A Day at Rufford Old Hall (page 2/5)

Drinking Trough

An old stone horse trough in the courtyard.

Rufford Old Hall: Courtyard

People used to live and work here. [more...]

Pump

A hand pump to bring water up from a well.

Regimented fuit tree

It’s a pear tree, but it has been grown against the wall and forced to grow with the branches straight, a method that was certainly common in “big houses” in the 19th century and probably [...] [more...]

Regimented fruit tree 2

Showing more of the courtyard and the old brick stables.

Old stone wall

A wall made of roughly-hewn rocks and mortar. Probably it’d repeat too quickly for use as a texture in a 3D program, unfortunately.

Antique bikes

A Penny-farthing (with one large wheel and one small) and a bone-shaker, in the barn at Rufford Old Hall, and photographed by permission.

Waspy pear

A pear still on the tree is eaten away by wasps.

Rufford Old hall: side view

Tortured trees on a perfectly manicured lawn; a gravel path; a half-timbered (black-and-white) tudor building with leaded windows and a cupola. Totally Tudor manor house. There’s also a picture from the other side. [more...]

Rufford Old Hall: view with lens flares

The sunlight streaming down fell into my camera, but this gives a better view of the shape of the half-timbered part of the manor house.

Trees

Ornamental trees in the garden at Rufford Old hall.