Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
Arriving early at Towneley Hall we explored the grounds. What a lovely setting for a city's art gallery and museum. Can there be one like it? As it happened, there was a part of the hall we could not visit owing to a 100th birthday party taking place for the present Sir Simon Towneley. The great and the good of Burnley were all here.The magnificent hall, which dates from the 14th Century, the family home of the Towneley’s for nearly five centuries, contains fine period rooms decorated with oil paintings and sculptures. The museum within houses an eclectic collection including an Egyptian mummy, the Whalley Abbey vestments, Lancashire-made oak furniture, Pilkington Pottery and the Towneley Bear. The art gallery also boasts an interesting collection of oil paintings including works by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, John William Waterhouse and Johan Zoffany. Certainly well worth the hour's drive from Clitheroe.
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