One of the many treasures I found while visiting my mother in London, was the scrapbook of Agnes S. Fox. She is my great great aunt and daughter of my great great grandfather the civil engineer Sir (Charles) Douglas Fox. There’s so much information in it that it’s hard to know where to start, but I love the two photographs and captions at the beginning. One is of Osmaston Manor, and the caption reads. ‘The home of my grandfather – Francis Wright’. The other is of Tissington Hall, where she says, ‘The home of my great grandfather, Sir Henry Fitzherbert Bart. I’ll add some more from this diary soon.
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