Plaque on Ann Moon's Cottage
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Plaque on Ann Moon's Cottage
Image: © John S Turner Taken: 4 Mar 2010
According to this plaque on the gable end, this cottage was built in 1890 by Ann Moon, and the O.S. maps from 1900 onwards record the building as a lodge for the adjacent cemetery. Ann Moon was the aunt of the wife of Richard Muspratt the chemical manufacturer who moved his chemical works from Liverpool to Flint in the 1800s because of the 'pollution and public nuisance' that his factories had caused in the city. His enterprise in Flint employed over 2,000 people, but it was dirty and unhealthy work, and Richard himself died in 1885 at the age of 63. Possibly this is why Ann Moon chose to provide this lodge cottage for the cemetery? There is a bench mark at the foot of the roadside wall, below and to the right of the plaque.Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.244079
Longitude
-3.138244