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A House by Raymond Myerscough-Walker, 1936
From: “Eliot Walker”
To: “Tom Walker”
Cc: “Sam Walker”; “Jessie Walker”
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:40 PM
Subject: Raymond Myerscough Walker
Thought you might like to see a few photos of a house designed by my uncle (Winston’s brother) now reckoned to be the best example of post modern domestic architecture in the country. Its the one at Chilwell!
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Tom lives in London and spends his time building geeky projects and then breaking them apart.
Most of the posts here are just for his own reference but if other people want to share them please feel free.
Hi Eliot
Myself and my parter own the House in Chilwell and would love to find out more about Raymond and any other interesting facts or photos which would add to the legacy \ provenance of the property.
Best regards
James
Hi Eliot
Found this page by accident whilst doing research into my family tree. Raymond, Winston and Norman were my Dads cousins. Might we be related?
Pamela
Hi Pamela
My son, Thomas (Iain Myerscough) Walker has shown me your email on his site
regarding Raymond’s house in Chilwell.
Winston, Raymond’s younger brother but also an architect, was my father.
So, yes, I guess we must be related and it would be fascinating to know
more. But I have remarkably little information about Winston’s family
history!
My step brother (David - Winston’s first wife died in childbirth) has rather
more information.
Winston never allowed my sister or I to visit Raymond, on the basis that his
anarchic values and brilliant mind would corrupt our brains for ever!
But we knew his son, Robin, and I keep in touch with Simon Myerscough.
If you know how distant a cousin Raymond was to your father then I guess we
can work out the connection.
I have done a potted history of the family on my mothers side (she was a
Lloyd, an old Quaker family)which you can see on my website if you are
interested http://www.eliotwalker.net/
If you follow the personal link, you will find her history.
I have not updated the website for ages - it might be a nice project to try
and track down some of Winston’s history.
So it would be interesting to get some details from you.
Winston’s life was fairly astonishing as we discovered shortly before he
died when Tom recorded his life history. It turns out he was in MI6 which
may explain his odd secretiveness. As my mother said at the time ‘Oh yes
dear, we never talked about that sort of thing….’
By a strange coincidence, my sister and I are about to visit the new owners
of the house in Chilwell so that will be interesting too.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Eliot Walker
Dear Eliot,I was looking on the internet for some information on Raymond when I found the e.mail from Pamela Corrie to you on Feb 28th , we would be very interested to know her relationship to Raymond as we are trying to compile a life history of Raymond.
We are currently living in France though still have the farm at Stourhead.
Our address is Cadis,Serignac,82500. France
Tel & Fax 00-33(563-03-24-10) ( about 40miles from Toulouse)
e.mail angela.myerscough-walker@orange.fr
Best wishes,
Simon & Angela Myerscough-Walker
Hi Eliot
I believe that I have an original pencil sketch/plan of the house at Chilwell signed by R Myerscough Walker ARIBA, let me know if you would like a picture of it.
Best wishes,
Ian
Hi Ian
My partner Jamie and myself are the current owners of the chilwell house.
we would love to see a copy of your picture, and in return if you have never visited and want to come by and see it for real - do let me know.
My email is Shaaron.Ainsworth@nottingham.ac.uk (note the 2 “a”s)
Best wishes
Shaaron