| Year |
Event |
| 1901 |
The street railway becomes electrified when it was taken over by the Liverpool Corporation, and became the first railway system to employ an automatic signalling system, and using the all electric signals with coloured lights. |
| 1901 |
Decision
made to build a cathedral for the recently formed
Diocese of Liverpool. This would become Liverpool
Anglican Cathedral  |
| 1901 |
Queen Victoria Dies. |
| 1902 |
Edwardians finish the square in Croxteth Hall, this is the Croxteth Hall. |
| 1902 |
Tram
Network in Liverpool was electrified. |
| 1902 |
Garston votes to join Liverpool. |
| 1902 |
The Formby Land and Building Company folded due to lack of development in Formby, everyone was going to Southport and by-passing Formby. |
| 1902 |
The replacement for the Pier Pavilion is opened in this
year in Southport. |
| 1903 |
Water chute built for sea-bathers in Southport, mainly attended by fishermen. The subway was also filled in at this time. |
| 1904 |
Anglican Cathedral started and will take over 70 years to complete.
|
| 1904 |
Fort Crosby opened, it had 6" navel guns to protect the approaches to the Mersey but were never fired. |
| 1904 |
Liverpool Mercury shuts down. |
| 1904 |
Foundation
stone of Liverpool Cathedral laid by King Edward
VIII |
| 1904 |
The Southport Liverpool line was electrified in this year. |
| 1904 |
Southport's
Framptons statue to commemorate Queen Victoria unveiled on the 15th of July, by Mayor Councillor Brown. |
| 1904 |
Southport Journal founded. |
| 1904 |
Mr Weld-Blundell starts his oyster project on the
Southport beach. |
| 1905 |
Fazakerley joins Liverpool. |
| 1905 |
The
Runcorn-Widnes Transporter was opened on 29 May to replace a ferry crossing.
|
| 1905 |
Southport becomes a County Borough. Birkdale and Ainsdale join together. |
| 1907 |
The Mersey Harbour and Docks Company Building completed, the design was by Arnold
Thornley |
| 1907 |
The new Sewer works opens in Crossens. Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club opens. |
| 1908 |
Construction started on W Aubrey Thomas building the Royal Liver Building. |
| 1908 |
The Liverpool Banking and Insurance Golf Club leases land between Freshfield and Ainsdale, inland of the railway, this later becomes Freshfield Golf Course. |
| 1909 |
Old age pensions introduced in Britain. |
| 1910 |
Pioneer aviator Claude Grahame-White arrived unexpectedly at Southport. |
| 1911 |
An airfield is built near Blowick which host various Aviation exhibitions during the months of June, July and August.
The Blundell Club establish a golf course on cultivated land just south of
Ainsdale. The aerial ride that transported people across the Marine lake
in Southport was demolished in this year, due to residents saying it was an eyesore. |
| 1911 |
The Royal Liver Building Finished. |
| 1911 |
National Insurance introduced. |
| 1912 |
Southport absorbs Birkdale and Ainsdale into it's borough.
|
| 1912 |
Hillside Golf Club Opens. |
| 1912 |
The Society for the Promotion of Nature reserves is formed and includes both Ainsdale and Freshfield dunes in their list of worthy sites for protection. |
| 1913 |
Wallasey Borough Police formed
on the 1 April. |
| 1913 |
Formby Newspaper / West Lancs Coast Chronicle shuts
down. |
| 1913 |
The first police dogs, 2 Airedale Terriers were introduced to the Southport police force. |
| 1913 |
In a speech, Mayor Harold Broderick said that Southport was unique in England as the only town in the country to have more chapels and churches than public houses. |
| 1913 |
Allerton, Childwall, Little Woolton and much Woolton all join Liverpool as well. |
| 1914 |
Open-air baths opened in this year. |
| 1914 |
The King's Gardens is opened by King George the V, the gardens replaced the old fairgrounds on the south side of the South Lake. |
| 1914 |
First World War starts. |
| 1915 |
Liverpool
Weekly Mercury shuts down. |
| 1917 |
The police dog experiment appears to fail, so the force sells of the 2 dogs. |
| 1919 |
Air Ministry approve of a landing site near the old Birkdale Palace hotel, only the third licensed airfield in the country. |
| 1919 |
The Hesketh's move back to Meols Hall after an absence of 200 years.
 |
| 1920 |
Liverpool
Weekly Courier and the Garston & Woolton
Reporter shut down. |
| 1920 |
Giro Aviation company sets up, offering flights and flying lessons to anyone who can pay for them. Southport Guardian shuts down. |
| 1921 |
Prince's Park opened by the Prince of Wales. |
| 1921 |
After waning interest in the oyster project Mr
Weld-Blundell tries again by bringing in another French oyster expert who soon closes the project down, for the waters of Ainsdale beach were just too cold for natural oyster cultivation. |
| 1921 |
Southport builds its first council houses on Haig Avenue. |
| 1922 |
The buffoonery and fairgrounds were finally allowed to stay in what is now Pleasureland during this year, although the founding fathers of the town said they would never sully the fine beaches of Southport with the vulgarity that marred the Blackpool beaches. Jack Holland opens his Chocolate Factory on Segars Lane. |
| 1922 |
Sprint races started on Ainsdale beach by the younger members of the Southport Motor Racing Club. |
| 1923 |
Southport War Memorial consecrated, comments at the time said that it was quite large for a provincial town. |
| 1923 |
The last steamer sails from the pier in Southport, this is due to the silting up of the channels into the pier area. |
| 1924 |
Southport Flower Show starts in this year, and for many years claimed to be the largest summer flower show in the world.
|
| 1924 |
Consecraton
of High Altar, Chancel and Eastern Transepts of
Liverpool Cathedral. |
| 1925 |
The Mersey Tunnel, Queensway Entrance, started |
| 1925 |
Southport's lifeboat station closed due to lack of use.
|
| 1928 |
The two halves of the Mersey Tunnel meet, and in a unique ceremony to mark the occasion, the then Lord Mayor of Liverpool Miss Margaret Beavan shook hands with the, then Mayor of Birkenhead, Alderman Alec Naylor through a hole in the excavations. |
| 1928 |
West Derby Rural and Croxteth Park join Liverpool. |
| 1928 |
The new Open-Aired baths are
opened in Southport. |
| 1928 |
Southport Corporation buys all of the Ainsdale and Birkdale
foreshore, along with most of the dune land. |
| 1929 |
The Winter Gardens Opera House
in Southport is destroyed by fire. |
| 1929 |
The Ainsdale public library is finally built, after some opposition from the town
councillors. |
| 1929 |
Southport
Journal shuts down. |
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