Carters Merchants Ltd
From Lacey Green History
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CONVERTED in WW2
During WW2 Harold Carter transferred his business, Carters Merchants Ltd, an import and export company, from the City of London to the tennis court in Lacey Green.
REPORT by WINNIE WOOD, later Mrs STAN RIXON click Stan & Winnie Rixon for their own life story.
My sister had worked for Carters Merchants Ltd, in the City of London, an import and export company. The Carter family had bought Grymsdyke House some years before. They also owned the indoor tennis court built by ex-vicar William Robson in Church Lane. Mr Carter, the chairman of the company, decided to transfer the business to Lacey Green for the duration of the war. He converted the tennis court into staff accommodation and offices.
Dormitories either end for single men and single women, and offices in the middle, also a kitchen and dining room. It was the end of the building’s prestigious life as a tennis court.