(Photo courtesy Kevin Kelly)
Robert Measures who lived next door at "Woodlands" was an Iron Merchant. A world expert in Orchids and he built 31 greenhouses and employed 14 gardeners.
Robert Measures gifted "Beclands" to his son Herbert James Thomas Measures. He also donated the land on which the Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs was erected and a substantial sum towards the building cost (John W Brown)
Robert Measures who lived next door at "Woodlands" was an Iron Merchant. A world expert in Orchids and he built 31 greenhouses and employed 14 gardeners.
Robert Measures gifted "Beclands" to his son Herbert James Thomas Measures. He also donated the land on which the Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs was erected and a substantial sum towards the building cost (John W Brown)
