Description:The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents relating to municipal facilities which were established in Longton.
Dated 6th December 1833, the document above is signed by ‘the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Stoke upon Trent’. The document acknowledges that the Churchwardens and Overseers had received eighty pounds from George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), the second Duke of Sutherland.
The money had been paidby the Duke in order to purchase ‘buildings’ which had been erected in 1832 in the Priors Field area of Longton near Lane End. These buildings were ‘intended to have been used as a Cholera Hospital’.
The hospital buildings had never been used, and by December 1833 still stood ‘unoccupied’ on Priors Field, prompting the Duke to purchase the land.
The document featured above tells us about municipal buildings in Longton in the early nineteenth century and also lists the names of the men who served as Churchwardens and Overseers in Stoke-upon-Trent during this period. Josiah Dimmock and Arthur Minton were Churchwardens for the Parish whilst G. T. Taylor, John Vigers and Thomas C. Gray served as Overseers.