Birdsgrove House, Mayfield

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Date:1950 - 1955 (c.)

Description:Birdsgrove House is a large Grade II listed house built in 1852 as a home for the Rev. T.A.L. Greaves and family, situated on Swinscoe Hill at Mayfield, overlooking the River Dove.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society purchased the lease of the house in May 1939 and opened it as the Society’s convalescent home in April 1946 with accommodation for 20 guests. In 2005 Birdsgrove House was sold by the trustees of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Benevolent Fund to private owners. It is now (2023) Birdsgrove House Hotel.

A postcard photographed and published by Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter. It was postmarked in Uttoxeter on 3 August 1956 and sent to an address in Bourn, Cambridgeshire.

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Image courtesy of: The Roy Lewis Postcard Collection

Donor ref:Roy Lewis-381 (240/47530)

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