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21 unusual facts about Wirral Peninsula


Alexis Blue

The band were formed in September 2005 following the split of another Wirral band 'The Rails', with that band's lead guitarist Andrew Stewart and drummer Mark Easton being joined by Tom McCarron to form Alexis Blue.

Chris Boardman

Boardman lives with his wife and six children in his native Wirral.

Clatterbridge Health Park

Located in Bebington, Wirral, the health park was the former site of the defunct Wirral Union Workhouse.

Crosville Motor Services

The remaining Wirral and Chester Crosville operations were sold in February 1990 to PMT who retained the Crosville name, however it passed into history ten years later with the corporate First Group branding.

By 1929 Crosville had consolidated an operating area covering the Wirral and parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Flintshire.

Higsons Brewery

The company began to expand further, acquiring several public houses in the Wirral area and the Spraggs Brewery in 1919.

James McGaul

James Hannay McGaul (also known as J.H. McGaul) was born in Birkenhead, Wirral.

Otterspool Promenade

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

Peerless Brewing Company

Peerless Brewing Company is an independent microbrewery based in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, producing craft-brewed beers by combining traditional techniques and fine ingredients with a modern tang.

Porl King

Porl King, born 19 October 1967 on the Wirral Peninsula in England, first achieved public acclaim and success as the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the goth band Rosetta Stone from their inception in the late 1980s through to their demise in 1998.

Ray Putterill

Raymond Francis "Ray" Putterill (born 3 February 1989 in the Wirral) is an English footballer.

Refilwe

The church of St. Michael and All Angels in Newton, West Kirby, Wirral, England has an extensive link with the project and regularly sends parishioners to help with the project.

Sarah's Cottage, Isle of Man

The cottage was derelict until 1975 when the James Henry Shuttleworth the Lord of Abergwili and his wife Betty, the Lady of Abergwili from Wirral arrived and totally renovated it and carried on the tradition of selling refreshments to passers by and taking in guests.To date (2011) the cottage is still occupied by James H.Shuttleworth although his wife Betty died in 1988.

Stephen Connor

Stephen Connor (born 27 January 1989 on the Wirral) is an English football player who plays for Airbus UK Broughton, and has also played for two other Welsh Premier League clubs The New Saints and Bangor City.

The Coral

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England.

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

The first four British guide dogs - Judy, Flash, Folly and Meta - completed their training at Wallasey, Wirral in 1931, and three years after this The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association was formed.

Thomas Henry Ismay

After 6 days he was feeling better and he returned to Dawpool in Thurstaston, Wirral.

During these years he undertook several grand projects including, in July 1882, the building of a private residence in Thurstaston on the Wirral Peninsula, designed by the renowned architect Richard Norman Shaw.

University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Science

The school's teaching, treatment and research facilities on the main campus and at Leahurst on the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 12 miles outside Liverpool, are amongst the most advanced and innovative in the country.

Vasily Petrenko

Petrenko lives in Wirral Peninsula in the UK with his wife Evgenia Chernysheva-Petrenko and his son Alexander ("Sasha") Petrenko.

Warship Preservation Trust

The Warship Preservation Trust was based in Birkenhead, Wirral, England and hosted Europe's largest collection of preserved warships.


Alan Gill

Part of Graham's album Playing in Traffic was recorded at Gill's cottage in Raby Mere, Wirral.

Bromborough railway station

Bromborough railway station is one of two stations serving the Bromborough area of the Wirral, England.

Bromborough Rake railway station

Bromborough Rake railway station is one of two stations serving the Bromborough area of the Wirral, England.

Chester Weir

It prevents tidal water ingress up-river for all but the highest tides; it provides the water head for an abstraction immediately behind the weir and it holds back what is a long linear lake which enables that largest abstraction to be taken at Huntington for the North West Water supply to the Wirral and surrounding areas.

Cyril Clarke

From 1959 they started running a moth trap in Caldy Common near West Kirby, Wirral, England.

Edwin Brooks

At the 1964 general election he was Labour candidate for the Bebington constituency on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, losing to future Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe.

Hadlow Road railway station

Hadlow Road railway station was a station on the single track Hooton to West Kirby branch of the Birkenhead Railway, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England.

Ledsham railway station

Ledsham railway station was on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway near Little Sutton and about a mile from the hamlet of Ledsham on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.

Neston South railway station

Neston South railway station was a station on the single track Hooton to West Kirby branch of the Birkenhead Railway, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England.

Oxton Cricket Club

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

Parkgate railway station

Parkgate railway station was a station on the single track Hooton to West Kirby branch of the Birkenhead Railway, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England.

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.

The Trampformers

Indie-rock four piece The Trampformers first started playing at Calday Grange Grammar School on the Wirral, (The Coral's keyboards player Nick Power is a former pupil) where they won the school's 2005 Battle of The Bands Competition and came to the notice of a local promoter.