Image ID: 43068

Stapleford Hall Park, Warren Avenue, Stapleford, 1900

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

Off Warren Avenue
Stapleford
Nottinghamshire
England

Leonard Jacks 1881 article on Stapleford Hall notes the following:- The hall is presently occupied (in 1881) by Colonel Wright Esq. It is a commodious mansion with a fine lawn and beautiful plantations. The grounds have been very much expanded by the present owner, Charles Ichabod Wright, best known as Colonel Wright, who has taken in large pieces of what was open field beyond the boundaries of the grounds, and placed them under the hands of his gardener. They are now part of the garden, and set with a very fine collection of shrubs, chiefly of the fir kind. Colonel Wright, I may mention, is a great admirer and a successful grower of coniferae, and has discovered that a ball shot straight from a small rifle will remove a superfluous leader from the summits of the tall ones, which cannot well be reached by ordinary appliances. The other portions of the garden are planted with flowers, which seem to have been chosen for the brightness and beauty of their colours. There is a still brighter collection in the spacious copper-roofed and copper-framed conservatory attached to the house, and built, I believe, necessarily at great expense, by the late Lady Warren, who formerly lived here. A broad gravel terrace runs parallel with the house, and terminates at a small group of Scotch firs, which is immediately approached by a flight of grass steps.

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