The Picture of Liverpool; Or Stranger's Guide: With Notices of the Environs, and an Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, to which is Prefixed a New and Correct Map of the TownT. Taylor, 1837 - 236 pages |
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... situate between the Ribble and Mersey , in Cheshire . Liverpool is stated to have first assumed its present name about the year 1089 , but from what circumstance appears to be altogether uncertain . It is evident that a fortress was ...
... situate between the Ribble and Mersey , in Cheshire . Liverpool is stated to have first assumed its present name about the year 1089 , but from what circumstance appears to be altogether uncertain . It is evident that a fortress was ...
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... situate in the south end of Castle- street . Seacombe , in his description of this edifice , says , " There was a strong castle on the south , surrounded by a ditch twelve yards wide and ten yards deep , from which to the river was a ...
... situate in the south end of Castle- street . Seacombe , in his description of this edifice , says , " There was a strong castle on the south , surrounded by a ditch twelve yards wide and ten yards deep , from which to the river was a ...
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... situate near to Sefton church , was standing until a few years past , having been used as a farm - house from the time the family removed to the new hall at Croxteth . In Sefton church , which was built in the year 1111 , there are ...
... situate near to Sefton church , was standing until a few years past , having been used as a farm - house from the time the family removed to the new hall at Croxteth . In Sefton church , which was built in the year 1111 , there are ...
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... situate between the Mersey and the Ribble , and in this year some have supposed the Tower was first erected . It seems to have become the property of the Stanley family so early as the year 1406 , being at that time bestowed on Sir John ...
... situate between the Mersey and the Ribble , and in this year some have supposed the Tower was first erected . It seems to have become the property of the Stanley family so early as the year 1406 , being at that time bestowed on Sir John ...
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... situate in Oldhall - street : and that in 1280 Bank Hall was built for the residence of this family , and conti- nued to be inhabited by them until about the year 1698. At the battle of Poictiers , 1356 , Ed- ward the Black Prince made ...
... situate in Oldhall - street : and that in 1280 Bank Hall was built for the residence of this family , and conti- nued to be inhabited by them until about the year 1698. At the battle of Poictiers , 1356 , Ed- ward the Black Prince made ...
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