 He lived at Whitley until 1947, after which the house passed through several hands until being acquired by John & Robyn Hawkins in 1980.The oaks and elms, as evidenced in the 1896 photographs, must now be approaching 120 years of age (2018).The hedges were "laid" in the traditional English fashion in 1983 and again in 1986 by Mark Fowles, the champion hedge layer of England, from Bridgnorth in Shropshire.