Disputes over the manor lands of Halewood between the Ireland and Holland families began in the 13th century and were to be ongoing for some time.

Blackie was a war horse buried at the RSPCA Liverpool Animal Centre, Higher Road, Halewood in 1942.

He served with the 275th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 'A' Battery – 55th West Lancashire Division in most of the major battles of the First World War, including Arras, the Somme Offensive and Ypres.

Recognising the contribution Blackie made as a horse in service with the British Army during the First World War, his grave in Halewood became a grade II listed monument in 2017.

In March 1963, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman David John Lewis, drove the first car, an Anglia de Luxe, off the production line at the £30 million plant.

The first Ford Anglia to roll of the production line at Halewood was featured as the prize in a competition in the Liverpool Echo newspaper, which was won by a Mr Taylor.

[15] Production of the Anglia ceased in 1967 and the Ford factory began work on the Escort, a car it would produce untilm the turn of the millennium.

After years battling for recognition as skilled workers, they finally walked out, bringing car production to halt and becoming the focus of national news stories.

Liverpool City Council have built a new training ground and youth academy for Everton Football Club on the edge of Halewood called Finch Farm.

Consisting largely of mature woodland, with ponds, meadow habitat and heathland remnants, the park is a designated Local Wildlife Site.

It formed part of the Liverpool Loop Line and the Transpennine Trail now follows the route leading southwards to Halewood Doorstep Green.

The Garston and Halewood constituency was created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Maria Eagle of the Labour Party.

George Harrison, who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, lived in Halewood with his family between 1962 and 1965.

Halewood born Katarina Johnson-Thompson is an English track and field athlete specialising in the heptathlon and pentathlon.

In the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Peters competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon.

Playwright Fred Lawless spent most of his childhood in Halewood and attended St. Mark's Primary School in Leathers Lane.

In the sciences, one Halewood family produced two Fellows of the Royal Society: John Hilton Grace, a mathematician; and his nephew, Alan Robertson, an animal geneticist.