Slide 5 - Let us now enter the ancestral Home by the Portal, on the west side of the House. Passing along a short passage, we enter the Front Hall, a spacious apartment containing a fine array of old oak furniture, high backed chairs, cabinets etc.…
Slide 4 - In the gardens is a very large and highly finished, detached banqueting hall, of three stages, with an upper turret. The building is thickly ivy clad, and contains the arms of Vavasour and Stanley. It dates from the same period as the Hall.
Slide 7 - Perhaps the most notable apartment in the Hall, is that known as the 'Dragon Room' which dates from the period between the middle of the reigns of Henry the Seventh and Henry the Eighth, say about the year 1520. The ceiling of the room…
Slide 1 - In a retired and beautiful situation near the banks of the Wharfe, and about two miles west of Otley, stands the fine old mansion Weston Hall, whose history goes back to the remote past. As we approach it by the carriage drive, across the…
Slide 2 - In 1284 Weston Hall was held by William de Stopham, and afterwards it came into the family of Vavasour. For more than five centuries the house has been the ancestral home of the Vavasours, and was retained in the male line until 1883 when…
Pictured are left to right: Malcolm Hirst (owner), Richard Crowther, Gilbert Whitley, Daniel Pollard (Derek Pollard's Son). The garage was on the site of the new co-op supermarket which opened in 2018.
Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…
Taken outside Todmorden Cricket Club Pavilion. Left to Right - Back Row: Brian Steele, Frank Wooley, Joe McKean, Alan Bolton, Harry Hargreaves, Tony McKenzie, Alec Hirst. Middle Row: Mark Pollard, Ted Norton, Paul Brough, John Holland, Eddie Bromley,…