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near

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, it was rebuilt in 1826 by the Heathcote family in the Elizabethan style by British Industrialist Richard Edensor Heathcote, (1780 -

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, 1850), but was demolished in 1934, due to subsidence from the coal mines underneath.

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lived there for a time in the early 20th century with his divorced mother, Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote, (1874–1950), and his paternal grandfather

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, of Ancoats, (1848–1915), before its demolition.

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