘footprint’. But the photograph in Plate 17.12 shows
the property in the mid-1960s and as the couple knew it.
In some ways Robert’s retirement mirrored that of Sir William Ramsay. He
and his wife had always been town dwellers and in all the letters Ramsay
wrote prior to retirement he never mentioned a garden. But in a letter to Emil
Plate 17.12 The house that was Robert and Emily’s retirement home. Photographs
courtesy of the le Rossignol family
444
D. Sheppard