Blakesley Hall

This is the place to deposit all things related to Blakesley Hall, Yardley.
Eventually we will have a very comprehensive media resource.

Photographs old and new, write ups, questions and answers, internet links and news are all welcome.

Voltman

To get us started here is a link to an old film clip.

http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-07071957-blakesley-hall/MediaEntry/2054.html

This clip demonstrates why I always call the long barn "The Coach House" which is how I remember it from when I was a kid.

VM

Nice little film, I wonder who the men mowing the lawn, and the one polishing the brass were, 1957- probably no longer with us, I'm sure their families are still about, pity they couldn't come on this site.

You know when I was a kid at holiday time ,during the summer the hall was always on our list of things to do.That little film was a real blast from the past.

My contribution a few photos taken over the years.

Phil

I seem to remember the long barn had a big window in the side in the Sixties and I think that there was either a horse drawn Fire Engine or a coach housed there, I'm not sure which or where it went. SB

Thank you Phil.

SB, take a look at the film clip I linked to in the second post, you'll be amazed.
It was a coach when I first went there in about 1963 but clearly it had been a fire engine not long before then.

Yes, Denise, I spent a lot of time in there when I was a kid.
Do you remember a model layout of yardley with a panel of push switches and a description of a local feature?
When you pushed the switch a small lamp came on in the model to show where the feature was.
VM

I remember the model, and I seem to recall a passage behind a chair.

Whats this about a Model and a back passage does this need moderating?

wait until you see the photos.

Wasn't that the bit you couldn't walk on because the floorboards were dodgy?

some nice photos and info here http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/2004/bl.../reconapril.htm

That's a good link Signman, shows the progress of the recent refurb.

Here's the Council web page for the Hall. http://www.bmag.org.uk/blakesley-hall
VM

hi all..went to visit blakesley hall last weekend...another great place to go and its free...few pics here from my visit..the first pic is the hall before restoration started in the 50s...