Life on the Trentham Estate: Local Tradesmen and Trentham Hall
Documents relating to life on the Trentham estate include accounts made by local tradesmen, such as butchers and grocers. In September 1776 ‘William Plant’, a miller from Trentham sent proposals to provide ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Much Ado About Nothing
Amongst correspondence relating to life on the Trentham Estate is an intriguing letter sent to Lord Gower by a man named Richard Walklate. Richard’s letter tells us about his personal history and customs ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Plate at Trentham Hall, 1793-1799
In 1793 agents at the Estate Office at Trentham Hall produced an inventory of plate at the Hall. The document, shown above, is annotated with writing which indicates that the inventory was correct in ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: The Stables at Trentham Hall, 1778
Papers relating to life at Trentham Hall include many documents telling us about the architectural design and layout of the Hall and its outbuildings during the late eighteenth century. The document above ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: The Steward’s Room at Trentham Hall
In 1779 renovations were made to the Steward’s accommodation at Trentham Hall. The document featured above outlines proposals for a new Steward’s room at the Hall, complaining that the present room was ...
Monuments of the First Duke of Sutherland in Trentham and Lilleshall, 1833
Following the death of the first Duke of Sutherland in 1833, monuments of the Duke were erected in Trentham and Lilleshall. The minutes featured above are from a meeting held at the Trentham Inn on 30th ...
Report on Work at Trentham Hall, 1839
Amongst papers relating to the remodeling of Trentham Hall in the 1830s is a ‘Report of Works’ which were being undertaken at the Hall. Dating 14th May 1839’, the report tells us about each room in the ...
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 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 Housekeeper's and Butler’s Accounts for Trentham Hall, 1682
Amongst the account books for Trentham Hall during the later seventeenth century is a volume of accounts kept by the Housekeeper and Butler at the Hall. The image above is an extract from this volume, ...
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 Library and Servant's Room at Trentham Hall
Amongst the papers of Sir John Leveson Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754) is a document entitled ‘An Estimate for the workmanship of the Carcase of a building design’d for a Library and Servants Room ...
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 Sutherland Papers contain an enormous wealth of documents relating to Trentham Gardens. Accounts, correspondence, maps, plans and advertisements provide a fascinating insight into this famous local ...
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 ...