Solomon Barnett: Photos
Below is a black and white picture of Restormel, the home of Solomon Barnet. It was named Restormel as a nod to the West Country where Solomon Barnet’s wife came from. The front brick wall is all that remains of the original property. The house was later renamed The Mission House as HQ of the Catholic Missionary Society, and became Brondesbury Park Military Hospital between 1915 and 1919, see picture postcard below. The 1901 census shows Barnett and his family (and several servants) living at Restormel. He and his wife sold the property in 1911 and moved to Sussex. You can also see Solomon Barnett’s naturalisation papers below (he came from Russia, and naturalised as a British citizen in 1871, aged 27).
The recent pictures below are of houses on Hopefield Avenue, one of the streets of terraced houses built in Queen’s Park (then known as part of Kilburn) by Solomon Barnett and his builders in the 1890s. Finally, there is a photo of the Brondesbury Synagogue, built on Chevening Road, on land donated to the Jewish community by Barnett. The synagogue was the first in the area, opening in 1905.
Lastly, there is a single photo of Solomon Barnett taken in the studio of the famous Australian photographer H.W.Barnett (when the photographer temporarily resided in London between 1903 and 1906).
