IF you live in and around Whitehaven you should recognise this building – though its frontage has changed somewhat since its heyday as a family home, complete with servants, back in 1908.

It’s the Haven Club on Cleator Moor Road, Whitehaven, for many a year the go-to venue in Hensingham for a bit of a do.

Thanks go to Margaret Nelson for sharing it with our readers. It came from her family archive as her uncle, John Bowe, had one time been a gardener at the big house, when it was known as Richmond Hill. The pillared grand entrance has since been removed.

Said Margaret: “My grandmother Anne Lawson (née Bowe) was the matriarch of the family and required all family members when they went to various locations to work, in service, to send a message home that they had arrived safely and were well.” Without telephones they of course relied on the post and John had sent this postcard of the house, when he went to work there in 1908.

At that time the property was occupied by solicitor John R Musgrave and his family.