Nautical Flag Pole - Willie Seager Cottages, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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N 51° 29.787 W 003° 09.263
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A nautical flag pole outside the Willie Seager Cottages in the Penylan district of Cardiff.
Waymark Code: WMHB3A
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/18/2013
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The flag pole does not have a gaff. When I visited the flag flying was the Red Ensign, also known as the Red Duster. The Red Ensign is used by the United Kingdom's Merchant Navy and civilly registered vessels.
Sir William Henry Seager (1862 - 1941) was a Welsh shipping magnate and Liberal Party politician who spent four years as a Member of Parliament. He used part of his fortune to build the Willie Seager cottages.
The original cottages were at the corner of Newport Road and Colchester Avenue in Cardiff. When that area was redeveloped these new bungalows ('cottages') at the end of Westville Road were constructed on an old railway line.
The cottages are almshouses for people ages 50 or more who are either men with a Cardiff connection who have earned a living at sea or in Cardiff docks, or widows of such men.
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