A Few Views of the Garden at Leighton Court, Neston, Cheshire. 1918.

27 Photographs + description of Leighton Court-s gardens. Original boards, wear. The owner of Leighton Court hired the most important photographer of the day, R . A . Malby.... Malby, born in 1882, was introduced to photography by his father, Henry Thomas Malby. They descended from a long line of artists, inventors, musicians and entrepreneurs, which included Malby & Sons, the famous globe-makers, and Walter N. Malby, a pioneer in the infancy of photography. Reginald Malby himself soon became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, the highest distinction awarded, and his company, Reginald A. Malby & Co., was formed in 1890, based in Chelmsford Road, Woodford, Essex.