The Homestead, Barnes
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The Homestead, Barnes
Image: © Marathon Taken: 16 Oct 2019
The Homestead was built in about 1720. The house, and also the wall and railings fronting the road, are Grade II listed. According to Wikipedia "Sir Ralph Moor, high commissioner of the British Southern Nigeria Protectorate poisoned himself there in 1909. The coroner's jury determined that "the poison was deliberately taken whilst temporarily insane after suffering acutely from insomnia", having heard evidence that Moor had suffered for the last four years on his return from Africa with malarial and backwater fever that induced insomnia - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Moor
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Image Location
Latitude
51.474987
Longitude
-0.241429