Now Hough End Hall started life as the posh preserve of the rich Mosley family, then it was a farm house for over 200 years and lingered on first as an empty and vandalised property before becoming a restaurant, and briefly a set of offices.
So in that long period I bet that there will be plenty of people who passed through the hall and its surrounding grounds.
In the last few months I have come across quite a few from Roger who took a series of photographs of the hall in the 1960s, to my friend Faith who played on her bike along the bumps and spent lazy evenings sitting on the hay ricks.*
And there will be plenty more which leads to the joint appeal from me and Peter Topping for memories and pictures which will help tell the story of the hall.
Some of its past is well known but much is still missing and a lot of that belongs to the last four decades which is the very time when the hall will have been visited by inquisitive school children, those working at the restaraunts and many more.
Now this matters because with the publication of our book on Hough End Hall we want also to mount an exhibition, and a series of walks to highlight the long history of Hough End Hall and its place in the history of both Chorlton and Withington.
So if you have any pictures, stories or memories we would like to hear from you, either by leaving a comment on the blog or at the facebook site, HOUGH END HALL revival**
Pictures; Hough End Hall sometime in the 1960s, from the collection of Roger
Shelley,https://www.flickr.com/photos/photoroger/
* Who will own up to playing in Hough End Hall in the 1960s? http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/who-will-own-up-to-playing-in-hough-end.html
** HOUGH END HALL revival, https://www.facebook.com/groups/houghendhall/
In the last few months I have come across quite a few from Roger who took a series of photographs of the hall in the 1960s, to my friend Faith who played on her bike along the bumps and spent lazy evenings sitting on the hay ricks.*
And there will be plenty more which leads to the joint appeal from me and Peter Topping for memories and pictures which will help tell the story of the hall.
Some of its past is well known but much is still missing and a lot of that belongs to the last four decades which is the very time when the hall will have been visited by inquisitive school children, those working at the restaraunts and many more.
Now this matters because with the publication of our book on Hough End Hall we want also to mount an exhibition, and a series of walks to highlight the long history of Hough End Hall and its place in the history of both Chorlton and Withington.
So if you have any pictures, stories or memories we would like to hear from you, either by leaving a comment on the blog or at the facebook site, HOUGH END HALL revival**
Pictures; Hough End Hall sometime in the 1960s, from the collection of Roger
Shelley,https://www.flickr.com/photos/photoroger/
* Who will own up to playing in Hough End Hall in the 1960s? http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/who-will-own-up-to-playing-in-hough-end.html
** HOUGH END HALL revival, https://www.facebook.com/groups/houghendhall/
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