Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
The story of why it's boarded up or the history of the building?



Either way it's one of my 'Dingle Mysteries'.
I could never understand why such a comparitively small and plain building was built there considering all the other houses (without exception) round Princes Park are large mansions.
With it being rather small it's not always shown on maps, so I don't know if it predates the park.
I'm guessing that perhaps it was built as some sort of foreman's house when the park was getting laid out, but I've no evidence for that.
Didn't one of the houses there belong to The Mole of Edgehill's Doctor?, it may have gone when those new flats were built a year or two ago.
I remember saying to one of the old Profs who lived in Grassendale Park ''That small house is a little near your garden isn't it?'' to which he replied 'That's my garage!'' It had upstairs windows with curtains and all those 'homely' touches. It was the original stables with living accommodation for the groom(s)