Gerald Brenan

[detourer]

Just doing a bit of research...........

Does anyone know where the late authors house is in Alhaurin el Grande?

Thanks

[Beachcomber]

It is opposite La Peñita. Not sure exactly where.

[detourer]

Thanks Beach........ which La Penita is that.....looked it up and there are a couple of places using that name...

Thanks again

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[Beachcomber]

That's the filling station and hostal complex on the left as you leave Alhaurín. Gerald Brennan's house was on the opposite side of the road somewhere near there.

More recently the owner of a nearby estate agent lived in it for a while.

[katy]

Calle Torremolinos 56 Churriana.

http://www.canalsur.es/noticias/cultura ... 66668.html

[Beachcomber]

Maybe my eyes deceive me. I thought Detourer was asking about his house in Alhaurín el Grande.

It is along one of the lanes opposite La Peñita. I don't think you can see it from the road and it is not open to the public.

[katy]

So, how many houses was he supposed to have had then

Is it like Jane Austin where several places claim the fame!

[detourer]

Thanks again Beach........I will take a look.

Like many of us he lived in more than one house during his life Katy.......... I am interested in the AEG one.

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[anis]

Somebody pointed it out to me once a long time ago.
It is where Beach says, but further up the hill on one of the lanes ..and as you go up , it is a corner house on the right hand side of the road. I don't recall the name of the street and am sorry the info is so sketchy. The house is not marked with a plaque.

[patricia]

So, how many houses was he supposed to have had then

Is it like Jane Austin where several places claim the fame!

He lived for a while in Yegen in the Alpujarra.

[detourer]

With the helpful comments of Beachcomber and anis I have found the street [lane] in Alhaurin, but not the actual house…..although there are only a few….. I will ask when I catch someone on a doorstep.

The house in Yegen where he lived is dedicated thus…..

“In this house for a period of seven years [1920-1934] lived the British Hispanist GERALD BRENAN, who universalised the name of Yegen and the customs and traditions of La Alpujarra. The Town Hall, grateful, dedicates this plaque.”
YEGEN, 3 JANUARY, 1982

His later house in Churriana is easy enough to find, where the likes of Bertrand Russell, VS Pritchett Hemingway, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh visited and stayed.

It’s perhaps a shame that Brenan house in Alhaurin is not indicated in some way [maybe the owners would rather not have the likes of me looking, pointing and picture taking.] But at least he is well acknowledged by the main road, that the small street is off, being dedicated in his name.

Great books of his times in Spain……………


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[patricia]

There is an article in this weeks Olive Press and in the Sur about Gerald Brenan´s house it states that his house is being rescued from ruin and beome the country´s first expat museum.

[Beachcomber]

I think that is the house in Churriana.

[patricia]

Ooops yes you are right!

[Terry Tibbs]

How very timely, given that I'm currently reading South From Granada and re-reading (in between times) The Spanish Labyrinth. GB's ashes were (I believe) interred at the English Cemetery, so I always send a greeting his way when passing by.

[Ama]

Can any of these photos help you?
http://goo.gl/yVpv6a

[anis]

Think I can give you more specific instructions now Deturer, having asked a friend who lives near the house.
He said, go a little past frog and toad bar, heading away from town and take the road on the right going uphill. You will go under a small bridge carrying pipe work - keep heading up hill, there are very few houses there and it is the corner on the left. It is a big house with large trees, mature garden. He thinks that there is a plaque on the wall.

[detourer]

Brilliant information and great photos, many thanks to all.

I am again off to Morocco tomorrow for a few weeks [but will have internet most of the time] so will pick-up on my "mission" when I return........

Ray

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[patricia]

There is a very good article on Gerald Brenan with lovely photographs of Brenan in Alhaurin el Grande in last weeks SUR

[detourer]

Hope I have been saved a copy.............but will look on internet which is at the moment, live and strong in this part of the Sahara.

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