Some 36km north east of its original location near the river Mersey, a Liverpool Castle replica rises in and out of the mist like some sort of forgotten film set. A mere two centuries after the original medieval castle was demolished, a folly in its memory was commissioned by William Lever, the founder of the company that we now know as Unilever, at his estate in Rivington near Bolton. Liverpool at the time was a cultural centerpiece of Lancashire, and the southernmost location of a castle in the historic county. Work started in 1912 and continued until his death in 1925. Relatively few people had been assigned to the construction of the building, so the structure was not quite finished, although the folly was deliberately designed to look like the castle in its ruinous state. Which is just as well, seeing as the folly itself is continuing to crumble as the years fall by.