Memories of Grove Lodge as a Children’s Home

Grove Lodge, 1986

It was quite strange in the late 1980s being uprooted from Cambridge in the middle of the night and being taken to London to go into foster care. I watched from the car and tried not to cry – even in the dark London scared me.

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Memories of Grove Lodge when occupied by the Red Cross

Hornsey Red Cross HQ, Grove Lodge, 1995

Mention of Grove Lodge in the last Newsletter brought back memories to me. In 1948 I was a Red Cross Cadet and did voluntary duty there. At that time the Commandant was Mrs Blue when the house was a home for elderly ladies in need of full-time care.

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The Recollections of Clementina May

Cover of the Recollections of Clementina May

Edited by Janet Owen, Introduction and Notes by Brenda Griffith-Williams

Clementina (Clemmie) May, the youngest child of Henry and Sarah Elder of Topsfield Hall, Crouch End, who married Frank May, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England in 1879, recalled her memories a few months before her death in 1942, aged 92.

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