We have had some queries and a request for help from Nick Catford -Sub Brit and south London's underground spaces guru, old abandoned station guru and much else.
Nick says he has updated the following site - of which more below:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/shooters_hill/index.shtml
However - once you have read it - he is asking for help....
Can anyone help with some dates. Do you know when the Bagnold family moved out of the house. I know they were there till at least 1943 when Colonel Arthur died but I assume they stayed on after that date?
I know in the 1970s it housed the Warren Wood Children’s Home. Do you know when they arrived and when they left. What happened to the house after that. I believe it was demolished late 80s or early 90s. Can you be any more precise. I have been in touch with a resident there between 1970 – 1974. The children used to play in the shelter.
so - what's all this about??
Nick's Sub Brit piece is about an Air Raid Shelter on Shooters Hill. It is in the grounds of what was Warren Wood House, home of the Bagnold family. The big houses were demolished and it is now part of the Shooters Hill Woodlands and in a Local Nature Reserve. This was part of the area investigated by Time Team in 2008 and the Team considered whether it was a military structure rather than a domestic air raid shelter. The Time Team excavation was carried out by Wessex Archaeology and Nick includes their report and a link to their site. Nick also draws attention to an adjacent large oil tank - not noted by the Time Team - and to the nearby wartime air battery and gun site.
- but please look at his Sub Brit article and pictures http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/shooters_hill/index.shtml
3 comments:
I was a 11 year old in the home in 1960 I was the oldest child there at the time
I was a cild there in 1963
I was 4years old and stayed in the home in 1964
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