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How did Wortley Hall become the 'workers' stately home'?
BRIAN CLARKE recently explained Wortley Hall's fascinating history at the South Yorkshire Festival, and here relates it for Morning Star readers
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WORTLEY HALL has two histories, the first concerning the family who built and lived in the hall and the second when it became “the Workers’ Stately Home.”
Wortley Hall was the ancestral home of the Earls of Wharncliffe – the lords of the manor of Wortley. The earliest recording being Alnus de Wortley, mentioned in the Pipe Rolls for 1165. During the English civil war of 1642-51, Sir Francis Wortley commanded a loyalist garrison based at Wortley Hall.
Wortley Hall fell into decay until the mid-18th century, when Edward Wortley commissioned the rebuilding of the hall. In 1800, James Archibald Stuart Wortley and his wife Caroline Creighton should have taken up residence, but were unable to do so because for some reason the architect had omitted to include a staircase.
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