Easton House in Glossop has been regularly hitting our headlines for more than 20 years as its future is continually debated.
The almost baronial home of mill owning Francis Sumner and later Lord Doverdale, the house and its spacious outbuildings have been empty since Volcrepe moved out 30 or so years ago.
Nearby Manor Surgery once had hopes of turning it into a medical centre, but planning issues made it impossible.
Now residential development is the future of what was originally called Easton Lodge and built in 1857.
But a copy of a Chronicle from April 1948 has revealed that the council of the day could have bought it for a knock-down price.
A report said that Easton should be offered to the town council to be use for whatever councillors decided and that the price would be ‘ridiculously low’.
As an indication of Easton’s importance, a reporter wrote 75 years ago: “Easton Lodge is now a bare shell, a structure, everything that indicates that someone has lived there has been removed.
“Yet, those who walked the floors and mounted the steps were men who controlled the destinies of thousands of Glossop men and women - men who helped to build England’s vast Victorian export trade.
It was even claimed Easton was more associated with the public life of Glossop than the town hall itself.
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