Who lived in Culver House?

Until this week I always presumed that nobody lived in Culver House until it was sold in 1922. I thought it was the Mortimers, then the Sibthorpes, followed by the Chinn family, and Bill Lee and his family, followed by us in 1985. I have just discovered that the Mortimer family were living here much earlier, certainly by 1880. It was the same family as the Mortimers of Uton Barton, a couple of miles away. The Mortimer family still farms there. Once I phoned the late Mr Mortimer of Uton Barton who told me he had two elderly aunts or great aunts who lived here. I also met Reg Botterell, who died on the day before the new millennium at Hillbrow across the road. He told me that he had worked at Culver House for those ladies as gardener/chauffeur, and that his wife had been the cook/housekeeper.

Northern Italian Monumental Cemeteries

In 1974 I was appointed a lecturer in the Department of General Studies at Hertfordshire College of Building. One of my roles was to teach photography, as part of the General Studies programme, as well as the History of Building and Industrial Studies. All these photographs were developed and printed by myself, using mostly Agfa matte paper, with a few in metallic finishes. The photographs were taken In Kensal Green, London; Père Lachaise, Paris; Milan's Cimitero Monumentale, Monza, Venice and Trieste. The tombs were Protestant, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox and Jewish. I have copied these photographs using my iPhone. These photographs were taken nearly fifty years ago, and the freedom of access I then had no longer exists. There is a photograph of my grandmother's grave at Monza, and also of my great great great grandfather's grave in Milan's Jewish section of the Cimitero Monumentale.