Leasowe (/ˈliːsoʊ/) is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. Located on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula, it is...
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The British passenger steam liner SS Leasowe Castle was built between 1915 and 1917 at Cammell Laird shipyards in Birkenhead. The ship was originally to...
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1776 (see that title for more information). The Cust Baronetcy, "of Leasowe Castle in the County of Chester", was created in the Baronetage of the United...
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The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977...
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decorated rooms: the Star Chamber ceiling itself is still to be seen at Leasowe Castle, Wirral, and similar examples are in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and...
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Leasowe Lighthouse is an historic lighthouse in Moreton on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England. The lighthouse was built in 1763 by The Mersey...
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politician. He was created a Baronet in 1876 (see Cust baronets, of Leasowe Castle). Henry John "Harry" Cockayne-Cust (1861–1917), a brother of the fifth...
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the Wayback Machine PSC. "Leasowe Castle" Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine PSC. Brown (1962), p.59. "Thetford Castle" Archived 2012-10-05 at the...
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Perch Rock Hamilton Square Hilbre Island Lady Lever Art Gallery Leasowe Castle and Leasowe Lighthouse North Wirral Coastal Park Port Sunlight Prenton Park...
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U-boat, SM UC-34, within less than thirty minutes. May 27, 1918: HMT Leasowe Castle was torpedoed and sunk carrying ~2900 troops and ship's company 104...
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sand that runs from Meols to Leasowe known as Mockbeggar Wharf, named after Mockbeggar Hall, otherwise known as Leasowe Castle. 'Mockbeggar Hall' is also...
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Cheshire and renamed it Leasowe Castle, "the Castle". Cust's mother made significant additions and improvements to the Castle and this was where Cust...
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in his father's junior title of Baron Strange in 1589. He also built Leasowe Castle, probably as an observation platform for watching horse races on the...
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defensively armed merchant ships, including HMT Aragon, HMT Cameronia, HMT Leasowe Castle, HMT Osmanieh and SS Persia. Commonwealth war graves are also to be...
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Brimstage Leasowe Wormegay Mileham Middleton Hunworth Horsford Gresham Dilham Denton Buckenham North Elmham Thetford Oxburgh Norwich Claxton Castle Rising...
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Zealand Stationary Hospital, despite a British hospital ship Grantully Castle sailing on the same route on the same day. On 9 November 1915, with the...
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Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. A further family property inherited from her mother was Leasowe Castle. Edward Cust received half the compensation for the enslaved people...
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images Leasowe Castle Wirral House 1593 20 May 1952 SJ2647191863 53°25′06″N 3°06′28″W / 53.418422°N 3.107821°W / 53.418422; -3.107821 (Leasowe Castle) 1273527...
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Liverpool Town Hall (1802),the Corn Exchange (1807), and enlarged Leasowe Castle in 1818. Foster had three sons. His eldest son Thomas (d. 1836) became...
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various bearings from his positions to places on the shore, such as the Leasowe Castle and the Beacon on Bidston Hill. A record of the depth of the water at...
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(1794–1878), a soldier and politician, who in 1876 was created a baronet "of Leasowe Castle in the County of Chester". Anne Cust (1796–1867), who married Sir William...
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Historic England, "Leasowe Castle (1273527)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 5 December 2014 Historic England, "Leasowe Lighthouse (1259738)"...
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1847 Currie extant Curtis of Cullands Grove 1802 Curtis extant Cust of Leasowe Castle 1876 Cust extinct 1931 Cuyler of St John Lodge 1814 Cuyler extinct 1947...
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training. While on his way back from Egypt the ship he was on, the SS Leasowe Castle, was hit by a German torpedo and sank. Fredrickson was then posted to...
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22 May 1815), extinct with the death of the fifth baronet. Cust of Leasowe Castle (cr. 26 February 1876), extinct with the death of the third baronet...
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Stafford (redirect from Leasowes Infants School (Stafford))
School Flash Ley Community Primary School John Wheeldon Primary School Leasowes Primary School (founded 2006) Oakridge Primary School (plus nursery) Parkside...
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"Review: The Coral's Skeleton Coast festival very happy in its new Leasowe Castle home". Liverpool Echo. 3 September 2018. Archived from the original...
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war. On 27 May 1918 this unit was on board the transport vessel SS Leasowe Castle which was sunk by SM UB-51 with a loss of 101 lives. At the Armistice...
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1847 Currie extant Curtis of Cullands Grove 1802 Curtis extant Cust of Leasowe Castle 1876 Cust extinct 1931 Cuyler of St John Lodge 1814 Cuyler extinct 1947...
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F, p. 10. "Joseph Simone". Uboat.net. Retrieved 10 November 2012. "Leasowe Castle". Uboat.net. Retrieved 10 November 2012. "Merionethshire". Uboat.net...
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