Monkeys and Fairies
Just outside Stoke-on-Trent was the stately home of Trentham. The mansion was abandoned and partially demolished in 1912, when the toffs who lived there could not take the air and water pollution any more and moved to one of their other mansions. The poor sods working in the factories that were creating the pollution had no choice but to stay. The gardens, including an ornamental lake designed by Capability Brown, fell into disrepair over the course of the 20th century….