| Bootle | |
  Bootle shown within Merseyside |
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| Population | 77,640 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Metropolitan borough | Sefton |
| Metropolitan county | Merseyside |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BOOTLE |
| Postcode district | L20, L30 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Bootle |
| List of places: UK • England • Merseyside | |
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Historically part of Lancashire, Bootle's economy has been around the docks and their associated industries for decades. The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea
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Geography and administration
Bootle, along with Southport, is one of the two main administrative headquarters for the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. Southport is a seaside town on the Irish Sea coast situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in England, UK. Bootle forms part of the Liverpool Urban Area. The " Liverpool Urban Area" is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS to denote the Urban area around Liverpool in England Among Bootle's neighbouring districts are Kirkdale to the south, Walton to the east, with Seaforth and Litherland to the north. Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall Walton-on-the-Hill, usually shortened to Walton, is an area of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England, situated to the north of Anfield Seaforth is a residential suburb within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, North West England History Seaforth comes from Litherland is an area of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is north of Bootle and was formerly an Urban district To the west contains the Port of Liverpool running along side the River Mersey. The Port of Liverpool is the name for the enclosed dock system that runs from Herculaneum Dock to Seaforth Dock, in the city of Liverpool, See also Mersey River (Tasmania and Mersey River (Nova Scotia.
The old civic centre of Bootle contains large Victorian buildings such as the Town Hall and Municipal Baths. Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities East of this centre is a sizeable area of large office blocks, to the west is the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and large areas of Docks lining the River Mersey. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a Canal in the north of England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. The Port of Liverpool is the name for the enclosed dock system that runs from Herculaneum Dock to Seaforth Dock, in the city of Liverpool, See also Mersey River (Tasmania and Mersey River (Nova Scotia. To the north is the New Strand Shopping Centre, which gained notoriety after the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. The New Strand Shopping Centre, known locally as 'The Strand' is the main shopping centre or mall in the town of Bootle, Merseyside. James Bulger may refer to Murder of James Bulger, a toddler murdered in Liverpool England in 1993 James J Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar)
History
Etymology
Bootle derives from the Anglo Saxon Bold or Botle meaning a dwelling. [2] It was recorded as Boltelai in the Domesday Book in 1086. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey By 1212 the spelling had been recorded as Botle. The spellings Botull, Bothull and Bothell are recorded in the 14th Century. [3]
Resort
Bootle was originally a small hamlet built near the 'sand hills' or dunes of the river estuary. A hamlet is (usually&mdashsee below a Rural community — that is a small settlement — which is too small to be considered a Village. The settlement began to grow as a bathing resort for wealthy residents of Liverpool in the early 19th century. Some remaining large villas which housed well-to-do commuters to Liverpool are located in the area known locally as 'Bootle Village'. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary
Development
The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway arrived in the 1840s and Bootle experienced rapid growth. The Liverpool Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR opened in 1848 By the end of the 19th century the docks had been constructed along the whole of the river front as far as Seaforth Sands to the north. The Port of Liverpool is the name for the enclosed dock system that runs from Herculaneum Dock to Seaforth Dock, in the city of Liverpool, The town became heavily industrialised. Bootle was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1868 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and was granted the status of a county borough by the Local Government Act 1888 in 1889, becoming independent from the administrative county of Lancashire. Municipal boroughs were a type of Local government which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974 in Northern Ireland from 1840 to The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Wm IV c76 - sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act - required members of town councils ( Municipal corporations County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland) to refer to a Borough or a City The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict c 41 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1888 and established County councils and County borough An administrative county was an Administrative division in England and Wales and Ireland used for the purposes of Local government. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea During this time period it was sometimes formally known as Bootle cum Linacre. Orrell was added to the borough in 1905. Orrell is the name given to an area in Merseyside, England, between Bootle and the Liverpool city boundary There are still large areas of Victorian terraced houses in Bootle, formerly occupied by dock workers. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of Architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. These are built in distinctive pressed red brick.
Bootle's Town Hall and other municipal buildings were erected in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The population of the town swelled during this period, boosted by Irish immigration and the attraction of plentiful work on the docks. The wealth to pay for the splendour of the town hall and the gentrified 'Bootle Village' area was generated by these docks. The skilled workers lived in neat terrace houses in the east of the town, while the casual dock labourers lived in cramp, sqalid dwellings near the dockside. The activities in these streets led to the police classifying Bootle as 'Excpetionally rough' in an 1888 survey. It was probably around this time that Bootle was nicknamed 'Brutal Bootle'. Stories about three streets in particular caused great alarm. They were Raleigh Street, Dundas Street and Lyons Street. The latter was the scene of a crime dubbed 'The Teapot Murder' by local press and it was rumoured that women would settle their differences by stripping to the waste and fighting in the street. Lyons Street was so notorious that it literally 'died of shame' and was renamed Beresford Street shortly before the Great War.
Bootle was remarkable in other, more positive ways. It was the first borough to elect its own School Board, following the passage of Forster's Education Act of 1870. In 1872 Dr R J Sprakeling was appointed the first Medical Officer of Health, and was instrumental in improving sanitory conditions in the town. The Metropole Theatre on Stanley Road played host to stars such as music hall singer Marie Lloyd. The emporia in the Stanley Road and Strand Road areas of the town were filled with goods from all over the empire. Tree lined streets surrounded magnificent open spaces, such as Derby Park, North Park and South Park. Beautiful Roman Catholic and Anglican churches sprang up all over the town, and Welsh immigration brought with it non-conformist chapels and the temperance movement. Local societies thrived, including sports teams, scouts and musical groups. The Bootle May Day carnival, and the crowning of the 'May Queen' was real highlight of the social year. The town successfully fought against absorption by neighbouring Liverpool in 1903. This was a matter of some civic pride to the people who Bootle and the Latin motto of the town, 'Respice, Aspice, Prospice,' (the past, the present, the future) was emblazoned on school buildings, stationary, the local press, police uniforms and all manner of other places.
Second World War
The docks made Bootle a target for German bombers during the Liverpool Blitz and approximately 90% of the houses in the town were damaged. The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the city of Liverpool and the surrounding area in England during World War II by the [4] Situated immediatedly adjoining the City of Liverpool, and the site of numerous docks, Bootle had the distinction of being the most heavily-bombed borough in the UK. A borough is an Administrative division of various countries In principle the term borough designates a self-governing Township although in practice
Bootle played an important role in the 'Battle of the Atlantic'. The famous u-boat hunter Captain Frederic John 'Johnny' Walker, would rest in the Mayor's Parlour of Bootle Town Hall. His ship, HMS Starling, sailed out of Bootle and the ship's bell and flags signalling the General Chase can still be seen in Bootle Town Hall's council chamber today.
Post-War
After The Second World War large social housing estates were built inland from the town centre, including the area of Netherton, which was built on New Town principles. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local Netherton is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. A new town, planned community or planned city is a City, Town, or Community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically The Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Tramways Company closure in the 1950s reduced Bootle's connection to Liverpool. The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella in Liverpool, England, opened on February 4 1893. The Liverpool Tramways Company was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1868.
Bootle did share in the postwar boom. The centre of the town was redeveloped and the 'Bootle New Strand' shopping centre was opened in the late 1960s. At the same time, new offices were built in the town centre. The town lost it access to the beach when neighbouring Seaforth Sands was redeveloped in the early 1970s, but the Seaforth Container Port brought new jobs into the area.
The local authority, and other 'social' landlords, saw to it that new housing was built and older stock renovated. Bootle did not go down the route of massive housing clearance, and many local communities remained intact.
The borough celebrated its centenary in 1968 and civic pride was much in evidence.
Decline
The docks declined in importance in the 1960s and 1970s, and Bootle suffered high unemployment and a declining population. The establishment of large office blocks housing government departments and the National Girobank provided employment, but this was filled largely by middle class people from outside the Liverpool area. Girobank was a British financial institution founded in 1968 It started as Post Office Giro but went through several name changes National Giro, The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power.
A further blow came in the early 1970s when local government reorganisation saw Bootle lose its borough status, to be absorbed into the new local authority of Sefton. While in the long run this was to be beneficial, the old borough being too small to support modern local government services, the town was robbed of its identity and few could muster any civic pride for the new creation.
More fundamental that political change was economic change. The very reason for Bootle's existence, the access to the Mersey, became almost irrelevant as the docks closed and the new container port required far fewer workers than the old docks had. This in turn affected practically every other industry in the town. The problems slowly gathered pace until Merseyside hit crisis point in the early 1980s.
Regeneration
Bootle is undergoing a massive regeneration project, which has already begun with the new HSE buildings and the new-look Strand Road. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE is a United Kingdom Non-departmental public body. Many old houses are being demolished to make way for new housing projects and lots of regeneration projects for existing properties and council buildings are to begin shortly.
A number of other development projects have recently been submitted for planning permission and should commence development within Late 2006 or 2007 after being accepted. See Development Control for an overall explanation of how control under the Town and Country Planning legislation is operated in the United Kingdom These include the significant refurbishment of Oriel Road Station, promoted by Merseytravel, the creation of a new block of apartments on the site of the Stella Maris building and a Lidl store on Stanley Road. The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( MPTE, or Merseytravel, as it is branded is the Passenger Transport Executive responsible for the coordination Walmart stores inc, owners of Asda superstores have invested in building a new superstore on Strand Road. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores Asda is a United Kingdom Supermarket chain which retails food clothing and general merchandise
It is perhaps in this new spirit of optimism, that banners have appeared, adorning the town centre with the Latin motto of the former borough: 'Respice, Aspice, Prospice. '
Transport
There are two railway stations served by frequent electric services from Liverpool to Southport. Southport is a seaside town on the Irish Sea coast situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in England, UK. These are Oriel Road near the Victorian civic centre, and New Strand, serving the Shopping Centre. Bootle Oriel Road railway station is a railway station in Bootle, England. Bootle New Strand railway station is a railway station in the centre of Bootle, England. A freight line, the Bootle Branch, is still in use. The Canada Dock Branch is a 4 Mile 59 chain (762 kilometre long Railway Sefton has pushed for the reopening of the North Mersey Branch. The North Mersey Branch (NMB is a railway line that connected the Liverpool and Bury Railway at Fazakerley Junction with the Gladstone Dock.
The Bus Station is underneath the New Strand Shopping Centre.
Amenities
The town has a leisure centre located in the North Park area, which includes a modern gym, swimming pool, and various indoor sports halls. The word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual Education of young men (see Gymnasium The Bootle New Strand shopping centre contains many of the regular high street stores, combined with a smaller collection of local businesses. For entertainment there is a wide varienty of public houses, snooker clubs and late night bars. There are also a number of restaurants.
Notable people
Many notable footballers were born in Bootle. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Jamie Carragher,[5] Steve McManaman[6] and Roy Evans[7] came to prominence playing for Liverpool (with Evans later going on to become the club's manager) whilst Alvin Martin[8] is regarded as one of West Ham's greatest ever players. James Lee Duncan "Jamie" Carragher (born 28 January 1978 in Bootle, Merseyside) is a central defender/right-back playing his club football at Liverpool Steven "Steve" McManaman (born 11 February 1972 in Bootle, Merseyside, England) is an English former footballer of the Roy Quintin Echlin Evans CBE (born October 4 1948 in Bootle, England) was a Liverpool football player who eventually Liverpool Football Club are an English professional Association football club based in Liverpool England. Alvin Edward Martin (born 29 July 1958 in Bootle) is a retired English footballer who spent most of his career with West Ham } West Ham United Football Club is an English football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London, who have played
In the arts, Bootle has produced the actor Craig Charles, the comedian Tom O'Connor[9] and early rock and roll singer Billy J. Kramer. Craig Charles (born 11 July, 1964 in Liverpool, England) is an English Actor, Stand up comedian, Author Tom O'Connor (born October 31, 1939, Bootle, Merseyside) is a British Actor and Comedian. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Billy J Kramer (born William Howard Ashton 19 August 1943, in Bootle, Liverpool, England) was a British Invasion [10] The BBC news and features presenter Will Hanrahan, is originally from Bootle, and the poet and intellectual, Mark Ford, has resided in the borough. William (Will Hanrahan is a British television personality best known for working on BBC programs such as Watchdog and Good Morning. Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962. He went to school in London and attended Oxford university and as a Kennedy Scholar The fashion retailer George Davies was educated in Bootle. George Davies may refer to George Davies (footballer (b1927 English footballer in the 1950s George Davies (politician (1875-1950 [11]
James Bulger was snatched from his mother whilst shopping in Bootle. James Bulger may refer to Murder of James Bulger, a toddler murdered in Liverpool England in 1993 James J
References
- ^ Young, R. ; Cracknell, R. ; Hardacre, J. & Tetteh, E. (2004-01-30), 2001 Census of Population: Statistics for Parliamentary Constituencies, House of Commons Library, pp. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain 58, <http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2004/rp04-001.pdf>
- ^ Bootle History: Bootle Past. Retrieved on 2007-11-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw
- ^ Farrer, W. & Brownbill, J. (1907), 'Townships: Bootle', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, pp. 31-35, <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41285>. Retrieved on 10 November 2007
- ^ Liverpool Blitz: Buildings damaged in the May Blitz. Retrieved on 2007-11-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all
- ^ Bootle career stats at Soccerbase
- ^ Steve McManaman. The Racing Post is a British daily Horse racing, Greyhound racing and Sports betting Newspaper. www. lfchistory. net. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
- ^ Roy Evans. www. lfchistory. net. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
- ^ Alvin Martin. www. englandstats. com. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
- ^ The Legendary Tom O'Connor. www. tomoconnor. co. uk. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
- ^ Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas. www. 45-rpm. org. uk. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
- ^ 08 City signs up George. www. liverpool08. com (2007-03-23). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
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