Trentham Hall and Gardens
This photograph was taken on the viewing platform located on the site of Trentham Hall. Looking south over the Italianate Terraces and fountains towards the statue of Perseus and Capability Brown’s lake, ...
Trentham Hall and Gardens, the Cascade
The Cascade captured on an autumn day. The Cascade is at the south east end of Capability Brown's mile long lake, it takes surplus water from the lake into the nearby River Trent.
The original Trentham ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trentham Lake: sepia wash drawing
Showing a view looking over the lake at Trentham. There is a hill with a monument (1834) in the distance, with trees on either side. Anonymous, [Thomas Peploe Wood.]
Triton Fountain, Enville Hall
The Enville Hall estate was landscaped between 1745 and 1755 by the 4th Earl of Stamford, using the services of the poet and landscape designer William Shenstone of Halesowen, and Sanderson Miller, a ...
Victoria Park Paddling Pool, Stafford
The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station was marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought the land and raised its level by three feet. The area was laid out as Victoria ...
View of Enville Hall looking across the Seahorse Pool, Enville
The manor of Enville was purchased by Sir Edward Grey in 1528, and he had built the brick house which forms the core of the present Hall by 1548. The Greys later became Earls of Stamford. The Hall was ...
Waterfall, Alton Towers
This waterfall flows below the the Memorial to the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury in the ornamental gardens at Alton Towers. The Memorial was erected in about 1830 by his nephew John, the 16th Earl.
Waterfall, Rudyard Lake
A postcard view taken near to the dam wall at the south end of Rudyard Lake. Rudyard Lake is a reservoir constructed in 1797 by engineer John Rennie to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal. ...
West Park, Wolverhampton
The lake and walks at West Park, Wolverhampton. The Conservatory can be seen across the water. West Park was designed by Richard Hartland Vertegans and was opened on 6 June 1881 by the Mayor of Wolverhampton, ...
Woodcroft, Leek
It was built as it appears here for a draper called Henry George Carr but perhaps he overstretched himself as he had to sell it after only about three years to Henry Davenport, one of the founders of ...
Woodcroft, Leek
Woodcroft entrance gates. The house was demolished in the 1930s and a high quality housing development built on the grounds. The gates were built over but the tennis pavilion still survives although disused ...
Woodcroft, Leek
Woodcroft stood on Newcastle Road but has since been demolished and is now the site of a housing estate. Woodcroft was built in 1893 for Henry George Carr, a draper with a shop in Leek. Carr sold it ...
Woodcroft, Leek
It was built as it appears here for a draper called Henry George Carr but perhaps he overstretched himself as he had to sell it after only about three years to Henry Davenport, one of the founders of ...
Yew Hedges, Hoar Cross Hall
Magnificent topiary at Hoar Cross Hall's gardens. Situated on the south side of the house, the yew hedges enclosed a series of small gardens. Also in this view are an ornamental fountain and a pair of ...