Portal:North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
	Coordinates: 54°01′00″N 2°38′00″W / 54.0167°N 2.6333°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. (Full article...)

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Oldham /ˈoʊldəm/ is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Rochdale, and 7 miles (11.3 km) northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a population of 237,110 in 2019.

Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, and with little early history to speak of, Oldham rose to prominence in the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and among the first ever industrialised towns, rapidly becoming "one of the most important centres of cotton and textile industries in England." At its zenith, it was the most productive cotton spinning mill town in the world, producing more cotton than France and Germany combined. Oldham's textile industry fell into decline in the mid-20th century; the town's last mill closed in 1998.

The demise of textile processing in Oldham depressed and heavily affected the local economy. The town centre is the focus of a project that aims to transform Oldham into a centre for further education and the performing arts. It is, however, still distinguished architecturally by the surviving cotton mills and other buildings associated with that industry. (Full article...)

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David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire (now in Greater Manchester)) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry.

Dickinson was born in Macclesfield to an unmarried mother, Eugenie Gulessarian. Eugenie was a member of Armenian textile trading family, whose father had moved from Istanbul to Manchester, England in 1904. Eugenie is also noted as being a gypsy who collected many antiques which sparked David's love for the industry. Dickinson had corresponded with his biological mother in her later life in Jersey, but they never met. Dickinson's biological father is unknown.

David was adopted by the Dickinsons, a local couple. Mr. Dickinson died when David was 12, and as his adoptive mother worked hard to keep the family together, David was in part brought up by his French grandmother. Dickinson began an apprenticeship at an aircraft factory when he was 14, but quickly left to work in the cloth trade in central Manchester. At 19 Dickinson served four years in prison, the majority spent at Strangeways in Manchester, for fraud.

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The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Kelloggs 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)
Image 2Cereal 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)
Image 3Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 4Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 5Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 6Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 7Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 8Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 9JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 10Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 11The 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)
Image 12JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 13Heinz, 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)
Image 14Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 15The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 16Former 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)
Image 17Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 18Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 19Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 20Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 21A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 22Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 23Vauxhall'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)
Image 24Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 25Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 26Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 27The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 28The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 29Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 30Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 31Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 32Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 331939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 34Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 35Old 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)
Image 36Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 37Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 38A 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)
Image 39MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 40Ineos 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)
Image 41Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 42Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 43Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 44English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 45Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 46Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 47Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 48Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 49Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 50General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 51ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 52Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 53Winstanley College (from North West England)

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