Phil's photos with the keyword: Fireplace

The great fireplace in the main hall at Wycoller, which dates from the late 16th Century. Wycoller Hall is on the Lancashire / West Yorkshire border, close to the village of Haworth which was home to the Bronte sisters. Charlotte Bronte based "Ferndean Manor" in her novel "Jane Eyre" on this building and is known to have visited on numerous occasion with her sister Emily. One example of evidence to support the belief that Wycoller Hall was Ferndean Manor comes from a report of the members of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society visit to Wycoller in May 1901. ............"The ladies were pleased to hear that some old folks had been spoken to who had remembered the Misses Brontë coming down from Barnside; also that Wycoller was the original "Fern Dean" in Jane Eyre and that the Heights above were Wuthering Heights". It is known that Charlotte used to visit old halls in the area and it is well documented that she stayed with Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth in Gawthorpe Hall in 1850. Wycoller Hall was used to illustrate the cover of the 1898 edition of Jane Eyre. (SEE NOTES). For an artist's impression (an engraving, reversed left-to-right) of the hall when it was is use, see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wycoller_Hall_1650.jpg