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1855 Liverpool Town Council Election
Elections to Liverpool Town Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1855. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years. Nine of the sixteen wards were uncontested. After the election, the composition of the council was: Election result Ward results * - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election Abercromby Castle Street Everton Exchange Great George Lime Street North Toxteth Pitt Street Rodney Street St. Anne Street St. Paul's St. Peter's Scotland South Toxteth Vauxhall West Derby See also *Liverpool Town Council elections 1835 - 1879 *Liverpool City Council elections 1880–present * Mayors and Lord Mayors of Liverpool 1207 to present * History of local government in England References {{Merseyside elections 1855 Events January–March * Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards. The council is currently controlled by the Labour Party and is led by Mayor Joanne Anderson. It is a constituent council of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. History Liverpool has been a town since 1207 when it was granted its first charter by King John. It has had a town corporation (the Corporation of Liverpool) since before the 19th century, and this was one of the corporations reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Municipal Council In 1835, Liverpool expanded into the village of Everton and then the township of Kirkdale in the 1860s. The corporation created a police force in 1836. Liverpool was granted city status in 1880. When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Liverpool was one of the cities to become a county borough, and thus admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Street (Liverpool Ward)
Rodney Street is a street in the following cities: *Rodney Street, Liverpool, in Liverpool, England *Rodney Street, Hong Kong Rodney Street () is a street in Admiralty East, Central and Western District, Hong Kong. It connects with Queensway in the south and Harcourt Road in the north. Namesake The name Rodney Street comes from HMS Rodney as Admiralty was once the Nav ... (樂禮街), in Admiralty, Hong Kong * Rodney Street, Brooklyn, a frontage road to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in New York City {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 English Local Elections
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
