Maidenhead bridge then and now

[magnetman]

Nice little house by the River with some conifers..Date unknown. This was a residence which was later used as a resort/country club. 

 

 

2023 (image taken from boat not the yard opposite) same place. 

 

Same conifer trees. 

 

 

 

 

[MtB]

Hey, what have you done with that lovely house?!!

 

 

 

[Tonka]

36 minutes ago, MtB said:

Hey, what have you done with that lovely house?!!

 

 

 

photoshop

[magnetman]

No it was knocked down sometime around 1950 I think. The little park still shows some signs of having been a garden including a landing stage with very attractive patterned tiles. 

 

Another very similar house was Formosa which was demolished in 1949. There is a lodge there still but no mansion. 

 

 

 

Formosa Place 

 

 

 

2023. Mansion gone. A small lodge is there instead. 

 

 

Probably the same cedar tree. Remains of the ornate landing stage. 

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by magnetman

[Stroudwater1]

Hard to believe but houses of size were very hard to sell at all from the 40s into the late 50s. Huge house with acres of land and a large lake next to where we used to live suffered that. No one would pay anything for it. It was pulled down in the mid 50s. 
 

Nearby is a Manor House with 30+ acres  that sold for £5. , yes a fiver in 1951. It was bought by a Cotswold stone roofer as they were one of very few able to repair the stone roof of the house, or live in a cold house as heating was relatively pricey . I know his son, also a roofer. They sold it for a lot more in the late sixties. 
 

It’s worth 10-15 million or so now.