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Description: | Whitley Hall (now demolished) was the seat of the Beaumont family. The house was built in the 18th century in an imposing Georgian style using local millstone grit. The extensive gardens were landscaped by Capability Brown. By the early part of the 20th century the house stood empty and the fittings were sold in 1917. The estate was then bought in 1924 by Charles Sutcliffe an industrialist. Unfortunately this was not enough to save the house and estate, and it continued to deteriorate until it was sold in 1950 and split up, the major part to an opencast mining company and the house was demolished. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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Publisher: | Kirklees | Rights holder: | Kirklees | Subjects: | Kirklees1 | Source: | Kirklees Image Archive OAI Feed | Identifier: | http://www.kirkleesimages.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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