33 original sepia photographs each 115x110mm mounted on stiff card mounts. Album 320x220mm, cream buckram, dusty. All edges of mounts gilt. Each page fixed on stubs, Stubs repaired. The images document, the 1881 house, gardens, terraces, conservatory, setting in the wider landscape with images of the Pang river, fishponds, the Cain and Abel Statue [lost after the second world war] and St Laurence’s Church included. Interiors of the house c 8 also show the busy arrangements of the late Victorian home with lots of pictures and paraphernalia. Further images show the [Hopkins?] family at home, playing tennis and gardening. Tidmarsh Manor has a long history of occupation but the house and grounds illustrated in this album probably date from the period 1880 -1900 when it was owned and lived in by the Hopkins family. The family initially moved to Tidmarsh at the end of the 18th century and successive generation occupied it. The house original was rebuilt in 1828. This was reputedly on a hill about a mile from the church. Robert John Hopkins inherited in 1877 [ died 1899] and demolished part of the house and built a new house on about a quarter of a mile from the church on lower ground overlooking the river. The new house was called Tidmarsh Manor c1881. The remnants of the old house were let out to tenants and named Tidmarsh Grange. In 2007 the 1881 house was demolished as was the remnants of the earlier one. New flats were built and called Tidmarsh Grange paying lip service to the fact that there had been a medieval manor house and grange on the site. It is a wonderful album providing details of an otherwise poorly documented property. Provenance. Bought at the David Clegg sale 2003. Taken till now to identify the location!