Scales Family - at Cliffsend near Ramsgate.

[castle261]

I have been reading all the comments about Cliffs End Hall, Now I wonder WHY Lady Sceales
left - I says in one part that the lady lived alone - I never actually met the Lady - Some one
else mentioned about the Saint Bernard dogs - Was the house falling down - due to no repairs
done to it - Was it sold to the council - then they developed it - or a private company bought it -
to put a housing estate - in its place - Fascinating story though.

[castle261]

Thank you all gentlemen - I have a copy of `the  house ` now - Smiffy - as I  remember it !

[Smiffy]

Photograph here:

https://www.facebook.com/ramsgatehistorical/photos/a.321557094569069/1717468818311216

[grandarog]

1938 Electoral Role ..


Sceales Lt.-Col. Geo. Adinston McLaren D.S.O. Cliffs End Hall, Ebbsfleet, Thanet
His Son James died in WW2 .


More about him on link . Loads more if you google.


http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=8968.10;wap2

[DaveTheTrain]

I did not know about Cliffs End Hall.  I just googled it, I am not on facebook but t looks like somebody has put some images up of the place.

[castle261]

Thank you Smiffy - any photo`s of it -- before 1970 ?

[Smiffy]

I think this would have been Cliffs End Hall, which looks like it was demolished sometime in the 1970's.

[DaveTheTrain]

Would the big house have been at Sevenscore, which is just outside Cliffsend?

[castle261]

I have been on the internet to find out where the family of `Scales `have gone - this will be a good one for the `where is it `- The 1930s - my sister worked for them at ` a big house & garden at
` Cliffsend ` near Ramsgate - We were invited & had tea on the vast lawn - There were six Saint Bernard dogs belonging the family - loose on the lawn. The Master of the household, was high
up in government service - as he entertained his Excellency the Emperor of Abyssinia - many times.
It is just a matter of curiosity - on my part - I know his Excellency Haile Selassie - died in 1975.

My sister was an under parlour maid - to the family.