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High Royds ? Luckily now the only pain I get is Hemma Roids

I cant believe this place is set for demo next year - what is this world coming to? Its stunning.. I wanna buy it, anybody fancy chipping in?

Did anyone notice that the outline of a person on the ceiling?

The brick design kind of reminds me of a Native American totem pole with the geometric patterns.

Newbie addict...Motts takes my nightmares and makes them beautiful.

i have this place in me head!

I am out in the world, working on a successful career and family because people like Lynne cared for me and about me and helped me conquer my own illness. I'll never be free of it, but they gave me the confidence and the skills to know that I don't have to let it define who I am or limit who I can be.

I've had ECT used on me several times. I have schizoaffective disorder and it was the only thing that could pull me out of a very deep depressive episode and worked much more reliably and quickly than any medication.

I do have some memory loss from that time, but it was done with anethesia and the worst side effects I ever suffered were just some mild jaw pain or headaches. The side effects of my depressions were far worse.

It also was a lot safer treatment for my depressive episodes when I was pregnant, when I had it done 2 or 3 times with intubation to help prevent any aspiration due to a weaker stomach.

Yes, it used to be a torture, but now it has come back as a lifesaving treatment for those who simply don't respond that well to medications.

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!!!