The deeds of the Barnes Home Guard Club have recently disclosed this plan of the area.

Note the dates of July 1939.

At that time the area was owned by the Sheen House Hard Court Club Ltd, who had acquired it in 1924 from Harold Ernest Kinton of 207 Sheen Lane. He had purchased the land from Arthur Cecil Hovenden, a local GP in 1923. A plan contained in that deed of purchase should space for four tennis courts.

Little is known of that Club. It had no association with the existing Sheen Lawn Tennis and Squash.

The land at the Home Guard was purchased from the Hard Court Club on 20 August 1945. The deed of that date shows Arthur Hovenden as a Director, so maybe he was a tennis playing doctor!