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It's going on my Christmas list! : )
It's odd, though, that a photo taken last year shows a new-looking fence almost up against the building.
I wonder why it was removed if it was an albeit ugly security measure.
Maybe someone took a fence... sorry.)
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they should have saved this building its much better than the flats they have put up now. what a bloody shame the gothic architecture has gone to rubble.
The hall was used by St. Margaret's into the 70's as offices, after that it was sold to someone who wanted to turn it into a country club and from what I was told he started to strip it out to restore it before he got planning permission, when he was refused he left it in the state it is in now.
I have been in the hall on many occasions and the continuing worstening state of the hall deeply saddens me, the last time I was in there it was not in the state that these photo's now show it in.
I attempted to visit the outside of the hall just last year as I have kept my horses next to St Margaret's for 20 years, I know the area well, it's history, and it's ghosts to show some visitors from a ghost club the grave stones which are on the front of the chapel but I was met at the hall by a rather nasty, rude security guard who wouldn't let us anywhere near even the outside!
As for the ghosts, there are quite a few in this area, the white lady has been seen in the hall, on one visit I had an encounter with her, I stood in the chapel and out of the corner of my eye she walked past the doorway which connects it to the main hall of the building, didn't hang around much longer that day :)
She has also been seen in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church and she occasionally walks through the mill archway on the farm where I keep my horses.
Where's Eddie Murphy, lol?
Watch out for the rather large man who appears just over the bridge in and around the old farm, I've seen him a couple of times, very creepy!!
Hope you have a good night!!
I used to have to go into the Hall when it was in use, when it was full of life, not suffering the death it has done.
I have not got the words to describe how I feel when I see Great Barr Hall (Scott Hall) in the state that it is.
Lady Bateman Scott must be turning in her grave.
How anyone can treat such a beautiful building the way they have is beyond me.
I'm just glad that I have got the memories of how this once great building, used to be.
On my last visit to Great Barr I was amazed to find that the whole area has been developed into housing and the woods are beiing cleared, which is really sad for that estate, I belive the Hall has now been demolished? The long main drive with the white building at the top with a clock tower will always stay in my memory.
My grandfather told me that old Lady Scott's Taylor committed suicide in a canal or lake as he was sacked from his job with the Scott family because he tried to reopen a public footpath that Lady Scott had closed off. Not sure how true his story is but it's interesting.
On the left hand side of the building there is an old mortuary where a seance was held once....strangest experience of my life!!!!
The halls state deeply angers me, it is about time someone pulled their finger out and got it restored.