X-Nico

unusual facts about Mersey



Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited

In 1956 the estate of Izaak Walton Killam sold the company to Bowater which renamed the company Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited in 1959.

Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels

Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels is a play about the story of the Kingsway Three, a fictitious terrorist organisation, and their plans to brick up the Tunnels which join Liverpool to the Wirral.

Coventry Canal

Thomas Dadford advised on the Canal's aqueduct over the River Tame (now known as Tame Aqueduct) in 1784 and in June 1785, Thomas Sheasby was awarded the contract to connect the Coventry Canal to the Trent and Mersey Canal.

Gordon West

West came out of retirement after three years to play briefly for cross-Mersey rivals Tranmere Rovers.

Hackney Community College Basketball Academy

HCCA Coach Tony Garbelotto is now Head Coach of Everton Tigers (now Mersey Tigers) and former Lead Assistant Head Coach of the Great Britain national basketball team(men) and led Tigers to the BBL Cup victory beating Plymouth Raiders, BBL Championship and BBL Play-Off runner's up in his first season (2008/09)and winning the BBL Play-Off title in May 2010.

HMS Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, a Mersey ferry requisitioned as HMS Daffodil for the Zeebrugge Raid in 1918

Hugh Conway

Fargus was intended for his father's business, but at the age of 13 joined the school ship Conway in the Mersey, lent by the Admiralty for training future merchant navy officers.

Humber-class monitor

Severn and Mersey's guns soon wore out, and they were each re-armed with a single 6" Mk VII gun stripped from the wreck of HMS Montagu, a battleship which had been wrecked on the Isle of Lundy in 1906.

Iceway

The Dee estuary and its landward continuation south of Chester as far as Farndon along with the Mersey estuary are the two largest iceways discerned in this region.

M53 motorway

When the M53 was first planned in the early 1960s, it was designed as a route to connect the two Mersey road tunnels with the A55 trunk road on the Welsh border, giving Liverpool and the rest of Merseyside a direct link with Chester and the towns on the North Wales coast.

Melbourne Harbour Trust

In the 1860s and 70s, agitation for the establishment of a trust on the lines of those on the Thames in London, the Mersey at Liverpool and expeicially that on the Clyde (which was run by Glasgow's leading merchants), came predominantly from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce.

Mersey Community Hospital

The Mersey Hospital, at Latrobe near Devonport in Tasmania is a campus of the North West Regional Hospital, the main healthcare facility for the North Western region of Tasmania, Australia.

Monument to the Mersey Tunnel

The Monument to the Mersey Tunnel stands in Chester Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, near the western entrance to the Queensway Tunnel, one of the two Mersey Tunnels carrying roads under the River Mersey between Liverpool and the Wirral.

Otterspool Promenade

It is notable for the excellent views it gives of shipping in the Mersey and over the river to the Wirral.

Palmer Mills, Stockport

The Cheshire Lines Committee built their viaduct across the River Mersey and ran the Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway which serviced Portwood and Stockport Tiviot Dale railway station.

Parr, St Helens

Later extensions were made at the Mersey end, firstly to Fiddlers Ferry, then to Widnes, and at the northern end, where it was extended into what became the centre of St Helens

Rico Bell

A singer and multi-instrumentalist with the Mekons, Bell has also released three well-received solo recordings with the Chicago-based alternative country label, Bloodshot Records: The Return of Rico Bell (1995), Dark Side of the Mersey (1999) and Been a Long Time (2002).

Robert Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell

It was his opinion in favour of detaining the Confederate rams in the Mersey that Mr. Adams, the American minister, submitted in 1862 to Lord John Russell, and, although too late to prevent the CSS Alabama going to sea, it was afterwards adopted by the law officers of the crown.

Rose Hill Marple railway station

The latter would provide an Eastern extension from the proposed Western link into Stockport town centre from Didsbury, linking together many towns in the borough along the Goyt and Mersey rivers.

Royal Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918

MV Royal Daffodil, a Mersey ferry built as MV Overchurch and renamed in 1998

Runcorn Bridge

Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, a demolished bridge that crossed the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal from 1905 until 1961

Runcorn Railway Bridge, a rail bridge over the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal

Seabird Half Rater

In 1965 there were 56 seabirds sailing regularly, mainly at Trearddur Bay (24 boats), Abersoch (21 boats), 6 boats at West Cheshire Sailing Club on the Mersey and single boats at Holyhead, Rhyl and Conway, although Cormorant, number 9, was being used as a fishing boat out of Liverpool docks.

Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee

The "New Mills and Heaton Mersey Railway" was authorised in 1897 from New Mills South Junction, between New Mills and Buxworth through Disley Tunnel.

Shropshire Union Canal

With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal) the SU is part of an important circular and rural holiday route called the Four Counties Ring.

The Feldons

They have been described as "something very Ferry on the Mersey, or Beatlesque. Mention of Paul Weller (does) not quite nail the sound but there (is) an undertone of that British invasion rock and roll that was big in the sixties" and "entertaining, danceable, listenable as well as easy on the eye".

Tranmere

:*Tranmere Oil Terminal, docking facility on River Mersey with pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery

USAHS Blanche F. Sigman

Sailing later that month, the Sigman headed to the Mersey and Liverpool.

Wear Mill, Stockport

The original water powered Wear Mill was built on the southern bank of the River Mersey, 500 m from it source's at the confluence on the River Tame and the River Goyt.


see also