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    Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, Liverpool, England. It is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind. It...
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    as Spec in the Domesday Book, which gave Speke Hall as one of the properties held by Uctred. (Today Speke Hall, now a Tudor wood-framed house, is open...
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    12th-busiest airport in the UK. Built in part of the grounds of Speke Hall, Liverpool (Speke) Airport, as the airport was originally known, started scheduled...
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    representations of his hands. Another life-sized portrait can be seen at Speke Hall in Liverpool, a National Trust property. A supposed Victorian exhumation...
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    for £19,000,[failed verification] moving in with his family from nearby Speke Hall. Leyland, who was somewhat of an art enthusiast, decorated the house with...
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    addition to Speke Hall, many of the city's other oldest surviving buildings are also former manor houses including Croxteth Hall and Woolton Hall, which were...
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    Opportunistic encryption Party line People watching Privacy Secure communication Speke Hall, containing a physical eavesdrop for listening to people waiting at the...
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    Philharmonic Dining Rooms Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Royal Liver Building Sefton Park Speke Hall – National Trust St George's Hall Tate Liverpool, a branch of...
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    St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England. Opened in 1854, it is a...
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    Building Royal Liverpool University Hospital Speke Hall Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse St George's Hall Tate Liverpool Tower Buildings Victoria Building...
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    1666, Allerton Hall was one of the larger houses in the parish of Childwall with eight hearths; this was exceeded only by Speke Hall with twenty-one...
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    Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded...
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  • Walton Hall Park Stadium is a stadium in Walton Hall Park, Walton, Liverpool. It is the home ground of Everton of the Women's Super League. The first...
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    boundaries followed the River Mersey, the city's eastern boundary and Speke Hall Lane. Following the Local Government Act 1972 the ward boundaries of the...
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    two funerary recesses which contain memorials to the Norris family of Speke Hall. The north chancel aisle contains an enamelled brass by Warrington to...
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    events On 15 September 1891, a general meeting took place at Royal Street Hall, near Everton Valley. Everton's chairman John Houlding proposed that a limited...
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    Building Royal Liverpool University Hospital Speke Hall Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse St George's Hall Tate Liverpool Tower Buildings Victoria Building...
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  • corvette Augusta, the French dispatch boat Renard, and the British ship SS Speke Hall were lost in the storm in the Gulf of Aden. The system continued westward...
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    the capital, they traveled to Liverpool, there setting sail aboard the Speke Hall, arriving in Bombay in February 1879. In the city, they were greeted with...
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    to explore the East African coast, where Burton along with John Hanning Speke led an expedition to discover the source of the Nile and became the first...
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  • Hall Park Osterley Park Petts Wood & Hawkwood Rainham Hall Red House Roman Baths, Strand Lane Selsdon Wood Sutton House Watermeads Formby Speke Hall 20...
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    hall-house. And in Merseyside Speke Hall and Rufford Old Hall similarly benefited from agricultural prosperity. Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property...
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    Series 14 aired in 2010 featuring 10 episodes with the opening episode at Speke Hall.[citation needed] Series 15 started on 12 May 2010, with an investigation...
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    53.4012°N 2.9701°W / 53.4012; -2.9701 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in Hope Street, in Liverpool, England. It is the home of the Royal...
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    Hall was a 16th-century hall in Lydiate, Merseyside, England. The hall was a black-and-white half-timbered house, and was similar in design to Speke Hall...
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    a Catholic teacher-training college. The site is now occupied by Hopwood Hall College, a further education college of the Borough of Rochdale and the chapel...
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    merchant whose house stood on the site now occupied by the Philharmonic Hall, and was named long before either cathedral was built. When the new Anglican...
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    Street Music Festival 2006 Liver birds tower over Dale Street and the Town Hall The Royal Liver Building, seen from the nearby Atlantic Tower The riverside...
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  • Poulton Hall Speke Hall Storeton Hall Thingwall Hall Thingwall House Thornton Manor Thurstaston Hall Woolton Hall Anmer Hall Barningham Hall Baconsthorpe...
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    Walton-on-the-Hill is dated c.1600. Speke Hall (1530–98; Grade I) The Great Parlour, Speke Hall (c.1531; Grade I) Croxteth Hall (1575; Grade II*) The development...
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