Description:Documents relating to life on the Trentham estate include accounts made by local tradesmen, such as butchers and grocers. In September 1776 ‘William Plant’, a miller from Trentham sent proposals to provide flour to Trentham Hall. Plant’s proposals state that he would ‘deliver first and best sort of flower…for pastry and puddings’ to the Hall.
The second sort of flour was to be delivered for white bread and the fourth sort for making brown bread. The fifth sort of bread was intended to be delivered ‘for the Lodge’ at Trentham Hall. This was to be used to make bread which would be distributed by the Lodge Porter to the travelling poor who came by the Hall. Miller’s proposals state that he would supply ‘a coarser sort’ of flour ‘for the poor’.