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Summerstrand is a seaside suburb of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) south-east of the Port Elizabeth city centre. It is primarily a residential suburb along with shopping and business facilities. It is also home to three Nelson Mandela University campuses.
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]
Ellesmere Port (/ ˈ ɛ l z m ɪər / ELZ-meer) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England.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.
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.
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 ...
The Blue Planet Aquarium is a marine and freshwater aquarium located by the Cheshire Oaks retail and leisure complex in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.When opened by the Queen Elizabeth II in July 1998, [2] it was the largest aquarium in the United Kingdom, and is still the largest in North West England.
The Wirral line is fully electrified with a DC third rail, [8] and has existed in its current form since May 1994 with the start of electric services to Ellesmere Port. [12] [13] A total of 34 stations are served, with connections available to mainline services at Liverpool Lime Street, Bidston, Ellesmere Port and Chester.