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Thanks for that Fricky, I knew it was going on but last time I looked they were being very tight lipped. Good one!
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Yeah, pretty clued up on Moreton, Meols and Hoylake. Lived there most of my life. The burial was just something i read / heard about years ago.
My mum remembers the fossilised forest off Hoylake in the 60`s.
The fossilised forest, would that be the submarine forest mentioned in the perambulation of the hundred of wirral at Hoylake.
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Seem to recall reading that Leasowe Lighthouse was built on a foundation of cotton bales !!?? Provided some stabilisation on soft ground. A bit like the L'pool-Manchester Railway was laid on bundles of brushwood over Chat Moss, to stop the line sinking.
Did they come across any evidence of the bales I wonder ?
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Seem to recall reading that Leasowe Lighthouse was built on a foundation of cotton bales !!?? Provided some stabilisation on soft ground. A bit like the L'pool-Manchester Railway was laid on bundles of brushwood over Chat Moss, to stop the line sinking.
Did they come across any evidence of the bales I wonder ? Pinz, I also remember being told a story of Leasowe lighthouse being built on bales of cotton. The story came from my grandfather and was that the cotton bales originated from a wreck in the area. I guess I was told that story around the mid 1950s Snod
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Maybe just a myth as was the Liver buildings having cotton bales as foundations.
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Winchester Cathedral effectively floated on a peat bog using a raft of beech trees for hundreds of years.
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Winchester Cathedral effectively floated on a peat bog using a raft of beech trees for hundreds of years. I think beech trees would be more effective than cotton DD.
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The chief buyer of cotton for Liverpool, who would go to all corners of the earth to get it died and on his headstone was, Gone but not for cotton.
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The chief buyer of cotton for Liverpool, who would go to all corners of the earth to get it died and on his headstone was, Gone but not for cotton. Ha Ha ha good one
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I read the same of Moreton/Leasowe lighthouse built n cotton bales from a wreck!
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