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Florence Salter was born in Maidenhead on 26 May 1894 and baptised at St Mary's Church in Reading on 11 September. After the birth his wife appears to have stayed in Maidenhead with baby Ina, while he occupied five rooms at his father's house at Pondwell on the Isle of Wight: the fact that he spent a good deal of time at Pondwell after his marriage is evidenced by the fact that in September 1894 he (unsuccessfully) applied to get added to the voters' list there as a resident.
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Stephen Salter as living in the village of Woodstock. It was probably published in 1910, and at the time of the 1911 census Salter and his wife and three children were living in a separate apartment of three rooms in a large 27-roomed boarding house at 97 St Aldate's Street in south
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The partnership of "R. C. Davy and S. Salter, under the style of Davy and Salter, Oxford and
Maidenhead, architects and surveyors" was dissolved near the beginning of 1906. Salter kept his office at 2β3 High Street until 1914, when he was expelled from the Royal Institute of British Architects and
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