Short answers, pulled from the story.
Meols is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England, situated on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula adjacent to the Irish Sea. It forms a contiguous built-up area with the nearby town of Hoylake to the west. Since the 1st of April 1974 it has been part of Merseyside, having previously been in the county of Cheshire.
Since around 1810, artefacts from a wide range of periods and cultures have been uncovered at Meols, including items linked to pre-Roman Carthage, the Iron Age, the Roman Empire, Armenia, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Vikings. Finds include coins from the Coriosolites of Brittany, pilgrim badges, glass beads, iron tools, flint tools, and pottery. The site is believed to have functioned as a port as far back as the Iron Age, roughly 2,400 years ago.
In 1938, workers rebuilding the Railway Inn public house uncovered what appeared to be a Viking clinker-built boat beneath six to ten feet of clay. They covered it over to avoid delaying construction of the car park. Ground penetrating radar confirmed its existence and location on the 10th of September 2007, following contact between local police constable Tim Baldock and Professor Stephen Harding of the University of Nottingham.
Meols was named by the Vikings; the original Old Norse word melr meant sand dunes. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the name had evolved to melas. The settlement was also historically known as Great Meols, a name that still survives in the local primary school and Anglican church.
Andy McCluskey, co-founder, singer, and bass guitarist of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), is from Meols. Miles Kane, formerly of the Little Flames, the Rascals, and one half of the Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner, is also from Meols.
"Red Frame/White Light", from OMD's self-titled debut album, referred to the public telephone box that stood between the church and the Railway Inn on Greenwood Road in Meols. The lyrics contained the telephone number of that box, 632-3003, and fans reportedly called it from around the world. BT removed the box in August 2017, but it was returned by October 2017 following a fan campaign and now displays a plaque marking its significance.