Halton House and Chapel

Halton House

                                                            Halton House Chapel

The Front of Halton House.

The Front of Halton House.My bedroom was the top right window.The middle top window has clearly now been converted to a room but then it was the window of the top landing hallway.There was a wall each side of the then old fashioned gate and an incredable brass door nob which it was my job every day to sparklingly clean.The house went back a long way with another wing a washhouse,apple house ect.There were stables, a chapel,two orchards,pool,duck garden with ducks,tennis court,coppice,rose garden,very large vegetable gardens which the gardener Mr Gardener worked on daily,two meadows which we scythed the poppied hay for the duck house.The apple orchard was swarmed with startlings every evening and we clapped and waved them off as they swarmed back into the vast sky.

Side building of Halton House.These bulding were all part of the property though the cpel was not joined to the house the middle structure was a ga

Modern view of part of wall of Halton Castle,much decreased

Very Old View of Halton,showing what was later to be the seven acreas of our garden from the brow.

Halton Castle view from fairly near our home

Wall of Halton Castle in present state,in my childhood much more complete.