As promised ,Last week I took some shots of GAWTHORPE HALL in Padiham they are now in the Gallery and you can read a small artical on the hall .I shall visit more of the fine homes of Lancashire in the near future
Gawthorpe Hall was built between 1600 and 1605 for the Shuttleworth family, who by then had been at Gawthorpe for over 200 years. The family owned Gawthorpe until 1970, when the house and grounds were given to the National Trust. It is now leased to Lancashire County Council.
Between 1850 and 1852 the Hall was restored "in a sympathetic Elizabethan style" for Sir James Shuttleworth, by leading architect Sir Charles Barry, who also designed the The houses of parliument. The Hall that you see today shows Barry's designs recreated in the principal rooms.
The Hon. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth (1886-1967) was the last member of the family to live at Gawthorpe and it was here that she formed the nationally important textile collection. The Hon.Rachel was particularly skilled in the art of embroidery and lacemaking, and was eager to impart her immense knowledge to others through the medium of examples collected in her lifetime.
This is the home of the WALLACE TRICKETT /LRU Print Collection
The Collection relives The old LANCASHIRE bus fleets
,Railway Locos ,Commercial Company Vans(Inc HOLLANDS PIES )
and Wagons of Days gone bye.
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LRU Blogg ( WM Writes )