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One theory is that the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1876/39/pdfs/ukla_18760039_en.pdf "Flookersbrook Improvement Act"] from 1876 was intended to correct the problems caused by years of a cattle market at the Ermine - what had been a set of elegant lakes had become a watering place for cattle and trod into a stinking morass of cow dung and mud. "Mr Brown" was a member of the Brown family of "Brown's of Chester" in Eastgate Street who had held the mayorality - he didn't want a problem on his doorstep. With Hoole being outside of the City, and the land management being entangled in the complex case of the trustees of John Lightfoot (died 1832), Brown had to find a solution. Just why the cattle market (run by the Pickerings) at the Ermine was so popular remains unclear, although it may have something to do with taxes and by-laws being avoided by holding it there - just outside the then city boundary. On the other hand it could have simply been the proximity of the railway.
As described in the article [[Hoole Local Board Petition 1894]] Charles Brown was very much involved with the discussions as to whether Flookersbrook should move from Newton to Hoole as the border between the two was shifted to the Cheshire Lines railway (now the Millennium Greenway). He was a principal opponent of the scheme, together with the Earl of Kilmorey (a significant local landowner), the Dixon's (who had major agricultural interests in the area) and William Williams the builder (who was then in the process of Developing Halkyn Road). They organised a meeting at the "Ermine": the traditional meeting place of Newton Parish Council. They were ultimately unsuccessful - the Civil Parish of Newton was finally abolished in 1936. Matters then collapsed into something of a farce as reported in ''The Courant'' <ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3662127/3662130/17/flookersbrook Courant, 6th October 1897]</ref>. By 1901 things had progressed to the point where the inhabitants of Flookersbrook were threatening to block the connection between Ermine Road and Hoole Road <ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3806103/3806108/64/flookersbrook Courant, 5th June]</ref>, the argument rattled on into 1904 <ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4248410/4248416/53/flookersbrook Cheshire Observer, 10th September]</ref> and 1905 <ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3806885/3806893/136/flookersbrook Courant, 8th March]</ref>. It appears that one reason for the dispite coming to and end were increasing attempts after 1906 by the City renewing its efforts to increase its boundary to include both both Flookersbrook and Hoole.
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