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  • |picture=Blackpool tower from central pier ferris wheel .jpg |picture caption=Blackpool Tower and beach
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  • ...e of the west coast sea trade by [[Bristol]] was ending as ports such as [[Liverpool]] proved more convenient. Between 1804 and 1809 the Port of Bristol placed *{{i-NTE}} [[Stembridge Tower Mill]] (the last remaining thatched windmill in Britain)
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  • Image:Fraserburgh Wine Tower.jpg|The Wine Tower ...Kinnaird Castle) and the Wine Tower.jpg|Kinnaird Head and the ancient Wine Tower
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  • ...ster became one end of the world's first intercity passenger railway—the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Competition between the various forms of transport ...hed human nature, lying and bleeding fragments".<ref>{{cite episode |title=Victoria and Her Sisters |series= A History of Britain |serieslink= A History of Bri
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  • ...udno Junction]]. In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from [[Liverpool]], presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marsh lands behind Lland ...'Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts'' (chapter 3 page 19) referring to the ''Liverpool Mercury''</ref> and it is now the largest seaside resort in Wales.
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  • A subsurface line which until 2010 ran each way in an endless loop with ''Liverpool Street'' Station in the east and ''Notting Hill Gate'' in the west. It now ==Victoria Line==
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  • ...hopping street, is pedestrianised and Queen Victoria Street, a part of the Victoria Quarter, is enclosed under a glass roof. Millennium Square is a significant ...evelopment, an east-west connection with [[Manchester]] and the ports of [[Liverpool]] and [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] giving improved access to international m
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  • | name = Liverpool | picture = Liverpool Montage.jpg
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  • ...eeling125>{{cite book|title=Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham |author=Arthur Freeling |year=1838 |pages=125}}< ...eeling126>{{cite book|title=Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham |author=Arthur Freeling |year=1838 |pages=126}}<
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  • ...urrey]] standing on the south bank of the river [[Thames]] at the end of [[Tower Bridge]]. It is deep within the metropolitan conurbation, having been swal ...A Fête at Bermondsey'' by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder c. 1569, with the [[Tower of London]] in the distance.]]
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  • In 1716 the church tower collapsed. Between 1763 and 1740, St Leonards was thoroughly rebuilt in fa ...alls, survive in the collections of both the Bishopsgate Institute and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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  • ...stone age.<ref name=MusArch>Southampton Museum of Archeology. God's House Tower, Southampton.</ref> According to the ''Chronicle of the Britons'' the Ancie |title=God's House Tower: A History of the Museum
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  • ...to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, an important link with the major port of Liverpool for the import of raw cotton from America.<ref name=lewis1835/> Local firms ...landscape architect and Lecturer on Landscape Design at the University of Liverpool, regarding Town Planning in Bolton. Mawson published "Bolton – a Study in
    30 KB (4,704 words) - 17:41, 22 July 2011
  • ...h-largest urban area in the [[United Kingdom]], ranking between those of [[Liverpool]] and [[Sheffield]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downl ...nted its city charter as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1897 and has since been officially titled the "City of Nottingham".
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  • [[File:BlackburnClockTower1906.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Blackburn's 1906 clock tower in 1906 with time ball]] ...n Victoria in Blackburn.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Blackburn's Statue of Queen Victoria with the cathedral in the background]]
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  • ====Victoria Tower==== ...muni blgs2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Municipal Buildings with the Victoria Tower and "Cowan's Corner", and the ''Mid Kirk'' spire of 1781 to the left]]
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  • ...rsfield]] and [[Rochdale]], and 65 miles from [[Kingston upon Hull]] and [[Liverpool]], the ports of each coast. [[File:The former Halifax Building Society (now Hbos) HQ from Wainhouse Tower - geograph.org.uk - 1385790.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Halifax]]
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  • ...ntersection of the A559 road and also on the West Coast Mainline between [[Liverpool]] and [[Crewe]]. Nearby are sweetly-named the villages of [[Weaverham]], [ ...y the Bishop of Chester in 1887 to commemorate the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. In 1897 a ring of six bells was installed to commemorate her Diamond Jubil
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  • ...2000, 'The Onset of Modernity' in A New History of the Isle of Man, Vol V, Liverpool U.P.; ISBN 0-85323-726-3.</ref> ...g rescue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iomguide.com/towerrefuge.php|title=Tower of Refuge|publisher=IOM Guide|accessdate=2008-10-04}}</ref> Douglas, in the
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  • ...ompid=41388 |work=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 |series=[[Victoria County History]] |publisher=British History Online |pages=106–111 |year=1 ...of Hindley now work in Wigan, [[Bolton]] or commute to [[Manchester]] or [[Liverpool]].
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