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Many thanks to Charles Morris for sending me these super photos of the house that once stood at King’s Gap where the turret still is. See my earlier post and read the interesting comments.
Charles comments: “Further to the picture of the turret at the bottom of King’s Gap and the blog following, I am attaching two pictures of Professor Wells’ house , in the grounds of which the turret stood. I took the pictures in 1977 when the demolishers were just moving in.  In one picture you can see a digger on the left hand side.”
So, if like me, you’ve ever wondered what the house with the garden turrets looked like, now you know!
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This photo is great , more happy memories. I loved going there with my grandmother, then the Wells’ housekeeper. I remember the gun room, the game hanging in the room off the kitchen, a well which one of the bedrooms overlooked which was believed to be haunted as a child had died there – not sure about that one, haha!! If I was good I was allowed to play with the Meissen monkey orchestra (worth a fortune today) . Professor Well was a fine artist as well as a top orthopaedic surgeon.I now live in Scotland and have see his paintings in the University of Glasgow art collection. You have no idea how many lovely memories this photo and the one of the turret have brought back.Thank you.
Wonderful memories I spent the entire summer holidays there each year with my parents as Charles and Joyce would go off travelling and we would have the pleasure of ‘minding’ the property.
My mother’s father was the Wells gardener. The bungalow would be priceless in today’s market. Fond memories.