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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

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Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting. Website: merchantshallyork.org

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · Apr 7

Put down your sandwich. We have birthday news!

Our lovely garden is 100 years old this year (we know it doesn't look a day over 95).

In celebration we have launched a free exhibition in our garden, accessible through the Hall’s digital museum guide on Bloomberg Connects.

But wait there's more...

We are looking at a poster showing a lino print of a timber framed building in a cartoon garden setting. Above the building are the words, "The Rest Garden at 100".

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 10h

The painting is "Stonegate, York" by Rubens Arthur Moore, c1884. It is on display here at the Hall. 🙂

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 10h

Swit. Swoo. 😍

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 10h

Our absolute pleasure!

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

Sorry...

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

Here is Stonegate today. A little quieter and with no doggos or snazzy hats but looking very similar to our painting from 1884.

Thank you for joining us on our little walk. Back to your tea!

We are looking at a street view image of a quiet street on an early summer morning. Buildings vary in date from late Tudor to Georgian and later Victorian and Edwardian buildings.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

Another doggo!

Sorry...easily distracted. Martin Kleiser bought the Company from the Schwerer family in 1861 when they returned to Germany.

Lady with a fancy hat!

We are looking at a close up of an oil painting showing a double fronted shop with bay windows. A spaniel type dog stands in the doorway. Above the door is a red sign saying M.Kleiser. In the background is a lady wearing a blue dress and white apron with a straw hat entering a shop.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

The fine timbered building is Mulberry Hall. The first two levels date from the 15th Century whilst the upper floor was added in 1574. Once a china and glass shop, it's now a Christmas store.

M (Martin) Kleiser was a watchmaker, jeweller and silversmith from Germany...

We are looking at a close up of an oil painting showing a three storey timber framed building with a series of oriel windows on the second and third floors. A hand cart is parked outside and a man is sitting on it. Another lady in a blue dress and white apron is entering a shop. In the foreground is shop with a bay window with a red sign above saying 'M.Kleiser'.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

The site of three Mystery Plays and the street where Guy Fawkes was born, it was also home to glass painters, goldsmiths, printers and bookshops.

The sign across the street still exists as does the pub - Ye Olde Starre Inne dating from the end of the reign of King Henry VIII!

We are looking at a close up of an oil painting showing a wide street with buildings on either side and several awnings over windows. A wooden sign spans the street which reads 'Abbey Star Inn'. Below a man looks to be climbing into a green and black carriage whilst a woman in red with a white apron looks on from a shop entrance.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

Doggo!! Sorry we got distracted...

Stonegate has been known as Stonegate from at least 1119 and is likely to have got its name from it being paved, which was very unusual for the time.

Man in a bowler hat...sorry distracted again!

We are looking at a close up of an oil painting showing a pavement with a white and black dog sat outside a shop. A man with grey trousers, a blue jacket and a brown bowler hat looks into a window.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!

We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1d

With spooky season just around the corner we thought we'd share again this atmospheric and unique photo of the Undercroft.

This is possibly the only known photo showing the space partitioned, and looking as it would have done when it was an almshouse.

We are looking at a black and white photo showing a long room partitioned on one side with timber framed walls. There is a set of stairs through a doorway. The room has a series of windows and a set of three windows at one end. The floor is made up of cobble stones and is uneven .

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 2d

No that’s just a rumour. Sunlight like this is through the winter months when the sun is lower.

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 2d

Now then! Happy new week one and all.

Here's a photo of light streaming through the chapel windows to get you going on this Monday morning.

We spoil you, we really do.

We are looking at a large oak screen from which ca be seen a chapel. Bright light from unseen windows shines through the oak screen casting bright light on the stone flagged floor and onto a large oak post.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

Let’s go with romantic! 🥰

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

Puddles of light. 😍

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

Yes but like a phoenix from the ashes you came back and are now more magnificent than ever! 😘

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

There’s someone holding a fire extinguisher just out of shot. 😉

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 3d

Have you ever wondered what the Hall would look like just lit by candles?

Wonder no more.

Happy Sunday!

We are looking at a large room lit only by candles. The candles are placed around a fireplace, on ledges around central posts and on tables. The light makes the floor glimmer.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 4d

Wow! Almost certainly it will make music for as long as we are here. 🤩

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 4d

The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall: Perfectly imbalanced since 1357.

Do you think the carpenters working on the Hall expected it to still be here seven centuries later? 🤯

We are looking at a section of a large room with timber framing and a series of sash windows. The floor gently undulates in different directions.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 5d

Thanks Lesley! 😃

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 5d

We’ve all been there.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 5d

Thank you for finding us! 🔎