1957 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud I Wentworth Castle Barnsley Yorkshire

1957 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud I, chassis SDD54, swb sports saloon by Rolls-Royce/Pressed Steel C° Ltd. The car is fitted with a Webasto sunroof.

The car was first purchased by Bernard Dixon and it was fitted with reg number BD 12, from Jack Barclay of London. In 1959 it was sold and fitted with reg 200 DYO. The car was used in 1962 in a film called The Fast Lady and was driven by James Robertson Justice.

 

Thanks to Park-Ward and hepworthbrothersltd for the car identification.

 

Wentworth Castle is a Grade 1 listed building and is home to the Northern College for Residential Adult Education.

 

Wentworth Castle Gardens & Stainborough Park is the only Grade One Listed landscape in South Yorkshire, and contains a collection of 26 listed buildings and monuments.

 

The estate is now in the process of being restored, and over £16m was raised to complete phase one of the restoration (2004-08). Rare formal gardens have been rediscovered, national collections of Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias enhanced and over 100,000 bulbs planted.

 

Wentworth Castle, was the seat of the recreated Earls of Strafford.

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