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6 unusual facts about Woolton


Frank Linsly James

The 1871 census shows him again living at his parents home, but now at Beaconsfield House, Woolton, occupation "Under Graduate, Cambridge".

Holly Quin-Ankrah

In December 2004 she visited St. Francis Xavier's College, Woolton, Liverpool to promote MEND, a national mobile phone database for stolen or lost equipment.

Jack Michaelson

Jack moved into Number 8 Brookside close, several months after The Farnhams had previously sold up and moved to Woolton.

Laurence Richardson Baily

Baily married Mary Smith of Liverpool in 1850 and they lived at Allerton Hall, Woolton, Liverpool.

Max Farnham

In 2003, shortly before Brookside ended, Max and Jacqui, along with Harry and Emma, left Brookside to move to Woolton.

Thomas Cope

At the time of his death he was chairman of the Convalescent Home at Woolton, and the Consumptive Hospital in Mount Pleasant, Liverpool until his death and was one of the main benefactors.


Dignity in Dying

Early supporters included Henry Havelock Ellis, Vera Brittain, Cicely Hamilton, Laurence Housman, H. G. Wells, Harold Laski, George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Rathbone MP, G. M. Trevelyan, W. Arbuthnot Lane, and a variety of peers including Lord Woolton of Liverpool (Conservative) and Lord Moynihan who had been the President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

East Woodhay

Woodhay railway station, which closed on 7th March 1960, had a similar name but served the villages of Enborne and Enborne Row in Berkshire and Broad Laying (Woolton Hill) in Hampshire.

Ivan Vaughan

He played bass part-time in Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, and was responsible for introducing Lennon to Paul McCartney at a community event (the Woolton village fĂȘte) on July 6, 1957, where The Quarrymen were performing.

Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

In 1945 he was elected a Scottish Representative Peer, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord President of the Council (Lord Woolton and Lord Salisbury respectively) from 1951 to 1953 and to the Minister of Materials (Lord Woolton) between 1953 and 1954.

Woolton Hall

Woolton Wood would have originally formed part of the Woolton Hall estate and was probably divided off for one of the younger Ashton sons.


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