Offley Place, Great Offley, Hertfordshire.
The home of George
Hughes (1821-1872) and his wife, Anne Salusbury Hughes,
daughter of Samuel Steward and Anne Salusbury. Offley was
inherited by George
Hughes's eldest son, Herbert, who died in 1926. The house then
passed to his eldest son, Guy,
who sold the house in 1928.
Now the offices of a computer company.
Offley Place
As it was (presumably from the other side of the house i.e. the back)
A picnic under the
limes at Offley Place.
This picture is undated but I would guess that it was painted in
about 1850.
Picnics don't seem
to have changed much in the last 150 years. The men are busy
reducing everything
to cinders, the dogs are about to pounce on the food and run off
with it
and the women are doing all the hard work!