Nether Alderley, Heawood Hall 1896
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Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his history plays. The Stanleys bought the house in the early 19th century and it was split into two. The back was occupied by a farmer, while the front housed a flourishing girls` school run by the Misses Bell, sisters to Nether Alderley`s rector.

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Memories of Nether Alderley, Heawood Hall 1896

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Nether Alderley, Heawood Hall 1896

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s I stayed here for my school hols, my grandmother worked for Mr and Mrs Bodd who were the owners at the time. My grandparants lived in part of the house round the side which in itsself was large. One thing that sticks out in my mind is the sights of a few ghosts that  were about the place, and a bricked room between two of the bedrooms upstairs opposite the bathroom, there was ...see more