Postcard - Mono (Document ID: 100189)
Exterior view of Ewood Hall, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Author: H. P. Kendall
Date: not dated
Location: Mytholmroyd
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100189
Library ID: 34560268
This property was formerly owned by the Okes family, but in 1471 Ewood and its lands were conveyed by the owner Edmund Pylkington to Henry Ferror, or Farrer. It was he, with his brothers John and Hugh, who gave two acres of land at Skircoat for the building of Heath Grammar School, and he obtained at his own expense the charter for the foundation of the school. He was murdered at Westminster in 1610.
In 1798 Dr John Fawcett and his two sons came to Ewood from Upper Brearley Hall to open their academy for Baptist ministers which continued until 1835.
Near the front door is a stone bearing the date 1656 and the initials J.M.L. (presumably John Lockwood.)
The building was demolished in the early 1970s.
Ewood Hall Barn, the former stables to the Hall, is still standing and has been partly converted to residential use. It is a Grade II Listed Building.
The photographer, Hugh Percy Kendall, was a founder member of the Halifax Antiquarian Society in 1900 and a frequent contributor to their transactions. He was also a former president of the Halifax Photographic Society. He died in 1937 at the age of 62.
