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Chester: River Dee

Ref No:c13419
Date Period:1900 to 1909
Date of Image:c1900
Title:Chester: River Dee
Description:Man in shirt sleeves rowing two well dressed passengers, one in top hat. View of houses of Dee Banks in background.
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The large Elizabethan style house is Walmoor Hill and was built in the 1890's by the Chester architect John Douglas for his own use. Because of its large size and prominent position it was popularly known as "Douglas' Castle" or "Douglas' Folly". Douglas lived in the house from about 1901 until his death in 1911. It became a girls' school, Walmoor College and in the 1930's, Hampton House School, Walmoor Hill, a boarding and day school for boys. It later became the headquarters of the Cheshire Fire Brigade until 1997.

   
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