Guy's Cliffe House, Warwick.
Category
Ephemera
Date
24 Dec 1904
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 138 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748331
Summary
Christmas greeting card- Postcard sent as a Christmas card. Front: Is a copy of a painting showing a manor house sat by a lake side surrounded by trees and foliage. in the bottom left corner is the title 'Guy's Cliffe House, Warwick.' and in the bottom right the name 'Darren Williams'. Text: On the back in the centre top is printed the picture of a man with a lantern on a snowy street at night with a single line border at his feet the word 'Series' in a separate box above his head the word ' "Dainty" '. To either side of the image is the word 'POST' and 'CARD'. Beneath the word 'POST', 'This Space may be used for inland Correspondence. Post Office Regulation' and the word 'CARD', The Address to be written here'. A single vertical line cuts the remainder of the card in half with the printed words 'WITH ALL GOOD WISHES FOR CHRISTMASTIDE' on the left, beneath which is the printed word 'From' with the handwritten 'Lizzy, Dec 24th 1904.' next to it. on the other side the handwritten address in the same black ink 'Mrs Straw Market Place Worksop'. In the top right corner a green half penny stamp covered by a 'CRESSWELL' black postal mark. Guy's Cliffe has a long and varied history from a secluded place of worship in the 5th century to the legends of Sir Guy of Warwick which secured its place in folklore. The 15th century saw the establishment of a Chapel by will of King Henry V and the Tudor period ownership as a timber framed house. Later this lead to its ownership and creation of the Palladian Georgian style house you see today by Samuel Greatheed, Member of Parliament for Coventry and also a St. Kitts and Nevis sugar plantation owner. Its was later owned by the Heber-Percy family and has been a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in the First World War and during the Second World War as a Boys Home by the Waifs and Strays Society. Today the house is a partial ruin owned by the Freemasons & ongoing preservation by the Friends of Guy's Cliffe.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.