Qualla: Croxteth Hall https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/b/croxteth-hall-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Croxteth Hall https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall Croxteth Hall: Introduction https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall/ Photo credit Public domain. When the seventh Earl of Sefton died in 1972, his lawyers launched a worldwide search for an heir. They found none. The Molyneux line - which had held Croxteth Hall since the sixteenth century, entertained Queen Victoria here in 1851, and ridden hounds through their private chase for generations - simply ran out. The estate passed instead to Liverpool City Council. Today, schoolchildren run the same lawns where 700 members of the local gentry once gathered to greet a royal carriage, and the kennels designed for the fourth Earl's hounds are tended by a volunteer group founded in 2017.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/b/croxteth-hall-wp/gctb-croxteth-hall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Croxteth Hall: A House That Outlasted Its Family https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. Croxteth Hall sits in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, surrounded by what remains of a 500-acre hunting chase that once stretched far beyond the present park's boundaries. The Molyneux family moved in during the sixteenth century and never left, accumulating four-storey wings,...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/b/croxteth-hall-wp/gctb-croxteth-hall-a-house-that-outlasted-its-family.mp3 0:06 2 full Croxteth Hall: Victoria's Wet October https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 9 October 1851, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children arrived at Croxteth Hall to spend the night before a state visit to Liverpool. The day began well: 700 of the local gentry assembled on the lawns in the autumn sunshine. By morning, torrential rain had set in, a...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/b/croxteth-hall-wp/gctb-croxteth-hall-victorias-wet-october.mp3 0:06 3 full Croxteth Hall: The Liverpool Botanics https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall/ Photo credit Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0. Inside the Victorian walled garden lives the last of the Liverpool Botanics - one of Britain's oldest horticultural collections, founded in 1802 by William Roscoe, the Liverpool banker, abolitionist, and amateur botanist. Liverpool was once a world centre for orchids, and the col...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/b/croxteth-hall-wp/gctb-croxteth-hall-the-liverpool-botanics.mp3 0:06 4 full Croxteth Hall: The Kennels and the Wood https://qualla.com/croxteth-hall/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. The kennels along Croxteth Hall Lane were built in the 1870s for the fourth Earl of Sefton by the Chester architect John Douglas - red brick, a patterned roof of blue and green slates, a tall chimney stack that still rises above the trees. Hounds no longer live here; the Croxteth...

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