WHITE STAR FOUNDER’S MANSION
FAMOUS SHOW PLACE TO 1313 PULLED DOWN. Dawpool, the magnificent mansion overlooking the Dee, at Tliurstaston, which is now to be pulled down, is known as one of the show places of the North-west of England. It was built at immense cost only about forty years ago by Mr T. H. isrnay, founder of the White Star Line, and is decorated in the most sumptuous manner. In its fifty rooms and halls there is no less .than 5000 square feet of wonderful oak panellings, and also 150 solid oak doorß. When Dawpool was erected a new road had to be constructed to it, and in the spacious gardens some of the native heather of the common was preserved. Before the war the mansion became the residence of Mr Pascoe Rutter, wfyo, from a jtmior clerkship worked his way up. to the head of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, and is known as the “Napoleon of Insurance.” During the war Mr Rutter _ .converted Hie premises into a military hospital.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 5
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173WHITE STAR FOUNDER’S MANSION New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 5
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