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Check Christmas bin collection dates, says States December 21, 2024 at 11:11 PM Some collections will be moved forward or take place later than usual, the States has said [BBC]
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]
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 ...
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.
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 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.
Ellesmere Castle; Ellesmere Rural, a civil parish to the west; Ellesmere Park, area of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England; Ellesmere Port, an industrial town in Cheshire, England; Ellesmere Port and Neston, a former district and borough in Cheshire, England; Ellesmere Canal, a canal in the United Kingdom, now known as the Llangollen Canal
Whitby Hall. The park was formerly the grounds of Whitby Hall, a Victorian house built in the 1860s by the Grace family, [2] until being bought by the district council in 1931 and turned into a park.