BRADSIIAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



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uphold those wooden striirlures to which fire was, and still is, 

 always an imminent danger. This latter reason was lirought 

 prominently to the fore at that time, for it was not until the 

 advt'iil of the Tudors that the rhininev was introduced into 

 usual domestic architecture in England, and it naturally neces- 

 sitated great changes in internal arrangement, and added no 



little to that danger until its construction was ])erfected by 

 experience. 



The present Hall at Bradshaw is an interesting instance of 

 such rebuilding, for its very plan tells us that it has been built 

 upon the foundations of its half-timbered predecessor. Taking 

 the ground plan of the hall and of the withdrawing room 



