38 Comments Posted by Solomon92

Amazing photo, I wish I had your awsome talent.

Mr Motts I wish I could take photographs half as good as you, simply stunning.

To Jiff...
Still nothing at all is happening in the way of restoration, although I have been told that the council have a close eye on whats going on with the hall, how close only time will tell !!!

Hi all, just a bit of a small update, I've managed to find out who now owns the hall and that Walsall Council are involved, I've been told the council are keeping a close eye on what is being done to the hall but only time will tell how close an eye!! I'm still on the case though and will carry on with the info hunt.

I totally love this picture, I love the Hall and it's grounds, I just hope they do what they say they are going to and restore it to it's former glory. If they don't then they should be ashamed of themselves, I have been spurred by your gallery of the Hall to try and do something and will be contacting the council so maybe the people who own it will have to restore it as they have promised and not be allowed to just let it fall down. I will keep the site and its visitors posted on any news of the Hall.

Directly under these windows little grave stones are set into the ground, I was told they were the families pets.

On the outside wall of the chapel there were and still should be little grave stones set into the ground, I was told they were the graves of the pets of the scott family.
This shot is beautiful and reminds me of my ghostly encounter in the hall, whilst we were standing in this chapel the white lady drifted past the doorway which leads back into the main hall, that was the end of exploring for that day :)

Yeh there were cast iron grids for ventilation but also there were large steel girders in this front room above the cellar humps from when they started to restore it the first time, it looks to me like someone has removed all the steel.

The Hall has extensive cellars from what I was told and could see, when I last visited they had stripped the floor out of the main hall
at the front of the building and all you could ssee was the top of the cellar humps, I can't tell from the photo but if this is the front hall I am I so disappionted cause they were all intacked with a steel gurder structure over the top of them, no reason they should have fell in like this and it makes me ask once again if it will ever get the restoration it deserves or just the continuing distruction?

No Bovis don't own the hall or the lakes, the horrible security guard who I met was the same, rude and threatening, even if he did talk to you he wouldn't have been able to tell you anything about the hall or orinimental lakes cause I doubt very much if he even knows anything about it, he didn't seem that intelligent to me!!
I just hope he's telling the truth on the above message and they are going to restore it and not accidentally knock it down!!!

The rude security guard who left the message sounds like the one I met, get an attitude change mate. I have visited the hall on many occasions long before you'd ever heard of it and I have never done any damage on any of my visits... this aggression makes me wonder what your hiding?
I agree with blue lamp, I would also like to know if your actually going to restore this beautiful building, it is part of the hertitage of Great Barr...or will you just wait til it falls down so you haven't got to bother restoring it at all!!!

The state that the council and other so called officals have let the hall get into you certainly wouldn't think it was a grade II listed building, sometimes when I look at it I think that it's been let get into this state on purpose because if it falls down then they won't have to restore this wonderful building and that greatly angers and saddenes me. it is about time someone did something before this is the case and it is lost forever.

The Hall was used as offices by the hospital right into the 1970's, that would explain the Chief male nurse sign.
The stairs had chalk mouldings inlayed all the way down.

I have visited the hall on many occasion and yeh the hall was stripped and all the matterial taken out was stored in the outbuildings behind the hall but when restoration stopped all the material that was taken out was just left there left to rott.
When i first visited the hall the stair case was still intacked and was being supported by all the scaffolding, it even still had the chalk mouldings down the sides of it but over time and visits it collapsed or was vandilised, lets face it not all it's visitors were like us who just went to look in amazement.
I love the photos but it saddens me to see just how much it has deteriated.

I agree with Maz, Walsall Council should be ashamed of itself, I know people who own other grade II listed properties in the area and the council come down hard on them if they paint them the wrong colour or put chimney pots up that are not the correct period but they have managed to just ignore this wonderful property altogether for the last 30 years!!