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Poynters Hall (Totteridge, Hertfordshire, home of Geraldine Harmsworth, née Maffett, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, mother of Alfred, Harold and Cecil Harmsworth, 1839-1925) Album of photographs, 13 photographs, laid down, tissue guards, each 116 x 174mm., original calf, gilt stamp: "Poynters Hall" on upper cover, g.e., edges a little rubbed, oblong 8vo, [c. 1900].***"In 1897, Alfred and Harold [Harmsworth] had bought a substantial mansion beyond north London for their mother [Geraldine]. It was Poynters Hall at Totteridge, built in the Queen Anne style and overlooking a common. The house and its thirty-five acres had cost £9,000; she herself had an annual allowance of first £4,000, then £6,000. From then on Poynters became a family base to which married sons and daughters trekked for Sunday lunch in top hats and Sunday best. She became a stern matriarch, disapproving of alcohol and indelicate language, and was inclined to disapprove also of the husbands and wives her children married." - Bourne. Lords of Fleet Street, 1990.. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images: 
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