On 23 October at Southport Gladstone delivered a speech where he claimed that the right to combination, which in London was " innocent and lawful, in Ireland would be penal and ... punished by imprisonment with hard labour ".

Its origins lie in two local governments established at the 10 June 1949 elections: Town of the South Coast, which merged the Town of Coolangatta, Town of Southport and part of the Shire of Nerang ; and the Shire of Albert, which took in a large surrounding region.

The town's government pursued a purchase of the marina to preserve it from a future sale to private developers, but the state retained ownership of the marina and approved a lease for the facility to a new ownership group, Southport Marina, Inc., which has invested in significant repairs and upgrades to the facility.

Taylor was born in March 1906 in Birkdale near Southport, which was then part of Lancashire.

In 1970 the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( which operates today under the Merseytravel brand ) was set up, covering the Liverpool and Wirral conurbations, but excluding Southport and St. Helens.

* Other routes planned for closure which survived included: Settle-Carlisle Line, Ipswich – Lowestoft, Manchester – Sheffield via Edale ( but the Woodhead Line and Bakewell routes closed instead ), Ayr – Stranraer, Glasgow – Kilmarnock, Glasgow – Edinburgh via Shotts, Barrow – Whitehaven, Middlesbrough – Whitby, York – Harrogate, Leeds / Bradford – Ilkley, Nottingham – Lincoln, Boston – Skegness, Birkenhead – Wrexham, Liverpool – Southport ( and other Merseyside commuter routes ), Bury-Manchester, Leicester – Peterborough, Hastings – Ashford and Ryde – Shanklin.

* In Southport, Merseyside, Nevill Street has the remainders of an underground shopping street, which can now only be accessed from the cellars of buildings on the current street, which was raised by one storey from the original level.

The village, which lies more than a mile inland, is becoming modernized and growing quickly, especially along the principal road, that from Liverpool to Southport, which crosses the township in a northerly direction, with roads branching off to the shore and to Thornton.

Both are on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network, which runs from Liverpool to Southport.

Due to this increase in population the railway came to Maghull in 1849, with a station on the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway as well as the construction of the town's first police station which was set up by Lancashire County Council in 1870 and the town got a second station in 1884, Sefton and Maghull, on the newly built Cheshire Lines Committee Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway to Southport, the line was an extension of the North Liverpool Extension Line.

After a tense re-vote which Wigan controversially won 29 – 20, Southport lost their place in the Fourth Division and Wigan Athletic became an English League club on 2 June 1978.

Etherow Country Park Sailing Club is a small sailing club which has good results nationally, it recently came 20th out of 78 in the Southport 24 Hour Race.

Two red lights were seen at Southport, which may have been signals from the life – boat.

Hilda's Anglican School for Girls ' which is an independent, girls ' school in Southport, South-East Australia and Mosman Park, Western Australia.

The school also has a boat house which is currently on loan to Southport Dragon Boat Club, in the nearby town of Southport for its rowing team.

Some historic rides from other parks have already been donated to the Dreamland Trust for installation at Dreamland, the majority of unique old rides from Pleasureland Southport were donated which include the 1940s Caterpillar ride, King Solomon's Mines wooden roller-coaster ( formerly of Frontierland, Morecambe and later moved to Pleasureland Southport ), workings from the Ghost Train and River Caves, the Hall of Mirrors, Mistral, Haunted Swing and the Skyride ( Chairlift ride ).

George C. Wolfe directed this film adaptation, which was partially filmed in the town of Rodanthe and entirely filmed in eastern North Carolina – including Cape Hatteras, Southport and Wilmington.

Dune FM was a radio channel which broadcast from Southport between 1997 and 2012.

West Sacramento, incorporated in 1987, consists of three communities that were originally distinct towns, Broderick, Bryte, and West Sacramento ( originally just the community north of the port canal and south of the railroads ), as well as the Southport area.

The service provides an extended link to Southport during the summer months and there are also several shortened versions of the 319 running throughout the day serving just St Helens to Rainford via Cross Pit Lane, Higher Lane and Old Lane.

Marsh joined Conference side Southport on a free transfer on the 18 May 2000 and spent just over a year there playing thirty seven times and scoring seven times.

The Bolton-Wigan branch-line diverges just to the south of Lostock's platforms, but there are no longer any platforms on the branch to Wigan and Southport.

Ceroc Enterprises has been expanding its weekender offerings, and has taken over weekender venues from JiveTime ( Camber Sands ) at the end of 2007, and Jive Addiction ( Southport ) in August 2008.

By 1820 Southport had over 20, 000 visitors per year.

The Formby Bypass ( A565 ) was built over fifty years ago to take the major Liverpool to Southport route out of Formby and cut alongside the fringe of the town.

Flocks of pink-footed geese are commonly seen in winter as they fly over St Annes between their feeding grounds around Southport and Over-Wyre.

Pugh is a keen supporter of the Amnesty International, with whom he is reported to have had close ties with the Formby & Southport Group over a number of years.

Entering the competition at the Fourth Qualifying Round, they beat Devizes Town before beating two Football League clubs – Brentford 3 – 1 away in the first round and Southend United 1 – 0 away in the third round, either side of a win over fellow Conference team Southport – on their way to the FA Cup fourth round proper, where they were seconds away from beating Bristol City before succumbing to a late winner in the replay.

Varitek played in the 1984 Little League World Series, leading his Altamonte Springs team to victory in the United States Championship bracket in a 4 – 2 victory over Southport, Indiana.

In 1951, the Hillsborough River bridge was deemed too weak to carry even the lightest engines and cars, thus the trackage was removed and trains trying to reach Southport on the opposite side of Charlottetown Harbour would have to run over via Mount Stewart Junction and the Short Line.

The former military family housing area originally constructed by the Air Force and later utilized by the Navy and other military service branches was fully turned over to the City of Orlando in late 1999 and was redeveloped into The Villages At Southport.

It took over the municipal bus operations of Liverpool, Birkenhead and Wallasey in 1970, and expanded to cover St Helens and Southport in 1974.

It took over the municipal bus operations of Liverpool, Birkenhead and Wallasey in 1970, and expanded to cover St Helens and Southport in 1974.

There are many bus stops throughout the village and local area which link to all over the Southport area and suburbs, with services extending into Liverpool and West Lancashire.

The first match after Cook's departure saw Dino Maamria and Steve Whitehall take over as caretaker manager team and they succeeded in leading the team to a 3 – 1 home win over free-falling Grays, a match which also saw Carl Baker make his 100th appearance in a Southport shirt.

Only four defeats during 2009 – 2010 saw Southport finally secure the League title following a 3 – 0 away victory at Eastwood Town on the final Saturday of the season, spurred on by over 700 travelling Sandgrounders.

After his released, Enckelman went on a trial at Preston and played in a friendly match in a 2-0 win over Southport on 14 July 2012.

NY 17 was altered to follow a more easterly alignment through the area while NY 328 was extended north from Southport to Horseheads over NY 17's old alignment.

Sets 313003 / 005 / 013 / 063 were used for over hundreds miles of extensive testing on the Southport, Ormskirk and Kirkby-Garston lines.

This bridge was originally constructed to take the Longton Bypass over the railway line between Preston and Southport, and was adapted to road use after the line's closure.

The charity now provides many services to over 7000 blind and visually impaired people across the County and has offices in Chorley, Penwortham Southport and Morecambe.