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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]
See main article: Horse-drawn boats Boat horses were the prime movers of the Industrial Revolution, and they remained at work until the middle of the 20th century.Today, horseboating is a way of recapturing the working lives of this former waterway community, especially the thousands of families and the tradesmen who kept the traffic moving.
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Rivacre Valley is an area of parkland and woodland in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. Named after the Rivacre Brook which runs through a valley in this area, the park is an established wildlife habitat and local nature reserve. The park is over 300 acres (1.2 km 2) [1] and comprises meadow and several areas of woodland. Church Wood, to the ...
Reported in December 2020 to be a pleasure boat but in unaltered condition at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. 1977–1979 Relief fleet 1979–1987 Porthdinllaen: 1987–1988 Appledore: 951 Francis K. Wotherspoon of Paisley: 1959 William Osbourne 1959–1979 Islay: Sold October 1986.
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]