The Great Gransden Reading Room

This morning I visited The Stone House, whose garden we will be using for Time Travellers 2021. Fascinating to discover that it started out as one house for the Vicar's curate but then as years went by three other dwellings were built either side of the original, making it into four different homes. In more recent years all four have become one large house. But it is only at the back of the house that you can properly see the different architectural styles. The local MP and biography author Robert Rhodes James lived there until his death in 1999. Margaret Thatcher attended his funeral in our local church.


After my garden visit I had a wander round the village. I always like this amazing huge hydrangea which stands outside our village Reading Room which was built in 1871. Its construction was funded by Theodore V Webb and his wife who were great benefactors to the village.