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Wakefield, Thornes Park c.1960
Photo ref:
W464006
More about this scene
Here we see the gardener's house; it was originally surrounded by a kitchen garden and glasshouses to provide fresh produce all year long for the magnificent red brick Thornes House with its impressive 200-foot façade. The bricks came from Milnes's works, and timber was imported from Russia, where his cloth exports flourished. Milnes rivalled the Denisons of Leeds as the county's biggest cloth exporter, and in 1778 he married the heiress of another prosperous Leeds textile merchant, Hans Buck. The marriage dowry amounted to £100,000 – the money was quickly spent on Thornes House.
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