posted 02-29-2004 04:08 AM
HiI learnt about this house in the book 'the british country house in the eighteenth century', which contains some text about it and a picture of the house, how it should look when finished, as a palace not unworthy for a prince or king on the continent. In the end only one wing was built and then the duke died, his heir (from another branch of the howard dynasty) decided not to finish the house.
Also I have found in the meantime some more information on the site, probably of one of the 'best' sites on the topic you can find on the net:
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/white1875/worksop_manor1.htm
http://www.antiqueprints.com/Images/af/D9411.JPG
As I understand it was in or nearby Worksop.
I also found a picture from 1955 on, a bit strange as I understood the house was lost:
http://www.francisfrith.com/UK/search/addprod.asp?NegNumber=W278049&pagetitle=Photograph+of+WORKSOP,%20MANOR+C1955
so if some one knows more, I am interested. Maybe there exists a little booklet about it. And does some know what has really happend with the one wing, does it still exist, or is it destroyed after 1955. Does the park still exists, or has the estate vanished at all.
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