Balmore Park House is a magnificent majestic old building built in the 1800s of bath stone, beautiful sachse windows and fantastically high cellings. Oddly enough, attached to the house is a small church. It is my understanding that it was build by an Officer in the British Army returning from India after the British were facing many rebellions by the local populus during this period of termoil in India's history. http://san.beck.org/14-1-BritishIndia1800-58.html#a8

After living here for sometime, it's unclear what happened next whether the Officer died or returned back to India but what is clear is that Balmore Park House fell under Army control, becoming the War Records Office during World War II. The present outlook doesn't at all reflect the past, during World War II the house was surrounded by Army billets which have now been replaced by 3 and 4 bed room houses on a quite cul de sac. Very hard to believe that it was once under Army control, the only clue is that the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers TA have a building where they train once a week on Newlands Avenue.

At some point the Army then vacated the building and the surrounding land. It later fell into the hands of a local build who it is said had plans to flatten the building which would indeed have been a great shame. Luckily, the building was rescued and the builder made to see sense! The house, was converted and may have been slightly extended into 12 flats which is how it stands today.

I'd greatly appreciate if anyone has any further details to email myself so I can build a better history of Balmore Park House.