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== 1831 Coronation - Celebrations in Flookersbrook<ref>''<small>Article researched and written by Ralph Earlam, February 2022, Hoole History & Heritage Society</small>''</ref> ==
[[File:CC1 Bonfire.jpg|left|thumb|''<sub>Painting of a bonfire lit for the 1831 coronation</sub>'']]
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It would appear that the men had a roast sheep dinner at 3 o'clock, and the women and children had tea at 5.00.
[[File:CC3 Tithe Map.jpg|left|thumb|''<small>Tithe map of Newton - sites of buildings in red; today's places in black</small>'']]
It has never been clear where The Green in Flookersbrook was located. The schedules accompanying the Tithe Map drawn up only a few years later do not list it and the location of the Flookersbrook Pits and the then 30 or so properties rule out likely possibilities, although the water over which the two cannons were fired seems obvious.
No mention is made of The Ermine, its landlord nor well-known families from the area. No information has been found about Mr Shand of Liverpool or Mr W Beck.
However Dr Moor was the son of Maria Moor who inherited the land on the South side of Hoole Road on which the terraces of Moor Park were built in the 1850s (
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