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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Sale is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. Its neighbouring towns are Stretford, which lies to the north, and Altrincham, which is to the south. Sale itself is 10 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Manchester City Centre. The Bridgewater Canal runs through the centre of the town, and the River Mersey passes just to its north.

Historically part of Cheshire, Sale dates back to at least the 12th century and possibly to pre-Norman times. Until the 18th century, the mainstays for the small community were farming and weaving. However, transportation improvements—notably the 1765 completion of the Sale section of the Bridgewater Canal and the 1849 opening of Sale's first railway station—transformed it into a commuter town for Manchester workers. It remains such for many Sale residents, who have seen the town economy shift to its current focus on retail, real estate and business services.

Two of the town's main attractions are the Sale Water Park and the Waterside Arts Centre. Although the community had a Premiership rugby union club (the Sale Sharks) and witnessed the founding of the Sale Harriers-Manchester Athletics Club, both have now relocated to other Greater Manchester areas. Prominent past and present residents include physicist James Joule, singer David Gray, and Sale Harriers athletes Darren Campbell and Diane Modahl.

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Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English singer, songwriter and television personality most famous as one of the five members of English girl group the Spice Girls, where she is known as "Sporty Spice". She is also known as Melanie C or Mel C. As a solo artist she has released four albums and was nominated for a BRIT and ECHO awards. Chisholm holds the record for female who has co-written the most UK number-one singles (equal with Madonna) Chisholm is also third after Lennon and McCartney for most UK number-one singles for a British co-writer.

Prior to becoming a member of the Spice Girls, Chisholm had been studying at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Kent. She was a student on the Diploma course at the college, studying dance, singing, drama and musical theatre. It was while Chisholm was still at college that the advert appeared in the The Stage, that Chris & Brob Herbert were looking to form a new girl group, which would later become the Spice Girls. Chisholm left the college having nearly completed her 3 year course and holds teaching qualifications in Tap and Modern Theatre Dance with the ISTD.

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

Image 1Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 2Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 3Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 4ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 5Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 6Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 7Former 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 8Cereal 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 9A 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 10Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 11Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 12Ineos 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 13JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 14The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 15Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 16English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 17Heinz, 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 18Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 191939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 20Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 21Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 22Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 23The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 24Kelloggs 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 25Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 26JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 27Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 28Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 29Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 30Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 31Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 32The 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 33MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 34Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 35Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 36Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 37Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 38Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 39A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 40Vauxhall'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 41Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 42The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 43Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 44Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 45Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 46Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 47Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 48Old 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 49Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 50General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 51Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 52Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 53Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)

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