The Laundry at West Hill, 1824
After clothes had been washed in the wash house, they came to the Laundry, where the large fire and ‘Ironing Stove’ were used to dry and iron clothes. A sixteen foot ironing board was kept in the laundry, ...
‘Necessary Repairs Wanting at West Hill’
The Sutherland Papers contain a number of papers relating to various aspects of life at West Hill between 1825 and 1833. Amongst these papers is a document listing repairs which were needed at West Hill, ...
A Healthy Household: Surgeon's Expenses at West Hill
Amongst the vouchers and accounts for expenditure at West Hill is a huge document issued to the second Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) by Charles Shillito who was a surgeon ...
Abstract of the Cash Account of the National and Sunday Schools in Lilleshall, 1827
The image above shows the Abstract of the cash account for the ‘National and Sunday Schools’ and also ‘the Clothing Club’ in the parish of Lilleshall, made in 1827.
The document tells us that the ...
Account of the Abbey’s profits from certain rights
All lords of manors had the right to
hold a court for their tenants, sometimes known as a court baron or small court, which regulated the affairs of the manor by the custom of the manor, but only some ...
Agreement concerning the office of shepherd
As well as various granges on their more distant lands (see 972/1/1/489) Lilleshall Abbey had three granges close to the mother house – Cherswell, Watling Street and Wildmoor – and a farm actually at ...
Agricultural Trentham: ‘Mr Thomas Doody his Disbursements from the 24th of December 1678 till the 18th of July 1679’
The image above shows a page from accounts made by Thomas Doody relating to agricultural work on the Trentham Estate in the late seventeenth century. Doody’s accounts describe payments made by the estate ...
An Elementary School in Caverswall
The document above is an indenture involving land owned by the Duke of Sutherland and Caverswall School Board, made on 31st July 1877.
The document provides details about the ‘absolute sale’ of a piece ...
Benjamin Wyatt’s Correspondence
Amongst papers relating to Stafford House are a large number of letters written to George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), the second Duke of Sutherland, by Benjamin Wyatt, the architect ...
Charity on the Lilleshall Estate, 1896
The image above shows a document outlining the allowance made by the third Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to a lady called Emma Morris who occupied a cottage on the Lilleshall estate.
Emma had worked ...
Charter of King Stephen
The charter says the grant is to the canons regular of Donnington showing that they had already moved from their original site at Lizard between Watling Street and Merdich which Philip de Belmeis had ...
Cliveden 1849-1868
Cliveden in Buckinghamshire was owned by the second Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) and his wife Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland (1806-1868) for almost twenty ...
Controversy over Laundry Maids
The letter above was written to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, by J. Whittaker who was responsible for hiring servants to work at Trentham. The letter concerns a complaint which had been ...
Designing the Interiors of Stafford House
The image above shows an extract from a document entitled ‘Queries to be submitted to the Marquis of Stafford relative to the completion of York House’. The document details work which was outstanding ...
Domestic Life: An Inventory of the Household Furniture at Trentham Hall, 1826
The image above shows a page from the ‘Inventory of the Household Furniture at Trentham Hall’ which was made in 1826. The Inventory includes details of furniture in the servants’ rooms, including the ...
Domestic Life: Preparing for Parties
This letter, dated simply ‘Friday’ was sent from Dunrobin Castle by Mr. Prentice, the Clerk to the Duke of Sutherland’s Accountant, to Mrs. Ingram the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall. The letter concerns ...
Domestic Life: Royal Visitors
The letter above was sent to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, by Mr. Prentice from Dunrobin Castle in Sutherland. Prentice was the Clerk to the Duke of Sutherland’s Accountant and often ...
Domestic Life: Servants Wages Books, 1829
The image above shows a page from the Servants Wages Book for 1829. The book lists the names of servants who worked at West Hill and Stafford House during the early nineteenth century and provides details ...