Stapleford Resident Helps Enhance Restored Hall

Bramall Hall, near Stockport, held a flower festival last weekend as one of the events to mark its reopening after two years and a two million pound refurbishment, and Stapleford resident, Linda Deakin was invited to arrange flower designs for the Nevill room. Linda was asked to to decorate the trug, table and cakes and the results are shown in four of the pictures below.

Bramall Hall is a Tudor manor house in Bramhall, within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is a timber-framed building, the oldest parts of which date from the 14th century, with later additions from the 16th and 19th centuries. The house, which functions as a museum, and its 70 acres of landscaped parkland with lakes, woodland, and gardens are open to the public. It was purchased by Thomas Nevill, a local industrialist whose wealth came from calico printing, for his son, Charles who carried out substantial restoration and remodelling, making the interior more comfortable while retaining most of the building's external Tudor as shown above.

For further information including details of admission prices and opening hours see www.stockport.gov.uk/bramallhall