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Unlawater Hotel

Unlawater Hotel c1955
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This hotel was owned by my mother Patricia Woods till around 1959. Newnham was a busy place then. H G Zeal had a themometer factory in the High Street.

Above the hotel was a dairy farm run by A.Jones (Dean Forest farm).

As a matter of interest, the name Unlawater translates to River of Sorrows and was from a time back in history when Lady Padget lived there and a member of the family drowned in the river.

Best wishes,
Rai Woods. (Captain)

A memory of Newnham, shared by Rai Woods.

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My First Home

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My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories of lunches in the garden.

They re-roofed it within the first five years of purchase. The council bought some of the land along the road to widen the road as it kept flooding as a result of the Severn tidal wave; they did eventually rebuild the pretty red brick wall which runs along the perimeter.

There were some beautiful trees in the garden (many of which have since been taken down), and a superb monkey tree which we used to decorate with coloured lights at Christmas.

A memory of Newnham, shared by Elizabeth Prankerd.

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School Days

Unlawater Hotel c1955
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I never knew the Prankherds owned it as they were the head and headmaster at St Hilliards in Mickleton, dark secrets.

A memory of Newnham, shared by Terrence Gilligan.

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This Picture is Very Nostalgic For Me,

Unlawater Hotel c1955
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Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget, 1839 - 1929 Born in Germany was a diarist and the last of Queen Victoria's intimate friends.
Lady Paget died of burns after falling asleep by the fire at her home Unlawater House, Newnham on Severn, England, at the age of 90.
Nodding over her newspaper in the Small Library of Unlawater House, Lady Paget lapsed gently into sleep. The newspaper slipped from her fingers, lodged against the blazing coal grate. She woke with a start to find both the newspaper and her skirts aflame. Being frail and unable to rise alone, she rang for her butler.
Swift to respond as usual, the butler arrived in time to tear the skirts off Walburga Lady Paget before her upper clothing caught fire. When he finished stamping out the flames he found that she had swooned. She was removed to Wooton Hospital. There, a few hours later, she died.

But believe me she still lives on at this... Read more

A memory of Newnham, shared by Gary Mason.

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Peter Prankerd's First Born

Unlawater Hotel c1955
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I am Peter Prankerd's first born child, Catherine Anne Bulteel (nee Prankerd). I now live in South Africa. My brother (my father's second born) resides in the UK. I have vague memories of this house but vivid memories of sailing the River Severn in a barge with my father, Peter, and his second wife, Patricia. Elizabeth, Simon and Timothy had all been born when we were living with my father. My brother and I were dropped off unceremoniously late one night with my mother, Susan Barbara Lawton. I have not seen nor heard from my father since I was 8 years old.

A memory of Newnham, shared by Catherine Anne (Kate Nee Prankerd.

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