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Checking newspapers on line (BNA/FindMyPast) returns about 160 hits under the search key "Seafield House Seaforth" covering a period 1873-1999" ranging from job adverts to the 1939 evacuation of children from there to Graves Hall (snippet/reference only - no detail).

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Thank you. I've spent some time viewing some news reports which may be relevant to the time period I'm looking at.

I have found snippets of information and photos across the Internet but nothing in any great detail. I'll keep searching.

Thanks again.

Good morning

Can anybody recommend a good source of information for Seafield House, Seaforth, Liverpool. A former convent on Waterloo Road which provided "accommodation" for people with learning difficulties, primarily children.

Thank you.

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Amanda

The building is Seafield House which had been built by a William Fernie to be used as Hydro, the house was reputed to have contained 365 windows, one for each day of the year. The hydro never materialised and it became known as Fernie's folly. It was acquired by the order of the Sacred Heart, originally having been established in Bootle, it became known as Seafield Convent. Located on the foreshore between the International Hotel and Potters Barn. In 1908 the order relocated retaining the Seafield Convent name, then established themselves also with a school on Crosby Road, using the proceeds from the sale of Seafield House to the MDHC. The Seaforth House site was required for further dock expansion, however with the recession this developement never happened and the building remained standing. At the outbreak of WW11 it was requisitioned and became the RN Hospital Seaforth, to take in Royal Naval casualties and Merchant Navy casualties from the Battle of the Atlantic, this being the place the famous U-boat hunter Capt 'Johny' Walker died.. After the war it was returned to MDHB, sometime in the late 1950s- 1960s it was used by the Inland Revenue as a tax office it was demolished and eventually the site became part of what is now Royal Seaforth Dock.

Seaforth Convent, according to a map dated 1888 - 1915, is located on the sea front between the International Hotel and Potters Barn.


Where would residents of Seafield House have been buried in the 1920's, please?

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Further to a very quick Google search I have come up with zero results about the Burnley swing boys' concert party c 1942.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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Amanda

If you type the phrase into newspaper search there are a lot of cases. I think basically it just means the Judge exercised their discretion. I am not quite sure how that is different from the judge making an actual judgement, but it must be to do with going slightly outside the “rules”, and so creating new case law. Well, that’s my interpretation anyway. Hopefully a lawyer comes along .

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/a35961e1-5c03-4020-9006-8177311d7576  (Column 3)

Having read a few more, I think if Person A petitioned for divorce on the grounds of Person B’s adultery and Perosn A was found also to have committed adultery, then the law was no divorce. But the judge could exercise their discretion and still grant the divorce. But it might be granted to the respondent not the petitioner. Not sure what the subtlety of that was…money?

I had better stop hypothesising…I could be completely misunderstanding.

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Thank you. Certainly a lot of legal jardon to digest. 

There is a book 'Sabden Past and Present, A Photographic History', which may be of interest.

It's available from Abe Books and Amazon.

Thank you 😁