Giant Childe of Hale at Speke Hall Garden [Liverpool September 2016]

According to legend Mr Middleton, who stood 9ft 3in tall, slept with his feet sticking out of the windows of his cottage in Church End, Hale, near Speke. Mr Middleton lived from 1578 to 1623 and, because of his size, his landlord Gilbert Ireland, the Sheriff of Lancashire, hired him as a bodyguard.