The one in the postcard is deffo 'L' shaped with the wrong number of floors above the main columns compared to the single non-L shaped building in the wiki link.
Very true, but I suspect what we have here is 'local yokels' calling it by the wrong name. "Oh look it's a house in Benham Park..... it must be known as Benham House", when in fact, it's actual name was Benham Valence. (see links). It was, howerver, sold as the 'Mansion House' to Norsk Data. It's present occupants (2e2) also have the name 'The Mansion House' on their letter headings. (but that is to differentiate it from the buildings / companies/ workshops outback)
Threep.
You are an education in itself-I take my hat off to you...Creepwood! And how long have you been in the area, you seem to know very little about it!
Well, I sometimes think you need it. It was you who struggled with the 24 hour clock, the correct use of English, the works of Tennessee Williams, the ability to quote correctly, and Bertie Wooster after all. Is it not you that always resorts to swearing and name-calling when you start to lose your arguments? How many posts have you had deleted for those reasons? Too many methinks.
But to answer your point,
Are you saying it wasn't sold to Norsk Data as 'The Mansion House' then? Are you saying 2e2 don't call it the same on their letter heading. Are you saying there aren't diifferent companies round the back? Are you saying it's correct name is not Benham Valence? Which part is wrong?
Perhaps you'd like to answer the question posed to you by both Brian and Greenham Common now?
I know you're 'getting old' Threep but that's a bit unfair. Who's to say it wasn't non 'local yokels' who started calling it the Mansion House? I think it's a reasonable assumption don't you? After all, Norsk Data and 2e2 are very recent occupants given it's age. The correct name now is Benham Valance but we know for sure it is not the original name
Well, I sometimes think you need it. It was you who struggled with the 24 hour clock, the correct use of English, the works of Tennessee Williams, the ability to quote correctly, and Bertie Wooster after all. Is it not you that always resorts to swearing and name-calling when you start to lose your arguments? How many posts have you had deleted for those reasons? Too many methinks.
Pip Pip!
Threep.
Thanks for that..Still can't handle the Pip Pip though.. Don't know where the above came from, you are obviously getting me confused with another. Anyway, to answer your question, as I stated before, my Mother and Father worked on The Sutton Estate for Toby Sutton at 'Benham House, but I don't have to justify myself to you as you well know..but please carry on in the manner you have become accustomed! I expect some people find it entertaining
The correct name now is Benham Valance but we know for sure it is not the original name
That's not quite right it was built in the Benham Estate by the Valance family, hence Benham-Valence House. In the same way, the Hampstead Estate was settled by the Marshall family. Hampstead-Marshall..
Dodgy, you keep going on about Benham House. Where exactly is that building if it is not the Valence/Norsk data building please let us know and that will settle the discussion.
Maybe it was another house in the grounds. It's all very confusing because it definitely states in numerous places that it was called Benham Valance in later years. Maybe dodgy can put us all out of our misery and say exactly where his family went to work
“ The Margrane of Ansph begs leave to inform the commanding officer of the B.P.C. that two young officers forc’d their way thro’ the gate, telling the woman that wanted to deter them that they were going to Benham House, and meeting the Marne who asked them if they were going there, they answered they thought the road was publick, she assured them it was not, but they proceeded through. The Marne hopes (whatever these young men may be) they ought to be informed they have behaved very unlike gentlemen, and of course not in the least like officers.”
King Henry lll was very fond of jousting tournaments and in 1248 he held a large tournament somewhere in Newbury. One of the ypunger half brothers of the king, William de Valence was a contestant who because of his youth and inexperience took a pretty severe beating. Two years later in 1250, the manor, (which actually means estate rather than a house as we know it today) was given to William de Valence by King Henry lll and it was then named at that time Benham-Valence.
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Now, is it where Sir Thomas Fairfax stayed? 
