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Re: Wirral Coast on TV - Tonight
[Re: Norton]
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8th Feb 2020 4:49am
8th Feb 2020 4:49am
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yoller
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It had a lot of good stuff about Birkenhead, but was marred for me by the perennial niggle of presenters thinking Birkenhead is part of Liverpool. They're not the first broadcasters who have proved sloppily incapable of making the distinction. Haven't they noticed the big river separating both places? Also, Adrian Chiles said some of great liners that plied the Atlantic were built in the Liverpool docks. I don't think so.
Last edited by yoller; 8th Feb 2020 4:50am.
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Re: Wirral Coast on TV - Tonight
[Re: Norton]
#1074510
8th Feb 2020 10:07am
8th Feb 2020 10:07am
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Greenwood
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Ha, I missed the bit about ship-building! Oops. I think the Liverpool / Birkenhead thing is probably to do with the whole area being labelled now as the Liverpool City Region. Hmph. Whoever writes the scripts cannot have been familiar with the area and its History. I'd like to have seen something about Hilbre Island, too.
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Re: Wirral Coast on TV - Tonight
[Re: Norton]
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8th Feb 2020 11:34am
8th Feb 2020 11:34am
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granny
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I saw most of the programme about Wirral. I found it really interesting and from a different perspective, even if some of the content might already have been known to locals .
Liverpool have been laying claim to Wirral since around 2002, when their Visit Liverpool Brochure had Wirral described as a ' Suburb of Liverpool' .
That really hacked me off .
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Wirral Coast on TV - Tonight
[Re: Norton]
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8th Feb 2020 8:12pm
8th Feb 2020 8:12pm
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diggingdeeper

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It was 1855 when Parliament effectively gave Birkenhead Docks to Liverpool that everything went pear-shaped. From Hansard .... There had been two Bills introduced, the Birkenhead Docks Bill and the Liverpool Docks Bill; the former of which involved works on the Birkenhead side of the river, at an expense of 1,500,000l.; and the latter Bill to enlarge the dock accommodation on the Liverpool side of the river, the expense of which: would be not less than 3,500,000l. It was evident that this immense extension on the Liverpool side was caused only by the jealousy which had been excited by the rising prosperity of Birkenhead. Under these circumstances, the Commitee took the unusual step of recommending the parties, instead of spending their money in a fruitless contest, to amalgamate the property on both sides of the river, and put the docks on the Birkenhead side and the Liverpool docks together under one public trust. This counters the story that Birkenhead were in a financial crisis and that's why they sold the docks to Liverpool, firstly they didn't choose to sell them and secondly they had the money available to advance the docks. The docks were a huge money-maker, if we had been able to keep the docks the whole History of the Wirral from then on would have been different, especially now.
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