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- Walter_George_Tarrant abstract "Walter George Tarrant (8 April 1875 – 18 March 1942) was a builder born in Brockhurst, near Gosport, Hampshire, England. He is best known as a Surrey master builder and developer of St George’s Hill and the Wentworth Estate in Surrey.In 1895, aged just 20, he set up his own building company, W G Tarrant Ltd, in the village of Byfleet and in the early 1900s built extensively in Pyrford, West Byfleet and Woking. The company almost certainly constructed some of the first buildings at nearby Brooklands . By 1911 his premises in Byfleet covered over five acres and included workshops for joinery, wrought iron and leaded lights, a stonemason’s yard, and a timber mill with drying sheds. He also owned nurseries in Addlestone and Pyrford and brickfields in Chobham and Rowlands Castle.In 1911 he bought 964 acres (3.90 km2) of Surrey scrubland from the Egertons, the family of Lord Ellesmere which he developed into the St George's Hill estate. Tarrant was subsequently responsible for constructing excellent housing in Weybridge, Byfleet, Pyrford, Woking and Virginia Water, where he launched the Wentworth Estate in 1923.During World War One, his company manufactured large numbers of prefabricated wooden huts for military use on the Western Front and also designed and constructed the Tarrant Tabor six-engined triplane bomber, which crashed at Farnborough aerodrome when attempting its first flight on 26th May 1919. The company employed 5,000 people at Byfleet in the 1920s but towards the end of the decade the Depression reduced the demand for large expensive houses, but Tarrant continued to win contracts for many new council houses in the Woking area.In August 1931, W G Tarrant Ltd entered receivership but the building department survived, reforming as Tarrant Builders Ltd with Tarrant's eldest son Percy as a director. This company built many houses in Virginia Water before and after World War 2 and the original company's land became owned by Wentworth Estates Ltd.Around 1940, Tarrant purchased Hafod Estate at Eglwys Newydd, near Cwmystwyth above Aberystwyth in Wales and moved to live there soon afterwards. He soon began felling trees for use as pit-props for the war-effort and also started to plan the restoration of the neglected mansion there. He died on 18 March 1942 at Hafod Mansion, as a result of a coronary thrombosis and was buried in the Hafod churchyard.Extensive research into Tarrant's house-building was carried out by the late Mavis Swenarton who, in 1992, described Tarrant as 'a man of vision and enterprise... with a reputation for high quality materials and good workmanship... an imposing figure, over six ft tall and a thick beard which gave him a striking resemblance to King Edward VII'.".
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- Walter_George_Tarrant comment "Walter George Tarrant (8 April 1875 – 18 March 1942) was a builder born in Brockhurst, near Gosport, Hampshire, England. He is best known as a Surrey master builder and developer of St George’s Hill and the Wentworth Estate in Surrey.In 1895, aged just 20, he set up his own building company, W G Tarrant Ltd, in the village of Byfleet and in the early 1900s built extensively in Pyrford, West Byfleet and Woking.".
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