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Gallery: Pennington Hall, c. 1960s
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This incarnation of Pennington Hall had been around since built by Samuel Hilton in 1748, who sold it on in 1807 to the Gaskell family of Wakefield. The Gaskells let it out to a variety of tenants, the last of whom was the brewer, George Shaw.
In the late 1920s, the Hall was offered to Leigh Corporation for use as a museum and art gallery, but was demolished in 1963. Reuben Edge, a local photographer, took these pictures shortly before the demolition.
©Reuben Edge ‑ used with permission
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