Charles Castle (1813-1886), who lived at Frome Lodge from 1861 to his death, was my great great great uncle, and I have inherited the contents of his writing case, many letters written from or received at Frome Lodge. I can confirm that William Hurrell was not there in 1901 or 1911. Charles Castle's widow Ada was still living there at that time and in 1911 she was being visited by her niece my grandmother May Castle. I've written a lot about Charles and his letters in articles posted at www.talltalesfromthetrees.blogspot.com (where there are also articles about other Bristol families to whom I'm connected). I had the great pleasure of walking in my grandmother's footsteps last week when I visited the Lodge and was shown round part of the house and gardens by a current tenant. I'll be posting an article about the architecture of Frome Lodge on my blog on 4th January 2013. The roof pattern of the building shows at least three, perhaps five or six phases of construction, and the Lodge sits on the border between two great 16th century estates, Stoke Park and Eastville Park. I speculate wildly about whether somewhere under one of those roofs there is the core of an old hunting lodge, now buried under subsequent work! It's not completely far-fetched. Charles often used the address Frome Lodge, Eastville. He moved in after his wedding in 1861, and in 1857 the Eastville estate was under threat because of the lack of a legitimate heir to its Smyth owners. Perhaps Charles was able to occupy it because of that. He was a local magistrate, solicitor, sometime wine importer and Liberal Party candidate, a member of the Castle family of distillers in Bristol, one of whom was mayor Michael Hinton Castle. There is a memorial to Charles in Stapleton's Holy Trinity church in the form of a spectcular brass eagle lectern.