Above: Plasterwork copies of the Elgin Marbles from Errwood Hall survived the demolition.
A rare fragment of Errwood Hall seems to have survived! I received an email from Stockport Building Preservation Trust asking whether I had any information about some plasterwork copies of the Elgin Marbles which are in a room in Woodbank Hall. Apparently they had been saved from Errwood Hall when it was demolished in the 1930s.
Woodbank Hall is now in such a poor state of repair that a Preservation Trust has been set up to try and save the building. This black and white photo is from an original glass photograph plate. But I’m hoping to get a more recent colour image showing some detail. I don’t have any information about the platsterwork. But if anyone does, please do get in touch. Or simply leave a comment below.
Page update: It seems there is one other piece of Errwood Hall which has survived!
My thanks to Ben from Buxton Museum for sending me this photo of a bronze flower from a bannister rail which he managed to track down in the collection.
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This was constructed in 2015; it’s now 2020. Do you know the situation of Woodbank Hall at this stage?
Did you manage to get a response from the Trust? I notice an article in the M.E.N. Feb 2021 that it was to be divided into top class flats.