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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.'

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of his aunt, Doctor Mabel Marion Brillinger, taken in the early 1940s.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of Eileen Muriel Smith.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of Maggie Smith and Anna Smith, sisters of John Cairns Ebenezer Smith. Photograph originally printed by Guy and Company, County Cork, in 1902.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of the Smith family. Photograph includes: Frank Davison Smith, Mary Smith, Eileen Muriel Smith, their aunt Maggie, Anna Margueritte Smith, and their grandfather. Photo printed in 1902 by R and C Low, Castlemartyr, County Cork.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of three photographs. The first photograph is of the Smith family, including: Frank Davison Smith, Mary Smith, Eileen Smith, Aunt Maggie (sister of John Cairns Ebenezer Smith, Anna Marguerite Smith, Grandfather. The bottom half of the page are two copies of photographs of Jane Davison Smith standing beside the rail of a ship, possibly a Cunard liner where she worked after leaving her husband, John Cairns Ebenezer Smith.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a photograph of the Smith family children. Includes: Eileen Muriel Smith, Frank Davison Smith, Mary Smith, and Anna Marguerite Smith. Photograph originally printed by R and C Low at Castlemartyr, County Cork in 1902.

Photocopy of two photographs of Jane Davison Smith standing beside the railing of a ship, probably taken on a Cunard Liner.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of four photographs of Tobias family members. Includes photographs of: Anna Marguerite Smith, Billy Tobias, Jesse Purdy, Mabel Smith, Eileen Smith, Theodore Tobias, Neil McDermott, Barbara McDermott, Theodore Tobias, Beamish Mansfield, Nora Mansfield, Brian Marion Smith, Flora C Smith.

Photocopy of six photographs of Frank Davison Smith. Also in the photographs are his three sisters, Eileen Muriel Smith, Mary Smith, and Anna Smith; his wife Flora Smith; and the 54th Canadian Infantry Battalion in Belgium 1919.