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Photocopy of Loughton guest book.
The guest book contains a brief history of the house and of the Trench and Atkinson families possibly written by Theodora Trench and completed by Guy Atkinson after her death.
'Loughton was built in 1777. The library was the dinning room & the hall the dining room, the entrance was on the north side, where the present straircase is. Lord Bloomfield added the present drawing and dinning room & improved the place about 1835.
Loughton is said to have belonged to the Peppers from Cromwell's time till 1828, when Thomas Ryder Pepper was killed out hunting, aged about 50. He had neither brother nor child, he was married to Miss Bloomfield & left a request in his will, that his brother-in-law Lord Bloomfield should buy Loughton for a certain sum which he did. The 2nd Lord Bloomfield sold Loughton to his brother-in-law, Mr Trench of Cangort Park in 1870. W T. Trench lived at Loughton 1877 till 1889. B.B.T & D.T first went there in 1890, & bought it in 1893. DT died in 1898 and BBT in 1926. Thora Trench lived on here until joined by her sister Sheelah in 1961. Thora died in 1971 and Sheelah in 1973. Guy Atkinson inherited Loughton in 1970 and it was looked after his parents Anthony and Anne until he moved here in 1975.'

Notebook containing lists of groceries ordered.

Invitation to the celebration of the bicentenary of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Lord Bloomfield. Included in the invitation is a timeline of significant events in Benjamin Bloomfield's life.

Bundle of miscellaneous personal items including an invitation from the Lord Chamberlain to Theodora Trench to an afternoon party at the Vice Regal Lodge; an Invitation from the chairman and members of The Mainie Jellet Committee to the opening of The Mainie Jellett Exhibition in the municipal gallery of modern art, Parnell square on the 26 July 1962; certificates of registration, letters, pedigrees and articles relating to dogs; and the annual report of The Nursery Rescue and Protestant Children's Aid Society'.

Account book used to record egg butter and rhubarb numbers and prices.

Documents contained within this file include a copy of an ordnance survey map from 1838 which records the property of the Lefroys at Cronebane. The file also includes a plan of the garden at Cronebane and an inventory of plants

Workmen's 1954 time book for the Loughton estate. The time books states the name of the employees, where they worked, what they did and any absences they may have had.

Photograph of an unidentified house. The photograph is taken of the back of the house and shows a conservatory.
unidentified house

Hodges, Figgis and Co., Nassau Street, Dublin.
The General Electrical Repair Depot, 19 Sarsfield Street, Nenagh.
Grimsby fish stores, Limerick
William Fogarty, general hardware merchant, 7 Kenyon street, Nenagh.
Eason & Son, ltd, 40-41 Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin.

Two prescriptions belonging to Theodora Trench from P. Bolton, 5 Sussex place, South Kensington, Londonand T. Howard Craine, 11 Bute Street, South Kensington.

Calendar sent to Sheelah and Langlois Lefroy in 1944.