Kodak in the Sutherland Collection
The Sutherland Collection includes an advertisement card for the 'Grand Souvenir Exhibition' of 'Kodak Pictures' illustrating the Royal Tour. The photos had been taken by the special correspondent of ...
Letters from Hollywood: Duchess Millicent's Letters from Mary Pickford
Amongst Duchess Millicent's correspondence from the 1940s are a number of letters and telegrams from the Hollywood actress Mary Pickford. The Duchess stayed with Mary Pickford on a visit to Beverly Hills ...
Letters From RCAF Officer, Nathan Crawford, 1944
Amongst the papers of Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1867-1955), the fourth Duchess of Sutherland are letters written to her during the Second World War by RCAF Squadron Leader, Nathan Crawford who ...
Longsdon Church, Leek, 1902
Wall Grange was purchased by James Leveson in 1540 and remained in the Leveson-Gower family until 1911. The family's strong association with Leek is evident in their involvement in the development of ...
Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, fourth Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955)
Millicent Fanny St. Clair Erskine was born in 1867 in Fife. In 1884 she married Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913) who became the fourth Duke of Sutherland following the death of his father ...
Mining in Longton: Florence Colliery
Mining had begun in Longton before the end of the seventeenth century. By 1775 there were numerous coal workings in the area and the economical availability of coal in Longton encouraged the rise of the ...
Motorcar Correspondence
William Watson was responsible for managing Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913), the fourth Duke of Sutherland's motorcars. Based at Lilleshall House, Shropshire, Watson oversaw the Duke’s ...
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 ...
No.9 Red Cross Hospital: The Carrell-Dakin Method
In addition to her Ambulance work, Duchess Millicent established a Tent Hospital, first at Malo-les-Bains near Dunkirk and then at Bourbourg. In October 1915 the Duchess was requested to transfer her ...
Normacot Grange Farm Buildings
This photograph taken in the late nineteenth century shows the farm buildings at Normacot Grange Farm in the Parish of Stone. The stables can be seen on the left of the photograph opposite the barn area ...
Normacot Grange Farm House and Buildings
This photograph shows part of Normacot Grange Farm House and the farm buildings. Taken in the late nineteenth century, the photograph shows a number of outbuildings where animals were kept, including ...
Pigs at Lilleshall Lodge
The image above shows a plan and elevation of a Pig Box for Lilleshall Lodge, made in April 1913. The drawing shows that the pig box was divided from the store and a room annotated with the name ‘calf ...
Plan of the Lusitania
At 790 feet long, 32,000 tonnes in weight and with 70,000 horse power, the Lusitania was still somewhat smaller than its rival White Star Line’s Olympic, Britannic and Titanic ships. Nevertheless, the ...
Prohibition on Illegal Butter
Amongst the papers relating to England’s food supply in time of war are pamphlets refering to a Parliamentary Bill ‘to amend the law with regard to the sale of adulterated butter’.
The Bill appears ...
Telephones in Swynnerton
The plan above produced in 1910 by the National Telephone Company shows the route of telephone poles in Beech and Swynnerton in the early twentieth century.
The document includes a detailed plan of ...
The Duke of Sutherland & Motorcars
Author Ruth Brandon writes that from its first appearance in the late nineteenth century, the car became ‘the ultimate consumer good’. Brandon remarks that the car was the perfect vehicle for exhibiting ...
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 Duke of Sutherland and the Federation of the Six Towns
From as early as the eighteenth century ideas of uniting the six North Staffordshire towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Longton, Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, and Tunstall had been considered by North Staffordshire ...