Ordsall Hall
Tudor timber-framed manor house with a quatrefoil-panelled Great Hall and medieval east wing.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ordsall Hall in Salford, Manchester, follows a team of Nottingham tree-ring scientists who came to the Tudor Great Hall in nineteen ninety-three with a drill and a riddle about its oak beams. It explains how the weather of long-gone summers is stored in every timber, and touches on the Radclyffe family who held the house for centuries. Stand in the middle of the Great Hall, near the hexagon on the floor, with the roof in view.
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