Aerial View of Trentham Gardens,

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Date:1955 - 1965 (c.)

Description:Aerial view of Trentham Gardens showing the lake, Italian gardens and ballroom.

The original Trentham Hall was built in the 1630s for the Dukes of Sutherland. The Caroline house was replaced in the early eighteenth century by one in a Classical style. Capability Brown and Henry Holland worked on the landscape and hall between 1768 and 1778.

Capability Brown also proposed diverting the River Trent so it flowed into the lake; the river was diverted back to its original course in 1853.

The house was redesigned in an Italianate style in the nineteenth century by Sir Charles Barry, who also laid out Italian gardens to the front of the hall.

Trentham Hall was abandoned by the family as a permanent residence in 1905. In 1910 the Duke of Sutherland offered the hall to the County of Staffordshire and the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The offer was refused and the building was demolished, apart from the west front and stable block. The tower was re-erected on the Sandon Hall Estate.

Today the grounds have been developed as an exhibition, conference and leisure centre.

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Donor ref:P2000.022.0039 (18/3053)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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