Arguments For and Against the Water Works
Not everyone was in favour of the Waterworks in the Staffordshire Potteries. Amongst papers relating to the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company is a ‘List of Petitions against the Bill’.
The ...
Controversy at Wall Grange about the Churnet Valley Railway Line
In October 1847 controversy arose between the North Staffordshire Railway Company and George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), the second Duke of Sutherland. The dispute concerned the commencement ...
Incomes Tax and Riots in Leek, 1797
On 10th September 1797 Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), the Marquis of Stafford, received a letter from the Duke of Portland, reporting that there had been riots in Leek against taxation.
In 1797 ...
Longsdon Church, Leek, 1902
Wall Grange was purchased by James Leveson in 1540 and remained in the Leveson-Gower family until 1911. The family's strong association with Leek is evident in their involvement in the development of ...
Medieval Leek
One of the earliest documents relating to Leek in the Sutherland Papers is a deed made before 1232 between Ralph Earl of Chester and a man who was being granted land in Wall Grange in return for his military ...
Staffordshire Potteries Water Works
Staffordshire’s successful pottery industry required a continual supply of natural resources such as coal and water. In the middle of the nineteenth century the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company ...
The Sutherland Papers and the Churnet Valley Railway Line
The Railway first arrived in Leek with the opening of the Churnet Valley Line from Macclesfield to Uttoxeter in 1849. Initially, there were stations at Rushton Spencer, Rudyard and Leek. In 1867 the Railway ...