Lord Cransley’s middle son, Henry, who had served in the trenches of the Great War, was so appalled by the injuries he had witnessed, that on his return home he vowed to do something to help and rehabilitate wounded men.
To begin with, he purchased a quantity of narrow gauge equipment repatriated from France and laid a line from the estate yard to the village of Cransley in one direction and Fox End village in the other, a distance of seven and a quarter miles.
Several buildings at the Manor House were converted into early rehabilitation facilities
