Tower of the Winds, Shugborough Park,
The original Tower of the Winds in Athens was an octagonal tower featuring carvings in relief, each depicting the nature of the wind. On the top of the tower was a bronze weathervane.
Shugborough's ...
Trentham Hall,
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 ...
Triumphal Arch, Shugborough Park
James 'Athenian' Stuart modelled this monument on the Arch of Hadrian at Athens. Work began in 1761 using stone from the Tixall quarries. Admiral George Anson of Shugborough died the following year ...
Triumphal Arch, Shugborough Park,
James 'Athenian' Stuart modelled this monument on the Arch of Hadrian at Athens. Work began in 1761 using stone from the Tixall quarries. Admiral George Anson of Shugborough died the following year ...
Two boys skating next to Thistleberry Castle, Newcastle-under-Lyme
These boys are skating on the moat that surrounded Thistleberry Castle. It was a fake castle in the grounds of Thistleberry House, built by Samuel Mayer, a Burgess in Newcastle-under-Lyme since 1820 just ...