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And that was how M. Laruelle came to Leasowe. It was a kind of grown-up civilised version of Courselles on the English north-west coast. – UTV, 23.

In the early 1900s, Leasowe was a tiny village and railway station on the Wirral peninsula, North Cheshire, between Hoylake and Birkenhead.

Lowry has retained the name but shifted its location closer to Hoylake, which has a golf course (the Royal Liverpool Links) and is situated on the very wide estuary of the River Dee. The Taskerson home is modelled on that of the Furniss family, near the Lowry family home Inglewood, Caldy (a few miles south of Hoylake), where Lowry's wealthy father had built a small golf course on the family estate.

Below: Leasowe lighthouse.