Grange Mill Leighton Buzzard Two Original Photographs Evening Post-Echo Signed

Description: Grange Mill Leighton Buzzard Two Original Photographs Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo 1972, 1979 Signed The photograph of a Grange Mill was taken on 16 May 1972 by John Jones, a press photographer for Evening Post. The other photograph depicting Robert Bates together with the Grange Mill was shot on 01 March 1979 by Nigel Cairns, an editorial photographer from Echo & Post. Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo was launched by Thomson Organisation in 1967 as two papers - Evening Echo (Watford) and Evening Post (Luton) which merged in 1976. The newspaper was created by Lord Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, of Northbridge in the City of Edinburgh (1894-1976). Both the Evening Echo and Evening Post were noted for technological innovation and journalistic excellence, but in 1983 Evening Post-Echo fell victim to the freesheet competition and had to close when the Thomson Regional Newspapers could not find a buyer for their titles. The same year Nigel Cairns took one of his first assignments with The Sun covering the case of a Muswell Hill Murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. Subsequently Cairns became one of the paper's leading photographers. In 2001 he was part of the Rio team of The Sun journalists who brought Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs back to Britain. The Grange Mill, situate a short distance south of Nares Gladley Farm, is believed to stand on the same site as the original mediaeval watermill mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 which was attached to the manor of Gladley and worth sixteen shillings. At the time of the Survey a tenant of the manor was Gozelin le Breton, from whom it descended to his heirs and, by marriage, to Geoffrey de Lucy. In 1460 the manor passed out of the Lucy family when Sir William Lucy died without issue. In the late seventeenth century it was purchased by the Duncombes of Battlesden, and in 1697 was held by William Duncombe under the name of Nares Gladley Manor. During the 19th century the Gladley Manor was conveyed to the Manor of Leighton Buzzard Alias Grovebury, and named by the Lord of the Manor Joseph Trueman Mills (1836-1924) the manor of Heath and Reach. Heath and Reach was a hamlet comprised of Heath, Reach and Nares Gladley in the Royal Manor of Leighton Buzzard, an ancient demesne of the Crown owned and largely farmed by the royal household. The Grange Water Mill in Old Linslade Road, Heath and Reach, was listed by the former Department of Environment in March 1979 as Grade II building for its special architectural and historic interest. A 17th-century mill with later additions is built of grey and red brick and consists of two storeys, attics, clay tile roof, some timber framing, buttresses. and millwrights smithy. Originally it contained two vertical breastshot water wheels made with sheet iron buckets mounted on timber framing. Each wheel drove two pairs of stones. The remaining wheel measures 172 inches OD and 41.5 inches in width. The gristmill ceased trading in 1966, but kept working until 1969. The leasehold interest in Grange Mill, cottage, farm buildings and 42 acres of land were purchased around 1893 of J. Trueman Mills by Edward Bates, and in 1924 the mill and accompanying homestead, including 65 acres of land, were bought by the Bates family from the manor of Heath and Reach when a succession of Law of Property Acts reduced all manorial powers and dispensed with copyhold tenure. Between c. 1940 and 1969 the Grange Mill was run by Robert Belgrove Bates, a miller, farmer and corn dealer. Following a listing by the Department of Environment, it was sold to developers in 1979. Robert Bates from the Nigel Cairns' photograph was a son of the last miller R. B. Bates. Robert George Bates (1928-2017) grew at Grange Mill helping his father on the watermill and farm with his two sisters. He is remembered by his children and friends as 'good-hearted and generous, always ready to do a good turn, lend a helping hand, without thought of reward'. In the early 1960s Robert was awarded The Royal Humane Society bronze medal for attempting to save a local man who fell into the Grand Union Canal. He lived at Grange Mill until it was sold in 1979. These original unedited photographic prints are very rare, and have become highly collectable and sought-after. Condition The two editorial photographs are in excellent vintage condition with the exception of a faint spot upper right on the image by N. Cairns and a slight wear to edges on the other photograph (please see the pictures). They come from a smoke-free home. DimensionsLength: 27.3 (27.4) cm (approx. 10.77 in)Width: 18.3 (18.6) cm (approx. 7.26 in) Provenance Private Photographic Collection. 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Price: 210 GBP

Location: Romford

End Time: 2025-01-25T20:25:14.000Z

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