Transport!! Making a difference in Ellesmere Port.

LOOKING FOR A THEME FOR YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT? 
WHAT ABOUT TRANSPORT? YEAH THAT'S GOOD, IN ELLESMERE PORT?
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING!!
SOME AMAZING KIDS ART TO DO WITH TRANSPORT IN AND AROUND THE CHESHIRE TOWN OF ELLESMERE PORT. 
OF COURSE ALL PHOTOGRAPHED!!!!

Ellesmere Port Bus Station!

So this is where it all happens!! Ellesmere Port or the bus station to be precise, well who'd have thought it, who'd have known?! There are a lot of initiatives these days that get the art of children in front of people and it's really great to see the imagination of children, especially those at primary schools.

(The cynic in me says that transport operators, councils and private companies are getting quality work very cheaply. Think about it for a second £50 donated to school funds and a £20 voucher for each of the group of winners comes in quite a lot cheaper than a graphic designer at £100 a day!!)

This time it's the turn of West Cheshire and Chester council - West Cheshire Together, "Our Place" Area Management Team, who even pretended to be kids in a picture below....... no, really!!  

Subject - Transportation (Making a difference in Ellesmere Port) and what better place to display the art work from each of the town's primary schools than the bus station! Though that's just the start of it. Ellesmere Port is in all honesty a terrific place for transport and transport related manufacturing industries.

Seven different local bus operators use this bus station plus National Express, the national coach operator. Ellesmere Port is also one of the only places in the North West area that actually have 'yellow school buses'! Even to the point of having double decker 'yellow school buses'!
Two major motorways disect the area and there is a rail station with direct trains to Liverpool and links to Chester. 
Its close proximity to Liverpool, all things connected to Liverpool led to 'Yellow Submarines' and a number of other things to be only imagined!!
The name Ellesmere Port is simply the port of Ellesmere a town 70 miles away in Shropshire, linked by the Shropshire Union canal. Formerly the busiest canal of a huge network of inland waterways. The Boat Museum, now the National Waterways Museum is in Ellesmere Port, not only because of the afore mentioned canal but because Ellesmere Port is a working port on the famous Manchester Ship Canal, the canal that links Liverpool and the famous River Mersey with Manchester, 30 miles away. The Stanlow oil refinery is just 4 miles down the Ship Canal from Ellesmere Port which is situated at the last wide part of the River Mersey, immediately opposite the John Lennon International airport for Liverpool. The General Motors' Vauxhall car manufacturing plant has been in the town for 50 years and the Airbus aircraft making factory is just 7 miles away.
  

                    

This one is my favourite as it even has the Airbus Beluga, Airbus's own specialist transport aircraft.

               

                                         

                              

Now what primary school is this?