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I'm not certain but I have a feeling that part of the wooden frame with their initials on is at the History Shop at the bottom of the stairs where you go up to the studying area.

My mother (now 88) remembers playing at this house with the children who lived there.
Part of the lintel is in the history shop as the previous comment states

My Maternal Grandmother lived in Crooke Hall (cottage) when she was a young woman and first married. Her first child was born here and when her husband (john cheetham) returned from the First WW, they lived in Crooke Hall Stables. She was Margaret Jane Darwin and her mother was Hannah Darwin (Nee Simm) of a bargee family (Henry and hannah).

Dont rember the hall but spent many a good hour at crooke hall inn sunk a few good pints with some fantastic people over the years1

If you are interested in this building, you might like to know that an enormous 18ft oak table made in the 1630s and which one belonged to Crooke Hall is now on display at Selly Manor Museum in Birmingham. It was bought by Laurence Cadbury (from the famous chocolate family) in 1921. It bears the initials PC and TC for Peter and Thomas Catterall and an inscription 'An Arelome to this Hovs Forever'.

Peter Catterall was the son of Anne Standish of the Standish Family of Standish Hall and Roger Catterall. Peters wife Elizabeth was a Rigby. The Catteralls had lots of land already in Shevington Standish and Crooke but married into even wealthier familys which is how Crooke Hall got built.

Hi all.

Where was the hall located? I've been trying to find some information about it but I can't seem to find where about in Crooke Village it was.

Thank you.

Tom.