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 ...
Stone Parish Receipts and Disbursements, 1828-1829
Amongst printed material relating to Stone is an account of the receipts and disbursements of the Parish from 1828-1829. This document provides an insight into life in Stone during the early nineteenth ...
Survey of Hooks Green Farm, 1820
The Survey of Hooks Green Farm from 1820 tells us that the small cluster of red buildings on the 1820 plan formed Robert Tildesley's 'Messuage' on the land.
The Survey describes croft land which was ...
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 ...
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 Accounts of William Steward for Lilleshall and Wolverhampton, 1855-1856
The Estate Accounts in the Sutherland Papers contain a wealth of information about life on the Sutherland estates in Staffordshire and Shropshire from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The image ...
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 Closure of Lilleshall Savings Bank
John Ferguson, Secretary of Lilleshall Savings Bank wrote a letter to the National Debt Commissioners on 30th August 1892 telling the Commissioners that the Trustees and Managers of Lilleshall Savings ...
The Closure of Trentham Savings Bank
Encouraging the industrious working classes to save became a national concern with the establishment of the Post Office Savings Bank following the Savings Bank Act of 1863. The Trentham and Lilleshall ...
The Collegiate Church of St. Peter in the Sutherland Papers: The Church and the Leveson family in the Fifteenth Century
The Leveson family’s history is closely associated with the history of St. Peter’s Church in Wolverhampton. R. F. Wisker refers to an entry in the Calendar Patent Rolls stating that heads of the Leveson ...
The Crompton Family of Stone in the Sutherland Papers
The Marquis of Stafford became the Lord of the Manor of Stone in 1798
when an Inclosure Bill led to the Leveson-Gower family acquiring considerable land and property in Stone which had once belonged ...
The Development of Transport and Communication links in Swynnerton
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents relating to the construction of a new line of road between Trentham Inn and Acton in the Parish of Swynnerton between 1843 and 1850. The construction ...
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 Duke of Sutherland and Municial Buildings in Longton: Town Planning in the late Nineteenth Century
In April 1893 Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913), the fourth Duke of Sutherland, offered the Borough of Longton some land on which the Town Council could erect new municipal buildings. A number ...
The First House at Trentham, 1540-1591
James Leveson’s son Sir Richard Leveson and his wife Mary inherited Trentham when James died in 1545. Mary outlived her husband by over thirty years and had a long association with the first Trentham ...
The Fitzherbert Family and Land in Swynnerton
The document above is a conveyance of freehold estates in Swynnerton made in 1843. The conveyance was for land owned by 'Thomas Fitzherbert of Swinnerton' and the Duke of Sutherland in Shelton under Hareley ...
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 Hercules Windmill at Hill Chorlton
The Sutherland Papers contain a range of printed material relating to the implementation of a wind engine at Hill Chorlton. An article on the ‘Hercules Windmill’ features above, complete with an illustration ...