Ted at Townley Hall!

I am feeling better today on this very grey day. After swimming and visiting a friend this morning we went out for lunch and on our way home called at Towneley Hall in Burnley.

The Towneley family were an important Catholic family and once owned extensive estates in and around Burnley, the West Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham.

Towneley Hall not only contains the 15th-century Whalley Abbey vestments, but also has its own chapel — with a finely carved altarpiece made in Antwerp around 1525. The hall was the home of the Towneley family for more than 500 years. The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O'Hagan, sold the house together with 62 acres (250,000 m2) of land to Burnley Corporation. The family departed in March 1902, leaving behind a building almost completely empty except for a couple of tables and a few pictures in the chapel. The park was opened to the public in June 1902, and in May 1903 the Great Hall and the south wing of the house were opened for a temporary art exhibition.
Today, the museum houses a variety of displays, encompassing natural history, Egyptology, local history, textiles, decorative art and regional furniture, together with an art gallery.

One of the reasons we went today was to see the small crosses (two next to each other) that have been put into the grass next to the road all the way up to the hall which is one mile long to remember all the men from Burnley who died in WW1.

Ted had his photo taken next to the crossed but we did have second thoughts about blipping him next to them as we thought it was not very respectful.