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. It is one of the three regions, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England. (Full article...)

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The Antonov-An225 at Manchester Airport in 2006

Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is a major airport in Manchester, England. It opened to airline traffic in June 1938. It was initially known as Ringway Airport and during World War Two, as RAF Ringway. From 1975 until 1986, the title Manchester International Airport was used. It is located on the boundary between Cheshire and Manchester in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.

It has two parallel runways, the second of which opened in 2001 at a cost of £172 million. The airport has three adjacent terminals and a railway station. It is owned by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) which is controlled by the ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester and is the largest British-owned airport group.

Manchester Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P712) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction.

Manchester Airport is the fourth busiest airport in the United Kingdom (after London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Stansted). In total passengers handled, Manchester ranked 48th in the world in 2005, down from 45th in 2004. Also, in 2006 Manchester had a recorded 234,835 aircraft movements, of which 213,100 were air transport movements (third highest in the UK) behind Heathrow and just under Gatwick.

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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 1Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 2JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 3Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 4The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 5Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 6A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 7Heinz, 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 8Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 9Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 10Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 111939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 12Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 13Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 14A 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 15Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 16Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 17Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 18Former 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 19Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 20English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 21Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 22Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 23Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 24MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 25Ineos 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 26The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 27Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 28Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 29Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 30Kelloggs 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 31The 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 32Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 33ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 34Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 35Cereal 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 36Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 37General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 38Vauxhall'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 39Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 40JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 41Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 42Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 43Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 44Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 45Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 46Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 47Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 48Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 49Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 50Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 51Old 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 52Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 53The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)

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