built upon the site of a former homestead, as some branch of the Bredburys is supposed to have settled here in early times. In 1638, the hall was occupied by a branch of the Davenports, a connection of the Bredburys. In later times, the venerable building degenerated into an ordinary farmstead. In the 19th century, it was rebuilt, and converted into a family residence in the Georgian style. For some years prior to the erection of St Barnabas Church, services were held here. The hall, outbuildings and grounds are now used as a hotel and country club, and the buildings have been much modified to suit that purpose. The great barn, long of cruck framed construction, is medieval in origin although the original framing timbers have been overlaid by brick. The hotel was owned for several years by the Flood family and has been owned and operated by Vine Hotels since May 2021 and after some bedroom renovations will rebrand as a Mercure property. The great barn is now renovated into an events space and hosts regular club nights. It has several bars and a large dance floor. Bredbury Hall is now known as a popular hotel, and many of its stories are now lost or just unknown. It is however said that the ghosts of the old manor that stood here previously still roam the hallways at night, and there have been many sightings and hearings of this. Later on further investigation no proof of such sighting was found and now considered a hoax. Bredbury Library The original library on George Lane opened in 1937, and the capacity was doubled by extensions in 1962, comprising a children's room and reference room. The latter, now used as a community meeting room, is a dodecahedral annexe, erected mainly out of funds collected locally, as a War Memorial for the Second World War, and contains memorial windows designed by Anne Goodrich, a local artist, and a Book of Remembrance for the dead in both World Wars. Further substantial extensions and alterations, including the conversion of the War Memorial room into an exhibition and lecture room, were completed in 1970. In 1950, the Centenary Year of the Public Library Movement, plaques were unveiled at the library in honour of Sir Ernest Barker, the Woodley-born writer on political and historic subjects, and Thomas Greenwood, the Woodley-born writer and advocate of free public libraries. Bredbury