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The former Walker farm-house in Çamlık (Azizieh). The place is now owned by the Sultanköy carpet operation and they have extensive showrooms and is located on the south side of E87 road, just beyond the Railway Museum. The carpet showrooms are where the out-buildings for the farm used to be, and the original well is retained as a feature. When my great-grandfather built the house (1893), he had some 40 acres. I believe the company now has 100+ acres, and it is used productively.
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The former Walker house on Bornova sokak (1469) Alsancak, Izmir, for sale and in poor condition.
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The former Issigonis house on Bornova sokak (1469) Alsancak, Izmir, recently restored.
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The blocked front entrance of the former Walker house.
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A plan of the former Prokopp Brewery complex, drawn by my Grandma - when I know not, but I suspect sometime around 1947, because we have a formal plan of the Ataturk Caddesi house, dated in that time frame. You will see the three houses, Walker, Issigonis and Crespi. The Crespi house and the ‘rooms’ of the map no longer exist and the whole area behind the Walker and Issigonis houses is now a car park.
In the early/mid 1800’s, a lady named Clara Pohl married a Herr Stengel and they came to Smyrna and opened a (successful) brewery; they had a son named Carl. Herr Stengel died at a relatively early age and Clara then married a Gottfried Prokopp, and the (successful) brewery business continued. Gottfried and Clara had two children, Arnold and Fanny. It seems that Gottfried did not live all that long, whereas Clara went onto the good age of 84. When she died (1898), the running of the brewery business was divided amongst the 3 children Carl, Arnold and Fanny. It seems that something these three did fairly early on was to build houses for themselves and their families, within the brewery boundary. Through a subsequent generation, Stengel became Walker (via my Grandma) and Prokopp became Issigonis and Crespi, (again through female lines).
In the early/mid 1800’s, a lady named Clara Pohl married a Herr Stengel and they came to Smyrna and opened a (successful) brewery; they had a son named Carl. Herr Stengel died at a relatively early age and Clara then married a Gottfried Prokopp, and the (successful) brewery business continued. Gottfried and Clara had two children, Arnold and Fanny. It seems that Gottfried did not live all that long, whereas Clara went onto the good age of 84. When she died (1898), the running of the brewery business was divided amongst the 3 children Carl, Arnold and Fanny. It seems that something these three did fairly early on was to build houses for themselves and their families, within the brewery boundary. Through a subsequent generation, Stengel became Walker (via my Grandma) and Prokopp became Issigonis and Crespi, (again through female lines).
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