| Number | Pho.4577 |
|---|---|
| Date | (c.1920s) |
| About this object | The quirky name of the Duparc's family home 'The Bynn' (pictured in this photo) can’t be found in any English dictionary! Both Ursula and Isaac Duparc had grown up in traditionally Jewish areas of North London. After they got engaged, they decided to move further away to get away from the restrictions of their wider orthodox Jewish family. Isaac still needed to commute to London; the couple followed the 'Metro-land' dream and built a house at the far end of the Metropolitan line in Village Way, Little Chalfont. The land where Village Way now stands had just been sold by the Duke of Bedford for development, and Isaac was able to secure a 1,060 m2 plot. We know he was in discussions with the London-based architect John Farrer from mid-May 1923, and that they used the more local firm of Morlands to build the house. Correspondence between the builders, architects and the Duparcs forms part of the museum’s Duparc collection and provides interesting insights about the prices, timings and processes of building a house in the early 1920s. While the house was being built, Ursula and Isaac lived in The Crown Hotel in Old Amersham. Ursula and Isaac named their new home ‘The Bynn’, which you can see on the gatepost in this image. When Ursula was small, she made up words, two of which were ‘plinker’ for an object or thing and ‘bynn’ for a receptacle or bin. When she got married and they moved into the house, Urusla said she was 'a plinker being put in the bynn', the name stuck. The family also ‘stuck’; prior to demolition of the home and re-development of the site in 2022, the Duparc family had lived there for nearly 100 years. |
| Physical Description | Small black and white photographic exposure on toned-coloured photographic paper. |
| Find Out More | Find out more about Metroland: Metroland or Metro-land, the Birth of the Suburb - Amersham Museum Learn about the Crown Hotel: Crown Hotel (14 Market Sq) - Amersham Museum |