History of The Sycamores and Old White Lodge in Farnborough, Hants

<body> <h2><font face="Verdana" size="2">Old White Lodge</font></h2> <p><b><font size="2" face="Verdana">Sorry your browser cannot support frames, please click on the links below</font></b></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">The Sycamores</font></b></span></p> <p><font size="1" face="Verdana"><b>1812 - 1860<br> </b> <span lang="en-gb"><img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="1841.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">The story starts</font></a></font></p> <p><b><font size="1" face="Verdana">1863-1865<br> </font></b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="1863.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Thomas & Alice Scovell</font></a></font></p> <p><font size="1" face="Verdana"><b><span lang="en-gb">1</span>866-1874<br>  </b><span lang="en-gb"><img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="1857.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">William & Elizabeth Knell</font></a></font></p> <p><b><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana">1871-1892</font></span></b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><br>  <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="1875.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Gen. Sir Thomas McMahon Bt.</font></a><br> </font><b><font size="1" face="Verdana">McMahon's children</font><br> </b><font size="1" face="Verdana"> <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="ahm.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Aubrey Hope McMahon</font></a><br>  <img border="0" src="images/point2.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="hwm.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Horace Westropp McMahon</font></a><br>     <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="bancroft.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Charles Bancroft mystery</font></a><br>  <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="fym.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Francis Yorke McMahon</font></a><br>  <img border="0" src="images/point2.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="nrm.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Norman Reginald McMahon</font></a><br>  <img border="0" src="images/point2.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="fmm.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Frances Mary Hardman</font></a></font></p> <p><b><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana">1893 -1915<br> </font></span></b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="1893.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">General Sir Reginald Gipps</font><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="1913.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Outside The Sycamores, 1913</font></a></font><br> <b><font size="1" face="Verdana">Gipps<span lang="en-gb">'s children</span></font></b><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span></font><img border="0" src="images/point5.gif" width="12" height="12"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="elg.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Evelyn Louisa Romer</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb">    <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="elghouses.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Evelyn's houses</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="rng.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Reginald Nigel Gipps</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="glg.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">George Lancelot Gipps</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><b>1915-1927<br> </b></font></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"></font><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="1915.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Hillside Convent College</font></a><br> </font></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"> <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="hillside1.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Outside The Sycamores, 1917</font></a><br> <span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="hillsidein.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Inside The Sycamores , 1920s</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"> <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="hillside.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Outside The Sycamores, 1920s</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"> <img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="bell.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">The college bell</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font size="1" face="Verdana">1927 - 1979, Herbert H. Hilder<br> </font></b></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="1928.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">1927-1959</font></a></font></span><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="1960.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">1960-1979</font></a></font></span><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="1980.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">1980-2007</font></a></font></span><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="timelinethesyc.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Occupant timeline</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><b>Who built The Sycamores?</b></font></span></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"> </font></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="house1.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Our conjectures</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">Sycamores lodge</font></b></span></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" face="Verdana"> </font></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"><img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="whitelodge.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">1861 to 2007</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"> </font><img border="0" src="images/point5.gif" width="12" height="12"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="oldlodge.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Outside the lodge, 1919</font></a><img border="0" src="images/new_small.gif" width="31" height="12"></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> <img border="0" src="images/point4.gif" width="11" height="11"></span><a href="timelinethelodge.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Occupant timeline</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Verdana" size="1">Farnborough Park houses<br> </font></b></span><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="knell.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">William Knell's houses</font></a></font><br> <font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"><a href="house2.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Early F'borough houses</font></a></font></p> <p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">Resources used</font></b></span></p> <p><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span></font><img border="0" src="images/point5.gif" width="12" height="12"><b><a href="links.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#000000">Guidance and </font></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#800000"><a href="links.htm" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">links</font></a></font></span></b></p> <p><b><font face="Verdana" size="1">Other web<span lang="en-gb"> sites</span></font></b></p> <p><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-gb"> </span><img border="0" src="images/point1.jpg" width="11" height="11"></font><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Verdana" color="#800000" size="1"><a target="_blank" href="http://historicfarnborough.co.uk" style="text-decoration: none"><font 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