Home of the Milligans'
The family on the front lawn BEFORE
the conservatory was added (see below)
| The contents of the Hall were sold in 1960 after the death of the last Miss Milligan
The catalogue covers the six days of the sale. |
| Sale catalogue Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 |
| Thankyou to Hetty Jones for sight of the original catalogue. |
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'Caldwell Hall, Nr Burton-on-Trent Home of the Milligans' The family on the front lawn BEFORE |
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| A postcard of the hall addressed to 'Miss B. Milligan'
and inscribed 'I hope you will like the way I have coloured the Hall from memory, Yours truly E. A. Ashwall, 91 Alexandra Road, Edgebaston, Birm.' Dated June 26th 1905 | |
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'Caldwell Hall, South Front Home of the Milligans' |
| Caldwell Hall across the lake, 'April 1903' |  |
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'Mrs Milligan's garden. Early 1900's' |
| Captioned 'Boat house & Ice house Caldwell Hall. Early 1900's' Now demolished and no trace. Does anyone know where it was? |
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'The Library, Caldwell Hall' |
| The hydraulic ram used a large volume of water at low pressure to pump a
small volume of water at high pressure from the stream in the woods up to a storage tank in the hall
It was removed about 1985 and is now part of a large collection of hydraulic rams at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. It is a 3" simple ram, made in 1879 by John Blake of Accrington, Lancashire. |
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The Caldwell cricket team, outside Caldwell Hall. date unknown. I will try and identify the team members. Thank you to Mary Sharpe for permission to use the photograph. |