The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
At the Corner of 22d Street

confessed, little of special interest. The newer part of the building is merely the typical golf club house. But the visitor may see the old kitchen and creamery, with their oaken beams, now, alas, white washed beyond recognition. There is an old wall too, and other queer rooms, now put to utilitarian ends, but in which the visitor with imagination may still find the atmosphere of the good old days For about 100 years before it became a club the Grange was a farmhouse pure and simple
 If, however, Mrs Wilson, when she comes to Bradford, should feel some dis appointment with her real ancestral home, she will forget it all in enthusiasm over Boiling Hall, the veritable 'seat" of her historic line For Boiling Hal, even as q museum of antiquities is thing of real beauty and wonderfully i'm pressve. Standing high on it's hill across the valley from Chellow, with it's lofty main tower, it's great central Elizabethan window, and it's still splendid paved ter race, 1t is ones beau ideal of an ancient English country stat. And what a house of memories it is.N Memories of many monarchs, of far-off battles from which this nations history arose, memories of
 Englands political development, of the time when licol industry was in the cradle,
 of the primitive domestic conditions of our English ancestors, of their art and their craftsmanship their industrial quar-
 rels, their rough justice, their social amenities and their leasures.
 Stirring times the old hall saw in the
 days when Charles the First and his
 Parliament vert fighting their bloody
 battles. At this date, the Tempests still
 reigned at Boiling, and one of them chose
 the wrong side even as had the i'll fated
 Rolling the nf
 this Tempest, whose name was Richard,
 offered the hospitality of his hall to the
 Duke of Newcastle when that leader on
 the side of Charles came to lay siege to Bradford, which city surrendered to him.
 The duke accepted this hospitality and on retiring, on the first night of his occu- pancy, it said to have beheld ghost which gave him one of the frights of his life and caused him to change his sleep- ing quarters forthwith Bradford capitu- lated, as has been said. but when Charles, later had been overthrown, it went ill with the owner of Boiling Hal. Parlia- ment formally "forgave" him, but in the same breath fined him so heavily that he was absolutely ruined, and he died
 in the Fleet prison, where debtors minus assets were confined in those days. The last noble family to own Boiling Hall was that of the present Lord Saville whose arms may be seen beside those of the Bollings and the Tempests on the great window that fronts the terrace. In recent years the hall stood vacant for sometime and finally was purchased by the city corporation of Bradford about
 two years ago. The original idea was to
 turn 1t into hospital. but finally the
 far more fitting scheme of making it q | local museum was adopted and forthwith carried out. It was opened by Sir Arthur Goodwin, Bradford's lord mayor. on Sep. tember P last, since when, so the curator told me. 1t has been visited by over 6o.0 persons.
 Entering the great hall of the build ing today Is like stepping into for | mer century, especially as, since the ] restoration of the place. wonderfully interesting collection of relics of an- l tiQuity has been housed in the an cient rooms. The rooms of the hall date from the fourteenth century to the early nineteenth century. and the exhibition has been arranged accord ingly, to coincide with the chronology of the building. Iii addition to this l the contents of the rooms harmonize l in character with the apartments Fot instance. in the fourteenth century kitchen. there are ancient cooking