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41 unusual facts about Merseyside


Ash Taylor

He attended South Wirral High School and grew up in Eastham, Merseyside.

British Rail Class 112

The cars were built for services in the LMR Central Division and in the Liverpool - St Helens area, where the gradients in the Lancashire & Yorkshire area required more power.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

They arrived in Britain in 1902, establishing over the years nursing homes in Waterloo and in Cumbria (1921).

Colm McFadden

He took his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Liverpool Hope University, discussing football with a fellow teacher (and semi-professional footballer with a Conference team – name forgotten) during teaching practice at St Catherine's in Edge Hill.

Edmund Knowles Muspratt

His father was also a chemical industrialist who had established factories in Liverpool, St Helens and Newton-le-Willows.

Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby

The Knowsley Estate has residential properties in the rural parishes of Knowsley, Eccleston, Rainford, Bickerstaffe and Ormskirk.

Frederic John Walker

Walker suffered a cerebral thrombosis on 7 July 1944 and died two days later at the Naval Hospital at Seaforth, Merseyside aged 48; his death was attributed to overwork and exhaustion.

Geoffrey Turner

He was awarded his George Cross for tackling a bomb which fell on Seaforth, near Liverpool-Stockport railway line.

George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange

He was born about 1460 at Knowsley, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Thomas Stanley and his first wife Eleanor, sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

Gladys Ambrose

Gladys Ambrose (28 December 1930, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire – 4 July 1998, Knowsley Village, Merseyside) was an English actress of film and television, best known for her role as the gossipy Julia Brogan on the long-running soap opera, Brookside, which she played from 1985 until just before her death from cancer in July 1998 at the age of 67.

Harold Newgass

On November evening of 28/29 November 1940, a German parachute mine fell on the Garston Gas Works in Merseyside.

Heidi Thomas

Heidi Thomas (born 13 August 1962, Garston, Liverpool) is an English screenwriter and playwright.

Henry Grayson

He succeeded his father on the latter's death in 1904 and was also managing director of the Garston Graving Dock & Shipbuilding Co Ltd.

John Fraser Drummond

His name is on two memorials in his home district of Crosby.

Jonathan Walters

Walters was brought up in Moreton, Merseyside and the house in which he lived in was opposite a number of community football pitches.

Walters was born in Moreton, Merseyside and started his career at Blackburn Rovers having being spotted by playing for Shaftesbury under 16s in the Eastham & District Junior League by Rovers's scout for Wirral and Wales, Mike O'Brien who moved quickly to sign him.

Martin Charlesworth

He was born in Eastham, then in Cheshire, the son of Rev Ambrose Charlesworth, the curate of the parish, and Alice Whish.

McCafferty

The sentence was carried out on Saturday, 11 January 1862, in front of Kirkdale Gaol, at Liverpool.

New Brighton A.F.C.

New Brighton Association Football Club was a football club from the seaside resort of New Brighton, in Wallasey, Merseyside in England.

Newton-le-Willows railway station

It is a busy feeder station for nearby towns which no longer have railway stations, such as Golborne, Billinge and Haydock.

Northern Cricket Club

The original clubhouse was in Rawson Road in nearby Seaforth until 1879, when the club moved to Haigh Road in Waterloo Park.

Old Roan railway station

The station is located on Ormskirk Road, with the southbound platform accessible from Ormskirk Road and the northbound platform under the railway bridge on Copy Lane (which is actually in Netherton).

Orrell

Orrell, Merseyside, an urban area east of Bootle, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton

Oxton Cricket Club

Oxton Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based at Townfield Lane, Oxton on the Wirral.

Page Moss

On 30 June 2008 the neighbourhood was featured on the BBC TV documentary series Panorama, focusing upon the local youth gang culture, namely the "Moss Edz" and their feuds with adjoining areas, specifically Dovecot, whom they refer to as "Dovey Edz".

Paul Horton

His first season of cricket in England was played at Winstanley Park, a team based in Billinge, Wigan, with which he impressed and got noticed by the Lancashire youth.

Ribble Motor Services

The L3/L30 Liverpool, Bootle, Waterloo to Crosby stage carriage service was the most frequent in its class.

Richard Costain

Born and brought up in the Isle of Man, Richard Costain moved to Crosby where, in 1865, he founded a small but well-equipped construction business.

Runcorn Railway Bridge

In 1861 Parliamentary approval for a bridge was obtained by the LNWR as part of building a line from Aston, to the southeast of Runcorn where it joined the line from Crewe to Warrington at Weaver Junction, to the west of Widnes, where it joined the line from Warrington to Garston at Ditton Junction.

Sarah Deane

The competition was judged by Brookside co-creator Colin McKeown and Jimmy McGovern, which resulted in Deane being given further opportunities to write on projects under McGovern's tutelage through McKeown's company LA Productions based at Liverpool Film Academy in Kirkdale, Liverpool.

Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet

Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and was Mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.

Spital railway station

Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

SS Corvus

On 23 February 1945, Corvus departed Garston near Liverpool bound for Plymouth with a cargo of 1,800 tons of coal, with Alexander Wallace as captain, carrying a crew of 22 plus a DEMS gun crew of three British Royal Navy gunners.

The Big Art Project

The project also comprises a website centred on The Big Art Mob - designed to create the first comprehensive map of public art across the UK using photographs from people's mobile phones - and significant public art works such as Jaume Plensa's Dream (sculpture) in St Helens, Merseyside.

The Blitz Brothers

The Blitz Brothers were a New Wave band based in Merseyside, England, comprising Chris Hughes (drums and FX), Dave Bates (vocals), Steve Lovell (guitars) and Hugh Jones (bass).

The Greasy Pole

Sir Humphrey Appleby is meeting in his office with Sir Wally McFarlane, Chairman of the British Chemical Corporation, which is on the verge of securing a massive contract from the Italians for the manufacture of propanol at their plant in Merseyside.

The Squares

With local press interest growing the band found themselves with a string of gigs as far afield as Kirkdale and Speke, but no bass player.

Under the Mud

It is set in Garston, an economically depressed area of Liverpool and follows the dramatic and eccentric happenings within one family on the day of its youngest daughter's first Holy Communion.

Watcyn Thomas

A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

William Imrie

At a dinner in Broughton Hall, West Derby, Ismay and Imrie decided they would form a partnership.


1988 FA Cup Final

The Merseysiders were awarded a penalty on the hour mark following a foul by Clive Goodyear on John Aldridge, though replays showed that Goodyear won the ball cleanly, but Aldridge's penalty was saved by Beasant's diving save to his left, thus becoming the first keeper to save a penalty in a Wembley FA Cup final.

A Guy Called Gerald

It was one of the first acid house tracks produced in the UK, and released on a small Merseyside independent label (Rham! Records) based in Liscard, Wallasey.

Barclay Curle

As part of the Seawind Group, the company is no longer based in Glasgow but retains shiprepair facilities in Birkenhead, Merseyside, and at Appledore, Devon.

Beatlejuice

Beatlejuice began in 1994 when John Muzzy and Brad Delp saw Bob Squires' Beatles cover band Merseyside play in Newburyport, Massachusetts and they decided to start their own band.

Butler Cole Aspinall

The son of the Reverend James Aspinall, he was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England in 1830, educated for the law, and was called to the Bar in 1853.

Children's Adventure Farm Trust

Each year the Adventure Farm helps 3,000 children aged 4 to 16, coming from all over the North West, with people coming from Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and Derbyshire.

Church of St Luke, Liverpool

It stands on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street, looking down the length of Bold Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

Cleaver Heath Nature Reserve

Heswall Dales is regarded as the second best example (after Thurstaston Common) of lowland heath in Merseyside, hosting localised species including Western Gorse Ulex gallii, Many-stalked Spike Rush Eleocharis multicaulis and Green-ribbed Sedge Carex binervis.

Craig Lindfield

Craig Anthony Lindfield (born 7 September 1988 in Greasby, Merseyside) is an English footballer who plays as a forward.

Crosby railway station

When the line closed, a group of lads from Merseyside removed the station nameboard and to this day it is believed to hang on the wall of the scout headquarters in the Liverpool suburb that shares its name.

Crossens

Crossens is the northernmost district of the town of Southport, Merseyside, England and part of the ancient parish of North Meols.

Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre

Located at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, the Youth Theatre is open to teenagers from all over Merseyside.

Fred Pickering

He went on to make 97 league appearances and score 56 goals in his four years on Merseyside though was surprisingly left out of the 1966 FA Cup Final side in favour of little-known Cornishman Mike Trebilcock, who vindicated his selection by scoring twice in Everton's 3-2 win over Sheffield Wednesday.

Garswood railway station

Garswood railway station serves the village of Garswood in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

General Register Office for England and Wales

In 1997 the GRO staff were relocated to Southport, Merseyside while public access to the records and indexes was made available at the new Family Records Centre (FRC) in Clerkenwell.

Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park

The Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park is at the northeast entrance to Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Headbolt Lane railway station

Headbolt Lane is a proposed new railway station in the Northwood area of Kirkby, Merseyside, England.

Jim Harley

After the 6 year break Harley returned to Merseyside and played in 17 games of the first post-war championship winning side, a side that contained the likes of Jack Balmer, Bill Jones, Berry Nieuwenhuys, Albert Stubbins, Billy Liddell and Bob Paisley.

Jodie Taylor

That term she scored 109 goals across 125 games for Oldershaw School, Merseyside Under–16s and Tranmere's reserve team.

John Graham Davies

In Spring 2009, Graham-Davies' play 'Beating Berlusconi', based on Liverpool FC's remarkable 2005 UEFA Champions League victory over AC Milan began touring across venues on Merseyside including the Unity Theatre in Liverpool, and has subsequently toured internationally, with a Norwegian production opening in the autumn of 2011.

Kingsway Tunnel

The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.

Knowsley Hall Music Festival

Knowsley Hall Music Festival is a music festival based at Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, near Liverpool.

Les Afful

He joined Exeter City as a trainee after playing for a Merseyside youth team in Toxteth, after being brought to Exeter for a friendly by former Birmingham City and Liverpool player Howard Gayle.

Leverhulme Memorial

The Leverhulme Memorial stands to the west of the Lady Lever Art Gallery on the junction of Windy Bank and Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Lord Street

Lord Street, Southport, the main shopping street of Southport, in Merseyside, England

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.

Merchant Taylors' School

Merchant Taylors' Girls' School (founded 1888), a British public school for girls, also located in Great Crosby on Merseyside

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.

National Hunter

The system was set up in 1993, by MCL Software of Southport, Merseyside, now an Experian subsidiary.

Nichols plc

Nichols plc, based in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, is a company well known for its lead brand Vimto, a fruit flavoured cordial.

Peter Kilfoyle

The eleventh of fourteen children born to an Irish Catholic family on Merseyside, Kilfoyle was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St. Edward's College in Liverpool; his father died when he was 10 years old.

Phil Scraton

It also included a new section revealing for the first time the events surrounding the appointment of Norman Bettison as Chief Constable of Merseyside and the significant role that he had played yet described as "peripheral" in the aftermath of the disaster.

Philip Sheppard

In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths by the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.

Port of Liverpool Police

The Port of Liverpool Police has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Merseyside Police, the territorial police force with statutory responsibility for policing Merseyside, which sets out how the two forces operate together and the sharing of certain resources, for example, custody facilities.

Red Rum

Merseyrail has named one of their trains in Red Rum's honour as part of a Merseyside Legends programme.

St George's Church, Thornton Hough

St George's Church, Thornton Hough, is in Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Stanley Park Stadium

Liverpool's then CEO, Rick Parry threatened to move Liverpool into a neighbouring borough on Merseyside because the only other site he considered viable was to become a residential estate in Garston.

Stewart Haslinger

Stewart Haslinger (born 25 November 1981, in Ainsdale, Merseyside) is an English chess Grandmaster and former British Junior champion.

Thatto Heath railway station

Thatto Heath railway station is located in the Thatto Heath area of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

The Big Fight Live

Their only networked boxing during this period were a few fights involving Shea Neary, thanks to a contract with Merseyside promoter John Hyland.

The Swinging Blue Jeans

Hedley Vick - Guitarist - 24 April 1952, Bromborough, Merseyside; 1975/6 including tours of UK, Europe and New Zealand; brother of opera director, Graham Vick