does any1 remember lady bagshaw who lived in the big house in oaks park and any of her staff in the early 70's??

I know the house exceedingly well and once visited it when it was open to the public. In later years I've had the chance to work on and crawl all over the house from the cellars to the attic spaces.
There are pics of it on the Norton history site and my favorite memory is of seeing a few elephants that had come from the circus that used to stay in the park coming down the drive and into the courtyard to drink from a big old metal trough outside the kitchen.

my great gran was lady Bagshaws maid and my G.grandad was the stable lad......they lived in 1 of the cottages in oak's park.....i remember when the circus came, i used to help clean the big tent in a mourning.....it was a shame when they built that dual carriageway through the middle of the park.

I think it was on her land on which Norton Oakes C.C, played its matches?

The Bagshaw Arms (or whatever they now call it) housed a court room in the top floor of what is the barn like building still standing.

I used to live very near Oakes park several years ago and used to see old Lady Bagshaw on the odd occasion. Every now and again, usually after the Star had called her a recluse, she would appear in her Rolls Royce and all the local residents used to touch their caps to her.

I used to be a member of Norton Oakes Cricket Club (not a playing member - more a drinking member) Lady Bagshaw used to let the members fish in a pond on her land.

After she died her cousin, Thornber Bagshawe, took over the house and held a sale of some of the contents - still got a beautiful white damask tablecloth we got for next to nothing.

she sold the land for gleadless valley housing on condition there was no fish and chip shops

Part of R.A.F. Norton camp was on her land and the station c.o. invited her to all the open days i.e Battle of Britain and was very dissapointed that she would not attend

I have lost count of the times they chased us of for fishing round the back of the house.
There was two other ponds nearer the house full of rud,roach,perch and pike,we were shot at a few times with the cartridges full of rise but they still stung your arse.
They had a sign up beware of the adders to keep people away but no one ever saw one.