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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
The Anson Engine Museum in Poynton is on the site of a former colliery. Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, on the site of the observatory in Lower Withington, explores astronomy. There are also several transport museums, including the Crewe Heritage Centre (railways), the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port and the Anderton Boat Lift (canals
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 Society was founded on 19 January 2001 at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, and it is the only organisation in the UK solely dedicated to horseboating. [ 1 ] Horseboating
Narrow boat: Ellesmere Port: Museum exhibit Part of the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port: 481 Merope: W. H. Walker & Brothers Rickmansworth: 1936 Narrow boat: Ellesmere Port: Museum exhibit Part of the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port: 1805 MGB 81: British Power Boat Company: Hythe, Hampshire: 1942 Motor Gun Boat: Portsmouth ...
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 the 1840s the house was described by W. Mortimer as "the finest ancient manor house in Cheshire". The house, which had long been derelict, was destroyed to allow for later expansion of the works. The clock which once occupied a gable of the house was saved and is now situated in the Boat Museum of Ellesmere Port. [4]
Cuckooland Museum, Tabley ; National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port; Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, Widnes; Grosvenor Museum, Chester; Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker; Lion Salt Works, Marston; Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich