| Year |
Event |
| 1830 |
Liverpool and Manchester railway opens giving Liverpool superb communications with the rest of the country. |
| 1830 |
The
Perch Rock Lighthouse was completed on 1 March.
 |
| 1832 |
Bold Arms opens on Lord Street opens, a superior class of hotel. |
| 1832 |
Liverpool
Standard founded. |
| 1833 |
Liverpool
Saturday Advertiser shuts down. |
| 1834 |
Fire police established. |
| 1835 |
The sea-wall started, to make the promenade, to help in sea defence and to make viable building and for a watering hole near the sea. |
| 1835 |
Rev. Charles Hesketh appointed Rector of North Meols in this year. |
| 1835 |
Custom House opened, now gone due to bombing in the second world war. |
| 1835 |
Everton, Kirkdale, part of West Derby and some of Toxteth Park become part of Liverpool. |
| 1835 |
Municipal Reforms Act, this revises the Local Government and how it's run. |
| 1836 |
The rest of West Derby, Toxteth, Walton and Wavertree all join Liverpool. |
| 1836 |
Liverpool Borough Council set up itīs own police force.
09/02/1836 |
| 1836 |
Liverpool Mail founded. |
| 1837 |
Queen Victoria is Crowned. |
| 1837 |
Lancashire Constabulary formed
in responsible for policing all parts of the county.
This was all the county except for Liverpool and Manchester.
18/12/1837 |
| 1839 |
Liverpool
Weekly Mercury founded. |
| 1839 |
The Royal Victoria Baths constructed. |
| 1840 |
Cunard starts it's fortnightly service to New York with the steamship Britannia, closely followed by Blue Funnel and White Star lines. Liverpool Dock Trust puts lifeboat in charge of the Harbour Master.
 |
| 1840 |
With concerns over the rising shipping in the area Southport's starts it's own sea rescue service, and has built a boat called the rescue, this is before the RNLI is set up.
|
| 1840 |
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert. |
| 1841 |
Claremont House opened to the public. |
| 1841 |
A
survey of South-Port says there are 1271 houses in the hamlet with a population of 7774. Peter Hesketh Fleetwood earns Ģ214 per annum in rental from 14 acres of land in the area. The census also pointed out that 87.8% of the population of Southport attended church on the census day. 30 years later the result was almost the same.
The census returns for this year says there are 176 residents living in 30 houses, with 3 houses unoccupied. 22 of those occupied houses were farms, and not counting the smith and the miller the rest were agricultural
labourers. |
| 1842 |
Continued influx of impoverished families resulted in horrific epidemics regularly sweeping through the town's slums erected around the town center.
Report on Liverpool's Sanitation concluded
"More filth, worse physical suffering and moral disorder than Howard
describes as affecting the prisons, are to be found among the cellar population of the working people of Liverpool." |
| 1842 |
Victoria Hotel, a very prestigious hotel opened. |
| 1843 |
Birkenhead Borough Police
was formed. |
| 1844 |
Southport
Visiter founded. |
| 1845 |
Ainsdale is a total size of 1300 acres. |
| 1845 |
Little Ireland well established by this point, a den of drinking and fighting, with only 5 privies serving the 100 or so people who lived here. Assaults and serious woundings were the norm for this area. Mrs. Hesketh choose to cleanse the area by evicting the tenants, but this proved to be a turbulent chore, but accomplished in the end. |
| 1846 |
Prince Consort Albert visits Liverpool and opens the Albert Dock complex.
Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, visits the Albert Dock and compared the miles of docks with the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt. The docks were so unprecedented that they were termed the
"Modern wonder of the world." 1846. Southport set up as a separate entity by an act of parliament, now has town status.
|
| 1847 |
Over 300,000 Irish poor landed in the port escaping famine.
Outbrakes of Cholera results in the Liverpool Corporation appointing Dr Duncan to be
the first Medical Officer of Health in the country.
The influx of immigrants was identified by Dr Duncan to be the course of the major
outbreaks of typhus fever. In this year over 21,000 people died, that was one in fifteen of Liverpool's population.
|
| 1848 |
The survey of schools reports that there are 21 of them in the area now, an increase of 15 from a similar survey in 1826. |
| 1848 |
William Rockloiffe becomes the coxswain on the Rescue.
|
| 1848 |
The First railway line into Southport opens in this year, the terminal was on Portland Street. |
| 1849 |
Mass burials were regular occurrences with 572 deaths notified in one week of August. |
| 1851 |
Census of Southport during this year shows that of the 727 buildings in the area 85 were lodging houses whilst further visitors were accommodated in the 5 hotels and inns.
The census returns of this year confirm Ainsdale is still a agricultural community, with a population of only 176, of the 36 homes only 18 are farms whilst the rest belong to agricultural labourers. |
| 1852 |
Sand Yachts re-introduced to Southport beaches, after being banned for several years due to a collision with a bathing machine. |
| 1853 |
Northern
Daily Times founded. |
| 1855 |
During Whit week 40,000 people descended on Southport to enjoy the sun and the beach. The Lancashire - Yorkshire Railway opens in this year and has it's terminal on Chapel Street.
Ormskirk Advertiser founded. |
| 1855 |
Liverpool
Daily Post and Liverpool Herald founded. |
| 1856 |
Liverpool
Times & Billinge's Advertiser and Liverpool
Standard shut down. |
| 1857 |
The last recorded Flying Dutchman Ride. |
| 1857 |
Cheshire Constabulary was formed. |
| 1858 |
The toll-fee for walking along the Promenade is abolished when the Improvement Council took over the maintenance of the sea-wall and Promenade area. |
| 1860 |
Sir Charles Scarisbrick dies, being one of the wealthiest commoners in Lancashire. |
| 1860 |
Southport Pier opened. |
| 1860 |
RNLI takes over the running of the Southport Lifeboat Station.
|
| 1860 |
The Rescue lifeboat taken out of service.
The boat had saved some 173 lives and a great many boats.
|
| 1860 |
The rectory re-named the Rookery.
(Southport) |
| 1860 |
Altcar Rifle Range Estate established. |
| 1860 |
Croxteth Halls east and south wings added. |
| 1860 |
The
newspaper called the
Seaside Tattler was founded. |
| 1860 |
First street railway in Britain started in Birkenhead. The route it travelled was from the ferry terminal in Woodside to Birkenhead Park. |
| 1861 |
12,900 infant deaths with 6,500 children under five years of age recorded in that year. |
| 1861 |
The Widnes-Runcorn Railway Bridge, opened. |
| 1861 |
Northern Daily Times shuts down. |
| 1861 |
The Jessie Knowles, the replacement for the Rescue, is launched.
|
| 1861 |
Southport Independant founded. |
| 1864 |
City Engineer's report listed 18,500 unsanitary houses and over 3,000 congested courts. The populations demand for cheap accommodation, and sanitary conditions were thwarted by the increasing population. |
| 1865 |
Liverpool has 4.7 million tons passing through the port. |
| 1865 |
Rev. Charles Hesketh donates 30 acres of land to Southport for a public park, with the following conditions, build a wall around the park with four impressive gates, full maintenance and build a road around the outside of the park and connect the road with the rest of the towns sewer system. And so was created Hesketh park a high class residential area of Southport. |
| 1865 |
Southport grows and expands and absorbs Blowick and High Park. |
| 1866 |
Liverpool
Herald shuts down. |
| 1866 |
The Palace Hotel in Birkdale opens. |
| 1867 |
Liverpool
Weekly Courier founded. |
| 1867 |
Southport is incorporated into a borough in this year. Also in this year the Council had built the Cambridge Hall next to the Town Hall, which provided the ideal location for meetings and entertainment. 40% of the 3000 houses in Southport were private schools looking for day-pupils. |
| 1868 |
The Pier extended making it 1470 yards long and able to accommodate steamers which connected the town of Southport with Barrow and
Angelsey. |
| 1868 |
Liverpool
Commercial Chronicle shuts down. |
| 1868 |
The Construction of the Runcorn-Widnes railway bridge started.
The bridge was officially opened on 21 May 1868
and open for railway traffic on 10 October the
same year.
|
| 1869 |
Liverpool
Weekly Courier shuts down. |
| 1869 |
The Wesleyans church is built in Ainsdale, on land donated by Thomas Weld-Blundell. |
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