This is a PowerPoint presentation with notes of a talk entitled “Charles Lock Luck of Surbiton. The architect & the man” that was given at a meeting of the Kingston upon Thames Society held in the Judge Theatre of Tiffin School on 17 November 2021. It is based on a paper “Charles Lock Luck, 1833-1890, a Surbiton architect”, 1 March 2021, on the website, www.kingstonhistoryresearch.co.uk The presentation includes later research which was possible after the easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures and it addresses some of the points made during the discussion after the talk.
Noel Baddow Pope was born in Toxteth, a sub-district of Liverpool, on Christmas Eve, 1909. He moved with his widowed mother to Surbiton before 1926.
A war memorial panel was unveiled in Surbiton Park Congregational Church on 12 November 1922.
On 13 November 1919, an aeroplane named Endeavour took off from Hounslow aerodrome on the first leg of a journey to Australia.
…today’s Eden Street was once called “Heathen Street”…