Birkenhead, Hamilton Square 1967
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Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird. In about 1824 he came to a small hamlet of a few hundred people, started his ship-building firm, and set about planning a town. Because it was all laid out at the same time, Birkenhead was very neat and orderly. It did have areas of back-to-back houses for the newly-imported workers, but there were never the slums of the older towns and cities. Soon Birkenhead became a town. It was granted a Charter of Incorporation in 1877, and plans for further growth were hatched. Hamilton Square was always going to be where the town hall would be built, but it took forty years before it was completed.
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