3°01′30″W / 53.416°N 3.025°W / 53.416; -3.025 The Mersey Ferry is a ferry service operating on the River Mersey in northwest England, between Liverpool to the...
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"Ferry Cross the Mersey" is a song written by Gerry Marsden. It was first recorded by his band Gerry and the Pacemakers and released in late 1964 in the...
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"Ferry Cross the Mersey" by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Its name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon mǣres, 'of a boundary' and ēa, 'a river'. The Mersey was...
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Merseyside (section Ferries)
Mersey Ferry. Merseyside contains green belt interspersed throughout the county, surrounding the Liverpool urban area, as well as across the Mersey in the...
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Pier Head (section Mersey Ferries)
Packet ferry service also operates from Princes Landing Stage, at a berth adjacent to those used by the Mersey Ferries. In addition to the Mersey Ferries, the...
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The MV Royal Iris of the Mersey is a Mersey Ferry in operation on the River Mersey, England. From launch in Devon in 1959 until a major refurbishment...
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Liverpool (section Mersey Ferry)
Timetable". Mersey Ferries. Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009. "River Explorer Cruises". Mersey Ferries. Archived from...
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Liverpool City Region (section Ferries)
Mersey Ferries). Twelve Quays, Birkenhead ferry port serves winter Isle of Man ferry service and Stena Line to Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Mersey Ferry...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey is a 1964 British musical film featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers. It is frequently considered to be their version of the Beatles'...
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Merseytravel (section Ferries and tunnels)
first transport tunnel under the Mersey to be built, in the nineteenth century. Merseytravel, through Mersey Ferries, owns the Liverpool tourist attraction...
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bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 88,818. Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry were established...
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spurred the growth of ferries across the River Mersey. By the end of the 18th century the Wirral side of the Mersey had five ferry houses, at Seacombe,...
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Queensway Tunnel (redirect from Queensway Mersey Tunnel)
and lorries at the Mersey Ferry terminal, so once royal assent to a parliamentary bill was received, construction of the first Mersey road tunnel started...
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Mersey Railway was nationalised, along with most other British railway companies, in 1948. Records exist of a ferry service across the River Mersey between...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey is the soundtrack for the 1965 film of the same title, starring Gerry and the Pacemakers, who recorded the titular song. Both the...
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capacity is the metric. The sole contender as oldest ferry in continuous operation is the Mersey Ferry from Liverpool to Birkenhead, England. In 1150, the...
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MV Royal Iris (category Mersey Ferries)
(MV Royal Iris) The MV Royal Iris is a twin screw, diesel-electric, Mersey Ferry. The vessel was built by William Denny & Brothers of Dumbarton (Yard...
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Transport Museum. Rock Ferry is situated on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula, at the western side of the River Mersey. The area is approximately...
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Halifax–Dartmouth Ferry is the oldest saltwater ferry in North America, and the second oldest in the world (after the Mersey Ferry linking Liverpool and...
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Blake was commissioned to design exterior paintwork for MV Snowdrop, a Mersey Ferry, which he called "Everybody Razzle Dazzle", combining his trademark motifs...
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Transport in Liverpool (section Mersey crossings)
tunnels under the River Mersey: the Mersey Railway Tunnel; and two road tunnels, Queensway Tunnel and Kingsway Tunnel. The Mersey Ferry continues to provide...
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Royal Daffodil may refer to:- SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918 MV...
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it was destroyed by a fire in 1969. Ferries across the Mersey to New Brighton ceased in 1971, after which the ferry pier and landing stage were dismantled...
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its shares in Mersey Docks & Harbour Company, Tribune, 2 April 1998, retrieved 4 July 2024 Maund, T.B. (November 1991), Mersey Ferries - Volume 1, Transport...
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MV Snowdrop (category Mersey Ferries)
The MV Snowdrop is a Mersey Ferry in operation on the River Mersey, England. From launch until a major refit in 2003, she was named MV Woodchurch. The...
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Line vessel scrapped in 1923 Mersey-class lifeboat, lifeboats operating around Britain and Ireland MS Stena Mersey, a ferry operating across the Irish Sea...
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New Ferry is an urban area on the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is located on the Wirral Peninsula, with the River Mersey to...
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Liscard, Poulton and Seacombe, from where there were occasional ferries across the Mersey. There was also a mill (at Mill Lane), and from the mid-18th century...
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MS Stena Baltica (2005) (redirect from Mersey+wiking)
December 2005 as Mersey Viking, entering service with Norse Merchant Ferries later the same month. A few months later, Norse Merchant Ferries was acquired...
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of the terminals for the Mersey Ferry, the legendary "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" described by Gerry & The Pacemakers. The ferry travels in a triangular route...
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