Knowsley

VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES Our heaviest function at the Town Hall was the reception and entertainment of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the occasion of the opening of the new North Docks.

The prince and princess stayed with Lord Sefton at Croxteth, and their children, the three princesses, stayed at Knowsley, Lord Sefton's children having

the measles.

The day of the royal visit was lovely.

In July 1909, His Majesty King Edward visited Lancashire to present the colours to the newly created Territorial Army.

This was a special compliment to Lancashire, which had very nobly responded to the call made upon her, and had raised a force of thirty-six thousand men.

The King and Queen stayed at Knowsley.

In the park fifteen thousand territorials were reviewed, and on the day following their majesties proceeded to Worsley Park, where a further twelve thousand were reviewed.

At 7.1% of all the children in Derby are going to grow up to not be in education, employment or training between the ages of 16 and 25.

You head over to Knowsley near Liverpool.

You have got just fewer than one in three children getting a grade five or above in English and maths.

So that's less than 33%.

Toxteth, a park of the king's hard by his house.

Knowsley, a park having a pretty house of the Earls of Derby within a mile of Prescod.

Sir William Norris dwelleth at a house called Speke, a two or three miles from Prescod, and thereabout from Floor...

Tomoth Island dwelleth at Runcorn on Mersey River.

[upbeat music] When you drive up in Knowsley, it used to have a big thing saying, "The home of Lambrini." It was the old biscuit factory.

It's more delicious than most ports I've ever tasted.

I have never before seen things just shoved on a r- risk register and not mitigated.

Um, so was it the job you think you most wanted that you could have got? That was a, that was a key one for you, education?

Yes.

Because I grew up in Knowsley, and I didn't realize this when I was growing up.

Um, but when I was first, um, given a ministerial role, uh, appointed by Boris to the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister brief, I didn't realize that Knowsley was famous in education circles, but famous for all the wrong things.

It had a terrible record.

Liverpool were awful.

And then there was friends of mine who were with Sefton or Knowsley and all got full fees paid.

Did they? Yeah, and we didn't get a single penny.

So I remember us crying reading this letter, like, what are we going to do? And I remember my mum making a phone call to Miss Owen and she said, so come in and see her.

We wanted to be a business listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Staying in Knowsley, we're just building a new headquarters in Knowsley now.

We've recently acquired a huge facility in Buffalo, took on over 100 people in Buffalo, New York.

But yeah, we are deeply rooted within Knowsley of Liverpool.

What do you think helps more people make that decision? Because that sounds to me pretty brave, especially, you know, you never know whether those offers will come round again.

A bit, you know, to steal your football analogy off, you know, when you're a top football manager and the club's going well, there's loads of offers coming along.

Okay.

And do you have a sense of this spread around the country? So where exactly are the bulk of these HMOs? Is it properly spread around the country? The thing that the prime minister has been saying is he wants to move from poorer, more which is where the, it's what Knowsley was.

Knowsley was exactly this, by the way, in 2023, January 23, is an asylum hotel, a very poor part of Liverpool or the outskirts of Liverpool.

One of those illegal entrants sexually made a pass of some sort at a young teenage girl.

The police did do anything about it.