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OTHER PHOTOS OF BRIERLEY HALL YOU
MAY NOT HAVE SEEN BEFORE
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From the back of the incongruous red brick
extension
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This room with its original wooden panelling was
featured in the film Brassed Off and was also where the local band
Fruntslide rehearsed after the Home care team left |
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The council chambers where the Town council meetings took
place |
I was privileged to be the
last caretaker to work at the hall seen here cleaning the desks in
the Home Care teams office
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One of the original fireplaces |
Taken in 1998 by Baipip |
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Photograph by Baipip |
Photograph by Baipip
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The Hall on the
3rd June 1938.The buntings were for the reception, after the
wedding of Mr William Wilde of Sheffield to Dorothy May Ross
Gardener (the eldest daughter of Lieut - Colonel W Ross
Gardener, chief medical officer of health to the Hemsworth Rural
District Council) of Red Gables, Church Street Brierley, where
Captain Roland Addy, the owner of the hall at this time and also
the Managing Director of Brierley Colliery, proposed a toast to
the bride and groom.
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Royal British Legion - Brierley Branch
This plaque was erected in the Norman Whittaker garden on 8
May 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of V.E.Day and to record the
services of local people in the 1939 to 1945 war. The plaque was
taken down before demolition and will be re-erected in the new
Methodist Church when it is built. |
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The garden that was built in
remembrance of councillor Norman Whittaker
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Front of the hall after its closure. The sign is
advertising the first auction that took place when the hall wasn't
sold.
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Close up of the sign |
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Another view of the back of the incongruous red brick
extension
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Showing the back of the incongruous red brick
extension from the Direct works depot |
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The workers outside the canteen just a few days
before the Direct works closed down in 2008
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Direct works canteen |
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Direct works. Far left red door
was the stores and the red door nearest was the joiners shop |
Direct works. Far left red door
was the stores and the red door nearest was the joiners shop |
