I went on a 2 hour guided tour of Wentworth Woodhouse.....

Black Diamonds, brilliant book about Wentworth. You can buy it at the gift shop.

 

I think it's a fantastic read and a real eye-opener to the toffs and workers culture. But it is more a novel than historically accurate, at least on Fitzwilliam affairs.

 

It's Bellwood Cres and Freehold. this is the schedule on the back of the document. Some brilliant names.



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Is it really? That's disappointing, I thought it was researched, I loved it! Good read!

 

Try this.. No better.

 

Its sad to say, but I remember the Cloughs being built, including Belwood cresent.

 

Well it is, just jazzed up a bit to sell it. For example, the bit about the bonfire of family papers to hide all the controversy is rubbish. That fire was of estate documents, receipts invoices business correspondence - that sort of thing, a lot of it. The family archive is with Lady Juliet Tadgell in Cantebury along with all the great paintings from Wentworth. 17 trunks of papers by all accounts that no-one can be bothered to sort out.

Catherine Bailey was told the truth about it, but chose to ignore it so the book would be juicier. There's a local fella who claims to be a private detective (I heard bent copper) who acted as adviser on BD and he spun her loads of other rubbish too. As he does anyone who will listen.

It's still a great book, if it was word for word accurate - it probably would be such a storming read.

 

Unfortunately I can't read it.

 

Would love to mate, but not exactly local these days lol.

 

Try again. .

Edit.. Sorry mrC but it is not showing at the resolution that I am posting it at.

 

In the late 60s when it was Lady Mabel College I use to go to the discos the girls use to have in the old wine cellars.

It was hard getting in but a mate of mine was a canoeist who did a bit of outdoor pursuit instruction with the girls. It was a PE College so the girls did a wide range of activities. It was a reight pulling place if you could get in, wall to wall fit women.

I was only 17 and had a 19 year old girl friend who was from Gateshead. My mate Mick came from Wath and he married one of the girls.

There wasn't much left in the house as the Fitzwilliams striped the house before it became a College and preferred to live up in Malton where most of them are buried or at Milton Hall in Cambridgeshire and they abandoned the Woodhouse.

I don't go for these big old houses which were built by explotation of the poor, miners and steel workers. My Dad worked at one of the Fitzwilliam Foundries when he was 13 and my Grandfather and Great Uncles worked for them down the pits. My own Family never had much of a good word for them.

They also owned slaves and were anti trade Union.