Editing North West England (section)

===Culture===
[[File:Lennon Statue, Liverpool.jpg|Statue of [[John Lennon]] of [[the Beatles]] at [[The Cavern Club]], Liverpool|thumb]]

[[File:LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL SEP2012 (7916053494).jpg|[[Liverpool Cathedral|Liverpool Anglican Cathedral]], the largest religious building in the UK|left|thumb]]
The [[Suffragette]] movement came from Manchester—the [[Women's Social and Political Union]]. [[Arthur Wynne]], born in Liverpool, invented the [[crossword]] in December 1913. On 13 August 1964, Britain carried out its last two executions at Strangeways and [[HM Prison Liverpool|Walton Prison]]. Under the [[Museums Act 1845]], the UK's second and third [[Public library|public municipal libraries]] were at Warrington in 1848 and at [[Salford Museum and Art Gallery]] in 1850; Canterbury had been first in 1847. The first [[Trades Union Congress]] was held in 1868 at the [[Mechanics' Institute, Manchester]]. The [[World Pie Eating Championship]] is held in Wigan each year.

[[Ann Lee]] from Manchester started the USA [[Shakers]] movement, founded out of the [[Quakers]], which itself has strong links to [[Pendle Hill]] in Lancashire. [[Joseph Livesey]] of Preston was the founder of [[Temperance movement in the United Kingdom|Britain's temperance movement]], and the word ''teetotal'' was first coined in Preston in 1833. The crumbly [[Cheshire cheese]] is thought to be the oldest in Britain. [[Heaton Park]] in north Manchester is the largest municipal park in Europe. [[Jelly Babies]] were invented in Lancaster in 1864, at Fryers of Lancashire. The first [[KFC]] outlet in the UK was on Fishergate in Preston in May 1965, opened by the entrepreneur Ray Allen. Oldham claims to be the site of the first [[Fish and chips|fried potatoes]] in the UK in 1860. The UK's biggest dance music festival takes place on the August Bank Holiday at [[Creamfields]] on Daresbury Estate. [[Ingvar Kamprad]]'s [[IKEA]] opened its first UK store in Warrington on 1 October 1987; the UK was the 20th country at the time that IKEA had been established. The [[International Cheese Awards]] are held at the end of July in Nantwich.

[[Liverpool]] and [[Manchester]], the two largest cities in the North West by population, are known for being the birthplace of [[beat music]] (also called "Merseybeat") during the 1960s to 1970s, and the development of the [[Madchester]] music scene from the 1980s, and 1990s respectively.

''[[A Taste of Honey (film)|A Taste of Honey]]'' was an influential 1960s film set in Salford, depicting [[working class]] poverty in ways not previously seen at the cinema, known as [[kitchen sink realism]]; [[Walter Greenwood]]'s ''[[Love on the Dole]]'', a 1930s book also set in Salford, was thought by the [[British Board of Film Classification|BBFC]] to be too sordid a depiction of poverty to be made into a film; [[Mike Leigh]], from Salford, has produced films on a similar subject.