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Edge Hill is a district of Liverpool, England. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...
The area was first developed in the late 18th/early 19th century. Only a few of the Georgian houses of the time still survive. The terraces of the Victorian era have also largely been demolished and though some modern housing has been built the area still has a depopulated appearance with many vacant lots and derelict pubs and shops.
Edge Hill station was built in 1836. There was a "Moorish Arch" with a stationary engine hauling trains up and down from Lime Street Station until locomotive-hauled trains were able to cope with the gradient. The station retains its original buildings but is very quiet owing to the sheer lack of population or industry in the area. Edge Hill station is a railway station in Edge Hill Liverpool, England. ...
1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Lime Street Station (officially referred to as Liverpool Lime Street) is the mainline railway station serving Liverpool, England. ...
Formerly all trains stopped at Edge Hill at the entrance to the tunnel to Lime Street, giving rise to "getting off at Edge Hill" as a euphemism for coitus interruptus. Coitus interruptus, also commonly called the withdrawal method, the natural method, pull and pray, belly shot, or pulling out is an unreliable method of contraception in which, during sexual intercourse, the man removes his penis from the womans vagina just before he reaches orgasm. ...
Edge Hill was the site of huge railway marshalling yards until the 1960s, sorting trains to and from the docks via the Victoria Tunnel and Wapping Tunnel tunnels to Park Lane and Waterloo goods stations on the dockside. The Victoria Tunnel in Liverpool is a 2475 metres long rail tunnel, it opened in 1849. ...
The Wapping Tunnel is a 2030 m long, it runs down hill from the Crown Street Station goods yard to Park Lane Goods Station, in Liverpool. ...
The main tourist attraction of the area are the Williamson's tunnels, a complex of tunnels built by Joseph Williamson in the early 19th century (possibly as a philanthropic scheme to generate employment in the depression following the Napoleonic Wars). The Williamsons tunnels in Edge Hill (a district of Liverpool, England) are a bizarre collection of seemingly pointless tunnels built by Joseph Williamson from 1806 to 1840. ...
The stables in Smithdown Lane once housed Roy Rogers' horse Trigger in his retirement. Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Frank Slye (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ...
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The Williamsons tunnels in Edge Hill (a district of Liverpool, England) are a bizarre collection of seemingly pointless tunnels built by Joseph Williamson from 1806 to 1840. ...
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