Great Nelmes
A Memory of Emerson Park.
My great grandfather, Alfred Barber owned Great Nelmes House from about 1900-1935 until his death. My late mother loved the house and was extremely upset when she heard it had been illegally demolished in 1967. As a child I remember being taken there to visit the elderly owners - I must have been about 10 I think. I remember walking through the unkempt kitchen garden and past a beautiful cedar of Lebanon near the rear entrance. We entered through the kitchen, went into the hall where the Jacobean staircase was and into the drawing room. All I can remember is elderly Mrs Platford sitting on a very old Victorian sofa holding a China doll for me to look at. I remember being disappointed that we didn’t see more of the old house-I still wish I had seen more. The house has gone forever now so I will never know what the rest of the house was like.
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