Black Diamonds: the Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty - Catherine Bailey

This is the first book by Catherine Bailey, a successful and award winning television producer and director with a range of critically acclaimed documentaries to her credit. A meticulously researched work, it traces the history of the Fitzwilliam family, in the earlier half of the twentieth century, when they were one of the Britain’s richest families. Their wealth was chiefly based on coal and their history is inextricably linked with the fortunes ...
...palatial Georgian gem, Wentworth House, situated five miles from Sheffield and in the heart of mining country, being surrounded by around seventy collieries, some of which they owned. With its 365 rooms, 1000 windows and five miles of corridors it remains, to this day, the largest private house in Europe. In its hay day, the staff consisted of some 300 outdoor and 85 indoor servants. With its huge reception rooms, gilded stucco pre-Adam ceilings, ...

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