Benjamin Heywood and William Shaw blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Stanley Hall, built about 1802 for the cloth-merchant Benjamin Heywood, was the home of William Shaw (1804-1859), a successful contractor during the great age of railway building in the 1840s Recorded plaque organisation: Wakefield Civic Society.

Benjamin Heywood was a cloth-merchant who commissioned Stanley Hall around 1802. William Shaw, a prominent railway contractor active during the boom of railway construction in the 1840s, made his home at Stanley Hall from 1804 until his death in 1859.