A Remarkable History Within These Streets

A Memory of Northwood.

It seems to be something that should be mentioned with regard to the familiar streets around old Northwood, as I remember it as a 17 year old.
I knew the names of the streets around the High Street very well. It was by chance I stumbled on a remarkable history concerning those names. There was a remarkable man who decided to finance a railway station at Northwood. He then decided to invest in the local area. He was Frank Murray Maxwell Hallowell Carew. (1866-1943). Now I know why those roads or streets were so called.
He married a flamboyant beauty called Edith Morgan Gillibrand. She was a stage actress and performed under the name "Edith Chester". Their two sons were Reginald and Roy. Reginald Road well known by me.
If anyone uses a search engine and uses Major Frank Murray Maxwell Hallowell Carew, they will get an incredible story of this man's life. It is a saga which includes his sensational divorce from Edith and prior to that, his attack on a stage manager who denigrated her talent.
He survived WW1 and was shot at by the IRA in Ireland. If anyone wanted a second Downton Abbey, it is right in front of them. Just incredible.