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Formby is a coastal town, with an area of roughly 7 sq miles (17 km 2), located in the borough of Sefton. The town is built upon the west of a large flat area of land called the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. Formby's highest point is within the sand dunes that separate the Irish Sea from Formby.
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George Formby OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6...
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George Formby (born James Lawler Booth; 4 October 1875 – 8...
- George Formby - Wikipedia
George Formby OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer.
By 1939, George Formby was the most popular and highest paid entertainer in the British Isles and was estimated to be earning over £100,000 a year. The secret of his success was a unique combination of personality, natural ability and talent, coupled with the driving force of his wife, Beryl as his Manager.
Learn how the asparagus fields point to a history of prize-winning cultivation, the shoreline holds traces of the distant past with prehistoric footprints, and the shipwrecks off the coast tell stories about the area’s maritime history.
Formby is a seaside town and parish in Lancashire. It has a population of approximately 25,000. Three manors are recorded in the Domesday book under "Fornebei" as Halsall, Walton and Poynton.
George Formby (born James Lawler Booth; 4 October 1875 – 8 February 1921) was an English comedian and singer in musical theatre, known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the early 20th century. [1] His comedy played upon Lancashire stereotypes, and he was popular around Britain.
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4 days ago · Formby is bounded on the west by the sea, the shore being protected by extensive and somewhat lofty sandhills, covered with a luxuriant growth of creeping willows and star grass, the latter being systematically planted to keep the sand from drifting away.
