#Archive30 #ColourfulArchive These lovely coloured pages of hand printed & embossed paper are from Lady Banks’s Dairy Book, her study of her collection of china kept in her dairy at Spring Grove. #britishmuseum #archives #arascot

Today’s #ColourfulArchive is this extract from John Foord’s book. Though undated, we believe it dates from the 18th century. The town of Caldicot would have bee surrounded by large open fields. The fields would have been divided into strips and then individually let.

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Ref: D25/1972