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Otto von der Meden of Coventry Hall

11/1/2021

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On This Day 11 January 1820 Otto von der Meden was born
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Otto von der Meden (1828) once occupied Coventry Hall, Streatham with his wife Martha, three sons, two daughters and sister in law and 7 servants with another 10 gardeners and coach staff
He was a naturalised British subject born in Hamburg and he joined J Henry Schroder and Co as a clerk in 1847 and had been associate clerk since 1847. On his promotion to full partner, Werner Kelbe was appointed associated partner and Adolphus Schmidt joined from Kleinworts- all were German born.
(Source - extracts -Richard Roberts, Schroders:Merchants and Bankers)
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leslie
25/1/2021 07:36:34 pm

did that house face streatham common (as scene in photo ) or was it in polworth road ,because it faced common it was known as belhiem house and wheres the coventry hall /convent located as ive been looking for the origins of that place

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John H Hall
14/10/2021 11:41:57 am

No it had a gate house at the bottom of a drive on Streatham High Road, this was before Albert Car Garden flats were built. The address then was Polworth Rd, I lived there with my parents in 1948 to about 1960 when it was council flats. You can see the windows to their flat ground floor extreme right.

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Mark Bery
25/1/2021 11:00:06 pm

Coventry Hall (picture above) was by Polworth Road and the house that faced the War memorial and Streatham Common North was Blenheim

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