Bolling Hall

Sadie Pearson Last Updated 5 March 2025

Bolling Hall Museum is a fascinating journey through the lives and times of the Bradford families who lived there for more than five hundred years. You can find it just a mile from Bradford city centre, sitting in a beautiful, quiet, leafy garden.

With parts of the building dating from Medieval times, Bolling Hall is a mix of styles and ideas with every nook and cranny packed with history. For many years the hall was home to two grand families, the Bollings and the Tempests, who were involved in some of the most important (and violent) moments in the history of England and our city

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What's on near Bolling Hall

David Hockney creating a joiner of the National Science and Media Museum , Bradford 19 or 20 July 1985.

Until 18 May

ExhibitionsBradford

David Hockney: Pieced Together at the National Science and Media Museum

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Mary Griffiths: Everything and All of Us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

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ExhibitionsLeeds

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Until 15 Mar

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free entry

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Until 13 Apr

ExhibitionsLeeds

Stuart Croft: Eternal Return at Leeds Art Gallery

‘Eternal Return’ celebrates filmmaker Stuart Croft whose. innovative approach to film blurred the boundaries between the art gallery and cinema.

free entry

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