Mrs Squires had, in her own words, found some strange photos amongst Maudlin"s collection.
“His Lordship was very meticulous in keeping an indexed catalogue of all his photographs. Names, places and dates. He was the same in all matters. These ones are not indexed, and not his usual subject matter. I found them in an open well-thumbed envelope in the back of a partially full album. As you can see they are all of buildings. The only ones of that kind! I wondered if perhaps he was going to start a new collection, when I found this, my Lord?” It was a rough sketch of a crow.
I looked at what she had found and I too worried. After checking for writing on any photograph I looked at the buildings. There were nine in all. Ranging from an idyllic, solitary standing, white painted farmhouse with
