Ordsall Hall

davidx
davidx
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15th Century - Ordsall Hall

  • August 4, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by davidx from Todmorden, United Kingdom
I sometimes wonder who goes here. I taught for 20 years in Manchester and I met innumerable people who had never heard of it. I left in 1984 but I guess the situation is very much the same now. yet Ordsall Hall is no distance from the end of Manchester's Deansgate and it is a really lovely building over 600 years old. It has been a museum owned by Salford since 1972.

It is a large building, part of which is brick but the half-timbered black and white section is quite supurb. The Great Hall is a most impressive room with some furniture and portraits to match. The so-called Star Chamber [named after stars on the ceiling and unconnected with the Court of this name] is the oldest room in the building and would have been used by the Lord of the Manor and his family.

However I think to many the most interesting part of all is the kitchen with its mutitude of pots, china and tools.

Ordsall Hall deserves to be much better known.

From journal Roman times to 21st Century

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