Newcastle Alms Houses
The Sutherland Papers Collection contains a wealth of documents which provide an insight into life in Newcastle-under-Lyme during the nineteenth century. Amongst these are a number of papers relating ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
Normacot Grange Farm, 1851
The Sutherland Papers contains a number of papers relating to a dispute involving Normacot Grange Farm in the North of Stone Parish. The dispute concerned a man named Thomas Webster and the Duke of Sutherland’s ...
Ovens, Kilns and Cost: Objections to the Court House Site
Mr. Dalton, another Assistant Secretary from the Local Government Board wrote to George Kent informing him that considering the ‘scientific evidence’ of ‘subsidence’ on the Stone Road site that the Board ...
Paving the Town of Stone, 1778
This document shows a list of subscribers to donated money towards ‘paving the Town of Stone’ in 1778. Earl Gower donated twenty one pounds and appears at the top of the list as providing the highest ...
Penn in 1834
This detailed map shows the division of land and property in Penn in 1834, including the property owned by the Duke of Sutherland.
Plans such as this are invaluable in tracing the development of areas ...
Penn Poor House, 1846
In April 1846 the Poor Law Commission wrote to George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) the second Duke of Sutherland, as 'Lord of the Manor' of Penn concerning the sale of Parish property ...
Perton Survey, 1648
The document above is entitled ‘A Survey and vewe of the Towneship of perton in the County of Stafford’. The document provides a list of people living in Perton during 1648 and tells us about the lands ...
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 Cherrington, 1576
The image above shows a plan of fields in Cherrington made in 1576. The plan includes a huge amount of detail telling us about the township of Cherrington during the late sixteenth century.
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Plan of Lilleshall Parish Church
The image above shows a ground plan and elevations of the Church and Vestry at Lilleshall Parish Church. The drawings include details of doors, windows and brickwork on the Church with elevations of the ...
Plans and Elevations of Hanchurch Holiday Home
The Sutherland Papers contain plans and elevations of Hanchurch Holiday Home which were produced in November 1897 by Bolton & Paul, a Manufacturing Company based in Norwich. Estate Accounts reveal that ...
Plans and Elevations of Hanford Children's Home
During the nineteenth century the Leveson-Gower family were involved in the development of a Children's Home for boys and girls in Hanford.
The Sutherland Papers include a number of detailed plans ...
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 ...