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Originaly added as Yew Lodge but is it?
I'm assuming the ladies are my aunts, May, Wynn and Lil who moved into Yew Lodge after the Grange was demolished
Note from LNW: Date estimated based on The Grange having been demolished in the late 1960s.
Further research by a Banstead History member (Sylvia Dooley) has cast doubt on this property being Yew Lodge – see later comments supported by picture #903.
Picture added on 29 March 2020 at 16:35
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I have been looking at the info in Banstead History Centre about The Grange. It contains some old photographs of Yew Lodge, which looks quite different from the house in the photograph above and has timber beams on all the outside walls.
On Google Earth, there is a house that resembles the Yew Lodge pictured in the Banstead History files, and it appears to be in the correct location relative to where The Grange once stood. Therefore, I would suggest that the above photograph has been incorrectly labelled as Yew Lodge, although I have no idea what house it could be!
Updated 21 Aug 2026:
I have done further research on it myself and also discussed it with other members of the archiving group.
I have established that the timbered house in the photos from The Grange file at the library is definitely Yew Lodge and I am now confident that it isn’t the same house as the one labelled “Yew Lodge” depicted in the photograph above.
My conclusions are based on the following:
Zoopla and similar websites show that there is still a house named Yew Lodge in Grange Gardens at the correct location.
It was last sold in 2003.
There is a building marked as Yew Lodge in the same location on some old OS maps.
A comment posted in 2012 by Robert Hines on the Banstead Village.com website under picture #160 states that “The Lodge is still in Grange Gardens at the top on the right.”
I asked several members of the archiving group whether they think that the picture labelled “Yew Lodge” above might show the rear of the timbered house in Grange Gardens. We have carefully studied the old photographs of the timbered house in the History Centre file and compared them with the photograph above and with the image of the existing house in Grange Gardens on Google Earth, viewed from all sides. We all agree that the Grange Gardens house is Yew Lodge, which used to belong to The Grange, but that its rear view does not match that of the house in the image above.
Finally, I have noticed that Derrick Gardner has provided a number of other photos relating to The Grange, but some of the information that he has supplied with them might be incorrect e.g. he says that picture #498 is of “the front gates of the Grange, possibly taken in the 1920s-30s when his "Greatfather" owned it” but at that time, the house was owned by Mr Powell; the Gardner sisters bought it after WW2 (verified from several sources of info in the library file).
Another of Derrick’s picture #500 shows The Grange with 2 cars parked in front of it, supposedly taken around 1935, but surely the cars in this photo are much later than 1935 (more like 1950s?). Therefore, he may also have been mistaken about the identity of the house in his “Yew Lodge” photo, although I’m sure that it is a photo of his aunts who owned The Grange, and they may well have lived in the real Yew Lodge after selling off The Grange.
Response from LNW: Sylvia has put forward a convincing argument. Can anyone add to it?
On Google Earth, there is a house that resembles the Yew Lodge pictured in the Banstead History files, and it appears to be in the correct location relative to where The Grange once stood. Therefore, I would suggest that the above photograph has been incorrectly labelled as Yew Lodge, although I have no idea what house it could be!
Updated 21 Aug 2026:
I have done further research on it myself and also discussed it with other members of the archiving group.
I have established that the timbered house in the photos from The Grange file at the library is definitely Yew Lodge and I am now confident that it isn’t the same house as the one labelled “Yew Lodge” depicted in the photograph above.
My conclusions are based on the following:
Zoopla and similar websites show that there is still a house named Yew Lodge in Grange Gardens at the correct location.
It was last sold in 2003.
There is a building marked as Yew Lodge in the same location on some old OS maps.
A comment posted in 2012 by Robert Hines on the Banstead Village.com website under picture #160 states that “The Lodge is still in Grange Gardens at the top on the right.”
I asked several members of the archiving group whether they think that the picture labelled “Yew Lodge” above might show the rear of the timbered house in Grange Gardens. We have carefully studied the old photographs of the timbered house in the History Centre file and compared them with the photograph above and with the image of the existing house in Grange Gardens on Google Earth, viewed from all sides. We all agree that the Grange Gardens house is Yew Lodge, which used to belong to The Grange, but that its rear view does not match that of the house in the image above.
Finally, I have noticed that Derrick Gardner has provided a number of other photos relating to The Grange, but some of the information that he has supplied with them might be incorrect e.g. he says that picture #498 is of “the front gates of the Grange, possibly taken in the 1920s-30s when his "Greatfather" owned it” but at that time, the house was owned by Mr Powell; the Gardner sisters bought it after WW2 (verified from several sources of info in the library file).
Another of Derrick’s picture #500 shows The Grange with 2 cars parked in front of it, supposedly taken around 1935, but surely the cars in this photo are much later than 1935 (more like 1950s?). Therefore, he may also have been mistaken about the identity of the house in his “Yew Lodge” photo, although I’m sure that it is a photo of his aunts who owned The Grange, and they may well have lived in the real Yew Lodge after selling off The Grange.
Response from LNW: Sylvia has put forward a convincing argument. Can anyone add to it?
Added by Sylvia Dooley on 30 July 2026
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I certainly recognise Aunties May and Win. Eileen