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Old 20-02-2015, 07:38 PM
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Trewhitt Hall Estate.

The newspapers record the aristocracy descending on this hall on numerous occasions for hunts and shoots. Armstrong eventually purchased the Hall in 1879, for the princely sum of £42,500; it having failed to sell at auction the previous year. The estate consisted of 800 acres. Looks like a fascinating array of characters occupied the place over the years reading references to it in the newspapers.

In 1870 one of the Trewhitt Hall gamekeepers was accidentally shot and killed, although not on the Trewhitt estate, but I believe nearby; Alnwick Mercury 19 November 1870 refers:

A gamekeeper accidentally shot at Plainfield.

On Monday last, an inquest was held at Plainfield, in the parish of Rothbury, before Mr John J. Hardy, on the body of George Dickinson, gamekeeper to Mr George F.McCabe Esq., Trewitt Hall, who was accidentally shot on the previous Saturday, under the following melancholy circumstances as detailed in evidence: — Robert Scott, gamekeeper to J.Welleans, Esq., Flotterton, said that a shooting party was made up at Flotterton, on Saturday, at which deceased, who was a careful steady young man, 19 years of age, was present. They were shooting partridge in a turnip field, when a bird was hit. Deceased and Mr Wealleans went forward to where the bird was expected to be.
When searching the wounded bird rose, Mr Wealleans and the deceased being together. The deceased squatted and Mr Wealleans discharged his gun, the contents entering the deceased’s head. — Mr McCabe said he was one of the shooting party on Saturday last, when he saw Mr Wellens and the deceased go forward to a wounded bird. The deceased would be about 5 or 6 yards from Mr Wealleans. When the bird wheeled, deceased threw himself down, and as the bird was wheeling he raised himself up to look, and at that moment Mr Wealleans' gun went off and the contents lodged in his head. Verdict — “Accidentally shot.”

I see from google that Low Trewhitt is about a mile south of Trewhitt Hall, possibly part of the same estate back in the 1870s?

If you have any photos of these areas it would be nice to see them Vagabond (our special agent in the west?), so this coaster knows what we are discussing! There was an old postcard of Trewitt Hall on ebay recently, but the auction pictures have gone now; looked a bit like Hauxley Hall in scale to me.
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