Letter from George Cookes, Stone to Isaac Brisbane, Trentham, 1719
George Cookes of Stone wrote to Isaac Brisbane of Trentham on 31st March 1719 concerning the number of cattle that had been purchased from Trentham.
Cookes refers to a visit to Stone and a letter ...
Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Hall, 1834
In 1834 George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Duke of Sutherland, employed Charles Barry to remodel Trentham Hall and its gardens. Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) had grown in ...
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 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 Leveson Family & Trentham Priory
The Leveson family first became associated with Trentham in 1540. In 1536 Trentham Priory was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A successful wool merchant from Wolverhampton, James ...
The New House at Trentham, 1630-1639
Trentham Hall was passed down through generations of the Leveson family to Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) who built a new house at Trentham in 1630. Work on this new property took just under nine years ...
The Trentham Estate: The Chief Agent’s Cash Book, 1778-1785
The image above shows a page taken from the Chief Agent’s Cash Book dating from 1778-1785. Thomas Horwood, Earl Gower’s Chief Agent during this period was responsible for keeping this account of payments ...
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, ...