This photo shows the Rate Book record of Broadwood Road owners for nos. 7-21 in the year 1919-20. I deduce the date from the change of ownership of no. 9 dated January 1920. It is annoying that the full list of Broadwood Road houses 1-21, never appears on the same Rate Book page. No. 7 (I.L. 2136) is still listed in 1927-28. In 1919, as "Murrivillo," it belonged to Patrick Murray, husband of Lucretia née Reed.
As far as the history of my own family is reflected in this record, although the joint ownership of no. 13 was dated as changing to the single ownership of J. Olson in May 1916, C.E. Warren continues to appear deleted for no. 13 in the following years. There is no photographic record of either Charles or Hannah Warren at 13 Broadwood Road, so my assumption is that the property was bought by both partners in the name of C.E. Warren & Co. and that Charles Warren bought John Olson out when no. 20, "The Towers" was completed in 1915. I am not sure, however, which year the Warren family moved from "Fairview" in Kowloon. Hannah Warren travelled to England in 1915 and Charles Warren would have had sole charge of his two younger sons while she was away. I wonder what happened to no. 7, highlighted as missing by moddsey from the Street Index of 1938.
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Re: Murrivillo
In 1926 a boulder came crashing down from the foot of the pillars supporting the roadway (Broadwood Road) at a point near Murriville. See here and scroll to the front page.
End of Murriville
How clever of you to find the 1926 article. But no. 7 Broadwood Road is still listed in the 1927-1928 Rate Book that I will try to locate and post. Certainly no. 7 has vanished from the map of Broadwood Road published in 1970, so perhaps the foundations were terminally damaged by the boulder. Here is the 1970 map - numbering not very legible in this reproduction, I'm afraid, but I can only see no. 6 in my original.