Woolton Hall Permission visit March 2015
Thanks to @Lavino for providing me the number. Visited with a non-member.
I know, I know, its been done a thousand times but Im not going to apologise for jumping on the pretend urbexer tourist bus on this one lol
I rarely do residential places or be all girlie about stuff, give me somewhere dirty, oily and greasy full of pipes, big machines, turbonz or other such wonderous things that I have no idea about and Im as happy as a pig in mud!
But this place is my guilty pleasure and I have a thing for that red phone box, that gorgeous hexagonal blue
room, that lovely staircase and of course and those amazingly pretty chandaliers!
So when a non-explorer friend said she fancied doing something a little different I thought what the hell, permission visit here we come! A couple of PMs and a phone call later and a lovely old man was more than happy to show us round on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon.
We did try and get him to show us the convent next door but he didn't have keys for that and told us it was alarmed so we spent a good few hours mooching around the hall instead. The only downside was the later presence of some randoms who arrived to do what their photographer (student!) described as "The Underground Project" modelling shoot! o_O
History courtesy of Wiki
You all know this bit so I'll keep it brief:
The original part of the house was built in 1704 for the Molyneux family, on an estate of 400 acres that Richard Molyneux purchased in 1700. The site had had a house on since the Twelfth century, at one time serving as a the local headquarters of the Knights of St. John. After the death of Richard Molyneux in 1738 and his widow in 1766, Woolton Hall was acquired by Nicholas Ashton, High Sheriff of Lancashire, whose father was one of the original undertakers and the principal financier of the Sankey Canal, the first canal of the British industrial revolution.
In 1772, Robert Adam was employed to design a new frontage and redesign the interior. It remained in the Ashton family until the late Nineteenth century. The hall is a grade I listed building.
The house eventually fell into disrepair and was scheduled for demolition, until it was saved in 1980 by John Hibbert, a local resident, who bought it and spent £100,000 renovating it. The Hall was used for weddings and other such functions until it was sold to its current owners and In 2005, there were plans to convert the estate and house into retirement care flats.This however fell through when the owners ran out of money. According to John you can have it for a mere £3 million pounds
Anyway enough from me here's a few pics.
Thanks for looking
Thanks to @Lavino for providing me the number. Visited with a non-member.
I know, I know, its been done a thousand times but Im not going to apologise for jumping on the pretend urbexer tourist bus on this one lol
I rarely do residential places or be all girlie about stuff, give me somewhere dirty, oily and greasy full of pipes, big machines, turbonz or other such wonderous things that I have no idea about and Im as happy as a pig in mud!
But this place is my guilty pleasure and I have a thing for that red phone box, that gorgeous hexagonal blue
room, that lovely staircase and of course and those amazingly pretty chandaliers!
So when a non-explorer friend said she fancied doing something a little different I thought what the hell, permission visit here we come! A couple of PMs and a phone call later and a lovely old man was more than happy to show us round on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon.
We did try and get him to show us the convent next door but he didn't have keys for that and told us it was alarmed so we spent a good few hours mooching around the hall instead. The only downside was the later presence of some randoms who arrived to do what their photographer (student!) described as "The Underground Project" modelling shoot! o_O
History courtesy of Wiki
You all know this bit so I'll keep it brief:
The original part of the house was built in 1704 for the Molyneux family, on an estate of 400 acres that Richard Molyneux purchased in 1700. The site had had a house on since the Twelfth century, at one time serving as a the local headquarters of the Knights of St. John. After the death of Richard Molyneux in 1738 and his widow in 1766, Woolton Hall was acquired by Nicholas Ashton, High Sheriff of Lancashire, whose father was one of the original undertakers and the principal financier of the Sankey Canal, the first canal of the British industrial revolution.
In 1772, Robert Adam was employed to design a new frontage and redesign the interior. It remained in the Ashton family until the late Nineteenth century. The hall is a grade I listed building.
The house eventually fell into disrepair and was scheduled for demolition, until it was saved in 1980 by John Hibbert, a local resident, who bought it and spent £100,000 renovating it. The Hall was used for weddings and other such functions until it was sold to its current owners and In 2005, there were plans to convert the estate and house into retirement care flats.This however fell through when the owners ran out of money. According to John you can have it for a mere £3 million pounds
Anyway enough from me here's a few pics.
Thanks for looking
