Ormskirk Civic Dinner and Dance held at the Civic Hall March 2012.

Photos from the Ormskirk Civic Dinner and Dance held at the Civic Hall March 2012.

Ormskirk Civic Dinner and Dance held at the Civic Hall March 2012 hosted by West Lancashire Mayor and Mayoress Rob and Sue Bailey guests of honour from Ormskirk twin towns Cergy Pontoise in France and German twin town Erkrath.

Reverend Chris Jones and Wife Linda at Ormskirk Civic Dinner March 2012

Cergy-Pontoise, France

West Lancashire twinned with Cergy-Pontoise in 1983. Cergy-Pontoise lies 30km north west of Paris and has many similar characteristics to West Lancashire. It has a population of about 150,000 and includes a new town, Cergy, as well as a number of small towns (communes) and villages within the same local authority area. Pontoise is a very old market town which is comparable with Ormskirk. The are is an excellent holiday centre, not only for its own attractions but also for the surrounding countryside and for visiting Paris.
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Erkrath, Germany

Erkrath was formally twinned with West Lancashire in 1988, and has been twinned with Cergy-Pontoise since 1981. Erkrath has a population of 47,000 and lies east of Dusseldorf. It includes three sub townships of Alt-Erkrath, Unterfeldhaus and Hochdahl - each with its own centre but administered by a single civic authority based in Erkrath. With the mixture of old and new, and including both industry and agriculture, it has much in common with West Lancashire. Erkrath is surrounded by attractive countryside, situated at the head of the world famous Neanderthal Valley - an area of enormous geological antiquity where one can see boulders bearing fossilised imprints made 360 million years ago.

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