Thomas Smith’s Accounts for the Lilleshall Estate, 1668-1671
The document featured above is taken from Thomas Smith’s Accounts for the Lilleshall Estate for February and March 1670. Smith was an estate agent working for Sir Thomas Gower. The Accounts provide a ...
Thomas Webster’s Complaint
Thomas Webster wrote to the Duke of Sutherland in 1851 claiming to be suffering from ‘great difficulty and distress combined with a damaged reputation’.
Webster attributed his distress to ‘the arbitary ...
Tittensor Church, 1880
M. M. B. Higham tells us that there was no church in Tittensor until the end of the nineteenth century when Duchess Millicent established St. Luke’s in the village. The foundation stone of the church ...
Trentham Gardens: ‘The Beauty Spot of the Midlands’ in the Early Twentieth Century
As a result of sewage contamination in the River Trent, Trentham Hall had become uninhabitable by the early twentieth century. After the fourth Duke of Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851–1913), ...
Trentham Park in the 1890s
One of the most intriguing documents relating to Trentham is the large notice featured above. This is the draft of a notice which was printed to provide information to people visiting Trentham Park in ...
Trentham Savings Bank
Amongst the Estate and Agency Records surviving in the Sutherland Papers are many documents relating to the Savings Banks founded on the Trentham and Lilleshall estates in the nineteenth century. These ...
Trentham Savings Bank Depositors’ Check Books
Similar to a modern day paying in book, the Trentham Savings Bank issued Depositors’ Check Books to all its customers. These small books had a brown or blue cover which read:
‘Trentham Savings Bank, ...
Trouble at the Manor Court: Potters and Illegal Dogs
The Court Papers for Longton include the Court Verdict for 'the Court Baron of Obadiah Lane' held on 17th April 1733. The document provides an insight into the type of local matters debated at the Manor ...
Urban Development in Longton
One plan in the Sutherland Papers from 1867 shows ‘Property Adjoining the Town of Longton in the Parish of Trentham as Laid out for Building Purposes’. The property belonged to George Granville William ...
War with France: The Hanley Volunteer Association, 1803
The Sutherland Papers contain many documents which reflect the reaction of Staffordshire communities to national events throughout history, particularly during times of national crisis.
Throughout ...
Water Supply at Cotes
Amongst papers relating to the Cotes estate in Eccleshall is a ‘Certificate of Sufficient Water Supply’ relating to the ‘Public Health (Water) Act, 1878’. The Certificate was issued on 29th November 1907 ...
Wolverhampton & The Leveson Family
During the thirteenth century the Leveson family lived in Willenhall, near Wolverhampton. During the late 1290s Richard Leveson married a lady called Margery who was the heiress of Henry, son of Clement ...
Wolverhampton and the Arrival of the Railways
The Sutherland Papers include a wide variety of documents relating to Wolverhampton’s railway history during the early nineteenth century. Sketch maps of the projected Birmingham to Liverpool railway ...
Wolverhampton Life in the Sutherland Papers
A number of letters in the Sutherland Papers concern tenants who leased land and property on the Leveson-Gower family’s estate in Wolverhampton. Their letters to the family’s estate agents reflect issues ...