Glendale, Brook End House, Brook End, Steeple Morden

History of Glendale

Brook End OS 1901

Herbert Godfrey Ilett was born  in Brook End cottages  in 1914. He describes his life and the community in detail in “A Villager’s Life” (1993).

Herbert describes how he would look across to Glendale, lived in by a ‘widow’. Polly Franklin. The Franklins had been responsible for setting up most of the orchards in Morden. He remembers that Polly had a young girl to keep her company at nights; two he remembered were Minnie Elbourne and Hilda Moss.

1921 Brook End House

Mary Ann Franklin, 56, single, b Steeple Morden

Eliza Newland, visitor, 70, single, b Steeple Morden