| Year |
Event |
| 1870 |
Queen Victoria's statue, mounted, beside her consort Prince Albert erected on St George's Plateau. |
| 1870 |
Southport Borough Police
was formed on 23 March. |
| 1870 |
William Farr claimed that the population of Liverpool was around 66,000 to the square mile. |
| 1870 |
Population increased to approximately 530,000. |
| 1870 |
The Scarisbrick Trustees offered Southport 15 acres of land just of Scarisbrick New road, but it was declined. |
| 1871 |
The replacement Victoria Baths reopened. |
| 1872 |
Ormskirk
Chronicle and the Liverpool and Southport Daily
News founded. |
| 1872 |
Southport Independent shuts
down. |
| 1872 |
Secret Ballot introduced in Britain. |
| 1872 |
Liverpool
Weekly Courier founded again. |
| 1873 |
West Lancashire Golf Course laid out and opened. |
| 1873 |
Evening
Express founded. |
| 1874 |
£90,000 invested into the Winter Gardens project, opened this year, along with a Glaciarium, the first in this country, and the Prince of Wales hotel, which replaced the old Union Hotel. |
| 1874 |
The Eliza Fernley replaces the Jessie Knowles lifeboat. |
| 1874 |
Liverpool
Daily/Evening Albion founded. |
| 1875 |
Liverpool
Mercantile Advertiser/Gazette shuts down. |
| 1875 |
Weld-Blundells offer land in Birkdale for use as a park, it is declined. |
| 1875 |
Southport expanding still, absorbs Churchtown and
Crossens. |
| 1875 |
The Founding of the Formby Land and Building Company in an attempt to compete with Southport. |
| 1876 |
Atkinson Art gallery foundation stone laid and construction starts. |
| 1876 |
Gore's
General Advertiser shuts down. |
| 1877 |
Smedley Hydropathic hotel opens in Southport. |
| 1878 |
The Sacred Heart of Jesus church opened and dedicated in this year. |
| 1878 |
On
the 1 July, Bootle Borough Police and St Helens Borough Police
was formed. |
| 1878 |
The Free Public Library and Art Gallery given to the town in this year by William Atkinson, it cost somewhere in the region of £14,000. |
| 1878 |
Ormskirk Chronicle shuts down. |
| 1878 |
Bootle
Times and Liverpool Weekly Post founded. |
| 1879 |
A
Congregational chapel is built on Station Road. Atkinson Art Gallery was finished and opened on the 21st February. |
| 1879 |
Waterloo
& Crosby Times and Liverpool Echo founded. |
| 1880 |
Liverpool granted city status, in response to the fact that it contained half a million people, 12 times what it contained only 100 years before.
 |
| 1880 |
Among this thriving community were Irish, Welsh and Scottish as well as Africans, West Indians and Chinese immigrants which made Liverpool a very cosmopolitan city.
|
| 1880 |
North End Times Founded. |
| 1880 |
Southport listed as the third largest seaside resort in the country. |
| 1881 |
Liverpool
Mail shuts down. West Derby & Wavertree
Times founded. |
| 1881 |
The census returns of this year shows that every house in Hesketh Park area had a servant and only 14% had one servant the rest had more. 13% had four or more, in contrast in Birkdale 13% had only one servant and only 10% had four or more. One of the largest homes in the area was at Lismore, Waterloo road, the home of the suger refiner William Macfie, he lived there with his wife and 6 children, 7 servants and one page. Just under 1000 boarders were present in the Southport and Birkdale area, of whom 60% were girls. |
| 1881 |
The Palace Hotel was reorganised as a Hydro hotel along the lines of the Smedley hotel and its success. |
| 1881 |
Liverpool and Southport Daily News shut
down. |
| 1881 |
Southport News founded. |
| 1882 |
Bootle Town Hall Opened |
| 1882 |
Southport
Guardian founded. |
| 1883 |
Liverpool
& Bootle Evening Times founded. |
| 1884 |
The barque Nereus is wreaked off the shore of Ainsdale in a great storm. Formby Golf Course opened. |
| 1884 |
Liverpool
Journal and North End Times shut down. |
| 1884 |
North
Liverpool Times Founded. |
| 1885 |
Southport Golf Club formed, opened in the Hesketh estates Marshside Hills. |
| 1885 |
Southport
Standard founded. |
| 1885 |
Southport News shuts down. |
| 1885 |
Halfpenny
Weekly founded. |
| 1886 |
The Mexico disaster, where all but 2 of Southport's lifeboat crew and all the men on St Anne's boat died. This is still the worst ever lifeboat catastrophe of all time.
|
| 1887 |
Bootle Public Library and Museum added to the town hall. |
| 1887 |
Liverpool Weekly Albion and Liverpool
Daily/Evening Albion shuts down. |
| 1887 |
Liverpool
Citizen founded. |
| 1987 |
The church of St John's was also built
in Southport. The South Marine Lake finished and then opened. |
| 1887 |
Queen Victoria's Jubilee. |
| 1888 |
Weld-Blundells again offer land in Birkdale for a park, and again it is declined. |
| 1888 |
Mary Anna takes over from the sunken Eliza Fernley. |
| 1888 |
The Later the same year the Edith and Annie lifeboat joins the Mary Anna. |
| 1888 |
The Liverpool Porcupine writes that Southport is the richest town in the world in proportion to it's population with more than half the householders being independent with a high proportion of them living on income from their capital, and most of them being female. |
| 1888 |
Garston and Woolton Reporter founded. |
| 1888 |
Jack
the Ripper Strikes in London, Whitechapel. |
| 1889 |
Birkdale Golf Club founded, play was a nine-hole course at Bedford Park. |
| 1889 |
The
Edith and Annie sinks at it's moorings due to
silted up chains. |
| 1890 |
Liverpool given the title of
"Gateway of Empire".
Halfpenny Weekly shuts down. |
| 1891 |
Southport Golf Club moves to Scarisbrick land on Moss Lane, probably due to Little Ireland, the only black spot on Southport said one Mayor of the day. |
| 1891 |
Population in Southport is 32,191 and in Birkdale its 12,387. |
| 1891 |
Southport
boasts 500 lock-up shops as well as The Winter Gardens Opera House built and opened. |
| 1891 |
Liverpool
Citizen shuts down. |
| 1892 |
A field near Goodison Rd bought by Everton FC, which opened as the football ground in the August. |
| 1892 |
North Liverpool Times and West Derby &
Wavertree Times shut down. |
| 1892 |
The North Lake dug and opened in this year. |
| 1893 |
The Overhead Railway opens along the length of the Dock Road. |
| 1893 |
The first elevated railway in the world and the only one in Britain. |
| 1894 |
The Marine Drive
built in Southport, surrounding a body of water later known as the Lagoon. Formby Times founded. |
| 1894 |
Manchester Ship Canal opened. Liverpool & Bootle Evening Times shuts down. |
| 1895 |
Waterloo
& Crosby Herald founded. |
| 1896 |
Formby Ladies Golf Club opened. |
| 1897 |
The Birkdale Golf Club moves to it's present location mainly because it was rented to them for a very cheap rate.
|
| 1897 |
Formby Newspaper /
West Lancs Coast Chronicle
founded. |
| 1897 |
The Pier Pavilion burned down in this
year in Southport. |
| 1897 |
Liverpool Trams network starts operation.
|
| 1897 |
The Liverpool City Engineer's start using photographs to record their work. |
| 1897 |
New Brighton Tower built to rival the Blackpool Tower. |
| 1897 |
Kemp's Liverpool/Lancs Gazette founded. |
| 1897 |
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. |
| 1898 |
Liverpool
Trams first electric car left Dingle. |
| 1899 |
The Liverpool School of Tropical diseases is opened by Lord Lister. |
| 1899 |
Mrs. Hesketh dies in her 90's, she is succeeded by her Grandson Charles
Bibby. |
| 1899 |
The Southport lifeboat house goes out of service, and the John Harling becomes the last lifeboat for the area. |
| 1899 |
Liverpool
Trams were to give two
main events in Liverpool's transport history |
| 1899 |
Southport Standard shuts down. |
| 1899 |
Iron age dugout canoe found at Martin Mere. |
