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-s.jpg) Walton Hall at night.
[23 Sep 2011] |
 Walton Hall and the Water Gate at night.
[02 Nov 2011] |
 Walton Hall and the ancient Water Gate. The Water Gate is the only part of the original crenellated building remaining. © John S. Sargent, 13th March 2008 |
 Walton Hall viewed from the Iron Bridge. The footbridge is the only permanaent means of access to the island. © John S. Sargent, 18th March 2008. |
 A view from the east sise of the hall. Photgraphed from the golf course after a fall of snow. © John S. Sargent, 19th December 2009. |
 Walton Hall.
© John S. Sargent, 7th April 2009. |
 Rear view of the hall showing the extension housing the bar, and, on the extreme left, the Boulby Sundial. © John S. Sargent, 12th August 2002. |
 The portico. © John S. Sargent, 28th August 2002. |
 The boat house at the rear of the hall. © John S. Sargent, 28th August 2002. |
 The rear entrance to the hall. The bar and leisure centre are to the left. © John S. Sargent, 20th March 2003 |
 The Family
Crest, an otter with a pike in its mouth. © John S. Sargent, 8th December 2001. |
 Coats of Arms, formerly on display
in the entrance hall of Walton Hall.
These have since been removed. The oak-panelled entrance hall was perhaps reused from the earlier house demolished by Charles Waterton's father, Thomas. There is an elaborate Jacobean carved oak overmantel.
© John S. Sargent, 12 Aug 2002. |
 The family motto reads: "Better kinde fremd than fremd kinde" (Equivalent to: "Better friendly strangers than deceitful friends."
or "Better among strangers than estranged kin.") © John S. Sargent, 17th March 2009. |
 The front door at Walton Hall. Above the double doors is the family crest - an otter. © John S. Sargent, 8th December 2001.. |
 This chap on the front door is happy, the door knocker does not move and he enjoys the joke. The door knockers were designed by Waterton's friend, Captain Edwin Jones, who also painted the well known picture of the Squire astride a captured cayman. © John S. Sargent, 17th March 2009. |
 This poor fellow seems to be in pain. Apparently a likeness of the Squire, the door knocker on the righthand door works and so contributes even more to the anguish exhibited by the face. © John S. Sargent, 17th March 2009. |
 Amabil Waterton's headstone, mounted on the wall in Charlie's Bar (formerly Amabil's Bar). © John S. Sargent, 21st June 2009. |
 Close-up of Amabil's headstone. © John S. Sargent, 10th August 2002. |
 "Charlie's Bar" in Walton Hall. Open to non-residents and conveniently situated near the Trans Pennine Trail. © John S. Sargent, 23rd March 2003. |
 View of the gardens on the island at Walton Hall. . © John S. Sargent, 11th July 2003. |
 View of the lake and small island at Walton Hall. Doubtless, the Old Squire used to spend time looking out on the haven for wildlife that he had created. © John S. Sargent, 11th July 2003. |
 Interior of one of the public rooms in Walton Hall. © John S. Sargent, 11th July 2003. |
One day, when I was in the class of poetry, and which was about two years before I left the college [Stonyhurst] for good and all, he [Father Clifford] called me up to his room. "Charles," he said to me in a tone of voice perfectly irresistible, "I have long been studying your disposition, and I clearly foresee that nothing will keep you at home. You will journey into far distant countries, where you will be exposed to many dangers. There is only one way for you to escape them. Promise me that, from this day forward, you will never put your lips to wine, or to spirituous liquors. The sacrifice is nothing," added he, "but, in the end, it will prove of incalculable advantage to you." I agreed to his enlightened proposal; and, from that hour to this, which is now about nine and thirty years, I have never swallowed one glass of any kind of wine, or of ardent spirits. Charles Waterton, Walton Hall, 30/12/1837 (from his autobiography). |
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