Scope and Content
Half bound in green leather with blue cloth sides and titled in gold on the front cover.
Title page "Bromham House, Bedfordshire (July - November 1903).
Back of Title Page manuscript note 'Dedicated to the mother of my children annie "vach", with a head and shoulders image of Anne Mary Pemberton Allen (1847-1886).
Page 1. 10 photographs of W H Allen at the ages of: 7, 22, 28, 35, 40 (x2), 48, 49, 53 and 55.
Page 2 'Family (in esse)' - formal group photograph of W H Allen and family arranged on the gravel outside the main front door of Bromham House.
Page 3 Family '(in posse' - the family are arranged differently and are looking at the camera rather than away from it. They are identified by Kenneth Allen as:
Back row: Francis Allen, Harold Allen, Melville Allen (b1891), Lulu [Louise] Allen, Richard Allen, George Allen, Percy Crowe, Arthur Longhurst, Rupert Allen, Glendower Allen.
Front row: Beatrice 'Bee' Allen, Hilda Allen, Mona Allen (Muriel b 1893), Ger [Geraldine Allen wife of Richard Allen], Eileen Allen (b 1897), William Henry Allen, Doreen Crowe, Cissie [Annie] Crowe, Hugh Crowe, Maimee [Madeline Longhurst nee Allen] with Cynthia (b 1901) on her knee, Gladys [possibly Hill later to marry Rupert].
Page 4. 'Sons and Daughters' [Francis, Rupert, Bee, Richard, Glendower, Lulu, George, Harold, Annie, WHA, Maimee formerly arranged in front of windows to the side of the house].
Page 5. 'Daughters' [Annie, Lulu, WHA, Maimee, Bee in the garden].
Page 6. 'Sons (Country)' WHA and his six sons before a window of Bromham House dressed for the country.
Page 7 '(Town)' WHA and his sons dressed in long coats and top hats with canes in front of the entrance way of Bromham House.
Page 8. 'Grandchildren' [Doreen, Mona, Eileen, WHA, Cynthia, Melville and Hugh in the garden with flower beds and a summer house in the background].
Page 9. 'The Library' W H Allen reading in his library.
Page 10. 'The Drawing Room'
Page 11 'The Dining Room'
Page 12 'The Estate (from the park)' The house is in the distance behind trees, cattle graze in the middle ground and towards the foreground stand a man (WHA?) a dog and a woman (Lulu?)
Page 13 (from the golf-house)' The golf-house is partially shown to the right foreground with the view across the park to the house in the distance.
Page 14 'The Daughter of the House' shows one of the daughters (possibly Lulu?) standing with a dog in the garden with a rustic seat and flower beds behind her and trees beyond that.
Page 15 'The Rosary' shows three women, presumably Lulu, Bee and another daughter or daughter in law, picking roses in the rose garden.
Page 16 'Poet's Walk' shows a man, dressed in a floorlength coat and a hat, standing reading a book in a hedge lined path. In the foreground the path ends with benches and an arch and opens out to flower beds on either side.
Page 17 '(A pious thought)' same view as page 16 but the man has looked up from his book and is gazing off into the sky.
Page 18.