Lotus hall September 2015

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visiten lotus hall cuckoo hall or whatever it's now called. With myself @woopashoopaa @vulex and @GK_WAX was a very nice place. Great landscape views with lots of pir cameras and sensors everywhere and a voice on repeat telling you your on cctv and classical music blaring out from inside. After finally getting in. The main hall is very nice. But my camera was on the wrong setting so pics not turned out as good as I'd hoped so here's the history and pics...

Kinmel Hall was built 1871-76 on the same site as two previous houses to designs of the famed architect William Eden Nesfield. The house has 52 main bedrooms and quarters for 60 live-in servants. The huge house even included a room solely for ironing newspapers!

The house was commissioned by Hugh Robert Hughes, affectionately known as “HRH” when the Kinmel Estate was passed to him following the death of his uncle William Lewis Hughes, second Lord Dinorben. The estate had only been handed down to William 8 months prior following the death of his father, William Lewis Hughes, Dinorben of Kinmel.

The impressive Neo-palladian style stable block was added in the 1850s to designs by William Burn.

The Hughes family remained in the home until 1929. By this time the estate was considerably smaller than when the hall was built, owing to the lavish lifestyles of the family and the extensive building programme embarked upon by HRH. The house was converted for use as a ‘rheuma spa’, a health centre to treat people with rheumatism. The house was used as a hospital during World War II.

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Looks good this, well in. Think I'll not bother going tho as I can't stand classical music :)
 
What a waste of a fine building. Done it myself with the wrong setting on camera felt like banging my head against the wall.
 
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Fantastic set(s). Looks like you had a right adventure.
Well done on getting in such a grand places! :)
 
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