Plans and Elevations of Hanford Sunday School
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of plans and elevations of buildings located on the Duke of Sutherland's lands in Hanford. Many of these buildings were constructed for philanthropic purposes, to ...
Plans of the Manor House, Tittensor
This is a chamber plan of the Manor House, Tittensor. The plan shows seven bedrooms including a room for servants. The housemaid’s closet was situated on the first floor of the house. A laundry also features ...
Pot Works in Longton
Amongst the many plans of properties on Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), the Marquis of Stafford’s estates is a plan made in 1797 of ‘the Potwork and Premises of Mr Robert Garner at Lane End’. The ...
Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860)
Charles Barry is described by M. H. Port as ‘Britain’s leading architect’ of the first half of the nineteenth century.
From an early age Barry exhibited an enthusiasm and aptitude for drawing. Aged ...
Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Hall, 1834
In 1834 George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Duke of Sutherland, employed Charles Barry to remodel Trentham Hall and its gardens. Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) had grown in ...
Survey of the Weald Moors, 1579
The image above shows a survey of the Weald Moors made in the late 1570s. The survey includes detailed drawings of fields and houses, woods and mills. Roads, bridges and parks are also featured on the ...
The Borough of Stafford, 1838
The plan above shows the Borough of Stafford in 1838. The town centre can be seen in the middle of the plan, including the Market Hall Square and the main high street, Greengate Street. Eastgate Street, ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Education in Longton
Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1931), the fourth Duke of Sutherland, served as the Mayor of Longton from 1895 to 1896. In December 1896 he presented ‘a gift of land’ to the Borough of Longton ...
The Hartshorne Inn, Lichfield
By the eighteenth century Lichfield had a large number of public houses, with eighty innkeepers being recorded trading in the town in 1732. The public houses served travellers and also provided accommodation ...
The History of Local Buildings: Shops on Darlington & North Street, Wolverhampton
The Sutherland Papers contain many plans relating to lands in Wolverhampton. These include a particularly interesting plan from 1838 which shows a number of buildings which were used as shops at the junction ...
The North Staffordshire Tramways Company: Plan of North Staffordshire Towns
This map shows the authorised and projected lines of the North Staffordshire Tramways Company in North Staffordshire. The plan demonstrates the development of the transport network across Hanley, Tunstall, ...
The Pines at Codsall
The Sutherland Papers include a ‘Plan of Property at Codsall’ which was sold by the Duke of Sutherland at Auction in 1891.
Dated 24th June 1891, the plan shows the land in Codsall in lots, including ...
Tittensor Church, 1880
M. M. B. Higham tells us that there was no church in Tittensor until the end of the nineteenth century when Duchess Millicent established St. Luke’s in the village. The foundation stone of the church ...
Trentham Gardens: ‘The Beauty Spot of the Midlands’ in the Early Twentieth Century
As a result of sewage contamination in the River Trent, Trentham Hall had become uninhabitable by the early twentieth century. After the fourth Duke of Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851–1913), ...
Urban Development in Longton
One plan in the Sutherland Papers from 1867 shows ‘Property Adjoining the Town of Longton in the Parish of Trentham as Laid out for Building Purposes’. The property belonged to George Granville William ...