The Hall was requisitioned as a hospital for evacuee mothers in 1944. One visitor this year was particularly interested in the house and we were delighted to find out why.

Our garden volunteers have uncovered a wall … but what lies beneath the ground here?

A look back in time … The Hall (Kingston House), its grounds and surrounding buildings in the 1840s and 1850s.

‘This Stone Was Laid by Mrs Moulton’ - a piece of Bradford’s history in the gardens of The Hall

For much of the Eighteenth Century, what we know as The Hall was owned by the Pierrepont family and became known as ‘Kingston House’ or ‘The Duke’s House’ - William Pierrepont being the Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.