The evolution of the Kite

• The evolution of the Kite — RVPA Girls / RVPA Boys / Neals / Cricket Area





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• No kite
• Rocque — 1740s
• Milne 1800
• OS 18??
• First maps with railways
• Planned
• Completed
• First maps with kite marked
• Notice how Sencer essentially sold ALL land between the railway lines — then made a right angle from Trinity Road to the (future Brighton) line — leaving only a few feet of access between the new RVPA and Magdalen College's land (formerly the Allfarthing Piece).
• See alignments of wall at Neal's Farm with former road-entrance to the land... photo showing line in the grass?
• Initially RVPA Girls only
• The RVPA Girls and Boys
• RVPA Boys sold off to Emanuel
• Separation into three areas, with the Neals taking over / renting the southern third on a 20? Year lease (renewed?)
• - Buckmaster claims it was a stitch up, a prelude to flogging it off for speculative development
• - calls for reunification — if the land is no longer needed for the school, give it back to the Common — the Patriotic Fund Commissioners reply they bought it outright...with no covenants
• - money collected and promised
• - local people?
• Vestries? Council
• MBW?
• — Lord Wandsworth's brother — name?
• Reunification of the Neals' rented area under MBW
• Then LCC
• - early changes
• - criticism about slowness to change?
• RVPA Girls sent away (to houses in Spencer Park?) to make way for 3rd London General Hospital
• Delays until 192?
• - criticism about slowness to change?
• Transformation of the Cricket area
• - criticism about destruction of the Neals' trees/orchards — minor?
• - some outrage at failure to make ornamental garden [name?)
• - other?
• And the Common...