2-913-693 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Oldham Lyceum Educational and Industrial Exhibition - the Baronial Hall, 1854. Display in Yorkshire. '...the Baronial Hall...has been fitted up with great taste, by Mr, George Shaw, of Saddleworth. The room, built for the occasion, displays a style of architecture referable to the latter part of the reign of Edward III. It has an open-timbered roof, large projecting fireplace, with raised hearth, dog-irons, windows high up the side walls, and a minstrel gallery, the twisted railing of which is of the time of Charles II. Here, Lord Brougham, Captain de Hollyngeworth, Messrs. George Shaw, T. Willement, and G. D. Tomlinson (Huddersfield), appear to be the chief contributors. The armour, swords, shields, spears, matchlocks, crossbows, &c , are very curious'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.