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Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, with an urban area population of 57,663 in 2004. It is located on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form Runcorn Gap. Directly to the south across the Mersey is the town of Runcorn. Upstream and 8 miles (13 km) to the east is the town of Warrington, and downstream 16 miles (26 km) to the west is the city of Liverpool.
Historically part of Lancashire, prior to the Industrial Revolution Widnes consisted of a small number of separate settlements on land which was mainly marsh or moorland. In 1847 the first chemical factory was established and the town rapidly became a major centre of the chemical industry. The demand for labour was met by the immigration of large numbers of workers from Ireland, Poland, Lithuania and Wales. The town continues to be a major manufacturer of chemicals and there has been a degree of diversification of the town's industries.
Widnes lies on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester railway line. The main roads passing through the town are the A557 in a north-south direction and the A562 which runs east-west. The Sankey Canal (now disused) terminates in an area of the town known as Spike Island.
Shaun Ryder (born 23 August 1962 in Little Hulton, near Salford) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex-postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays.
His lyrics in the band Happy Mondays, dismissed by some as drug-induced gibberish, also received critical praise for their wit and musical fusion with the sound of the band. Ryder's struggle with drugs eventually led to the breakup of the Mondays in 1992.
The film 24 Hour Party People featured the (semi-fictional) story of Shaun Ryder's youth and the life of Happy Mondays whilst signed with Factory Records in the late eighties and early nineties.
The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1Former head office of the Girobank in Bootle; it closed in 2003; it was taken over by Alliance & Leicester in 1990; it was established in Bootle in the late 1960s with help from Hugh Baird; it was the first financial institution in Europe to be fully computerised from the start (from North West England)
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Image 3MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
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Image 4Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
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Image 6Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
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Image 8Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
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Image 10Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
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Image 11Cereal Partners UK ( Nestlé) make Cheerios and Golden Nuggets on the A41 opposite Port Sunlight at Bromborough, also the base of CSM UK, the baking ingredients company based at a former Unilever Stork margarine site. (from North West England)
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Image 14Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
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Image 15Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
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Image 16Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port exports 88% of its cars, although many of the components are imported, and has made over 5 million since 1962, also making the Vectra from 1995 to 2008; it makes 686 a day (two a minute, 100,000 a year) and the latest model was designed by Mark Adams and Malcolm Ward. Three million Astras have been sold in the UK since 1979, and featured on the Top Gear test track until 2015; the production is split with the Opel Manufacturing Poland site at Gliwice in southern Poland; the Corsa is made at Opel Zaragoza in north-east Spain, with 3-door versions at Opel Eisenach; the Insignia is made at Opel Rüsselsheim (from North West England)
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Image 17Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
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Image 18Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
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Image 19Carmel College (from North West England)
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Image 20Trafford College (from North West England)
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Image 21JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
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Image 25Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
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Image 26Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
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Image 27Old meets new at the Stockport Viaduct; designed by George W. Buck, it is the largest free-standing brick structure in the UK, built in 1840 when it was the largest viaduct in the world; it features in many L. S. Lowry paintings. (from North West England)
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Image 29Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
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Image 30Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
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Image 31Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
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Image 32Kelloggs in Manchester, looking north along the A5181 next to GMFRS's Stretford Area Command HQ; the site is the largest producer of cereals in Europe (from North West England)
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Image 33A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 (HS 801), built at Woodford (former Avro) and designed in Manchester in the mid-1960s, with XV148 (former Comet 4C) making its first flight on 23 May 1967, flying from Chester ( Broughton, which had built many de Havilland fighter jet aircraft) to Woodford; 49 Nimrods were made for the RAF, entering service with 201 Sqn on 6 November 1970, serving until March 2010 with 38 Sqn (from North West England)
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Image 34Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
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Image 35Winstanley College (from North West England)
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Image 37Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
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Image 38Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
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Image 39The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
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Image 42Ineos ChlorVinyls at Runcorn in 2006; the UK chemicals industry is worth £57bn, with 180,000 people in around 3,000 companies (from North West England)
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Image 43Blackburn College (from North West England)
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Image 45JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
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Image 46The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
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Image 47Heinz, although based in Hayes in Middlesex, has the largest food processing complex in Europe at a 55-acre (22 ha) site at Kitt Green in Wigan, which produces 1.4 billion cans of food each year; it is accessed to the east of the Orrell Interchange of the M6 ( A577); the 38-acre Heinz NDC is next door (from North West England)
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Image 48A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
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Image 49The Jodrell Bank Lovell 76-m radio telescope in Lower Withington, built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir Charles Husband and built of steel from Scunthorpe (from North West England)
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Image 50Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
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Image 51General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
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Image 52Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
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