Barbara,
THANK YOU for the post! I was at Frien Barnet in 2000 and photographed the
almshouse. We had a wonderful lunch in the little village. The locals were
mystified as to why we tourist would want to visit their village!
My husband is a commercial building contractor and was amazed at the quality
of the original construction to have survived so long. There are wonderful
inscriptions on cornerstones of the building. I wonder if we have some type
of genetic incoding as salmon do to know where to return to spawn, I had
almost no
direction as to where Frien Barnet was, yet after riding a train, a bus and
hiking on foot, found the alsmhouse as if I "knew"
the location. I also visited St. James and
felt a connection there as well. An adorable family was having a birthday
party for a small child in the community room of the church and invited us
to join in!
Thanks for reminding me of a most pleasant day!
Carole Johnson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Farris" <tfarris268(a)comcast.net>
To: <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: [CAMP-L] Re: Message from eBay Member
Hi all,
Carol sent me this email, I know some of you would be interested in
reading
it.
Barbara Farris
Carrie Camp Memorial Library
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| By chance I came across your site. I was searching for where I used to
live
| CAMPE HOUSE in Muswell Hill, London, England.
|
| The almshouses that Lawrence Campe built in Friern Barnet Lane,
Whetstone
| ( the outskirts of Friern Barnet - the well to do that live in that
area
now
| like it to be known at Whetstone....)
|
| Anyway - here is the coincidence. My Auntie lived in one of those
| almshouses, before they all got modernised and the flats at the back
were
| built. I remember going to the house and it having a winding
staircase -
it
| had one room downstairs that also had the kitchen in - they did make a
| partition so it was separate. There was also a toilet downstairs. I
think
| she lived at 209 Friern Barnet Lane.
| My family lived in the school house that was built next to the school
ST
| JAMES. They lived there, as a member of the family was the vergen
and
| sexton( not sure of the spelling!) of the church down the road St
James...
| My brother thinks the almshouses were built in 1612 or there
abouts.
|
| Just thought you might like to know one of the people your relative help
| house.
|
| regards
|
| Carol Lee
| |
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