Shropshire FHS March 2014 Monthly Meeting

Tue, 18/03/2014 - 19:00

Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "Chirk Castle -The Howard de Walden Years 1911-1946"
Speaker - Jill Burton

The Myddeltons lived at Chirk Castle for 400 years - with one exception. In 1911 the castle was leased to the 8th Lord Howard de Walden, one of the richest young men in the country. Jill Burton who was Education Officer at the castle 1990 to 2009, tells the story of how she gathered evidence and memories of those fascinating years when the castle was a centre of entertaining for society and the arts as well as a family home. The research has led to the current exhibition in the castle's East Wing.

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