NUNSMERE HALL, CHESHIRE

Nunsmere Hall, Cheshire, a beautiful place to stay

These photographs were taken outside Nunsmere Hall built around 1900 for Sir Aubrey Brocklebank, Shipping magnate, who was chairman of the renowned Brocklebank Shipping Line, whose origins can be traced back to Cumberland in the 1700s. It was later to become known as the Cunard-Brocklebank Line.  He became an influential director of Cunard in the 1920s and was charged with the job of designing a magnificent new liner that would become Cunard's North Atlantic flagship.On September 26, 1934, the Queen Mary was launched on Clydeside, Glasgow.