Cheddleton
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents providing a detailed description of lands and properties in Cheddleton, including the township of Consall. These documents tell us about Cheddleton ...
Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company in Caverswall
The letter above was written by Mr. Harrison at the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company, Albion Street, Hanley in 1883. The letter was sent to the third Duke of Sutherland’s Agent George Menzies ...
Mining in Caverswall
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge number of documents relating to mining in North Staffordshire throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Amongst these documents is a volume of mining memoranda ...
Caverswall Park Farm
The document above is a valuation of the ‘Timber and Poles’ on Caverswall Park Farm. The valuation made in July 1836 includes details about the different types of trees growing on the farm during this ...
An Elementary School in Caverswall
The document above is an indenture involving land owned by the Duke of Sutherland and Caverswall School Board, made on 31st July 1877.
The document provides details about the ‘absolute sale’ of a piece ...
The History of Barlaston Curacy
Reverend George Plaxton was closely associated with the Leveson-Gower family throughout his life. After resigning his curacy at Sheriffhales in Shropshire, he was granted the curacy of Barwick in Elmet ...
Education in Barlaston
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge variety of documents relating to education and schooling in Staffordshire. The document above is an extract from an Attendence and Pence register for a school in North ...
Barlaston Glebe House
A number of documents in the Sutherland Papers tell us about the properties which were built on Barlaston Glebe land. During 1834 these properties underwent extensive renovations. A document entitled ...
Barlaston Church
The Sutherland Papers include a number of letters relating to Barlaston Church and Vicarage over the nineteenth century. Both the Church and Vicarage had extensive repairs carried out on them during this ...
Appeal for a Vicarage House at Barlaston
Letters in the Sutherland Papers reveal that by the 1870s the Vicarage House at Barlaston was being used as a farmhouse.
In the 1870s the Duke’s Chief Estate Agent George Loch received a letter from ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Education in North Staffordshire
In October 1905 the fourth Duke of Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913) wrote to the Chairman of the Education Committee for Staffordshire County Council with a generous offer involving ...
The Leveson-Gower family's Yachts
The Leveson-Gower family owned a number of yachts from the late 1840s onwards, including yachts called the Ondine and the Catania which they took on many foreign voyages and a new yacht which they were ...
Motoring Accounts
Payments relating to motorcars first appear in the accounts for September 1900 in the Day Book of Stables Expenditure. An entry for 5th September 1900 states that a payment was made to ‘L. & N. W. Railway ...
Letters from the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain
Mr. Frederick W. Breary was the Honorary Secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. In 1890 and 1891 he wrote to Henry Wright, the fourth Duke of Sutherland’s Private Secretary informing ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Sutherland Collection
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge variety of documents relating to the local history and local politics of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Click on the images on the left to learn more about the lives of ...
Duchess Millicent’s Hospital in 1918: Life as a Casualty Clearing Station
Duchess Millicent's Hospital was moved to St. Omer in March 1918. By this time it had 200 beds. As circumstances worsened, the Hospital’s status changed and in April 1918 it became a 2nd line casualty ...
The First World War in the Newspapers: Millicent's Scrapbook
Amongst Duchess Millicent's papers is a large scrapbook of newspaper cuttings from August to November 1914, relating to events during the first months of the First World War. The scrapbook includes articles, ...
Newcastle Broadsheets about Bribery and Corruption
The Sutherland Collection contains a wide range documents relating to the role of bribery and corruption in the electoral system of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of these documents ...