Two interesting properties, long since demolished, and the story of one woman who lived in both of them – Adelaide Carlton.

Messrs. Bishop and Pritchett are favoured with instructions from Mr C. H. Barker to sell by auction, at their Sale Room, Regent Circus, Swindon, on Monday, September 28^th, 1903, at Seven o’clock in the evening …

Lot 2 – The substantial stone-built residence, of roomy accommodation, known as “Elm Villa,” Wellington Street, Swindon, with flower garden and lawn, a useful shed with paved floor, off which are harness room and well-fitted stabling, having a loose box and three stalls with loft over, a large coach house with loose box, and a yard with good entrance from Merton Street.

These managers residences or villas (Marlow House is on the left) were built to the north of Swindon Station. Similar houses had once stood adjacent to the Railway Village but were demolished in the 1870s.

Images published courtesy of STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway

Adelaide Carlton’s last resting place with her husband Samuel in Radnor Street Cemetery.