Everything about Formby Hall totally explained
Formby Hall is located to the North-East of
Formby in the
English county of
Merseyside, in secluded woodland adjoining the Formby Hall Golf and Country Club. The present house, built for William Formby, dates back to
1523 but it's believed that the Formby family has occupied the site since the
12th century.
Over the years the hall has seen many owners and occupants. Many modifications and additions have been made to the original building. For example the battlements were added in the
18th century by John Formby who took inspiration from the
Gothic Style architecture of
Horace Walpole's home in
London. In
1896, the hall was modernised by Colonel John Formby who added the West Wing drawing room.
Throughout the years the hall had been inherited down the generations to the sons of the Lord of the Manor. Unfortunately this chain was ended in 1958 upon the death of Colonel John Frederick Lonsdale Formby whose sons had both died during the
Second World War.
The estate was inherited to an Australian Nephew but the fell into disrepair. In the
1970s,
John Moores Junior leased the hall and used it as a home to house children from the crowded areas of inner city Liverpool. In the
1980s the hall was once again left to elements and fell into dereliction.
It was during this period (or earlier) that the house acquired the paintings on the walls that became part of local folklore, most notably the large, striking painting of a woman's face above a fireplace on the house's west side. Executed in household paint, the face was reputed to be the centre of strange phenomena. The painting was removed or destroyed during the early part of the renovations in 1990.
In the early 90's, Richard Irving, who acquired the whole Formby estate, frustrated by the local planners, sold the Hall to another local businessman Mike McComb,who bought it as ‘site as seen’ without even conducting a survey and has restored the hall to its former glory.
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