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 ...
New Savings Bank Act
The document above is entitled ‘An Act to amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and to the purchase of Government Annuities through the medium of Savings Banks’. This document relates to the new Savings ...
Lilleshall Savings Bank
The document above shows the ‘Rules of the Lilleshall Bank for Savings’. This printed volume details the ‘Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Lilleshall Savings Bank’ which was established under the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
How did Trentham Savings Bank work?
The Minute Book of the Bank Committee for 1817 states that Trentham Savings Bank was established as a result of the Marquis of Stafford’s ‘benevolent intentions’. The minutes state that the Bank was established: ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Staffordshire Hospitals
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents relating to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Marquis of Stafford, was patron of the hospital ...
The Lodge Porter's Book, 1810-1811
There are hundreds of documents in the Sutherland Papers that tell us about the important philanthropic role of the Leveson-Gower family in Staffordshire. Amongst gifts of land for public use and records ...
Poultry Scandal in the Lodge Porter's Books!
In addition to the record of bread and beer distributed to the poor, the Lodge Porter kept a record of any unusual activity which occured after hours at Trentham.
On 10th-11th September 1810 an incident ...
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 ...
Bread and Beer from the Lodge Porter
The Lodge Porter's Book for 1810-1811 contains an account of the number of loaves of bread received from the baker each month. Alongside this account is a record of the number of loaves which were distributed ...
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 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 ...
Philanthropy in the Sutherland Estate Account Books
The Estate Accounts in the Sutherland Papers provide details about the local charities, societies and institutions that the Leveson-Gower family supported financially.
A list of 'Subscriptions' in ...
Hanford School, 1889
During the late 1880s George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, was involved in the development of Hanford School. The Duke donated land for the expansion ...
Charity in the Sutherland Estate Account Books
The Estate Accounts for 1898 include a list of payments entitled 'Gratuities'. Expenditure listed under this heading tells us about money which the Estate provided for pensions and provisions for the ...
The Sutherland Estates: the Scottish Estates in the Later Nineteenth Century By Dr. Annie Tindley
For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Sutherland Estates were the largest landed estates in western Europe; 1.1 million acres made up the Scottish estates, nearly the whole county ...