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 remains.It was in the near right hand corner of the lake as you approached it from the Hall. It housed a wooden punt, which was eventually sunk, and remained in the lake until it was drained and deepened by the Coal Board (when?) Thank you to David Mellor, ex-Caldwell Water Bailiff, for information on the whereabouts of the Boat House. |
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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. |