The Westhill Fruit Dispute, August 1830
Amongst the many documents providing an insight into household life at West Hill are a number of papers from August 1830 relating to a dispute over the sale of fruit grown on the property.
A letter ...
The Working Gardens at West Hill, 1824
The Inventory of West Hill made in 1824 describes the working gardens on the estate, telling us about the fruit and flowers produced there. The Inventory lists a ‘melon ground’ which had ‘3 light Melon ...
Thomas Heath's Papers: Working Conditions
This undated document describes terms and conditions of employment at the Sutherland collieries.
Every sound good workman to have 2 shillings and 6d per day in proportion, also coal in proportion ...
Thomas Telford and Improvements to the Canals: James Loch’s Response
The letter above was written by James Loch in response to Bradshaw’s letter of the 25th. The letter reveals Loch’s concern over Bradshaw’s opposition to the railways. As Professor Eric Richards writes, ...
Trentham Gardens
The Sutherland Papers contain an enormous wealth of documents relating to Trentham Gardens. Accounts, correspondence, maps, plans and advertisements provide a fascinating insight into this famous local ...
Trentham Savings Bank
Amongst the Estate and Agency Records surviving in the Sutherland Papers are many documents relating to the Savings Banks founded on the Trentham and Lilleshall estates in the nineteenth century. These ...
Trentham Savings Bank Depositors’ Check Books
Similar to a modern day paying in book, the Trentham Savings Bank issued Depositors’ Check Books to all its customers. These small books had a brown or blue cover which read:
‘Trentham Savings Bank, ...
Vouchers for Westhill, August 1840
The Sutherland Papers contain a wealth of vouchers for purchases made for the West Hill estate in the nineteenth century. A number of vouchers from August 1840 tell us about the products which local tradesmen ...
War with France: The Hanley Volunteer Association, 1803
The Sutherland Papers contain many documents which reflect the reaction of Staffordshire communities to national events throughout history, particularly during times of national crisis.
Throughout ...
West Hill: Produce & Supplies for 1837
Inventories of West Hill indicate that the Duke of Sutherland’s estate in Wandsworth had a working farm and working gardens providing produce to the mansion house. The image above shows a tabulated document ...
What was West Hill like in 1824?
Amongst papers relating to West Hill is a volume entitled ‘Inventory of the Elegant Furniture Farming Stock, Garden Implements and Tools etc the Property of the Most Noble Marquis of Stafford at his Mansion ...
William Lewis and the Welfare of Tenants
In February 1823 the Marquis of Stafford's Estate Agent William Lewis wrote to Colliery Agent Joseph Burgess at Foley Coal Office with news of Estate business.
Within the letter Lewis refers to an ...
William Lewis's Memoranda Book
William Lewis was employed as an Estate Agent on the Sutherland estates in the early nineteenth century, taking over from Francis Suther in 1817. Lewis was responsible for overseeing the Leveson-Gower ...
Wolverhampton and the Arrival of the Railways
The Sutherland Papers include a wide variety of documents relating to Wolverhampton’s railway history during the early nineteenth century. Sketch maps of the projected Birmingham to Liverpool railway ...
Wolverhampton Life in the Sutherland Papers
A number of letters in the Sutherland Papers concern tenants who leased land and property on the Leveson-Gower family’s estate in Wolverhampton. Their letters to the family’s estate agents reflect issues ...
Women’s Lives in the Sutherland Papers
Click on the images on the left to learn more about the women below:
Sarah Eccleston: A Working Mother's Struggle, Liverpool 1846
Once a resident on the Leveson-Gower family estates in Shropshire, ...
Work for the Labourers
In August 1807 the Marquis of Stafford's Colliery Superintendant Thomas Heath wrote to Mr. Kite about finding work for labourers who had been 'so useful in the Harvest'. Concerned about the 'hardship' ...
Wyatt Vs. Sutherland, 1838
In 1838 the architect Benjamin Wyatt (1775-1855) brought a lawsuit against George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) the second Duke of Sutherland concerning unpaid bills for drawings he had ...