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Park House
Joseph Ward and his family lived in Howard St, adjoining their warehouse. Park House was a “country” villa, a few miles away, used in the summer months. Thomas Asline Ward lived there after his marriage in 1814.
T.A.Ward describes the house in 1814;
Park House has three rooms on a floor, one about 4 yards square, another 4 x 3½ yards, and one being between them 5 x 6, with bow window. Three lodging rooms above of the same size, the middle one which was used as a drawing-room. The greatest trouble was the want of lodging rooms. The kitchen was rather underground, with cellar on one side and brewhouse on the other. The ci-devant greenhouse, which has a lower and upper room, might be used as a kitchen and lodging-room.
Source;
Bell A.B and Leader R.E. Peeps into the Past: being passages from the diary of Thomas Asline Ward
London; W.C.Leng, 1909.
The Myers Family History - Park House
Cathy Clarke, Whangarei, New Zealand
email; mel.clarke@clear.net.nz
Last updated 12 May 2003