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...Seventy years later, Calton’s grandson Francis found himself in financial difficulty and sold the estate to the actor-manager Edward Alleyn, who founded Dulwich College there....
...Pissarro complained that “there is no art” in Britain and set about supplying it: the lyrical “The Avenue, Sydenham” and snowbound “Fox Hill, Upper Norwood” are among the earliest evocations of Victorian...
...Beneath layers of tissue paper we find prints by Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn and one of Eadweard Muybridge’s series of motion studies, which, says Barnes, the V&A had subscribed to in the 1880s...
...That’s approximately 50 per cent of what you might find in rural areas of Surrey,” says Edward Rook of Knight Frank....
...The answer is largely attributable to one company, according to Knight Frank’s Edward Cunningham....
...There are excellent grammars at Cheltenham and Stratford, most local state schools have excellent standards and there are private schools,” says Edward Clarkson, an agent at The Buying Solution....
...So the odd one with two or three hectares is extremely special in such a market,” says Edward de Mallet Morgan, of Knight Frank’s international division....
...Edward Sugden of buying agency Property Vision says there is “a Radley effect” on the local market, thanks to families moving to the area before their sons reach the college’s entrance age of 13....
...“The finer homes in and close to St Albans will typically go under offer in two to three weeks on average,” says Rozanne Edwards, who has worked in the city of just 135,000 residents for almost 10 years...
...“Owners of waterside houses here enjoy a thriving social calendar, often gliding down the river on their launches to enjoy an early evening gin and tonic in each others’ gardens,” says Edward Heaton of Property...
...Local schools, notably The Croft private preparatory and King Edward VI state grammar (both inside the Stratford boundaries) serve as magnets for parents demanding the best education for their children....
...“That was extraordinary,” says Property Vision’s Edward Sugden....
...The gathering was the charity fundraising dinner held annually for London’s venerable Norwood charity by investors in distressed debt....
...Lee Edwards at the South Norwood office for estate agency Benson and Partners says: “Prices took a dip with the recession. I was hoping it would be just a blip but it was longer than that....
...His partner, New York artist Edward Moscati, then embarked upon a five-year restoration in collaboration with Italian conservation experts and local craftsmen....
...Details Edward Ware Homes, tel: +44 (0)1179071 200, www.edwardware.co.uk Newhaus and Riverside Park, + 44 (0)1179100 355, www.savills.co.uk Friars Walk, +44 (0)207016 5340, www.friarswalk.com...
...Lee Edwards at the South Norwood office for estate agency Benson and Partners says: “For the past four or five years prices here have gone up with the rest of the country but even though the rest of the...
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