‘I think,’ said Max, ‘we are going to be very happy there.’ And sure enough we have been very happy there, for nearly thirty-five years now’ Agatha Christie, An AutobiographyĪgatha and Max were often away from Wallingford for several months of a year, abroad on archaeological excavations, or on holiday in Devon at Ashfield in Torquay, or later at Greenway, but they always came back to Winterbrook House. It had a poor railway service and was therefore not at all the sort of place people came to, either from Oxford or from London. Blue plaque that hangs on Winterbrook House, © Wallingford Museum Why Wallingford? Wallingford was a nice place. It became their home base for the rest of their long lives together, until Agatha passed away there peacefully in 1976. Here, in 1934, she and her new husband Max Mallowan purchased Winterbrook House, a substantial 18th century property, with seven acres of land sweeping down to the river Thames. One of Agatha Christie’s best kept secrets was her long association with Wallingford and its neighbouring parish of Cholsey.
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