80-668: Ribble Motor Services was a large regional bus operator in North West England based in Preston . Ribble Motor Services commenced operations in May 1919 following the acquisition of a depot consisting of four double-decker and one single-deck bus in Gregson Lane ; bus services operated out of the depot consisted of services from Preston to Gregson Lane, Bamber Bridge , Higher Walton and Longridge . Multiple companies were acquired throughout
160-647: A Queen's Award for Voluntary Service . There are three primary schools: Waterloo Primary, St. Johns C of E Primary, and St Edmunds & St Thomas's RC. Local high schools are in Crosby. The district is served by Waterloo station on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. Waterloo is connected to Liverpool by the Dock Road. The number 53 bus runs through South Road, Waterloo and into Liverpool City centre. Waterloo
240-542: A 17th example when they took over Bamber Bridge Motor Services; this was Ribble's only half-cab Lowlander. Ribble's head office was located on Frenchwood Avenue, Preston, and was opened in 1937. At its peak in 1949, Ribble Motor Services had over 40 depots across Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria of varying size and use. Operations in the Merseyside area were based at depots in Liverpool, Bootle, Seaforth Sands and Aintree in
320-454: A 3 acre wildflower meadow was established instigated by local resident Linda Gaskell with help from Sefton Councillor Michael Roche. The meadow is located within the former athletic track At Chafer's Fields. The varieties were selected by Richard Scott of the Eden Project and include Cornflower, sunflower, field marigold, camomile and poppies. It is planned to extend the meadow each year along
400-514: A 30%+ Black British population. In contrast, the town of St. Helens in Merseyside, unusually for a city area, has a very low percentage of ethnic minorities with 98% identifying as White British. The City of Liverpool, over 800 years old, is one of the few places in Britain where ethnic minority populations can be traced back over dozens of generations: being the closest major city in England to Ireland, it
480-555: A community trust and its original name restored. After successfully raising money to secure equipment, the re-opened cinema was staffed entirely by volunteers apart from the projectionist. After the support of British Film Commissioner Sir Sydney Samuelson the cinema was able to secure The Lost World: Jurassic Park as first film to be shown. Since then The Plaza has been a focal community point in Waterloo, offering Autism friendly screenings, Kids clubs and social clubs. In September 2009
560-410: Is Scafell Pike , Cumbria, at a height of 3,209 ft (978 m). Windermere is the largest natural lake in England, while Broad Crag Tarn on Broad Crag is England's highest lake. Wast Water is England's deepest lake, being 74 metres deep. A mix of rural and urban landscape, two large conurbations , centred on Liverpool and Manchester , occupy much of the south of the region. The north of
640-647: Is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton , in Merseyside , England. It is part of the Liverpool City Region . Together with Seaforth , the two localities make up the borough's Church ward . The area is bordered by Crosby to the north, Seaforth to the south, the Rimrose Valley country park to the east, and to the west Crosby Beach and Crosby Coastal Park. Crosby Beach begins in Waterloo at
720-900: Is bounded to the east by the Pennines and to the west by the Irish Sea . The region extends from the Scottish Borders in the north to the West Midlands region in the south. To its southwest is North Wales . Amongst the better known of the North West's physiographical features are the Lake District and the Cheshire Plain . The highest point in North West England (and the highest peak in England)
800-546: Is home to a significant ethnic Irish population, with the city being home to one of the first ever Afro-Caribbean communities in the UK, as well as the oldest Chinatown in Europe. The table below is not how many people belong to each ethnic group (e.g. a BBC News article in 2008 claimed there are over 25,000 ethnic Italians in Manchester alone whilst only 6,000 Italian-born people live in
880-531: Is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire , Cumbria , Greater Manchester , Lancashire and Merseyside . The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London . The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool . The official region consists of
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#1733084744699960-453: Is represented by three councillors. The northern part from St John's Rd to Queensway is in Victoria ward and is represented by another three councillors. Waterloo is a residential suburb of predominately Georgian , Edwardian and Victorian villas, mews and terraces, facing the sea. The South Road offers shops and restaurants. A series of public gardens – built as a job creation scheme during
1040-585: Is still predominant throughout the county, and stretches as far north as Furness in South Cumbria to parts of north Greater Manchester and Merseyside in the south of the region. The region boasts some of the most distinctive accents in the form of the Scouse accent, which originates from Liverpool and its surrounding areas, and the Manc accent, deriving from the central Manchester district. Both of these descend from
1120-457: Is the permanent home of Antony Gormley 's Another Place . The permanent art installation consists of figures of cast iron facing out to sea, spread over a 2 mile (3.2 km) stretch of the beach between Waterloo and Blundellsands . The Plaza Cinema has been a part of the fabric of Waterloo since 1939. The opening coincided with the outbreak of World War II forcing it to immediately close its doors under wartime restrictions until
1200-477: The 1981 Crosby by-election where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency. As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election , the Crosby constituency was abolished and Waterloo was included in the expanded Bootle constituency . For elections to Sefton Council , the southern part of Waterloo is within the electoral ward of Church and
1280-578: The 2019 United Kingdom general election , the Labour Party won a plurality of seats in the North West. It is one of the two regions (along with Yorkshire and the Humber ) that were expected to hold a referendum on the establishment of an elected regional assembly . However, when the North East region of England rejected having an elected regional assembly in a referendum, further referendums were cancelled and
1360-451: The Indices of deprivation 2007 , the region has many more Lower Layer Super Output Areas in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived council districts. Only North East England shows more indicators of deprivation than the North West, but the number of affluent areas in the North West is very similar to Yorkshire and the Humber . The most deprived local authority areas in
1440-529: The Industrial Revolution hundreds of thousands of Welsh people migrated to the North West of England to work in the coal mines. Parts with notably high populations with Welsh ancestry as a result of this include Liverpool , Chester , Skelmersdale , Widnes , Halewood , Wallasey , Ashton-in-Makerfield and Birkenhead . The Mixed Race population makes up 1.3% (93,800) of the region's population. There are 323,800 South Asians , making up 4.7% of
1520-550: The North Western Road Car Company and Lancashire United Transport , jointly operated the service X60 and X70 between Manchester, Bolton, Chorley , Preston and Blackpool. This joint operation, first started in 1928, was known as the world's most frequent express service in the 1960s, maintaining a scheduled departure every fifteen minutes in the summer. Ribble Motor Services made use of double-deck coaches known as 'White Ladies' for this service, first introduced in
1600-644: The Scandinavian influence throughout the North West. Through the Middle Ages the dialects of the North West would have been considerably different from those spoken in the Midlands and south. It was only with the spread of literacy (particularly with the publication of the King James Bible ) that Standard English spread to the region. Even so, local dialects continued to be used and were relatively widespread until
1680-543: The Solway Coast , and almost all of the Forest of Bowland ). Weather in this part of England is typically classified as maritime, moist and temperate, with a moderate annual temperature range. Average annual precipitation in the UK typically ranges from approximately 800 mm to 1,400 mm. Temperatures are generally close to the national average. Cumbria usually experiences the most severe weather, with high precipitation in
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#17330847446991760-654: The Waterloo constituency , a safe seat for the Conservative Party . From 1950 until 2010 Waterloo was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency. From 1997 to 2010 the Member of Parliament (MP) was Claire Curtis-Thomas , a member of the Labour Party ; prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold, like its predecessor seat, with Tory MPs elected at every election barring
1840-404: The electromagnet in 1825. Sydney Chapman , a mathematician from Eccles , in 1930 explained the ozone–oxygen cycle in the stratosphere , being the first to propose that atmospheric oxygen or ozone molecules absorb (harmful UVB and UVC) ultraviolet wavelengths of light in photolysis , to produce reactive single atoms which accumulate to form the ozone layer . Graphene was discovered at
1920-584: The 'Gay Hostess' Atlanteans, a 60-seater double-deck coach built on a Bristol VRL/LH chassis was developed around 1968 for motorway running by the Standerwick subsidiary. The Eastern Coach Works -bodied coach was driven by a Leyland Power Plus 680 engine mounted vertically and longitudinally behind the offside rear axle. In total, 30 Bristol VRL coaches were delivered. The company mainly operated Leyland vehicles, which were built nearby in Leyland, Lancashire . Under
2000-521: The 1920s and 1930s, including W. C. Standerwick of Blackpool in 1934, which was eventually rationalised as the name used for Ribble's coach excursion operations, and Ribble Motor Services soon grew to be the largest operator in the region, with a territory eventually stretching from Carlisle in Cumberland to southern Lancashire at the company's peak. In 1961, the Scout Motor Services business
2080-404: The 1930s Great Depression – run adjacent to the esplanade that abuts the marina leading to the coast and beach. Chaffers Running Track was established in the early 1960s. It was extensively used by the residents of Waterloo including local schools for their weekly sports days – and indeed the rest of Sefton. Southport and Waterloo Running Club used Chaffers as their base for about 15 years until
2160-672: The 1950s. In 1979, a new open-plan depot was brought into use in Bootle 250 yards away from the original garage on Hawthorne Road. Bootle depot would be acquired by Liverpool independent company Liverline in 1992 and is still in use today by Arriva Merseyside . Other new depots were constructed in Carlisle in 1967, as well as in Skelmersdale in October 1974, replacing an existing site in Ormskirk . One depot
2240-526: The 19th and 20th centuries. In modern times, English is the most spoken language in the North West, with a large percentage of the population fluent in it, and close to 100% conversational in it. To the north-east of the region, within the historic boundaries of Cumberland , the Cumbrian dialect is dominant. The historical county of Lancashire covered a vast amount of land, and the Lancashire dialect and accent
2320-614: The Conservatives four, whilst Lancashire is competitive between Labour and Conservative (8 seats each); the Labour seats in Lancashire are concentrated in the south of the county along the M65 . For the region, the Labour gained 3 seats; there was a 5.2% swing from Conservative to Labour. In the 2015 general election, Liverpool Walton was the safest seat in the UK, with a 72% majority, and in 2017 this
2400-467: The Conservatives have 20, and the Liberal Democrats have 1. The Lib Dems' North West seat is in south Cumbria; Labour dominates Greater Manchester, and the Conservatives' vote is concentrated in affluent suburban areas such as Cheadle , Hazel Grove and Altrincham and Sale West . Labour seats also predominate in Merseyside. In Cheshire the 2015 result was reversed, with Labour winning seven seats and
2480-492: The Crosby Marine Park and stretches 3 miles up to Hightown . The beach is the location of Antony Gormley's Another Place sculpture. The area is connected to Liverpool in the south and Southport to the north by Merseyrail 's Northern line at Waterloo station . Waterloo was historically part of Lancashire and originally an area of Crosby , named Crosby Seabank. At that time it consisted mostly of cottages,
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2560-679: The Lake District. Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster, Blackburn and Preston are among the region's many English place names. In the 9th to the 11th centuries, Danes from the east and Norsemen from Ireland and Scotland began settling in the area. The North West is really the only area of England where Norse settlement was significant and their influence remains in the place names and dialect of the region. Elements like fell , thwaite and tarn , which are particularly common in Cumbria, are all Norse. The numerous Kirkbys and place names with "holm" and "dale" show
2640-448: The Lancashire dialect but have some distinctions from it, especially Scouse. The region's accents are among those referred to as ' Northern English '. Large immigrant populations in the North West result in the presence of significant immigrant languages. South Asian languages such as Urdu , Hindi and Punjabi are widespread, with the largest number of speakers residing in Preston , Blackburn and Manchester. The Chinese once made up
2720-683: The Litherland Park Sports Centre (LPSC ) was built. When the plans for LPSC were given the green light the Council left CHaffers running track to nature. On the Monday the 27th of April 2020 at 5pm a meeting took place on the overgrown running track to discuss the restoration of the once much-loved track. The track has not only been restored (with asphalt and seven lanes) but has modern flood lights for evening sessions. Permission has been granted (with fundraising) for newbuild changing rooms. In 2019
2800-471: The North West are as follows: Liverpool and Manchester are sometimes considered parts of a single large polynuclear metropolitan area , or megalopolis but are usually treated as separate metropolitan areas. In some studies, part of Wigan in Greater Manchester is considered part of the Liverpool metropolitan area. The North West of England has historically been held by the Labour Party . In
2880-565: The North West from around the 7th century AD, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria first appears to have made inroads west of the Pennines. The language at this time would have been the Northumbrian dialect of Old English . The high percentage of English place names in the region as a whole suggests English became almost ubiquitous over the coming centuries, particularly in the area south of
2960-471: The North West's population resides in Greater Manchester, 21.39% in Lancashire, 20.30% in Merseyside, 14.76% in Cheshire and 7.41% live in the largest county by area, Cumbria. According to 2009 Office for National Statistics estimates, 91.6% (6,323,300) of people in the region describe themselves as 'White': 88.4% (6,101,100) White British , 1.0% (67,200) White Irish and 2.2% (155,000) White Other . During
3040-454: The North West). The proportion of people residing in North West England born outside the UK was 11.7% in 2021, compared with 8.2% in 2011 and 5.1% in 2001. Below are the fifteen largest overseas-born groups in the region according to the 2021 census, alongside the two previous censuses: One in five of the population in the North West is Catholic , a result of large-scale Irish emigration in
3120-609: The Plaza celebrated its 70th anniversary. In May 2010, the venue hosted the celebration event for the Who I Am and Where I'm From project which showcased a collection of animations produced by the Polish Community in Sefton called Polska Tales . In July 2011 the cinema completed an £80,000 refurbishment that saw Sir Sydney Samuelson attend its reopening ceremony. In 2016 the Plaza was awarded
3200-588: The Ribble brand. Upon the creation of the National Bus Company in January 1969, Ribble Motor Services gained the Carlisle operations of United Automobile Services , which too had joined the National Bus Company. United had established a presence in Carlisle in 1931, building a depot on Scotch Street in 1938, which was acquired by Ribble Motor Services alongside United's bus services in the city. Ribble Motor Services
3280-899: The Ribble operations in Blackburn , Hyndburn , Clitheroe and Bolton to the Blazefield Group for £13 million, which rebranded them as Lancashire United and Burnley & Pendle . As a subsidiary of Stagecoach, the company remained registered as Ribble Motor Services. Its services were operated under the trading name Ribble Buses, then as Stagecoach Ribble, Stagecoach in Lancashire (which became part of Stagecoach North West ) and finally as part of Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire . Its bus routes were transferred to Glenvale Transport Ltd (formerly Stagecoach Merseyside ) in 2013. In 2021, Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire changed their trading name from Glenvale Transport Limited to Ribble Motor Services Limited to reflect heritage of
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3360-673: The UK in 2019, 31.23% voted for the Brexit Party, with Labour polling 21.91%, the Liberal Democrats 17.15% and the Green Party 12.48%. The Conservatives came fifth in the region with 7.55% of votes cast. The earliest known language spoken in the North West was a dialect of the Brythonic language spoken across much of Britain from at least the Iron Age up to the arrival of English in the first millennium AD. Fragments of this early language are seen in
3440-579: The University of Manchester in 2004 under Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov . At the Calico Printers' Association in Manchester in 1941, John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson discovered polyethylene terephthalate , known as PET, a common polyester compound found in plastic bottles and food, and also known as Terylene or Dacron. Cheslene and Crepes of Macclesfield discovered crimplene ,
3520-767: The Valley. The Marina is a stretch of fields and protected natural wildlife area near the Marina Lake. The area begins adjacent to the Royal Seaforth Dock . A path runs through the Marina toward the sand dunes of Crosby Beach , it is the main route taken by foot to get to the beach, beginning at the top of South Road, Waterloo. The Marina has a café (Waterloo Place opened in 2015) and the Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre (opened in early 2010). The beach at Waterloo
3600-483: The X27 service from Liverpool to Skipton via Southport . In 1962, the 'White Lady' Leyland Titan PD2s were replaced by 20 Leyland Atlanteans with coach-seated Weymann bodies. As the buses were used on medium-distance express services as opposed to long-distance services, no toilet facility was carried, increasing seating capacity on the coaches from 50 to 59. These 'White Lady' Atlanteans were retained into NBC ownership, albeit eventually downgraded to service buses by
3680-418: The application of standard NBC livery. Motorways were developed in the late 1950s, and in 1958, the M6 Preston Bypass , located within Ribble Motor Services' operating area, was opened as the first motorway in the United Kingdom. In November 1959, Ribble Motor Services were granted authorisation by the Northern Traffic Commissioner to operate a service from Keswick to London's Victoria Coach Station via
3760-403: The beachfront, sand-hills and fields. The area grew in popularity with wealthy visitors from Liverpool, prompting the planning and construction of a large hotel in the Georgian style to be named the Crosby Seabank Hotel . The grand opening coincided with 18 June 1816, the first anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo , and was named the Royal Waterloo Hotel in honour of the event. Gradually, as
3840-464: The company's Cumbrian operations based from depots in Kendal , Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston were transferred to fellow Stagecoach subsidiary CMS Cumberland , leaving Stagecoach Ribble with operations only in Lancashire and Greater Manchester . Stagecoach Ribble would go on to acquire the depot and 20 vehicles from the fleet of Lancaster City Transport in 1993, followed by the operations of Hyndburn Transport in 1996. In April 2001, Stagecoach sold
3920-528: The dominant party in the region by seat count, with the Conservatives total now standing at 27. The Conservatives made two gains in Cheshire, three gains in Lancashire, five gains in Greater Manchester, notably including Andy Burnham 's former seat of Leigh. In the 2017 general election , the area was dominated by the Labour Party. Fifty-five per cent of the region's electorate voted Labour, 36.3% Conservative, 5.4% Liberal Democrat, 1.9% UKIP and 1.1% Greens; however, by number of parliamentary seats, Labour have 54,
4000-485: The existence of the atomic nucleus . Sir J. J. Thomson of Cheetham Hill discovered the electron (given its name in 1891 by George Johnstone Stoney ) in April 1897 and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; his son George Paget Thomson would win the Nobel Prize for Physics 1937 for discovering electron diffraction (at the University of Aberdeen). John Dalton , from Cumbria and moved to Manchester, developed atomic theory . William Sturgeon of Lancashire invented
4080-463: The fabric that is now referred to as polyester. ICI Dyestuffs at Hexagon House , in Blackley in north Manchester, discovered Procion dyes. At the Winnington Laboratory on 27 March 1933, Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson discovered polythene in an ICI laboratory in Northwich, when reacting benzaldehyde with ethene at a pressure of 2,000 atmospheres ; the process was improved in 1935 by Michael Perrin . Waterloo, Merseyside Waterloo
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#17330847446994160-485: The first batch of 10 fitted with Leyland engines showed poor fuel economy, a larger batch of 56 Bristol RESLs equipped with Gardner engines were ordered in 1969. Some Bristol VR double-deckers were also acquired in 1970. Two batches of the lowbridge Albion Lowlander double-decker bus were purchased by Ribble, all being the LR1 model. These had a fully fronted cab and were a replica of the highbridge PD3s that Ribble operated; they were not popular buses. Ribble acquired
4240-454: The following subdivisions : After abolition of the Greater Manchester and Merseyside County Councils in 1986, power was transferred to the metropolitan boroughs , making them equivalent to unitary authorities. In April 2011, Greater Manchester gained a top-tier administrative body in the form of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority , which means the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs are once again second-tier authorities. North West England
4320-479: The form of a combination of Burlingham and later East Lancashire Coachbuilders -bodied 8 feet (2.4 m) wide Leyland Titan PD2s in the late 1940s. Throughout the 1950s the 'White Ladies' ran on all the major express and limited stop services out of Lower Mosley Street, Manchester. In particular they served the routes due north including X3 & X13 to Great Harwood , X23 Clitheroe , X43 Skipton and Colne , X53 Burnley , and X66 Blackburn . They also ran on
4400-446: The inscriptions and place names of the Roman era. In some parts of the region, the Brythonic dialect developed into the medieval language known today as Cumbric , which continued to be spoken perhaps as late as the 12th century in the north of Cumbria. This early Celtic heritage remains today in place names such as Carlisle , Penrith and Eccles , and many river names such as Cocker , Kent and Eden . English may have been spoken in
4480-426: The largest minority in the region (as Liverpool has one of the oldest Chinese settlements in Europe), and still do to the far north where Chinese is spoken by small but significant communities. Since the enlargement of the EU, over one million Poles have immigrated to the UK, a large number of them settling in the North West. Places such as Crewe as well as larger cities make Polish written information available for
4560-466: The local minority populations. In the Eurostat Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), North West is a level-1 NUTS region, coded "UKD", which (since 2015) is subdivided as follows: Population > 400,000 Population > 100,000 Population > 70,000 Population > 50,000 Population > 30,000 Population > 20,000 Population > 10,000 Population > 5,000 The five largest metropolitan areas in
4640-406: The mountainous regions of the Lake District and Pennines. In winter, the most severe weather occurs in the more exposed and elevated areas of the North West, once again mainly the Lake District and Pennine areas. Source: Office for National Statistics Mid Year Population Estimates in 2008 North West England's population accounts for just over 13% of England's overall population. 37.86% of
4720-409: The new M1 motorway ; in order to accommodate long-distance motorway travel, Ribble Motor Services had developed the 'Gay Hostess' double-deck express coach, based on the Leyland Atlantean chassis, featuring 50 reclining seats, a toilet and spaces for luggage. The 'Gay Hostess' Leyland Atlantean coaches were split between Ribble, who operated 15, and subsidiary Standerwick, who operated 22. To replace
4800-413: The nineteenth century as well as the high number of English recusants in Lancashire . Of the nine regions of England, the North West has the fourth-highest GVA per capita —the highest outside southern England. Despite this the region has above average multiple deprivation with wealth heavily concentrated on very affluent areas like rural Cheshire, rural Lancashire, and south Cumbria. As measured by
4880-448: The ownership of the National Bus Company, Ribble standardised on Leyland National single-deckers and Leyland Leopard coaches. Two prototype Leyland Olympians with Eastern Coach Works bodies were delivered to Ribble in 1980; Ribble would go on to purchase further ECW-bodied Olympians for 'Timesaver' express services between Burnley and Manchester in 1984. In 1949, Sentinel developed an underfloor-engined single-deck bus, which increased
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#17330847446994960-421: The part of Great Crosby parish in Waterloo with Seaforth Urban District , and subsequently became part of the municipal borough of Crosby in 1937. In 1951 the parish had a population of 16,997. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished and the Municipal Borough of Crosby became part of the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Sefton . From 1918 until 1950 Waterloo was within the Parliamentary seat known as
5040-415: The population increased and the area became an identifiable location it became known as Waterloo, with several streets taking the name of names associated with the battle cementing the association. Some of the buildings in Waterloo such as the Grade II Listed Potters Barn park buildings are replicas of those found in Waterloo, Belgium . On 31 December 1894 Waterloo became a civil parish , formed from
5120-486: The population, and 1.1% Black (80,600). 0.6% of the population (39,900) are Chinese and 0.5% (36,500) of people belong to another ethnic group. North West England is a very diverse region, with Manchester and Liverpool amongst the most diverse cities in Europe. 19.4% of Blackburn with Darwen 's population are Muslim, the third-highest among all local authorities in the United Kingdom and the highest outside London. Areas such as Moss Side in Greater Manchester are home to
5200-425: The proposals for elected regional assemblies in England put on hold. The regional leaders' forum, 4NW is based on Waterside Drive in Wigan . The former North West England European Parliament constituency had the same boundaries as the Region. Ten English regions were established by the government in 1994. At that time, Merseyside , which already had its own Government Office, formerly the Merseyside Task Force,
5280-407: The public order was rescinded by the government. Originally named The Plaza , it has changed hands numerous times during its life, becoming known as The Odeon in the 1950s, The Classic in the 1970s and The Apollo in the 1990s. In 1996 the cinema was closed when the owners decided to sell the property for redevelopment. After numerous petitions the cinema was reopened on 18 July 1997 under
5360-519: The public, to much controversy. Other immigrant languages with a presence in the North West are Spanish, mainly amongst the Latin American communities in Liverpool and Manchester , as well as various other Eastern European and Asian languages. The most taught languages in schools across the North West are English, French and Spanish. German and Italian are available at more senior levels and, in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool, even Urdu and Mandarin are being taught to help maintain links between
5440-416: The region (based on specific wards within those borough areas) are, in descending order—Liverpool, Manchester, Knowsley, Blackpool, Salford, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Rochdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Halton, Hyndburn, Oldham, Pendle, St Helens, Preston, Bolton, Tameside, Wirral, Wigan, Copeland, Sefton, and Rossendale. In 2007 when Cheshire still had district councils, the least deprived council districts in
5520-399: The region by council district, in descending order, were—Congleton, Ribble Valley, Macclesfield, and South Lakeland. These areas have Conservative MPs, except South Lakeland has a Lib Dem and Labour MPs. At county level, before it was split into two, Cheshire was the least deprived, followed by Trafford, and by Warrington and Stockport. In March 2011, the overall unemployment claimant count
5600-401: The region, comprising Cumbria and northern Lancashire, is largely rural, as is the far south which encompasses parts of the Cheshire Plain and Peak District. The region includes parts of three National parks (all of the Lake District , and small parts of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales ) and three areas of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (all of Arnside and Silverdale and
5680-437: The seating capacity to a total of 40 seats. Ribble took two batches of these buses. In the 1960s, Ribble ordered ten lightweight Bedford coaches for their extended tour fleet. A batch of Bristol RELL single-deck buses was delivered to Ribble Motor Services in 1968, shortly before the government brought together Leyland Bus and the National Bus Company into the plan to build the Leyland National bus factory in Cumberland. After
5760-607: Was 4.2% for the region. Inside the region the highest was Liverpool with 6.8%, followed by Knowsley on 6.3%, Halton with 5.5% and Rochdale with 5.1%. The lowest claimant count is in Eden (Cumbria) and Ribble Valley (Lancashire) each with 1.3%, followed by South Lakeland with 1.4%. In the 2019 general election , the Conservatives gained ten seats, from the Labour Party, with no other seats changing hands. Labour held 42 of their 52 seats, albeit many with slimmed down majorities. They remain
5840-595: Was a former railway terminus, this being the former Southport Lord Street railway station , once owned by the Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway , which had closed in 1952. Ribble Motor Services converted the former railway building into a bus station, which opened in 1954, and would later add maintenance facilities to commence the former station's use as Ribble's Southport depot. [REDACTED] Media related to Ribble Motor Services (bus company) at Wikimedia Commons North West England North West England
5920-569: Was home to Waterloo rugby club who took their name from the area, having played there from 1884 until 1892 before moving back to Blundellsands . In 1992, they famously defeated then English champions and cup holders Bath 9-8 in a fourth round cup tie. The marina in Waterloo, and adjacent Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre, is home to the Crosby Scout and Guide Marina Club . A local charity, the Waterloo Partnership , fundraises for Waterloo ,
6000-460: Was notable for operating a number of express bus and coach services across Great Britain. In the early 1930s, after reaching inter-working agreements with various regional bus operators in both England and Scotland, Ribble began serving destinations such as Barnsley , Carlisle, Doncaster , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Halifax , Huddersfield , Leeds , Newcastle upon Tyne , Middlesbrough , Scarborough and Wakefield . Ribble Motor Services, as well as
6080-724: Was one of several operators to operate in the Merseyside region in the 1950s and 1960s, following the acquisition of a number of bus operators in the area. Following the acquisition of Waterloo and Crosby Motor Services, Ribble operated 12 'L'-prefixed services from Liverpool to Waterloo , Crosby , Hall Road and Thornton via Bootle and Seaforth . Operating for nineteen hours a day, these services would have bus frequencies that varied between every seven minutes to every 30 minutes. Joint agreements for Ribble Motor Services to run bus services across both Liverpool as well as St Helens were made by both cities' respective corporations' transport departments on several occasions. Ribble Motor Services
6160-504: Was purchased, initially organised as a subsidiary of Ribble Motor Services. Scout's operations were later absorbed into both Ribble and W.C. Standerwick in 1968. On 1 January 1969, Ribble Motor Services, then a subsidiary of British Electric Traction , passed into the ownership of the state-owned National Bus Company following the passing of the Transport Act 1968 . Prior to the deregulation of bus services in 1986, Ribble's territory
6240-436: Was reduced with the company's north Cumbrian operations passing to Cumberland Motor Services and Merseyside operations to a recreated North Western . As part of the privatisation of the National Bus Company, Ribble was sold on 2 March 1988 in a management buyout . In April 1989, Ribble was purchased by Stagecoach Holdings . The following May, Barrow Borough Transport was purchased by Stagecoach Ribble, and shortly afterwards,
6320-642: Was regarded as a separate region. In 1998, Merseyside was merged into the North West region. This action was controversial in some quarters. Regional Government Offices were abolished in April 2011 by the Coalition Government. Sir Ernest Marsden (of Blackburn) and Hans Geiger conducted the Geiger–Marsden experiment at the University of Manchester in 1909, where the Geiger counter was invented, which demonstrated
6400-454: Was repeated with a 77% majority for Dan Carden (Labour), when an astonishing 85.7% of the electorate voted for him (the Conservatives came second with 8.6%). In the by-election of 2012 , Manchester Central has the record for the lowest turnout in the UK—18%. Gwyneth Dunwoody , for Crewe and Nantwich, was the longest serving female MP until her death in 2008. In the final European Elections in
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