Search for history of Victorian family and their cricket linked Windermere residence
... Little is known of Frank Alfred Roberts and his wife Mary Ellan Roberts, owners of a large Lake District estate, with gardens, stables and two lodges. They employed Thomas Muirhead, the architect of the cricket pavilions at Kennington Oval and Old Trafford, to design a substantial 27 roomed Arts and Crafts house. And plans indicate rooms for a ‘Mr and Mrs Roberts’, ‘Mr Arthur’ and ‘Miss K’.
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