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AFTER my attention was drawn to the fact that 100
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on the market - by Paul Simpson who sent me the two pictures - I asked Nantwich
historian Andrew Lamberton if he knew anything about the property.
A silly question really as Andrew has
the knack of getting into all manner of interesting Nantwich buildings and
having a look around. No 100 was no exception - and he found some old pictures
of the garage that stood next to Townwell House while he was at it.
He told me: "Yes, the building is quite
interesting. I was lucky enough about six months ago to be able to look round it
while it was up for sale.
"The joint owner was Heather Threadgold,
together with her brother, John Munro. Mrs Phipps had lived there for many years
and had recently died, hence the house going up for sale
"What was nice about it was that it
still had many of the old fixtures and fittings inside, although in
poor
condition. It was actually built as a back-to-front house. That is, the front
door is at the back and at one time - when it was built some 200 years ago - had
an uninterrupted view over an extensive garden leading down to the river Weaver.
"Since then, of course, various
additions at the rear have altered that view, but a look at the 1850
map
on the wall in Nantwich Museum (Joseph Heler Room) will give you an idea of what
it was like then."
Andrew added "Robert Munro, the
solicitor, lived there between 1939 and 1953." See
this page for another member of the Munro family.
"The only photos that Heather and John
could show me of the house were in an album of black and white photos which were
taken in the late 1950s / early '60s, when the family were getting up a petition
to prevent Grocott's garage (below) being built virtually next door to them on the site
of the old Townsend House.
NOTE: A jug which originally appeared on this page
has been moved to a new page in the Nantwich Old Pictures
series.
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