Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire - Gardens & Lake - local postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Trentham Gardens and Lake, Staffordshire - shows a land train of some sorts
• Publisher:  D. Brookes, Newcastle, Staffs
• Postally used:  no - short note
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• Notes / condition:  very minor bend - not noticable in album - still very good condition

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Trentham Gardens are formal Italianate gardens, part of an English landscape park on the Trentham Estate in Trentham, Staffordshire. The site is located on the southern fringe of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, England. The site was also the location of the former Trentham Hall.

The Gardens are set within the much larger Trentham Estate consisting of parkland and mature woodland. Together these currently together cover some 300 acres (1.2 km²). The Gardens were designed as a serpentine park by Capability Brown from 1758 onwards, overlying an earlier formal design attributed to Charles Bridgeman. Trentham Gardens are now principally known for the surviving formal gardens laid out in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry, which have recently been restored. In 2012 the Trentham Estate was selected as the site of a Royal Diamond Jubilee wood, and a new woodland of 200,000 native oak trees will be planted on the Estate.

Since 2000 Trentham Gardens has undergone a successful and major £120-million ($200m) redevelopment by St. Modwen Properties plc as a leisure destination. The current regeneration project at Trentham includes restoration of the Italian gardens and adjacent woodlands, the creation of a garden centre and crafts centre, and various leisure attractions. The overall aim is to avoid noisy theme park-like attractions, and instead to offer ""authentic experiences"" to older people and younger children.

As part of the regeneration a monkey forest, the first of its kind in England, has opened and has been successful. Visitors can roam through the monkey park where 140 Barbary Macaque monkeys wander free in the woodlands. There are no fences in place to stop the monkeys from interacting with the visitors, although it is against park rules to touch the animals and wardens are on standby to ensure the safety of the visitors.

In December 2008 a Giant Observation Wheel was opened on site for tourists to get an overhead view of the Gardens, the Estate, and out over the city.^[1] It later closed and was dismantled in 2009.

Trentham Gardens hosted the first ever Mountain Mayhem - in the UK - a 24 hour race which included some of the biggest Mountain Bike brands of all time including: Raleigh and Giant, 120 other teams also entered. The course was just under 10 miles long. The winning team was the Raleigh Pro Team managed by Gary Coltman with riders Barrie Clarke, Elliot Baxter, Carl Sturgeon and Ian Cuthbertson. The Giant Team came 2nd. They were managed by Martin Earley who also rode in the team along with Jamie Norfolk, Robin Seymour and Robert Miller. There were only teams and no solos.

Trentham Priory occupied land on the Trentham estate from the 11th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The property was then sold in 1540 to James Leveson of Perton Hall, near Wolverhampton. The Leveson family occupied the property and Sir Richard Leveson built a new house in 1634. The Leveson heiress Frances married Sir Thomas Gower Bt leading to the creation of the Leveson Gower family. Their son Sir William Leveson Gower built a new house on the site in 1690. Henry Holland altered the house in 1775–78.

As for the former days of the last Trentham Hall built in the 1830s, William White wrote 1851: ""Trentham Hall is the principal residence of the Most Noble George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland, Marquess of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, and Hereditary Sheriff of Sutherland. It is an elegant mansion, situated near the village in a park of 500 acres (2 km²). It has been entirely rebuilt during the last 14 years, and now has an elegant stone front and a lofty square tower. The late hall was erected about 120 years ago, after the model of Buckingham House, in St. James's Park, but it was considerably altered and improved by the first Marquess of Stafford, from designs by Henry Holland, who gave a new and imposing feature to the whole. The present mansion is on a larger and more magnificent plan and the gardens rank amongst the finest in England."" (History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, Sheffield, 1851). The remodelling was also the work of Sir Charles Barry.

The Hall was one of many to be demolished in the 20th century, when in 1912 its owner, the 4th Duke of Sutherland, razed it after his offer to give it to the people of Stoke-on-Trent was rejected. However, the gardens and the ornamental park with its lake and the Estate woodlands have all been preserved.

There are tentative proposals to rebuild Trentham Hall as a five star hotel.^[2][3][4] However, in 2013 the developer St Modwen stated that the cost of refurbishing what remains of the buildings into a conference centre and an hotel was too much at £35m.^[5]

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