Hill Chorlton Farm
The Sutherland Papers contain many detailed plans of properties in Staffordshire from the nineteenth century.
This plan of Hill Chorlton Farm shows how the farmhouse and working buildings on the farm ...
Hooks Green Farm in 1820
This plan of Hooks Green Farm was made in 1820 and names the tenant of Hooks Green as Robert Tildesley. The farm was situated on the Old Road running between Stone and Cheadle, and adjoining the Meaford ...
Hooks Green Farm, Stone
This is a plan of the Hooks Green Estate in Stone, made in 1811. The plan divided into lots shows the location of the Hooks Green Estate on the road from Stone to Lane end and adjoining roads from Meaford ...
How much bread and beer was distributed in 1811?
The Lodge Porter's Book contains an account of the amount of bread which was distributed 'to the travelling poor at the Lodge Gates' from June 24th to December 31st 1811. This amounted to a total of 906 ...
Human Interest Stories in the Mining Papers
Joyce Wilson from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group has examined many of the letters surviving amongst mining documents in the Sutherland Papers. The letter featured above involves an old lady ...
James Loch (1780-1855): Chief Agent of the Sutherland Estates 1812-1855
James Loch’s name is synonymous with the Sutherland estates. Through his employment as Chief Agent to the Marquis of Stafford and later to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, James Loch would become, ...
James Trubshaw (1777-1853)
Local builder and engineer James Trubshaw was born in Colwich in 1777. Best known for his work on the Grosvenor Bridge over the River Dee in Chester, Trubshaw also worked on the Wolseley Bridge in Staffordshire.
Trubshaw ...
John Martin
The personal papers of Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1806-1868), second Duchess of Sutherland, feature a number of letters from the artist John Martin (1789-1854). Throughout the early nineteenth ...
John Tomlinson by Len Ball
One weekend in April/May 2007 I was back home from my caravan, as myself and my wife had been invited to my wife’s nephew’s baby’s Christening on the Sunday at Stoke Minster.
The North Staffordshire ...
Katherine Bulkeley
Katherine Bulkeley, a widow with connections to Trentham and Cheadle in Staffordshire, sent a number of letters to George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), the second Duke of Sutherland, throughout ...
Lady Stafford’s Bedroom
Unlike the elaborately decorated reception rooms, Lady Stafford’s bedroom at West Hill was surprisingly modest. Her private chamber housed a stove, ‘an outside canvas sun shade’ and ‘four Japanned rosewood ...
Land and Property in Lichfield: The Royal Oak, 1815
The Sutherland Papers include a number of deeds to properties in Lichfield, including ‘An Agreement made the Twenty eighth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifteen ...
Lane End Cholera Hospital, 1833
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents relating to municipal facilities which were established in Longton.
Dated 6th December 1833, the document above is signed by ‘the Churchwardens ...
Lichfield in the Early Nineteenth Century
Property in Lichfield was extremely important to the Leveson-Gower family. In addition to the political potential of owning property in the area, Lichfield formed a considerable part of the family's estates ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Family Poverty in Trentham
Richard Watkin wrote to Lord Gower at the end of the eighteenth century concerning cottages which his family had owned in Trentham. Richard’s letter tells us that his father had absconded from Trentham ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Farming, 1804
In March 1804 Mr. Owen compiled a scheme for ‘Cultivating the Demesne Land at Trentham Hall'. The document featured above describes the agricultural lands which surrounded Trentham Hall and the proposals ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Much Ado About Nothing
Amongst correspondence relating to life on the Trentham Estate is an intriguing letter sent to Lord Gower by a man named Richard Walklate. Richard’s letter tells us about his personal history and customs ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Trentham Sunday School
In May 1803 Mr. J. Blunt wrote to the Leveson-Gower family about establishing Sunday schools in the Parish of Trentham. Blunt’s letter provides intriguing social comment on religious ignorance and religious ...