Once The Brewery and during WW2 a factory run by Ransomes.
Notes from J.Ogden Jan 2017
How interesting. You are right in part, but I rather suspect that your deduction about the name link is just coincidence, but we shall see.
First the facts – yes Sir Clifford Paterson was married to my great great aunt Daisy (ie Liz Kennedy’s great aunt); yes they lived in London and came down to Waldringfield for weekends and holidays; yes he was either the first commodore or president of WSC; yes he owned and sailed Clytie (now owned and still kept and sailed on the Deben by my cousin and his great granddaughter, Jo Masters); and yes, his daughter Joan married Fred Brown, whose middle name was Greenaway, after his mother’s maiden name.
Second some beliefs, suppositions and conjecture – I seem to remember either Liz, her sister Jill or Jo once telling me that Sir Clifford and Lady Daisy used to stay in The Old Maltings, otherwise known as Cliff House. I’m pretty sure, from the Old Maltings deeds I have, that they never owned it, and therefore assume that they rented it, as I think they did various other village houses from time to time, certainly before the war, and possibly even after it. They are likely to have done so as a family, so the Greenaway name link is a good guess but…
Some more facts – my Greenaway deeds also tell me that, until it became a separate property from the Old Maltings in 1948, and was used by Jack and George Jones as the East Anglia Yacht Agency, it was known as The Studio and it was sold as such to Terry Vernon in 1957. The Vernons lived there throughout my childhood and I am still in touch with one of the girls, Binni, who lives in Ipswich Massachusets of all places. So I have emailed her to see if she knows more, and will let you know when she replies, but I rather suspect the Vernons chose the name for a completely different reason. We’ll see…I hope, so bear with me for a bit.
