I think Sheila Rowbotham should be given all the credit there is for her magnificent volume.

Although I have only just started reading it seriously, it has already helped to possibly sort out one little issue.

At the time of the 150th Anniversary celebrations, a small group of us (including Sheila Rowbotham, myself, Ron Burgess (the former mayor of Guildford) Rosemary Fitch and Guida Clement (both great, great neices) visited the grave and Ron read out the Oration that Carpenter had originally intended for his funeral. We then wandered on to the "Mountside" address.

Guida had previously recounted how she visited Carpenter in Guildford when he was in a wheelchair but was puzzled as it was not the house she remembered. For one thing she remembered a bungalow and another she had it placed "somewhere on the Hog's Back".

However the account of Dorothea Clement helping to nurse Carpenter at Inglenook would indicate that Inglenook was where she remembered visiting.

I lived for a few years in Josephs Road myself and have to report &quot;Inglenook&quot; is no longer there.<br><br>Post edited by: Alan Page, at: 2008/10/23 21:09

Thanks for the suggestion Alan. Here you go.

Joey Cain
San Francisco