The featured photograph is of the Librarian’s House, with its lovely garden, with concrete path ways around and across a central circular flower bed arrangement; I think this must have been a public area.
If you look carefully, there is a man standing by the house and a young lad sitting on a large bench in the garden. I wonder who these people were?
On the left through the gap in the trees you can glimpse the chalk quarry operations, now called Titan Pit.
The house was destroyed by a V1 rocket attack, killing the library caretaker.
Does anybody remember the house, gardens or any of the chief librarians?
HISTORY FEEDBACK:
Thanks to all those people from Stanford-le- Hope and elsewhere who turned out on such a hot day to see the unveiling of the Joseph Conrad plaque. I hope to have this plaque and George Kynoch’s plaque mounted soon.
HISTORY FACT OF THE WEEK
August 9 1588; Queen Elizabeth I delivers her speech to the assembled army at West Tilbury, to rouse them to the task in defending their nation from the threatened naval attack of the Spanish Armada.
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