Digital Hearing Aids Ellesmere Port – Cheshire Digital Hearing Aids

Digital Hearing Aids Ellesmere Port –  Cheshire Digital Hearing Aids

Ellesmere Port, as its name suggests is a port and also an industrial town on the Wirral peninsula.  First mentions of settlements in this area date back to the Domesday Book when local villages were listed.  These include Great Sutton, Little Sutton, Pool now known as Overpool and Hooton.  As Ellesmere Port spread, these villages and several others became suburbs of the larger town.

Ellesmere Port started out as not much more than a village itself, namely Netherpool.  Its name changed to The Port of Ellesmere as that became its main function.  It wasn’t until the 19th Century that its name changed to what we know it by today.

The port came into being as a link to the sea for Ellesmere in Shropshire and the Welsh Borders via a canal.  The Ellesmere Canal was intended to link the River Mersey to the River Severn, picking up trade from Wales and the West Midlands on the way.  The canal was never completed due to the common problems of rising costs and less take up than expected.

The canal at its northern end flowed out at Netherpool and is known as the Whitby Basin.  Thomas Telford and engineer William Jessop designed and built the canal during the 18th Century.  Telford was responsible for the detail, including the pioneering Pontcysyllte Aqueduct with its 19 arches.  Today this aqueduct, which is still navigable, is Grade I listed and a World Heritage Site as it is Britain’s longest and highest aqueduct.

The town grew after Manchester Ship Canal was built towards the end of the 19th Century.  The canal leading from the mouth of the River Mersey made it possible for ocean going ships to reach Manchester, 40 miles inland.

Ear trumpet
Imagine if your only option to improve your hearing was an old fashioned ear trumpet.  Not only would you still be struggling to hear what others said, but you’d have the inconvenience of taking this large and unsightly piece of equipment everywhere you went!  Fortunately things have moved on.  Now you could find that a pair of digital hearing aids is all you need to make a difference.  Want to know more?  Call us on 01782 698090.

Ellesmere Port today
Stanlow Oil Refinery and Vauxhall Cars are two of the biggest employers here.  Stanlow was opened in the 1920s and is the second largest producer of petrol for the UK.  The biggest is at Fawley in Southampton.  The refinery accepts oil from ships and processes it.  It uses the UK oil pipeline to transport the fuel around the country.  Stanlow also produces fuel for aircraft, bitumen – mainly used in the construction of roads - and kerosene, more commonly known domestically as paraffin.

Vauxhall has an Opal and Astra assembly plant in Hooton where the RAF base used to be.  They employ more than 2,000 people here and are an important part of Ellesmere Port’s local economy.

National Waterways Museum
Ellesmere Port is home to the National Waterways Museum.  It is housed where the old canal port used to be as the Shropshire Canal meets the River Mersey.  Here visitors can see the large collection of canal boats and an exhibition about the history of boatbuilding.  There are visiting exhibitions in the old toll house, the blacksmith’s forge, the stables where horses and pigs were kept, as well as the Pump House.  This housed the steam engines which powered hydraulic cranes for lifting boats on the canals.

A row of four houses, originally built for dock workers, have been used to illustrate how they would have lived in the different periods between 1840 – 1950.

The original canal locks are Grade II listed, as is the lighthouse at the entrance to the canal.

Blue Planet Aquarium
The Blue Planet Aquarium can be found at Ellesmere Port’s Cheshire Oaks Retail Park.  It is home to fresh water and marine life.

If you’re brave enough you can dive or have an ‘encounter’ with a shark.  Kids can spend a day on the ‘Blue Water’ team feeding the many kinds of marine life, including the rock pool inhabitants and the Rays.  Kids get to meet a diver and see the Aquatheatre Show too.

Blue Planet is home to seven types of sharks, Angel fish, giraffe catfish, rays, trigger fish, piranhas, dogfish and many more.

Famous faces with Ellesmere Port connections
·         Comedian Russ Abbott grew up here

·         Writer and TV reporter Hardeep Singh Kholi lived in the area at one time

·         Steps group member Lee Latchford Evans grew up in Ellesmere Port

·         John Prescott one time Deputy Prime Minister (1997 – 2007) went to school here

·         19th Century artist Joshua Shaw was born in Ellesmere Port

·         Johannah Leedham was team captain for the Olympics women’s basket ball team – she comes from Ellesmere Port

·         Ian Prowse can call Ellesmere Port his home town.  He is a singer/songwriter with Amsterdam and at one time the band Pele

·         Lillian Beckworth the author grew up here

·         Opera singer Rita Cullis was born here

·         And just a few footballers have a connection with this town including: the late Sam Chedgzoy, the late Stan Cullis who started playing as a schoolboy in Ellesmere Port, retired player Dave Hickson, the late Joe Mercer was born here, retired player Rob Jones grew up here and former England player now manager at Shrewsbury Town, Graham Turner.

No need to suffer in silence
If you live in or near Ellesmere Port there’s no need to suffer in silence.  If you think that your hearing is not as good as it used to be, then please get in touch with us.  Hearing loss can be caused by many things and can be irritating when you cannot hear clearly what is being said either in person or on the TV.  Don’t leave it any longer, give us a call today on 01782 698090 to see how we can help.