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A museum, which was called the North West Museum of Inland Navigation, was founded at the disused port in the 1970s. It was later renamed The Boat Museum and then, until 2012, the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port. [1] [2] In the 1990s, The Waterways Trust took on the management of the National Waterways Museum.
In 2007, as part of a revival of some industries, ports and shipbuilding in Britain, Ellesmere Port docks were re-opened. In 2008 the site of Ellesmere Port's operational dock - including over 70 acres (280,000 m 2) of the waterfront area (immediately to the north-west of Ellesmere Port Historic Dock and Conservation Area and to the south-east of the Bridgewater Paper Works) - was the subject ...
Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. [2] Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area, which had a population of 325,264 in 2011. [3]
Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet is an outlet centre in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.. Located off Junction 10 of the M53, it is the largest outlet centre in the United Kingdom, with 145 stores and the first designer outlet village in Europe, [1] when it opened in March 1995. [2]
In 1866 Little Sutton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1950 the parish was abolished and merged with Ellesmere Port. [4] The population was recorded at 166 in 1801, 432 in 1851 and rising to 1,109 in 1901. [5] In 1931 the parish had a population of 2258. [6] From 1974 to 2009 it was in Ellesmere Port and Neston district.
The town of Ellesmere Port had been a municipal borough from 1955 to 1974 with a borough council. [11] The first elections to the new Ellesmere Port Borough Council created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974.
The cinema was built for the Ellesmere Port Picture Palace Company, closing in about 1968, and then converted into a bingo hall. It is constructed in brick, which is pebbledashed at the front. Inside is a small foyer, and a double-height auditorium with a balcony. [12]
The local board of health was replaced by Wirral Rural District Council in 1894 and by Ellesmere Port and Whitby Urban District Council in 1902. [2] The new council initially established offices at Bank Buildings in Station Street, [3] before opening dedicated offices in 1908.