People
The lives that shaped Leap
Rather than burying people inside long narrative pages, the new archive will connect each person to photographs, letters, rooms, periods and events.
Collection planned
Mildred Darby
Writer, photographer, witness and one of the most important voices in the surviving Leap record.
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History
The Darby Family
Family succession and the long period of residence and remodelling before 1922.
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Profile planned
Peter Bartlett
Restoration-era owner who began rebuilding the ruined castle in the 1970s.
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The existing Ryan page contains only a placeholder. The new site therefore does not invent a biography. A proper Ryan-family page should be built from approved material rather than filled from general web summaries.
From the earlier archive