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MISSING: The Four Gees, 1912

February 24, 2017March 16, 2017 Author Leave a comment

In 1912, around sixty girls slept on the second and third floors of the main house, in small dormitories of four to six beds apiece.  Gloria Atkinson shared a bedroom with three other ninth-graders — Gertrude Mortimer, Gladys Portnoy and Jemima Delreaux.  They were a tight-knit group known, for obvious reasons, as the ‘Gee-Gees’. Around […]

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HISTORY: Gilbey & Sons Photographers, Part 1

February 1, 2017March 15, 2017 Author Leave a comment

Aloysius Gilbey, gentleman scientist, was a contemporary of Edgar Forbs, although he was educated overseas, in Germany.  The two men shared an interest in chemistry, although Aloysius was concerned that his friend focused on the esoteric rather than the scientific.  Throughout the 1840s they visited one another regularly, sharing their thoughts on the latest papers […]

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HISTORY: Raffney’s Oak

January 14, 2017July 23, 2020 Author Leave a comment

When Thomas Forbs arrived in the valley that was to become The Poplars, in the late 16th century, the only area that wasn’t thick forest was the clearing surrounding the Well.  It took Forbs and his people many years to clear the area of trees and start planting their own crops, thus evolving from hunter-gathers […]

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