Listers - you may like to see this message I sent just now to Chuck, who had
been told by Roy that he had read that CARDEN HALL in CHESTER is being
rebuilt by Steve Morgan the English Millionare for 8 Million pounds.
Chuck -
Thanks for alerting me to this. A bit of a google tells me that the
millionaire who built the Carden Park Hotel in the 1990s sold it to the De
Vere Hotels Group a few years ago but reserved the site of the original
Carden Hall, in the grounds of the hotel. He is now building an absurd
great pseudo Georgian mansion there on the spot where Carden Hall was when
it burned to the ground in 1912. Not a bit like Carden Hall, which was a
famous "black and white" Cheshire house.
During the Carden Gathering in 1998 you may remember walking with me to the
site of the burned house, half way up a slope towards an escarpment (from
which the name Carden is believed to derive) with a wonderful view towards
Wales over a lovely valley.
Arthur Carden of Horsham, England