Images from our recent return to Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.
(On our original visit the hall had been closed for the winter the day before, the entire area was fog bound and - of course - we got completely soaked).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint, Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs Photo AI. Compilations are a mix of R7 - Karen and R5 - Phil).
You can find out more about Brodsworth Hall by clicking
Here.
Phil and Karen
Service Announcement: We will shortly be departing on our final Frank-Fest of the year (which traditionally ends up with us getting completely soaked). We will be unable to post any feedback until after we return (and dry out). In the meantime, have lots of fun! 
1. Brodsworth Hall was built between 1861 and 1863 for Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, whose great-grandfather Peter Thellusson, a merchant and banker, had bought the estate and the existing Georgian House in 1791.
2. Sadly, it is believed Peter Thellusson derived a substantial part of his wealth from the utterly abhorrent transatlantic slave economy.
3. When he died in 1797 Thellusson left what has been described as one of the most spectacularly vindictive wills in British history, leaving the bulk of his fortune in trust for as yet unborn descendants. (The ensuing protracted legal battles between family members seemed to benefit the lawyers and trustees most).
4. The result of Peter Thellusson’s will for Brodsworth was the estate was managed and enjoyed mainly by the trustees, probably with little investment in the house, for half a century.
5. When Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson and his wife Georgina, eventually inherited the Thellusson fortune they commissioned an entirely new Italianate mansion to be built elsewhere on the estate between 1861 and 1863. This is the current Brodsworth Hall.
6. By 1990 Brodsworth had fallen into disrepair and the house and gardens were given to English Heritage, with almost all of the contents of the house being bought by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and then transferred to English Heritage.
(Sources: English Heritage, Wikipedia).
