Crewe - Revision history

Joeylad at 13:03, December 2, 2024

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DavidB4-bot: /* Further reading */clean up & uniformity

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Desmonduk at 02:09, February 16, 2016

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RJJensen at 16:39, October 4, 2009

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EdBot: Category:United Kingdom Cities and Towns

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Category:United Kingdom Cities and Towns

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Category:United Kingdom Towns and Cities

Pachyderm: pop

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 ''Oh! Mr. Porter, what a silly girl I am!''
-=== Further reading ===
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 Jack Simmons & Gordon Biddle (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to British Railway History'' (Oxford 1997)

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−	'''Crewe''' is a town and important railway junction in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. It was founded in the early 1840s on a virgin site where the [[Chester]] & Crewe and [[Manchester]] & [[Birmingham]] Railways met the Grand Junction Railway main line. The GJR (which had absorbed the other lines) decided to locate its engine works at that strategic spot, purchasing land in 1840 and moving its existing works from [[Liverpool]]. By 1843 a new town to service the works was rising, with 200 houses. Crewe was a [[company town]] of the Grand Junction (from 1846, the [[London & North Western Railway]]), and further lines were built joining the main line at the junction. This railway monopoly ceased in 1938 when a [[Rolls Royce]] aero-engine plant was built in Crewe, changing to manufacturing their world-famous cars in 1946; today only Bentley cars are manufactured in Crewe.	+	'''Crewe''' is a town and important railway junction in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. It was founded in the early 1840s on a virgin site where the [[Chester]] & Crewe and [[Manchester]] & [[Birmingham]] Railways met the Grand Junction Railway main line. The GJR (which had absorbed the other lines) decided to locate its engine works at that strategic spot, purchasing land in 1840 and moving its existing works from [[Liverpool]]. By 1843 a new town to service the works was rising, with 200 houses. Crewe was a [[company town]] of the Grand Junction (from 1846, the [[London and North Western Railway]]), and further lines were built joining the main line at the junction. This railway monopoly ceased in 1938 when a [[Rolls Royce]] aero-engine plant was built in Crewe, changing to manufacturing their world-famous cars in 1946; today only Bentley cars are manufactured in Crewe.

	Its population is 67,683 (2001).		Its population is 67,683 (2001).

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−	'''Crewe''' is a town and important railway junction in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. It was founded in the early 1840s on a virgin site where the [[Chester]] & Crewe and [[Manchester]] & [[Birmingham]] Railways met the Grand Junction Railway main line. The GJR (which had absorbed the other lines) decided to locate its engine works at that strategic spot, purchasing land in 1840 and moving its existing works from [[Liverpool]]. By 1843 a new town to service the works was rising, with 200 houses. Crewe was a [[company town]] of the Grand Junction (from 1846, the [[London & North Western Railway]]), and further lines were built joining the main line at the junction. This railway monopoly ceased in 1938 when a [[Rolls Royce]] aero-engine plant was built in Crewe, changing to manufacturing their world-famous cars in 1946.	+	'''Crewe''' is a town and important railway junction in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. It was founded in the early 1840s on a virgin site where the [[Chester]] & Crewe and [[Manchester]] & [[Birmingham]] Railways met the Grand Junction Railway main line. The GJR (which had absorbed the other lines) decided to locate its engine works at that strategic spot, purchasing land in 1840 and moving its existing works from [[Liverpool]]. By 1843 a new town to service the works was rising, with 200 houses. Crewe was a [[company town]] of the Grand Junction (from 1846, the [[London & North Western Railway]]), and further lines were built joining the main line at the junction. This railway monopoly ceased in 1938 when a [[Rolls Royce]] aero-engine plant was built in Crewe, changing to manufacturing their world-famous cars in 1946; today only Bentley cars are manufactured in Crewe.
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		+	Its population is 67,683 (2001).

	Crewe featured prominently in the music hall song ''Oh Mr Porter'' made famous by [[Marie Lloyd]]:		Crewe featured prominently in the music hall song ''Oh Mr Porter'' made famous by [[Marie Lloyd]]:

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	''Oh! Mr. Porter, what shall I do?		''Oh! Mr. Porter, what shall I do?
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	''I want to go to Birmingham''		''I want to go to Birmingham''
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	''And they're taking me on to Crewe,''		''And they're taking me on to Crewe,''
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	''Send me back to London as quickly as you can,''		''Send me back to London as quickly as you can,''
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	''Oh! Mr. Porter, what a silly girl I am!''		''Oh! Mr. Porter, what a silly girl I am!''

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 ''Oh! Mr. Porter, what shall I do?
 ''I want to go to Birmingham''
 ''And they're taking me on to Crewe,''
 ''Send me back to London as quickly as you can,''
 ''Oh! Mr. Porter, what a silly girl I am!''