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I was there on a visit yesterday DG, my only previous visit was back in 2015 just after it opened to the public, a little gem of a house and such a bonus to see all the flower displays dotted around throughout the local area.
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Rainham hall is due to appear as background in "A Christmas Carol"
https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/rainham-hall-pictures-of-filimg-of-a-christmas-carol-1-6028910 |
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Back in the 70's - I can't say exactly when but no later than early 1975 - my cello teacher and her family moved into Rainham Hall as NT custodians and I had my cello lessons there a few times until she stopped being my teacher, for some reason that I no longer recall. It was an enthralling place to visit as a child.
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I lived in the Lodge for 10 years (until 2009). At one stage I was opening the Hall for visitors on Wednesday afternoons. I found a box of old cameras,(I assume Denney's) which no-one was interested in.
At one point there was a load of his photography props in the upper level stables - I think they were thrown out an the early 2000s. The hall features as the back garden of Number 10 Downing Street in "Dagenham Girls" and also in a TV movie about Chopin. |
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Oooh I must go back. I learned so much from the sea captain exhibition and I think I'd learn a lot from this one too. Thanks
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Back when I lived in Barking in the late 80's, Rainham Marshes were being shortlisted for the EuroDisney - and indeed many other things, in the way that North Kent near HS1 now seems to attract all sorts of suggestions for unpleasant uses of land. So the view could have been a lot worse!
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Anon's cello teacher was married to my architecture tutor, though I only knew them after their residency at Rainham. Both were distinguished in their fields.
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Thanks NickW - I remember he was an architect but I also remember that he was very ill from kidney disease and I had no idea how long he survived. I'm glad he at least lived long enough to be your tutor. The 2 things that stuck in my mind from Rainham Hall were the wonderful kitchen and the servants' staircase. So much more interesting than the main staircase.
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He taught at Canterbury in the 1980's during which time he demolished parts of an old tumble-down cottage and replaced it bit by bit with a beautiful and very practical self-build house, very often with the help of us students to put it together. Very useful design and technology lessons (and how not to bodge construction) in an idyllic setting along the North Downs Way.
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That's really great to hear NickW - it leads me to think that he must have managed to get a transplant. He was quite frail towards the end of when I knew him and certainly wouldn't have been capable of all that you describe. His wife was a work colleague of my mother's which is how she became my teacher but then, apart from the fact that I stopped learning with her, my mother's death in 1976 meant that all contact with that world was terminated.
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Is Sue Ospreay any relation to the world's greatest professional wrestler and son of Rainham, Will Ospreay? I think we should be told.
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