Date:27th of April 1860
Description:On 27th April 1860 John Fish wrote to the Duke of Sutherland’s Chief Agent George Loch with a report on building work at Cliveden. It appears that the architect Henry Clutton who was employed at Cliveden during the late 1850s suspected that something was wrong with the building work taking place on the property. John Fish had been employed to examine the construction of the fireplaces in the property which had been built under the supervision of a man named Mr. Roberts. Fish’s letter describes the poor state of the fireplaces and the damage that they had caused to rooms in Cliveden. He writes that ‘burning ashes’ had fallen through poorly constructed joints and ‘burnt away the boarding’. Because of this, the floor joists had been exposed to fire damage. Fish states that ‘no provision whatever’ had been made ‘for security against fire’ in the construction of the hearths. Fish’s report tells Loch that fireplaces in the valet’s rooms and stables had been constructed ‘in the same dangerous manner’. He remarks that the foreman seemed to have ‘adopted the most reckless and dangerous system’. Click on the images on the left to learn what happened next.
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Cliveden in Buckinghamshire was owned by the second Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower ...
The image above shows a document taken from the sales papers relating to the purchase of ‘The Manor ...
On 27th April 1860 John Fish wrote to the Duke of Sutherland’s Chief Agent George Loch with a report ...
On April 28th 1860 Duchess Harriet wrote to Loch concerning the gross negligence which Fish had uncovered ...
Following John Fish’s report into the building works at Cliveden, Mr. Roberts, who had been overseeing ...
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