The explore
I didn’t even know this location existed when I was exploring. It was quite interesting with all the colourful walls and decaying bedrooms and quite a lot of bed still left behind and a nice meeting room in a cup without buildings on the grounds of the old care home.
History
The house was built some time during the first
decade of the twentieth century, as it was used as
Merstham's VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) during
the First World War. The VAD and a Red Cross
Detachment (Surrey 84) were asked to equip the
house as a hospital, primarily for the old soldiers who
guarded bridges and for the wounded who returned
from France. It held at least twenty-five men, and
was always full. The medical officer was Walter
-Weir, the stepson of Dr Crickitt who had been
Merstham's first GP. He lived at South Lodge, the house at the top of the hill
During September 1922 The Times carried the news that had nine bedrooms
and ten acres of ground, was to be auctioned the following month. The Electoral Register of
that date shows the registered voters to be John Sayre MARTIN and John STRETTON.
By 1924 was home to Marion Sybil & Stephen Cecil WATNEY, who was a
retired grain merchant (at one time he had been the Master of the Mercers' Livery
Company); other voters, perhaps domestic servants, listed in that year were Dora Elisabeth
GRANGE, Millie RANCE and Amy RAVEN. Stephen had been born in July 1868, at
Reigate; he was baptised at St Mary's on 12 September that year. He went to school at
Steyning, and then to Winchester College. On his 21st birthday he was 'admitted into the
Freedom of the City' as his father had been before him. His wife Marion had been born
Marion WHITE in November 1873, and they had married in April 1901 at Roehampton.
The following year their first child, John Lewis, was born and by 1911 the family was living
in Putney. They moved a few years later, to Banstead, and were there during WW1, from
where they moved Stephen and Marion are listed each year in the Electoral Register, with son John appearing
in 1926. John married Margaret Adeline POPE, from Wellington, Somerset, on 18 April
1931. The 1939 Register lists Stephen and Marion, along with three domestic servants: 60-
year-old Beatrice BLUNDEN, 51-year-old Ellen LANER, and 18-year-old Catherine
MARKWICK, who two years later would marry William MONDRS. Stephen and Marion
remained at the house until their deaths: Stephen died in 1954,
.At the end of the 20th century, and for the first decade of the 21st, the house once again was
used as a Nursing Home in 2011 they were getting quite a lot of high certificates for being nice towards the residents live in there, but there was a newspaper report in around 2017 that they were abusing the residents there and also stealing their money in 2020 the property was sold but it is now empty. ☆ DISCLAIMER: I do not force entry into any locations, neither do I vandalise or take part in any other criminal activity. I simply enter peacefully, record a video and take pictures and leave.and also I do not share locations i only name loactions if there been demoilshed then i name the loaction
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