Pen and Sword History
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall: 400 Years of Its History and People
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- Stephen Wade
- Pen and Sword History
- Paperback
- 9781473893399
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.5 inches
- 0.6 pounds
- History > Europe - Great Britain - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The book includes biographies of the famous but also tells of the lives of the ordinary people who kept the house and the estate going, from the gamekeepers to the gardeners, and the cooks to the stable hands. All this is set against the social background through the centuries of its existence, up to the sale of the Hall to Scunthorpe Borough Council in 1964. The lives familiar to us today from Downton Abbey and similar family sagas are at the heart of Stephen Wades history. But along the way, the reader will meet such characters as Sir Berkeley Sheffield, model railway enthusiast, Walter Brierley, architect, Thomas Sumpter, the schoolmaster, John Fletcher, machine-maker, and perhaps most charismatically of all, Lady Arthur Grosvenor, an expert on gypsy caravans.
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