Wynne's Houses
Wynne lived in many
houses during her married life, Many of the early ones were little more
than corrugated iron sheds, though she managed to make them comfortable
inside. There are no pictures of the two earliest houses -
53 The Common, Woolwich (part of a terrace now demolished), and another
army house in Aldershot they moved to in early 1904.
Army Quarters, Kildare
The first picture we have
is of their quarters in Kildare, where Herbert was based from 1905 - 1907. They were invariably made of corrugated iron, as you can see if you scroll down to Bulford...however Wynne seems to have managed to make them quite cosy.
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Sheffield
Then in 1907 the family moved to Sheffield, to
No 8 Taptonville - a house as you can see that stands to this day.
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Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain
Wynne disliked Sheffield, and was very pleased
to move into yet another tin hut, (The Hut), this time at Bulford Camp,
on Salisbury Plain. She was very happy here, and continued to live in
the army hut until they moved to a large house near Aldershot, when her
husband was promoted.
Click on the arrow for Ysobel's recollection of this house:
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Upton Lodge, Upper Hale, near Farnham
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Upton Lodge, Upper Hale, (above) was a very happy
home for Wynne, and she remained there from 1910 until 1916. They had
intended to move when her husband retired in 1914, but the First World
War intervened, Herbert was recalled, and in the end Wynne had to move
to Somerset in the middle of the war to a house and village she came to
hate. Below is a picture of Hinton End, in Hinton St George, where she
lived from 1916 until 1919.
Hinton End, Hinton St George, Somerset.
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Broughtons, near Newnham on Severn.
It wasn't until 1919 that they were finally able
to retire, and they took a lease on a house in Newnham on Severn, called
Broughtons. Probably for the first time, Wynne was truly happy with the
house and garden - but even this was not destined to last....(take your mouse over the image to see what Broughtons looks like today)
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(click here to go to more pictures of Broughtons)
Kitale, Kenya.
And so the family decided to emigrate to Kenya
in 1924, and for the first and last time in her life, Wynne actually lived
in a house she owned...indeed, a house they had built from scratch. They
called it Kapretwa, and it was built on the slopes of Mount Elgon, in
the Trans Nzoia district in the north of the colony.
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