Sir John Lubbock lived here, 1861- 5. From the style of the house, he may have been its first occupant.
It housed St Hugh's Preparatory School for a time. For WW1 the School moved to Malvern and in September 1915 an annexe for Abbey Lodge Hospital was opened in Lamas. The hospital moved out at the end of the war. During WW2 the house was used as a refuge by the Barbican Mission for the Jews for Jewish children brought over from central Europe in 1939, just before war broke out. It was renamed Mount Zion. The building was demolished in the 1970s and new housing occupies its site.
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The photo comes from the where it's made clear that the photo is from the time that the house was used by St Hugh's Preparatory School. There is more information there about its time as Mount Zion.
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