Blakesley Hall  & Gardens, BM&AG ,Yardley, Birmingham UK

Blakesley Ale Festival

  



 

 

  



 

 

 



 

Birmingham Heritage Week

 

 



 

 

"Spring into Art"
artintheyard - Sunday 29th March

 

 

  

 

 

 

The Attic

Guide with the First Victorian Christmas Card

 

WW1 Magic Lantern Programme









The Team - Peter, Pat, Andrew & Michael Spencer, and Nick Goode

Summer Garden Party
June 2014

 

"Divertimento" perform for the Friends of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

 

 

 

British Woodcarving Association Display



 

Tom, Frank and May - One family's story
First World War Centenary Exhibition
12th April - 2nd November 2014

Thomas and Elizabeth Merry lived at Blakesley Hall from 1901 - 1932 and their three children, Tom, Frank and May all played important roles
in the First World War. Tom was an officer in the Army Service Corps based at Rouen, Frank fought at Passchendaele with the Artists Rifles
and May enrolled in the Voluntry Aid Detachment, working in a number of military hospitals, caring for the wounded from the front.
The true effects of this conflict on one family can be seen in this Exhibition

 

Tom Merry and Jenny Goode, relatives of the Merry Family Offically Open the Exhibition

  

 

The Family and Guest tour the Exhibition

 

 

Watching the movie of the Story

 

 

Reading letter from the Front,  and Planting

   


The Merry Family at Blakesley Hall

Plant Fair

 

 

 

  

 

Victorian Christmas

  

    

 

  





 

Yardley Conservation Society Visit for the Tudor Christmas

 

 

 

Wassalling the Apple Tree

 



 

Apple Day 2013

 

    

  

 

   

  

  

  

 







Falconary Day



The Harris Hawk flies between the "Volunteers"





An Owl flies over the "Volunteers"



Display of Birds





Newly Painted Hall and Gardens







and painting at the entrance of Blakesley Hall



more events

Celebration of the 400 Anniversary of the King James Bible







   





   







Click on the link
King James Bible 400th

Crime and Punishment

Soldier and Servants

   



The Justice of the Peace





The Execuitioner

  

    



   


Dr Chris Upton's Magical Literary Bus

 




Chris Upton at Blakesley Hall


Sherlock Holmes - Graham McHardy
Dr Chris Upton - Commentary
Watson - Phil Lovell


Gollum - Michael Spencer


The Mummy  - Arron Ruston



and then refreshment




Falconary Day


Vulture " George" African Whited Backed


Falcon "Slate"


Golden Eagle "Bronze"

The Garden Party


The Musicans



Folk Dancing with Kim Smith in the Visitors Centre




Gardener Geof Groft


The Inside of the House

   

   

   

    

       

      

     

Blakesley Hall is in the Yardley district of Birmingham
as you can see, well worth a visit




On the day I visited the Knight was giving lessons

   

   

     

    

Part of Birmingham Museums, and beautifully restored

Opening of the New Visitor Centre

by HRH Duke of Gloucester


HRH Duke of Gloucester touring the Hall

   
The Barn                                                                            The Garden

  
The New Visitor Centre


HRH Duke of Gloucester with
Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress of Birmingham


HRH Duke of Gloucester Planting a Tree


The Tree today


Baroness Estelle Morris





Baroness Morris Planting aTree


The Tree today


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