Description:This photograph was taken in April 1989, at the time when the National Coal Board had taken over the responsibility for restoration of the Trentham Hall Courtyard buildings. The building on the right was the newly formed Riding School, replicating its previous role of the 1890s. The centre building was originally the original Trentham Savings Bank, set up by the 1st Duke it began in 1816 and closed in 1880. On the first floor, there was a central safe, encased by a floor to ceiling jail cage, and in the centre a large safe. The cage could only be opened from the inside. The building was built by Charles Barry in the late 1840s.