Hall for the Taking ; Who Needs a Beauty Spot When the Weather's Dire and the Days Are Short? David Whetstone and Family Chill Out in Rotherham.

Evening Chronicle › December 27, 2009

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HELLABY Hall aroused my curiosity. It sounded truly Dickensian, or like one of those bleak spots the Brntes wrote about.

I was told it was just off the M18, near Rotherham.

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Hall for the Taking ; Who Needs a Beauty Spot When the Weather's Dire and the Days Are Short? David Whetstone and Family Chill Out in Rotherham.

Now there are bits of the British Isles - the Lake District, the Cotswolds - that have been blessed with beauty but nobody could pretend Rotherham is one of them.

I worked in a newspaper office there once. The people were...

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