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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.
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]
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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 taxi driver, whose posts on a social media channel were a "catalyst" for violent disorder which broke out after three girls were stabbed at a dance class, has been jailed seven-and-a-half years.
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 2022, the council moved its main offices to a new building called The Portal on Wellington Road in Ellesmere Port, and vacated most of the space it had formerly occupied at HQ Chester. Since 2022 full council meetings have been held at Wyvern House. [26]
Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority area with borough status in Cheshire, England.It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 local government changes, by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007. [5]