This neo-Elizabethan house was built in 1887 by Thomas Oliver who made his money in railways. After his death in 1920 it was sold, later becoming a girls high school called Tanbridge House. The photograph is one of a batch taken for builders and decorators George Trollope & Sons with subject recorded as Tanbridge & Tanfield in the Bedford Lemere daybook.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series of photographic negatives and prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford
Client: George Trollope And Sons
Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company
Victorian House
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