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Post by iansadler on Sept 12, 2012 9:31:20 GMT
Hi all , this is a long shot , I am reviewing a book on the Czech Independant Armoured Brigade Group .Two photos in the book stand out one is a photo of Moreton Hall covered in ivy and the second shows two bren carries in the snow on what looks like the New Brighton front near to the fair ground. In the distance it looks like New Brighton Pier.
Since I have not lived on the Wiral for 40+ years I would like to know if the hall is still standing . I looked on Google maps but nothing showed up. cheers ian
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 16:27:00 GMT
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Post by iansadler on Sept 13, 2012 7:56:36 GMT
Nick tried that it looks nothing like the photo , I also tried leasowe castle again nothing like it . the photo of what looks like New Brighton prom , I checked out with a family photo and they match . So the hall must be in the wirral but the czecks , may have got the wrong name . Still looking .
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Post by chrisbarrow on Oct 12, 2012 9:45:55 GMT
Moreton Hall is in Warwickshire, not far from Leamington Spa, which was the HQ of the Czechoslovak Free Army during the war. It was here that the Heydrich assasination was planned. The house, which was the subject of a fire a few years ago, but only partially rebuilt, is now part of a Warwickshire College agricultural centre, in the village of Moreton Morrell.
More info:
Charles Tuller Garland was an American citizen who later served with the British Army in the Great War and was owner of Moreton Hall in Warwickshire (now part of Mid-Warwickshire College). Moreton Hall is a listed Georgian-styled Edwardian mansion built in the early 1900s.
Garland, founder of the National City Bank in New York, USA, died in 1921 and the Moreton Hall estate was purchased by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert James Leslie Ogilby DSO JP DL (1880-1964).
Chris
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Post by chrisbarrow on Oct 12, 2012 10:08:47 GMT
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Post by iansadler on Oct 13, 2012 10:53:35 GMT
Hi Chris , many thanks for the answer to one of the photos , The other I will be able to check out when next up at the wirral , I am 99% certain it is New Brighton , near the old fair ground , long gone now . cheers ian
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Post by phalinmegob on Oct 26, 2012 21:55:10 GMT
can you scan the photo and post it , i am in the wirral and have worked in moreton for the last 25 years but have never heard of moreton hall,i have a multitude of books with wirral history photos in and lots of new brighton,i will see if i can match the area for you.
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