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Sentence Examples Mersey Docks remains in fine fettle financially, and steadfastly independent. The site is located at a point between two major river systems, the Mersey and Dee, with open access to the Irish Sea. Approaching the Mersey Bar Lightship at a quarter-to-seven she was hit by a severe north-westerly gale. Locally common as a winter visitor, especially on large estuaries such as the Mersey and Dee. The white and blue waves refer to the River Mersey and the six mural crowns, being civic emblems, to the six constituent districts. The Liberal government anchored gunboats in the River Mersey and sent 7,000 troops to the city. Much of Saturday will be taken up with a visit to the Mersey River Festival followed by a dinner dance at the Daten Club, Culcheth. They will then set off down the mighty River Mersey on the start of their adventure. Sale's Barry Bowman hit the bullseye in the Mersey Junior Championship at Withington where he carded a 67 off his 18 handicap. A canal, carried over the Mersey on an aqueduct, was constructed by authority of Parliament. Mersey has issued profits warnings in the last two Decembers and last week reported in-line first half profits. Taking a ship in ballast from the Mersey to the Tyne around Scotland was never the best of voyages. In the 1960s and 70s, gravel was extracted from the Mersey Valley to construct the then M63 motorway. But every Mersey cadence as enunciated by George was music, Beatle music, to American ears. Last year, several bathers suffered severe and painful stings while swimming among the jellyfish in the Mersey estuary. The Merseyway shopping centre, which was built over the River Mersey in the 1960s, and the large unwelcoming bus station are both likely to be substantially revamped. Were two clubs in Liverpool to share a pitch, under the prevailing climatic conditions along the Mersey, the surface would swiftly become all but unplayable. Another crossing, the Mersey Gateway road bridge is being built east of the Runcorn Gap. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board used granite from a quarry it owned in Scotland for construction of the quays. Historically the lowest bridging point on the Mersey was at Warrington where there has been a bridge since medieval times. Show More Sentences The Mersey Ferry, managed and operated by Merseytravel, operates between Pier Head in Liverpool and Woodside in Birkenhead and Seacombe. The new Mersey Gateway bridge will use tolls and the existing Silver Jubilee Bridge will also be tolled. In 2002, oxygen levels that could support fish along the entire length were recorded for the first time since industry began on the Mersey. The Mersey is considered sacred by British Hindus, and worshipped in a similar way to the River Ganges. The western side of the Peak District is drained by the rivers Etherow, Goyt, and Tame, which are tributaries of the River Mersey. The land that lay between the Ribble and Mersey, Inter Ripam et Mersam, was included in the returns for Cheshire. But a Mersey class lifeboat more suitable for the shallow conditions in the Swashway channel is replacing the Brummie-bought boat. Its principal rivers are the Severn, Thames, Humber, Tees, Tyne, Tweed, Avon, Exe and Mersey. The Defence Bills Agency was at Mersey House next to St James railway station, now part of DBS Finance. It once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge. The new extension also met with opposition from the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, until the duke purchased a controlling interest in the company. There were also problems caused by silting around the entrance to the Mersey and by the changing channels of the river itself. At the same time costs were rising, partly due to the use of steamboats on the Mersey. Work was carried out in the Mersey estuary around the docks to improve access for vessels. Improvements were made to the Trustees' facilities at Liverpool, to the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and to the Bridgewater Canal itself. This would create a new ring route for leisure boats involving the Trent and Mersey Canal, the Anderton Boat Lift and the River Weaver. Development of the network was left to other engineers, notably Thomas Telford, whose Ellesmere Canal helped link the Severn and the Mersey. It was historically a part of Lancashire, although areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated in the 20th century. The Irwell and Mersey were made navigable by 1736, opening a route from Manchester to the sea docks on the Mersey. In 1931, the Cheshire civil parishes of Baguley, Northenden and Northen Etchells from the south of the River Mersey were added. Show More Sentences The start of the Mersey is at the confluence of the River Tame and River Goyt in Stockport. The Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service manages local nature reserves such as Chorlton Ees and Sale Water Park. The modern accepted start of the Mersey is at the confluence of the Tame and Goyt, in central Stockport, Greater Manchester. As well as Birkenhead Park, other recreational open spaces in Birkenhead include Mersey Park and Victoria Park. The port of Barrow is the only deep water port between the Mersey and the Clyde. For a period, the Mersey may also have flowed into the Dee by means of a channel which it cut through the base of the Wirral Peninsula. The new Mersey Gateway bridge uses tolls and the existing Silver Jubilee Bridge will also be tolled. The islands were bought in 1856 by the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, which later became known as the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. The two parts are linked by the two Mersey Tunnels, the Wirral Line of Merseyrail, and the Mersey Ferry. It is bounded to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey, and to the north by the Irish Sea. By the end of the 18th century the Wirral side of the Mersey had five ferry houses, at Seacombe, Woodside, the Rock, New Ferry and Eastham. In 1886, the Mersey Railway tunnel was opened, linking the Wirral and Liverpool. The rail tunnel under the Mersey was supplemented by a vehicle tunnel in 1934, the Queensway Tunnel. The Shropshire Union Canal joins the Mersey at Ellesmere Port and the Dee at Chester. Further south, the River Clatter and River Dibbin drain into the Mersey at Bromborough Pool. The view of the buildings on Liverpool's Pier Head when crossing on the Mersey Ferry is famous. Regular Mersey Ferry crossings operate to Liverpool from both Woodside and Seacombe, providing a commuter shuttle and pleasure cruises. Fallow deer are now widespread on the UK mainland and are present in most of England and Wales below a line drawn from the Wash to the Mersey. The rivers Mersey and Irwell were first made navigable in the early 18th century. The unresolved question of what would happen to the Mersey estuary if the canal was built had remained a sticking point. Show More Sentences During questioning, an engineer for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was asked how he would avoid such a problem. From Eastham the canal runs parallel to, and along the south side of the Mersey estuary, past Ellesmere Port. At the confluence of the Mersey and Irwell near Irlam, the canal follows the old course of the River Irwell into Manchester. The entrance locks at Eastham on the Wirral side of the Mersey, which seal off the tidal estuary, are the largest on the canal. The CLC Glazebrook to Woodley mainline passed over the River Mersey at Cadishead and so they decided to build a deviation. The high population density of the Mersey Basin has, historically, placed heavy demands on sewage treatment and disposal. The road crosses the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Trent, where it enters Derbyshire and the district of South Derbyshire. The rivers Mersey, Irwell and Tame run through Greater Manchester, all of which rise in the Pennines. The western side of the Peak District is drained by the Etherow, Goyt, and Tame which are tributaries of the River Mersey. The Cheshire Ring is formed from the Rochdale, Ashton, Peak Forest, Macclesfield, Trent and Mersey and Bridgewater canals. It consists of the rivers Irwell and Mersey made navigable to Manchester for seagoing ships leaving the Mersey estuary. The plain stretches from the Rimrose Valley in Seaforth, near Liverpool on the Mersey, to the south, to Preston on the Ribble, to the north. The rivers Mersey, Alt and Ribble feed into the plain and the flood plains add to the flatness. At Shardlow, where the Trent and Mersey Canal begins, the river also meets the Derwent at Derwent Mouth. It forms the boundary between Manchester and Salford and empties into the River Mersey near Irlam. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Irwell's lower reaches were a trading route that became part of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. The Tame joins the River Goyt at Stockport, forming the River Mersey which eventually flows into the Irish Sea just past Liverpool. Having been joined by the River Etherow, the Goyt joins the River Tame at Stockport, forming the River Mersey. Macclesfield is in the east of Cheshire, on the River Bollin, a tributary of the River Mersey. A DAREDEVIL driver crossed the Mersey in his amphibious car just ahead of the Parade of Sail yesterday. Show More Sentences The Mersey Swing Lindy Hoppers will be showing of their jive and jitterbugs with a demonstration of dancing. The cast of Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels had notched up yet another full house performance at the Royal Court. In a more evenly matched pairing, Mersey Ferries have been drawn away to Runcorn outfit, FC Trannie. The ports of London, Liverpool, and Newcastle lie on the tidal rivers Thames, Mersey and Tyne respectively. Modi Mwtsamia, nutritionalist for campaign group Heart of Mersey, said takeaway customers may be putting themselves at risk without knowing. Around 100 boats will take to the Mersey led by HMS Sheffield, the official guardship for the race. The concert aims to raise the profile of the Guillemot Trust charity, which operates from the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. We also had harbour porpoise and we tend to get a great deal of them in the Mersey. The HMS Mersey sailed into Liverpool yesterday afternoon, where it was berthed alongside Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo. As well as working at the locomotive works, Robert was also surveying routes for railways and advised on a tunnel under the River Mersey. Three approaches were considered, one via the M62, one via the River Mersey and the other through south Manchester. Wales would extend as far as the rivers Severn and Mersey, including most of Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. A contender as oldest ferry in continuous operation is the Mersey Ferry from Liverpool to Birkenhead, England. The city is served by the Trent and Mersey Canal, which sees traffic of some 10,000 boats a year. The docks enabled ship movements within the dock system 24 hours a day, isolated from the high River Mersey tides. Historically in Cheshire, it is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool. The recorded history of Birkenhead began with the establishment of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the 12th century. Later, the Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary. The name is not derived from the Birket, a stream which enters the Mersey between Birkenhead and Seacombe. The Mersey Railway tunnel opened in 1886, providing direct railway access to Liverpool. Show More Sentences Daily Belfast services are run by Stena Line, using their RoPax ferries MS Stena Lagan and MS Stena Mersey. The Mersey Ferry at Woodside operates a passenger service to Liverpool and chartered cruising. The English Irish Sea coast is an important area of estuaries and bird life, with Wirral being a peninsula bounded by two rivers, the River Dee and the River Mersey. The distribution of individual PAH compounds suggests that the Mersey has contaminants mainly derived from combustion sources such as vehicle exhaust as well as coal burning. The old course of the Mersey has been obliterated by the canal past Hollins Green to Rixton although the old river bed can be seen outside Irlam and at Warburton. The breakfast event is being held jointly by the University, the Mersey Dee Alliance, Cheshire West and Chester Council and Cheshire East Council. Professional basketball came to the city in 2007 with the entry of Everton Tigers, now known as Mersey Tigers, into the elite British Basketball League. However the Mersey Ferry predates it as the oldest salt water ferry. A CHANCE to own a chunk of ferry memorabilia occurs in September when a nameplate from the current MV Royal Iris of the Mersey goes up for auction. Additionally, the Caldon Canal branches off from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, within the city boundaries, going to Froghall with one branch going to Leek. At Mersey Square, Stockport just before the road crosses the M60, the road becomes Wellington Road North and crosses the Stockport to Stalybridge Line. This route would make connecting to any future canals much easier, and would also increase competition with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation company. Plans have been developed in recent years to construct a second bridge, known as the Mersey Gateway, across the river to alleviate congestion on the route today. To the south, Liverpool is connected to Widnes and Warrington via the A562 road and subsequently across the River Mersey to Runcorn, via the Silver Jubilee Bridge. The nobby, or Hoylake prawner, is a type of local sail-powered fishing boat of supreme elegance and the annual Mersey Nobby Race was the basis for the Mersey River Festival. Outside of rugby league, St Helens have forged partnerships with British Basketball League side Mersey Tigers, and English Premier Ice Hockey League team Manchester Phoenix. The earliest records state that the Mersey ferry began operating from Birkenhead in 1150, when Benedictine monks under the leadership of Hamon de Mascy built a priory there. In 1766 the Duke gained a fourth act of parliament for a branch canal between Sale Moor and Stockport which was to follow the valley of the Mersey. Two road tunnels, the Queensway road tunnel from Birkenhead, and the Kingsway road tunnel from Wallasey, run underneath the River Mersey and connect the town to Liverpool. Birkenhead's dock system is part of the Port of Liverpool, operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company under the ownership of The Peel Group. Show More Sentences In 2010 Liverpool City Council and the Primary Care Trust Commissioned The Mersey Forest to complete A Green Infrastructure Strategy for the City. In 1720 the River Douglas near Wigan and the rivers Irwell and Mersey were made navigable providing a more efficient and cheaper method of transporting coal. One critic unkindly likened her voice to a dentist's drill and a Mersey foghorn, but it brought her a debut hit with the Paul McCartney-penned Love Of The Loved. The River Ribble catchment is covered by the Mersey Basin Campaign, a partnership which was established in 1985 to improve water quality and encourage waterside regeneration. The Mersey Estuary separates Liverpool from the Wirral Peninsula. Mersey officers carried out a number of search warrants in Tower Hill yesterday after a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a house on Mossdale Road, on Monday night. Its course ends just east of Irlam, where it empties into the Mersey. It did, however, lay the groundwork for the more draconian legislation which followed, and in 1891 the Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee was formed. In 1939, the Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee was superseded by the Lancashire Rivers Board, but wartime conditions brought about further deterioration of the river. At the end of the 12th century, Birkenhead Priory stood on the west bank of the Mersey at a headland of birch trees, from which the town derives its name. The commercial expansion of Liverpool, and the increase in stage coach traffic from Chester, also spurred the growth of ferries across the River Mersey. Alongside the Mersey, the duke built Runcorn Dock, several warehouses, and Bridgewater House, a temporary home from which he could supervise operations at the Runcorn end. The Trent and Mersey link gave the Duke access to the Midlands, and forestalled the Weaver Trustees from making their own junction with the canal. However, as the Dee began to silt up, maritime trade from Chester became increasingly difficult and shifted towards Liverpool on the neighbouring River Mersey. The trio then sailed back up the Mersey in single file formation, tug boats pumping out vast V-shaped water spouts ahead and astern the royal procession. This change was designed to accommodate Mersey flats, although the low fixed bridges required that traffic on the canal be able to lower or unship their masts. Liverpool sits on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary and its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Cynics argue the success of the Mersey TV soap boils down to leggy blonde actresses parading themselves in flimsy plots and even flimsier clothes. The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. So if you see a grey-haired man on the banks of the Mersey in the next few weeks, don't worry, he's not about to throw himself in, he's just scouring the mud for lugworms. Show More Sentences Mercian constituted the middle section of the country, divided from the southern dialects by the Thames and from Northumbrian by the Humber and Mersey rivers. The Mersey Beat poets were Adrian Henri, Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The Mersey Docks Board opposed the committee's first bill, presented late in 1882, and it was rejected by Parliament in January 1883 for breaching Standing Orders. Some witnesses against the scheme, worried that a canal would cause the entrance to the Mersey estuary to silt up, blocking traffic, cited the case of Chester harbour. Sandro Carnemolla was breathalysed by police after he rowed with a Mersey river pilot on board to guide the ship, MV Quercianella, out of Eastham Docks. The Act was applied for to counter a proposed canal that would give the towns of Stockport and Macclesfield access to the Mersey, via the River Weaver. Mount Manisty, a large mound of earth on a narrow stretch between the canal and the Mersey northwest of Ellesmere Port, was constructed from soil taken from the excavations. He is also expected to announce a review of the tolls on the Silver Jubilee and Mersey Gateway crossings which could result in free journeys for people living nearby. Examples from Classical Literature The ship had been put in dock at Birkenhead, on the opposite side of the Mersey. There must have been time, at all events, for her to get away from the wharf, and to descend the Mersey. You told them I 'd double the pay if we catch the American ship in the Mersey. He was to have some success with a book about travelling Liverpool fans, The Boys From the Mersey, but Kirby faced lot of rejection slips. The eyes opened as a hand shook the psychotic Mersey by the shoulder. The Morrow sailed from the mouth of the Mersey on the 15th of June and for several weeks we had fair breezes and unclouded skies. The Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments today released the signed Mersey Community Hospital Heads of Agreement. Wreaths were later thrown into the Mersey from the Royal Daffodil as buglers sounded The Last Post. Merseyside was expecting a preview of the Festival ship, Campania, when she entered the Mersey before a fortnight's visit to Birkenhead. At Stockport they crossed the Mersey, the Prince wading up to the middle. The Square Sail Fleet have been open to the public and used as stages for musicians taking part in the Mersey International Shanty Festival. Frankly, we are surprised at the Germans showing any Mersey anywhere. It is situated on the river Mersey, four miles from the sea. At length we entered the Mersey and dropped anchor off Liverpool. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitred the shores with a telescope. This was so in the Mersey tunnel, and would be in the channel tunnel. The stop at Queenstown, the tedious passage up the Mersey, were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience. The PS11m pipe, called an outfall, will be installed into the bed of the River Mersey over the summer. A steam yacht, SS Deerhound, owned by a Mr Lancaster, and a member of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, Rock Ferry, picked up Alabama's 43 survivors. At northwich the Weaver becomes navigable as far as the Mersey. Show More Sentences After a sharp U-turn off the emergency exit runners then begin the gentle descent down under the River Mersey. A MASSIVE operation to build the three giant bridge pylons that will support the second Mersey crossing at Runcorn is under way. Vessels dry-docked ranged from the 611 gross ton Royal Iris of the Mersey to the 50,938 gross ton Ulysses, fully utilising Laird's four dry docks. Victory came for Mr Wylie on the track when race favourite Nichols Canyon claimed a straightforward Mersey Novices' Hurdle win, with jockey Ruby Walsh aboard. He regularly left his base in Wallasey to travel through the Mersey tunnel to fraternise with prostitutes in Liverpool's city centre red light district. Over the next 12 months volunteers plan to erect build three more eyries in the Bala area, three alongside the River Conwy, one next to the River Dee and one on the Mersey. The archive shows Lord Mersey, the judge who presided over the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, was a Freemason. The marathon dispute between the Liverpool dockers and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company lasted 28 months and changed the lives of those involved forever. Find more words! 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