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Title: Oakwell Hall, Great Hall Looking West - HLS05989
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Title
Oakwell Hall, Great Hall Looking West - HLS05989
Description
Slide 11. Very somber it was; long, vast, and dark; one latticed window lit it dimly - the wide old chimney contained now no fire, for the present warm weather needed it not; it was filled with willow boughs. The gallery on high opposite the entrance was seen but in outline, so shadowy became the hall towards its ceiling, carved stags heads with real antlers, looked down grotesquely from the walls. Within and without, it was rambling and incommodious .
Quoting again from 'Shirley' . . . . . .. 'The Parlour was lined with oak, fine, dark glossy panels compassed the walls, gloomily and grandly.Very handsome, reader, these shining brown panels are; very mellow in colouring and tasteful in effect, but - if you know what a Spring Clean is - very execrable and inhuman. Whoever, having the bowels of humanity, has seen servants scrubbing at these polished wooden walls with beeswax cloths, on a warm May day, must allow that they are 'intolerable and not to be endured.'
Quoting again from 'Shirley' . . . . . .. 'The Parlour was lined with oak, fine, dark glossy panels compassed the walls, gloomily and grandly.Very handsome, reader, these shining brown panels are; very mellow in colouring and tasteful in effect, but - if you know what a Spring Clean is - very execrable and inhuman. Whoever, having the bowels of humanity, has seen servants scrubbing at these polished wooden walls with beeswax cloths, on a warm May day, must allow that they are 'intolerable and not to be endured.'
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
HLS05989.tif
Collection
Citation
George Hepworth, “Oakwell Hall, Great Hall Looking West - HLS05989,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7385.
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