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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The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999) is an observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. It is located near Goostrey and Holmes Chapel in Macclesfield, Cheshire in the north–west of England.

The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope, which is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes located at the observatory; the Mark II, as well as 42 ft and 7 m diameter radio telescopes. Jodrell Bank Observatory is also the base of the Multi–Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN), a National Facility run by the University of Manchester on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

The observatory was established in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, who wanted to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of meteors, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age.

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Damon Gough (nicknamed Badly Drawn Boy), was born 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is a Mercury Prize-winning indie singer/songwriter.

Damon Gough chose his stage name from the title character in the show Sam and his Magic Ball, which he saw on TV at a party in Trafford, Manchester in 1995. Before he thought of using this name he made some business cards, each one unique, with a printed picture of a drawing by his nephew, and a small collage by Gough. This was then laminated and given out to friends and people at clubs in Blackburn and Manchester.

A chance meeting with Andy Votel at the Generation X bar in Manchester, where Gough's friends Scott Abraham and Damon Hayhurst were contributing to an exhibition by the Space Monkey Clothing Company and Votel was DJing, led to the foundation of Twisted Nerve Records. Badly Drawn Boy's first seven-inch single, EP1, was pressed the following year to critical acclaim, although only 500 copies were made.

In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was as part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way" on account of Goughs tendency to talk and tell stories for extended periods rather than playing songs.

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

Image 1Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 2MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 3Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 4JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 5Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 6Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 7Vauxhall'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 8The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 9English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 10Heinz, 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 11Former 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 12Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 13Ineos 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 14General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 15Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 16Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 171939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 18Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 19Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 20The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 21Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 22The 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 23Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 24Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 25Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 26Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 27Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 28Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 29A 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 30ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 31Cereal 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 32JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 33Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 34Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 35Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 36Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 37Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 38Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 39Kelloggs 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 40Old 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 41Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 42Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 43Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 44Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 45Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 46A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 47Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 48Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 49Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 50Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 51Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 52Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 53The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)

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