Friday, August 14, 2009

A photograph of Gumley Hall



I have written about the village of a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/08/contradictions-of-gumley.html"Gumley/a and its a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/08/gumleys-cricket-field.html"cricket ground/a recently.br /br /The a href="http://museums.leics.gov.uk/collections-on-line/GetObjectAction.do?objectKey=282939"Leicestershire County Council/a site has a picture of the Fernie hounds meeting at the long demolished Hall in 1903.br /br /The first edition of Pevsner's Leicestershire and Rutland described it thus: blockquoteBegun in 1764. The house is of brick, seven bays wide and two and a half stories high. Three-bay hediment. No quoins. The Tuscan colonnade in front is Victorian./blockquotespan style="color:#ff0000;"Quoins?/spanbr /br /a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoin_(architecture)"Quoins/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-6771926271242171307?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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