Shibden Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire, October 2025

 




"I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world."

- Anne Lister (1791-1840), an English diarist and landowner who lived at Shibden Hall 






























































































































































































































































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