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3 unusual facts about Ellesmere Port


Rivacre

Rivacre is an area of Ellesmere Port in the North West of England.

West Cheshire College

The present West Cheshire College campuses are at Chester and Ellesmere Port.

It has over 20,000 students at its two main campuses in Ellesmere Port and Chester as well as in workplaces and community venues.


Beverley Hughes

Beverley Hughes was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in 1950 and was educated at Ellesmere Port Girls' Grammar School (now called The Whitby High School) on Sycamore Drive in Whitby, Ellesmere Port.

Birkenhead Central railway station

Situated on the south side of Birkenhead town centre, it lies on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.

Calor

In 2002 Calor opened 12 Customer Operations Centres at Grangemouth, Port Clarence, Stoney Stanton, Elland, Ellesmere Port, Coryton, Cranbrook, Saxham, Fawley, Neath and Newbury.

George Robert Jebb

Jebb was later appointed as the Chief Engineer of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company (for whom he designed many of the docks and warehouses of Ellesmere Port) and of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and was a director of the Glyn Valley Tramway.

Hooton railway station

It lies on the Wirral Line 8 miles north of Chester and 9½ miles (15 km) south west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network, and is near the junction of the branch from the Chester line to Ellesmere Port.

Lee Oakes

Oakes is originally from Haslington near Crewe in Cheshire, North West England, and attended Sandbach School for Boys, as well as being trained at the Cheshire School of Performing Arts in Ellesmere Port.

Metropolitan county

Many areas on the edges were excluded from the metropolitan counties when the Bill was passed: Easington, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ellesmere Port, Neston, New Mills, Whaley Bridge and Glossop : other areas were excluded during the Bill's passage, such as Seaham, Skelmersdale and Holland, Poynton and Wilmslow.

Perseverance IV

The barge Reliance is permanently damaged and in a drydock at Dapdune Wharf, whereas Speedwell is in poor condition at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.

Steve Veidor

Steve Veidor, born 10 January 1935 as Steve Bell, in Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, is a former heavyweight professional wrestler of the 1960s and 1970s, usually billed as The Handsome Heart Throb.


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Chester General rail crash

The train had run from Ellesmere Port as an unbraked freight train and stopped at Helsby, where it needed to reverse.

Ellesmere Port to Warrington Line

The route follows the Birkenhead Joint (LNWR & GWR) Ellesmere Port branch with stations at Stanlow and Thornton and Ince and Elton to the village and junction station at Helsby where it joins the Chester to Manchester Line through to Warrington Bank Quay railway station.

Little Sutton railway station

It is situated on the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.

Rivacre

This was a popular and inexpensive entertainment in the 1950-1970's, but interest declined by the 1980s as heated indoor swimming pools were built in nearby Chester's Northgate Arena and leisure facilities were improved at Ellesmere Port's EPIC leisure centre.

Spital railway station

The station is located on the Wirral Line operated by Merseyrail and there are frequent third rail electric train services to Liverpool, Chester and Ellesmere Port.