Carnforth, Lancashire - Leighton Hall - postcard Country Life c.1950s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Leighton Hall, Carnforth, Lancashire - possibly a real photo postcard
• Publisher:  Country Life Ltd. / Photochrom Co. Ltd.
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Leighton Hall is an historic house 0.5 miles (1 km) to the west of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

It was the seat of the 1642–1673 Middleton Baronetcy of Sir George Middleton, who was High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1661. He was succeeded by his grandson, George Middleton Oldfield, who died at the hall in 1708. It then passed to his son-in-law Albert Hodgson, who had married his daughter Dorothy, but who became involved in the Jacobite rising of 1715, during which he was taken prisoner, the house burnt and Hodgson's possessions confiscated. When the hall was sold at public auction in 1722 it was bought by a friend, a Mr Winkley from Preston, who allowed Hodgson to live in the partly ruined house after his eventual release from prison. The estate then came into the possession of wealthy George Towneley of Towneley Hall in Burnley, through his marriage to Hodgson's daughter Mary in the 1750s.^[2]

The present house was built for Towneley in 1759–61 in Georgian style to a design by John Hird, and the woods replanted and park laid out in 1763. The couple had no children, and the estate was inherited by George's nephew John, who sold it 1805.^[3] In 1822 the property came into the possession of Richard Gillow, the grandson of furniture manufacturer Robert Gillow, who Gothicized the façade in 1822–25 using local white limestone.^[1][4][A] In 1870 his son, Richard Thomas Gillow, commissioned the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin to add a three-storey wing containing a billiard room below, and guest rooms above.^[5] Richard died in 1906, leaving the hall in a neglected condition and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles Richard Gillow, who died in 1923. Charles' widow continued to live at the hall until her own death in 1966 at the age of 96. The property then passed via her daughter Helen to her grandson, Richard Gillow Reynolds who, with his wife Susan, is the current owner.^[2]

The hall was featured in the 1984 ITV TV adaptation of The Adventure of the Dancing Men, as Ridling Thorp Manor.

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=lancashire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted