Description:The postcard shows the Gallery at Hoar Cross Hall. Hoar Cross Hall was built between 1862 and 1871 to the design of architect Henry Clutton for Hugo Meynell and his wife Emily Charlotte. Henry died as a consequence of a hunting accident in 1871. His widow continued to live there with the companionship of her younger brother, Frederick, until her death in 1904. Frederick was to inherit her estates on the condition that he changed his surname from Wood to Meynell. The gallery is 114 feet long (about 35 metres) and has an ornate plaster ceiling.
The photograph is by J. S. Simnett of Burton upon Trent. the postcard was posted in1908 but the photograph probably dates from a few years earlier.