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1870
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Queen
Victoria's statue, mounted, beside her consort
Prince Albert erected on St George's Plateau. |
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1870
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Southport Borough Police
was formed on 23 March 1870. |
1870
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William Farr claimed that the population of Liverpool was around 66,000 to the square mile. |
1870
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Population increased to approximately 530,000. |
1870
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The Scarisbrick Trustees offered Southport 15 acres of land just of Scarisbrick New road, but it was declined. |
1871
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The replacement Victoria Baths re-opened
in Southport on the Promanade. |
1872
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The newspapers Ormskirk
Chronicle and the Liverpool and Southport Daily
News founded. |
1872
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Southport Independent shuts
down. |
1872
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Secret Ballot introduced in Britain. |
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1872
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The
newspaper Liverpool
Weekly Courier founded again. |
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1872
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Thomas Haines Dudley finishes his
role as the Consul for the United States of America,
within Liverpool's Paradise Street Consulate. |
1873
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West Lancashire Golf Course laid out and opened
in Southport. |
1873
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The
newspaper Evening
Express founded. |
1874
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In Southport a £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
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The Eliza Fernley replaces the Jessie Knowles lifeboat,
in Southport. |
1874
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The
newspapers Liverpool
Daily and the Evening Albion are founded in 1874. |
1875
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Liverpool
Mercantile Advertiser/Gazette shuts down. |
1875
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Weld-Blundells offer land in Birkdale for use as a park, it is declined. |
1875
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Southport expanding still, absorbs Churchtown and
Crossens. |
1875
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The Founding of the Formby Land and Building Company in an attempt to compete with Southport. |
1876
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Atkinson Art Gallery foundation stone laid and construction starts
in what will be Southport's town center. |
1876
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The
newspaper Gore's
General Advertiser shuts down. |
1877
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Smedley Hydropathic Hotel opens in Southport. |
1878
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus church opened and
dedicated in this year in Southport. |
1878
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On
the 1 July Bootle Borough Police and St Helens Borough Police
was formed. |
1878
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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
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The newspaper Ormskirk Chronicle shuts down. |
1878
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The
newspapers Bootle
Times and Liverpool Weekly Post founded. |
1879
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A
Congregational chapel is built on Station Road. Atkinson
Art Gallery was finished and opened on the 21 February
1879, in Southport. |
1879
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The
newspapers Waterloo
& Crosby Times and Liverpool Echo founded. |
1880
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 Liverpool granted
City status, in response to the fact that it contained half a million people,
that was 12 times bigger than what the population
stood at 100 years before. 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
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The newspaper North End Times Founded. |
1880
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Southport listed as the
3rd largest seaside resort in the country (England). |
1881
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The newspaper Liverpool
Mail shuts down. The newspaper West Derby & Wavertree
Times founded. |
1881
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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
sugar 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
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The Palace Hotel was reorganised as a Hydro hotel along the lines of the Smedley hotel and its success. |
1881
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The newspapers Liverpool and Southport Daily News shut
down. |
1881
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The newspaper Southport News founded. |
1882
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Bootle Town Hall Opened. |
1882
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The newspaper
Southport
Guardian founded. |
1883
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The newspaper Liverpool
& Bootle Evening Times founded. |
1884
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The barque Nereus is wreaked off the shore of Ainsdale in a great storm. Formby Golf Course opened. |
1884
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The newspapers Liverpool
Journal and North End Times shut down. |
1884
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The newspaper North
Liverpool Times Founded. |
1885
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Southport Golf Club
formed, opened in the Hesketh estates Marshside
Hills. |
1885
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The newspaper Southport
Standard founded. |
1885
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The newspaper Southport News shuts down. |
1885
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The
newspaper Halfpenny
Weekly founded. |
1886
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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
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Bootle Public Library
and Museum added to the Town Hall. |
1887
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The
newspapers Liverpool Weekly Albion and Liverpool
Daily along with the Evening Albion close for
good. |
1887
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The
newspaper Liverpool
Citizen founded. |
1987
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The Church of St
John's was also built in Southport. The South
Marine Lake finished and then opened. |
1887
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Queen Victoria's Jubilee. |
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1888
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Weld-Blundells again offer land in Birkdale for a park, and again it is declined. |
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1888
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Mary Anna takes over from the sunken Eliza Fernley.
(Southport) |
1888
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The Edith and Annie Lifeboat joins the Mary Anna. |
1888
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The Liverpool Porcupine writes that Southport is the richest town in the world in proportion to its 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
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The
newspaper
Garston and Woolton Reporter founded. |
1888
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Jack
the Ripper Strikes in London, Whitechapel. |
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1889
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 Birkdale Golf Club founded, play was a
9 hole course at Bedford Park. |
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1889
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The
Edith and Annie sinks at it's moorings, due to
silted up chains off Southport's Shoreline. |
1890
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Liverpool given the title of
"Gateway of Empire".
Halfpenny Weekly shuts down. |
1891
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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
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Population in Southport is 32,191 and in Birkdale its 12,387. |
1891
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Southport
boasts 500 lock-up shops as well as The Winter Gardens Opera House built and opened. |
1891
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The
newspaper Liverpool
Citizen shuts down. |
1891
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A field near Goodison Road
was bought by Everton FC, which opened as the football ground in the August. |
1892
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The
newspapers North Liverpool Times and West Derby &
Wavertree Times shut down. |
1892
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The North Lake dug and opened in this year. |
1893
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The Overhead Railway
opens along the length of the Dock Road. It's the first elevated railway in the world and the only
1 in Britain.
It was quickly nicknamed by locals as "The
Dockers Umbrella" a name that stuck until
it's close. |
1893
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The Marine Drive built
in Southport, surrounding a body of water later
known as the Lagoon. Also the newspaper, the Formby
Times is founded. |
1894
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Manchester Ship Canal opened. Liverpool & Bootle Evening Times shuts down. |
1894
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Royal Birkdale
Golf club decides to move to Birkdale the sand
dunes. |
1895
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The newspaper Waterloo
& Crosby Herald founded. |
1896
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Formby Ladies Golf Club opened. |
1897
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The Birkdale Golf Club
moves to it's present location mainly because it was
rented to them for a very cheap rate. |
1897
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The newspapers called Formby Newspaper
and the
West Lancs Coast Chronicle
are founded, serving Formby and Southport areas. |
1897
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The Pier Pavilion burned down in this
year in Southport. |
1897
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Liverpool Trams network starts operation.
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1897
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The Liverpool City Engineer's start using
photographs to record their work. |
1897
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New Brighton Tower built to rival the Blackpool Tower. |
1897
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The
newspapers Kemp's Liverpool and the Lancs Gazette
are founded. |
1897
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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. |
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1898
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 Liverpool
Trams first electric car left Dingle. |
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1899
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The Liverpool School of Tropical diseases is opened by Lord Lister. |
1899
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Churchtown's Mrs. Hesketh dies in her 90's, she is succeeded by her Grandson Charles
Bibby. |
1899
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The Southport Lifeboat
House goes out of service, and the John Harling becomes the last lifeboat for the area. |
1899
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Liverpool
Trams were to give 2
main events in Liverpool's transport history |
1899
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The newspaper
Southport Standard shuts down. |
1899
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Iron age dugout canoe found at Martin Mere,
just outside Churchtown, near Banks. |