Pupils are past masters
Date published: 12 March 2009
DAY trip . . . pupils from St Herbert’s visit Foxdenton Hall
PUPILS from St Herbert’s RC Primary School stepped out of the classroom and back in time for a hands-on history lesson.
They joined Michael Lawson, chairman of Chadderton Historical Society, to discover more about Foxdenton Hall — not far from their school.
He showed them period features such as the Jacobean staircase, as well as panelling and a door frame which dates from the 1620s, which they sketched.
They also found out more about the Foxdenton heritage which started in the early 1400s when Elizabeth Radcliffe married her cousin Robert Radcliffe.
They built the first Foxdenton Hall which was subsequently replaced in 1620 and then 1700.
It was also the family home of suffragist Lydia Becker and has a heritage blue plaque in her honour.
