<<< Back
Title: Oakwell Hall, the Great Hall Looking North West - HLS05985
Click on the photo to enlarge. Click here to Comment
To license a hi-res version of this image or order a print: Copy the full title, including the number and quote this when contacting us. Not all images are available to license or print.
Title
Oakwell Hall, the Great Hall Looking North West - HLS05985
Description
Slide 7. The Oakwell property passed out of the hands of the Batt's early in the eighteenth century, and afterwards came into the possession of another celebrity, Fairfax Fearnely, Esq., a sessions Lawyer of great repute and indomitable spirit. In the Great Hall hangs a pair of stag's horns with a framed label under (shown in the photograph) recording the fact that on September 1st 1763 a great hunting match took place at Oakwell, when the stag was slain, and 14 gentleman dined off the spoil in the Hall.
Creator
George Hepworth
Source
Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society
Date
1905 , 1900s
Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HLS05985.tif
Collection
Citation
George Hepworth, “Oakwell Hall, the Great Hall Looking North West - HLS05985,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7381.
Comments