Upper Hall Norland (Document ID: 102276)
Upper Hall Norland
Author: H.P.Kendall
Date: not dated
Location: Norland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 102276
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Upper Hall, also known as Norland Upper Hall, is to the north west of Norland Town Road. It was erected by John Taylor of Norland Hall, as a residence for his younger son. A stone over the porch gave the date 1690 but the older part of the building was earlier than this. In 1731, Upper Old Hall was sold to James Alderson, a woolstapler of Bull Close Lane, Halifax and he later sold it to Rev Robert Hargreaves. It stayed in the Hargreaves family into the 20th Century.
Upper Hall should not be confused with Norland Hall, which was on London Road and was demolished in 1914. The stones of Norland Hall were exported to the USA and ultimately used to construct several buildings there, including a Presbyterian Chapel. Upper Hall still stands next to the site of Norland Hall.
This photograph was amongst those taken in 1930s by local photographer and antiquarian Hugh Percy Kendall, as part of a series capturing old halls and homesteads from across the Parish of Halifax
