After Alice's death, Elgar sold the Hampstead house, and after living for a short time in a flat in St James's in the heart of London, he moved back to Worcestershire, to the village of Kempsey, where he lived from 1923 to 1927.
Despois da morte de Alice, Elgar vendeu a casa de Hampstead, e logo de vivir durante un breve período de tempo en St James’s, no centro de Londres, trasladouse de novo a Worcestershire, á vila de Kempsey, onde viviu dende 1923 ata 1927.