Coombe House
Coombe House in the 1920-1930s. The two images are COPYRIGHT fron the PictureOxon series at https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk.
Robert Avery told a wonderful story of the three Miss Briggs (not here in the 1921 census) who lived in Coombe House (so probably built mid 1920s) at the top of Ladder Hill. They would telephone London stores like Harrods and Fortnum and Mason, to order delicacies for their lunch: asparagus, strawberries and foie gras, for example, and ask to have them put on the train at Paddington to be dropped off at Wheatley. It was the lad-porter’s job to take them up the hill and deliver them to the Misses Briggs in time for lunch! The date of this is not recorded, but it may well have been typical of the mid 1920s.
James W Brown lived here in 1967.