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The family — there were by now three daughters 

 and one son born to the Tegetmeiers — remained 

 some five years in the old, weather-boarded 

 house at the bottom of St. James's Lane, with 

 the big garden Tegetmeier required for his work 

 among bees, poultry, etc., removing in 1863 to 

 another house in the same road. Their stay 

 here was only for about three years : this was 

 the era of railway extension, and the line 

 projected by the Great Northern Railway ran 

 right over the site of the house. The property 

 was acquired by the Railway Company, and 

 Tegetmeier was forced to leave in December, 

 1867. He took another old-fashioned house in 

 Fortis Green, East Finchley, and in the Finchley 

 district he remained for the rest of his life. 

 The only item of interest connected with the 

 demolished house that I can find, and that is 

 mainly a personal one, is that it was there that 

 Tegetmeier's youngest daughter, and my wife, 

 was born. It was at Muswell Hill too, and 

 about the year 1860, I estimate, that Tegetmeier 

 wrote the letterpress of an illustrated guide-book 

 or souvenir of the district, entitled "Hornsey 

 and the Surrounding Neighbourhood," containing 

 " six tinted lithographs and several engravings on 

 wood drawn from nature by Thomas Packer," 

 and published jointly by the artist and Stannard 

 and Dixon. All I have of this forgotten book, 

 alas! is a worn and faded proof, undated, but 



