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A History of the County of Chester
… (probably a fashionable promenade) and from the city to Flookersbrook in the 1770s, and paid a city pavior to keep …
A History of the County of Chester
… products for rural consumers. 17 The exception was the Flookersbrook foundry, set up in 1803 by Cole, Whittle & Co., …
A History of the County of Chester
… Bryan Johnson, successors to Cole, Whittle & Co. at the Flookersbrook foundry. By the 1860s the firm had diversified …
A History of the County of Chester
… greens were attached to hotels or public houses. One at Flookersbrook in Hoole existed c. 1750, 47 and by 1818 the …
A History of the County of Chester
… only a short gap separated the city from the hamlet of Flookersbrook, which straddled the boundary between Hoole and … canal bridge, Filkins Lane, and Heath Lane, but leaving Flookersbrook outside. 27 In 1836 the added area was brought … and police Act. 28 The arrival of the railways at Flookersbrook in the 1840s obliterated a long stretch of the …
A History of the County of Chester
… between Parkgate and Liverpool roads, and thence east to Flookersbrook Hall; from there they ran south and then east … Lane (later Frodsham Street), abandoning the enclosure of Flookersbrook; escarpments were deepened and widened, …
A History of the County of Chester
… later earls of Kilmorey, also held property in Hoole. 107 Flookersbrook The estate of Flookersbrook, immediately east of the eponymous stream, lay … after 1538 by Sir Laurence Smith of Hough (d. 1582). Flookersbrook Hall, still held by the Smiths but then at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres, of which the soil is clay. There is a tanyard at Flookersbrook, in the township. Newton-By-Daresbury …
A History of the County of Chester
… in the 1990s, dated from its earliest years. 2 The Flookersbrook foundry in Charles Street, which originated in …
A History of the County of Chester
… and a chemical works. 10 After 1875 the site of the Flookersbrook Foundry was occupied by the Hydraulic … of villas and smaller houses north of Hoole Road in Flookersbrook, but the arrival of the railway in 1840 … especially after Charles Brown helped to push through the Flookersbrook Improvement Act of 1876; housing in that area …