Wavertree Park and Plumbes Hall

Wavertree Park and Plumbes Hall

From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.

Wavertree Park, which has proved an inestimable boon as a recreation ground for the people, owes its existence almost to an accident. The site was formerly occupied by an old-fashioned mansion, surrounded by a grove of noble elms, a few of which yet remain, nearly destroyed by the sulphureous fumes of the neighbouring gasworks. The house was called Plumbes Hall from the family which occupied it. It was subsequently tenanted by Mr. Charles Lawrence, mayor in 1823-4. Mr. Lawrence was one of the originators of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and filled for some years the office of chairman, at a time when the duties were most arduous and the difficulties almost insuperable. It was by the efforts of him and a few others of a similar stamp, that the genius of George Stephenson obtained a clear stage and fair play for its grand conceptions. Afterwards the house was occupied by Sir Joshua Walmsley, Knt., mayor in 1839-40, and sometime M.P. for Leicester.

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