ANOTHER ESTATE GOES
LINK WITH THE GOHQIIEROH LONDON, January 14. One of the few remaining links with the time of William The Conqueror was broken with the sale at auction of Drakelow Hall, the seat of the Gresley family for twenty-eight generations. Even the auctioneer was moved to sentiment, and described the transfer as the climax of a tragedy for which town authorities might be held to account for future generations if they allowed a place of such historic importance to be lost. The estate, including a park, outside Burton-on-Trent, was sold in one lot for £12,500 to persons who, it was understood, bought it for speculative purposes. Tne present head of the family is Sir Robert Gresley, eleventh baronet.
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Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 12
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120ANOTHER ESTATE GOES Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 12
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