PICTURE GALLERY 1: Weddington Castle & Grounds
In this section are a range of early paintings and surviving photographs of the Castle - dating from the 1860s to the 1920s.
This section also includes some images of Castle artifacts that have appeared more recently: such as the Weddington Castle Lion. You can view images of the Castle during its time as a Red Cross Hospital from 1916 - 1918 at this link. These feature unique images of the Castle's interior.
Hover your mouse over the thumbnails below to see a description of each picture and click to see a larger image.
This section also includes some images of Castle artifacts that have appeared more recently: such as the Weddington Castle Lion. You can view images of the Castle during its time as a Red Cross Hospital from 1916 - 1918 at this link. These feature unique images of the Castle's interior.
Hover your mouse over the thumbnails below to see a description of each picture and click to see a larger image.
* This very same bookcase - dating from around 1835, went on sale at an auction at Christie's in 2007, selling for £8,750. You can view details of the sale here.
** Ann Mowbray was an early Victorian lady artist who drew places around the country as she visited them. She came from Sussex. The Weddington Castle drawing is inscribed by her on the back as follows "Weddington Castle/South West/Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Lionel Place Esq. August 1831. A Mowbray". The size is c. 5 x 7 inches.
*** Grateful acknowledgements to Norman Cole and his daughter Rose Cole for saving and preserving this wonderful artefact of Weddington Castle.
It was first bought when Weddington Castle contents were auctioned on 6th July 1928; Mr Joseph Henry Knight of 228 Weddington Road bought 2 lion statues for 5/- each (25p). In mid-1943, Joseph Henry Knight died, and some of his possessions and items were auctioned from his house; a local miner Mr Norman Coles (of Shawe Avenue) bought one of the lions for similar money (12p-25p modern day money). He kept this until he died, and his daughter Rosemary Coles inherited it some years ago, and she kindly donated it in 2011 for restoration and safe keeping.
**** Many thanks to Richard Brown who sent this image to us, stating: "I have been carrying out some research about a crest engraved on a silver platter I inherited some years ago from my Grandfather. Place of Dinsdale in Durham and Weddington Hall in Warwickshire was one of two families with records linking them with a crest of this type – see attached letter from the Chester Herald".
# Photos provided by Thomas Peeke in 2013, featuring his Great Grandfather, William Moore, then aged 27.
## Photo submitted to the Nuneaton Tribune in 1987 by Mr C E Young of Tasmania, Australia. It was taken by his father, a keen amateur photographer and local resident.
### Read more about Captain Shakerley in a PDF document by clicking here.
@@ Found by a resident of Castle Road. When they had their chimney breast removed to fit a gas fire, the contractor uncovered some old bricks which appear to have been used as common bricks in hidden areas of the house. In view of the fact that the castle was in splendid isolation at the time it seems the likeliest place a heap of old bricks might have come from, so it seems highly likely that these were used on all the houses in Castle Road until the supply of old bricks ran out.
Looking at the brick it seems to have been part of a frieze of narrow bricks and is in remarkably good condition free from chips and cracks. There are no clues to the brickyard, it being a pinkish colour with no markings. As the castle was encapsulated in Attleborough grey sandstone I suspect the brick came either from the stables, the utilities area at the rear of the house, or it is possible I suppose that it was part of the original Elizabethan house and covered up by sandstone, although the brick looks too well made and regular to be that old. My instincts plump for the work that Lionel Place did when he bought the hall originally in the early 19th century. (commentary by Peter Lee)
@@@ Courtesy of June Miller. Posted on Nuneaton Memories Facebook page 2015, "Castle Road, my Father and a few others paid extra rates to have a road laid at the back of our houses in the 1960's and he also got permission to build a garage, unfortunately we left before that was realised. We lived at number 58."
++++ Courtesy of David Webb: I have a friend that used to live at 48 Castle Road, he was in the process of having an Extension built, he had a Baco digger in to dig the foundations and suddenly it toppled/sunk to one side, further investigation reveled the digger had slipped into a large bottle celler half full with bottles etc...long story short a few phone calls later Stratford collage came to investigate, it was in the local paper, no sure what happened after that, I will ask him, he now lives in Fox Avenue, although the Extention still went ahead so the celler/hole must have been filled in...I was born at 34 Castle Road now live at 94...I had a friend that lived at 80 Castle Road, his Dad had an allotment, whilst digging he hit something metal (long story short) they turned out to be late 17th century slaters hammers to which now for the last 43 years have sat in Nuneaton Museum on the last 2 documents I posted...
** Ann Mowbray was an early Victorian lady artist who drew places around the country as she visited them. She came from Sussex. The Weddington Castle drawing is inscribed by her on the back as follows "Weddington Castle/South West/Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Lionel Place Esq. August 1831. A Mowbray". The size is c. 5 x 7 inches.
*** Grateful acknowledgements to Norman Cole and his daughter Rose Cole for saving and preserving this wonderful artefact of Weddington Castle.
It was first bought when Weddington Castle contents were auctioned on 6th July 1928; Mr Joseph Henry Knight of 228 Weddington Road bought 2 lion statues for 5/- each (25p). In mid-1943, Joseph Henry Knight died, and some of his possessions and items were auctioned from his house; a local miner Mr Norman Coles (of Shawe Avenue) bought one of the lions for similar money (12p-25p modern day money). He kept this until he died, and his daughter Rosemary Coles inherited it some years ago, and she kindly donated it in 2011 for restoration and safe keeping.
**** Many thanks to Richard Brown who sent this image to us, stating: "I have been carrying out some research about a crest engraved on a silver platter I inherited some years ago from my Grandfather. Place of Dinsdale in Durham and Weddington Hall in Warwickshire was one of two families with records linking them with a crest of this type – see attached letter from the Chester Herald".
# Photos provided by Thomas Peeke in 2013, featuring his Great Grandfather, William Moore, then aged 27.
## Photo submitted to the Nuneaton Tribune in 1987 by Mr C E Young of Tasmania, Australia. It was taken by his father, a keen amateur photographer and local resident.
### Read more about Captain Shakerley in a PDF document by clicking here.
@@ Found by a resident of Castle Road. When they had their chimney breast removed to fit a gas fire, the contractor uncovered some old bricks which appear to have been used as common bricks in hidden areas of the house. In view of the fact that the castle was in splendid isolation at the time it seems the likeliest place a heap of old bricks might have come from, so it seems highly likely that these were used on all the houses in Castle Road until the supply of old bricks ran out.
Looking at the brick it seems to have been part of a frieze of narrow bricks and is in remarkably good condition free from chips and cracks. There are no clues to the brickyard, it being a pinkish colour with no markings. As the castle was encapsulated in Attleborough grey sandstone I suspect the brick came either from the stables, the utilities area at the rear of the house, or it is possible I suppose that it was part of the original Elizabethan house and covered up by sandstone, although the brick looks too well made and regular to be that old. My instincts plump for the work that Lionel Place did when he bought the hall originally in the early 19th century. (commentary by Peter Lee)
@@@ Courtesy of June Miller. Posted on Nuneaton Memories Facebook page 2015, "Castle Road, my Father and a few others paid extra rates to have a road laid at the back of our houses in the 1960's and he also got permission to build a garage, unfortunately we left before that was realised. We lived at number 58."
++++ Courtesy of David Webb: I have a friend that used to live at 48 Castle Road, he was in the process of having an Extension built, he had a Baco digger in to dig the foundations and suddenly it toppled/sunk to one side, further investigation reveled the digger had slipped into a large bottle celler half full with bottles etc...long story short a few phone calls later Stratford collage came to investigate, it was in the local paper, no sure what happened after that, I will ask him, he now lives in Fox Avenue, although the Extention still went ahead so the celler/hole must have been filled in...I was born at 34 Castle Road now live at 94...I had a friend that lived at 80 Castle Road, his Dad had an allotment, whilst digging he hit something metal (long story short) they turned out to be late 17th century slaters hammers to which now for the last 43 years have sat in Nuneaton Museum on the last 2 documents I posted...
