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Servis Domestic Appliances manufactured washing machines (and later tumble driers). It acquired a patent on electronic controls for washing machine drums and the Servis Quartz & Servis Sapphire models were the first washing machines & washer dryers to be controlled by a microchip. The company went into liquidation in 1991.
Some of the Walton land also passed to the Earl of Derby and the Sefton family. [3] From 1894 to 1895 Walton on the Hill was an urban district, [4] Walton then became part of Liverpool Borough Council. [5] In 1921 the civil parish named Walton on the Hill had a population of 83,290. [6] On 1 April 1922 the parish was abolished and merged with ...
Merseyside (/ ˈ m ɜːr z i s aɪ d / MUR-zee-syde) is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Greater Manchester to the east, Cheshire to the south, the Welsh county of Flintshire across the Dee Estuary to the southwest, and the Irish Sea to the west.
Colston was a British electrical appliance manufacturer, founded by ex-Hoover director Sir Charles Colston [1] in 1955, that made compact dishwashers. In 1962 it merged with entrepreneur John Bloom 's rapidly expanding Rolls Razor washing machine company, which also concluded a deal to distribute Prestcold refrigerators .
Originally named Walton Junction when opened by the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway on 2 April 1849, the station was renamed Walton (Merseyside) by British Rail. [1] It is located just to the north of the junction between the Ormskirk and Kirkby branches of the Northern Line.
This is a list of settlements in Merseyside by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 20 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Merseyside , shown in the table below.
Princes Road is widely considered to be the most magnificent of Britain's Moorish Revival synagogues and one of the finest buildings in Liverpool. [248] Liverpool has a thriving Jewish community with a further two orthodox Synagogues, one in the Allerton district of the city and a second in the Childwall district of the city where a significant ...
Dingle is an area entirely within the boundaries of the old Toxteth Park.It is named after Dingle Brook (Dingle meaning a wooded valley), which rose at High Park Street and roughly followed Park Road towards the Old Toxteth Chapel, just south of Dingle Lane, and entered the River Mersey at Knott's Hole, which was a narrow bay or inlet next to where the Dingle flowed out to the Mersey.