Teatime at Fenstanton Rest Home, Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill in 1945. Clockwise from left: an unknown man; Mrs Stanton, Head Nurse with her daughter; Edward de Poitiers; Mrs Gaston de Poitiers, Matron; two unknown women; Russell Ashbee with his mother Mrs Lavinia Ashbee and Mrs Laura de Poitiers, Assistant Matron. The house was previously used for patients with a mental health condition before it was taken over by the London County Council as a rest home for the elderly. The de Poitiers family lived in Brussels at the time of the German invasion of Belgium and fled to London in 1940, settling in Streatham.Digital image by kind permission of Edward de Poitiers. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.Ref: SPd 4051\/3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teatime at Fenstanton Rest Home, Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill in 1945. Clockwise from left: an unknown man; Mrs Stanton, Head Nurse with her daughter; Edward de Poitiers; Mrs Gaston de Poitiers, Matron; two unknown women; Russell Ashbee with his mother Mrs Lavinia Ashbee and Mrs Laura de Poitiers, Assistant Matron. The house was previously used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,39,285,20,30,6,79,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-buildings-architecture","category-health","category-home_front_project_2005","category-housing","category-people","category-photograph","category-streatham-hill","category-welfare-and-social-institutions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n