Does anyone know the history of a tower that we, as kids, knew as Tewksbury Lodge, situated in wasteland behind the grounds of Hornimans Museum?
As kids, in the late twenties, we used to explore this derelict tower after tiring of floating our boats on the pond in the museum grounds.
It became quite a popular source of amusement and adveture to us and many grim tales were told of it's history. (Childhood fantacies of course.)
Tewksbury Lodge.
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Steve Grindlay
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Reg, the folly was built in about 1880 at the highest point of the garden of Tewkesbury Lodge, a large house on Honor Oak Road, obviously to take advantage of the spectacular views. The folly is now in the back garden of a house in Liphook Crescent, and listed grade II.
Tewkesbury Lodge was built in the early 1850s and demolished in about 1930. Charles Bayer (1846-1930), who made a fortune out of ladies’ underwear, lived in Tewkesbury Lodge from about 1890. A little known fact is that Bayer intended to leave his house and grounds to the LCC so that they could incorporate it into Horniman Gardens. The legal details had not been finalised by the time of his death and, not surprisingly, his beneficiaries decided to abandon these plans and sell the land to developers.
Tewkesbury Lodge was built in the early 1850s and demolished in about 1930. Charles Bayer (1846-1930), who made a fortune out of ladies’ underwear, lived in Tewkesbury Lodge from about 1890. A little known fact is that Bayer intended to leave his house and grounds to the LCC so that they could incorporate it into Horniman Gardens. The legal details had not been finalised by the time of his death and, not surprisingly, his beneficiaries decided to abandon these plans and sell the land to developers.