Episode 9 – Gerrards Cross
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In each programme our duo are called in to solve the hidden history of a house, no matter how big or small, old or new.
Dr Nick Barratt is our archive specialist. Dr Jonathan Foyle is our architectural historian and archaeologist.
In this programme Jonathan and Nick are called in to investigate the hidden past of a large crenellated house in Buckinghamshire.
Nick looks at Angela's photos and legal documents, and is particularly intrigued by the photo of the lady by the well. Is it Marie de Candt, a woman listed in Angela's legal documents? Nick visits a local historian who might have more information and he helps track down a local resident who remembers an elderly lady by the name of Marie de Candt, who lived in Angela's house.
Also through the local historian, Nick uncovers some plans which reveal a conversion of the stable buildings, commissioned for the house by Marie de Candt, as well as a surprising revelation about the house's mock Elizabethan frontage…
