Leverhulme Park is the largest park in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was donated to the people of Bolton by, and named after, the late Lord...
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William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme FRGS FRIBA, (/ˈliːvə/, /ˈliːvəhjuːm/; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist...
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Bolton (section Lord Leverhulme)
of land for a public park which the corporation named Leverhulme Park in 1914. In 1902 he gave the people of Bolton Lever Park at Rivington. In 1911...
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Park Clayton Vale Crumpsall Park Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden Heaton Park Kersal Moor Leverhulme Park Mesnes Park Peel Park, Salford Philips Park,...
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be seen in many of south Manchester's parks, including Birchfields Park, Whitworth Park and Platt Fields Park. The birds' relocation to the UK has made...
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Catherine's Academy has a community leisure and sports centre. Leverhulme Park, the largest park area within Bolton has a community and children's centre with...
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Donated to the city of Glasgow by Lord Leverhulme after the close of the Exhibition, the cottages have been used as park workers' housing ever since. Port...
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Rivington (section Leverhulme era)
1904, in which is the map of the park. Leverhulme also supported open access to the fields and moorland. Leverhulme donated 364 acres (147 ha) of land...
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passes Bromley Cross and Bradshaw on its way to meet the River Tonge at Leverhulme Park east of Bolton. Upper Bradshaw Valley local nature reserve is in the...
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sells whipped ice cream. The second half of the episode is set at Leverhulme Park's Bolton Show, where Softy runs out of ice cream and has to send Darren...
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Thornton Manor (section Leverhulme era)
Viscount Leverhulme), builder of the soap factory and model village at Port Sunlight, in 1888. Thornton Manor became the home of the Viscounts Leverhulme. William...
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founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916). They invested in and successfully...
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27 April 2018. Manning, Craig. "Hundreds turn out for Wirral's first Leverhulme Grand Prix". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 20 October 2018. "Birkenhead Parkrun"...
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kitchen gardens of Moor Park, as had been the "Moorpark" fuzzless apricot in an earlier day. Lord Leverhulme purchased Moor Park and commissioned golf-course...
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completed in 1965 realising Lord Leverhulme's plan to have purpose-built school buildings. In 1982, the Leverhulme Pavilion at Oldfield was opened by...
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Terraced Gardens, Rivington (category Grade II listed parks and gardens in Lancashire)
curtilage to a home of the soap magnate Viscount Leverhulme; as such, the area is not part of Lever Park. The gardens contains and abuts the SSSI of the...
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Gate Country Park and Leverhulme Park. Darcy Lever also has the steepest public highway in Bolton, Gorses Steps. Through the village and park run the remains...
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Manchester Museum of Science and Industry 16–18 August – Bolton Show, Leverhulme Park, Bolton 26–30 August – Commonwealth Tenpin Bowling Championships, Stirling...
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He designed Rivington Gardens and Lever Park in Lancashire also for Lord Leverhulme. Padiham Memorial Park (1921) was another commission in Lancashire...
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Upton, Merseyside (redirect from Upton Park, Merseyside)
established in 1901 by William Hannay, following a lease of land from Lord Leverhulme. The cricket club originally had its own tennis and football clubs. However...
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who housed numerous items there. In 1908, Arrowe Hall and Park were acquired by Lord Leverhulme, who sold the estate to Birkenhead Corporation in 1926....
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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme from 1904 to 1925, The Hill was bought by Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth after Leverhulme's death in 1925, and following...
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Richard III of England (redirect from Car park king)
sequenced" (Press release). University of Leicester, Wellcome Trust and Leverhulme Trust. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014. Rincon, Paul (2 December...
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Viscount Leverhulme, the co-founder with his brother of Lever Brothers, which later merged to become Unilever. In his thirties, Lord Leverhulme had taken...
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de Lord Leverhulme: L'histoire du Congo 1910-1945, tome 3 by Editions Paula Bellings in 2001. Rich, Jeremy (Spring 2009). "Lord Leverhulme's Ghost: Colonial...
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Lever House (redirect from 390 Park Avenue)
Lever House is a 307-foot-tall (94 m) office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Constructed from 1950...
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sales from the American Art Association, beginning with the Viscount Leverhulme auction. Collector Cortlandt Field Bishop, owner of the American Art Associtation...
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in Willaston. Work began on the park in 1969, and the park was formally opened in 1973 by Lord Leverhulme. The park's creation followed a successful campaign...
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for Urban & Regional Studies. 2012: Fellowship research award from the Leverhulme Trust. The Republic of Letters, (edited with Dave Morley), Comedia, 1982...
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Hampstead Heath (category Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Camden)
laid out from 1906 by Thomas Hayton Mawson as private gardens for Lord Leverhulme. After neglect in recent decades the garden and pergola are in the care...
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