Now! Then! Tag: Wentworth Woodhouse

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📌 Huge country house, park and estate in the village of Wentworth near Rotherham, Jacobean original rebuilt and expanded in the mid-18th century, a centre of Whig influence, later profited greatly from coal mining.

16 February 1789: Thomas Paine writes to Thomas Jefferson telling of the “revolutionary” iron bridge being built to his design by the Walkers of Masbrough (Rotherham)
4 May 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his 21st birthday barbecue at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, during his campaign to be elected MP for the Whigs
4 July 1838: 26 girls and boys drown trying to escape via a tunnel from flash flooding in Huskar Colliery, Silkstone, Barnsley, after the steam lifts fail during a rainstorm
8 April 1946: Yorkshire miners’ president Joe Hall threatens strike action if Labour starts opencast mining in Lord Fitzwilliam’s gardens at Wentworth Woodhouse (Rotherham)

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