Rod Burkey's Pictures of Dunham Massey

Housekeepers Room, Dunham Massey.

Dunham Massey, is a wonderful place to visit and I've been a few times over the last year or so during the period that the hall has been transformed back to how it must have looked when the family let it be used as a hospital for wounded soldiers in WWI. When I took this picture, it was almost like looking back in time. Back in post production it looked better in monochrome.

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Stately Homes and Country Houses, Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Greater Manchester

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A Letter From Home. Dutton Massey Hall, Cheshire.

This year, Dunham Massey Hall is running a commemoration of when it was turned into a hospital for wounded soldiers, from April 1917 to February 1919. On entering the Hall, one is advised that actors will be filling the roles of patients, doctors and nurses and that there should be no interaction between them and the visitors. It was all very moving during our visit there on 16th September 2014, seeing the room turned into a ward, and also another, a place for the recuperating men to relax. My picture captures a scene when a soldier, blinded and bandaged, is read a letter from home by his nurse. She has to read the sad news of his younger brother “B” having fallen on his birthday “Going over the top”. At the end of the reading the nurse presses the letter into the poor young man’s hands. If you are lucky, a trip to the Butler’s Pantry and the Dining Room will be rewarded by being greeted by a housekeeper and the butler. I can recommend a visit.

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Dunham Massey, Bygone Era, England at War, Remembrance, Stately Homes and Country Houses

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Old Mill at Dunham Massey

The old mill dates back to 1616. It was converted into a saw mill in the 1860s. Prior to that it ground wheat.

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Dunham Massey

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