Langton House History
I have just had a fascinating talk with Rita Dunne, who was trying to book up to stay with us (unfortunately we were full) because her grandmother was born in Langton House! She tells me that her grandmother was born in 1881 and in those days the house was called The Ferns (few houses had numbers at that time). At this time it was a private house.
I am hoping that when Rita stays in Windsor she will call in as she has some old photos of the house as well as helping me fill in a few more details.
Well in due course Rita did in fact call in. She had discovered a few more facts, unfortunately her grandmother was not born here but she did live her. She gave me a few copies of pictures taken outside the front of the house with her grandmother and her mother as a baby.
The front wall had iron railings which have long since disappeared. This in itself is an interesting story as during the war all the railings across England were removed as part of the war effort to use the raw materials for bombs - in fact most of the iron was unusable and was just dumped, but thats why as you walk around the streets in most towns you see low walls with no railings!