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At one time there were ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the Mersey Tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.

Birkenhead Docks were started on 23 October 1844 when the foundation stone was laid. Before that, ships sheltered or tied up in Bidston Pool, which lay between Birkenhead and Seacombe.

Grange Road was one of the main shopping streets in Birkenhead, and was very popular. The street is now pedestrianised, and with St John's Pavement in its centre is still a popular shopping area.

Both Birkenhead and Wallasey Corporations operated their own tramway systems. Birkenhead's was electrified in 1901 and ran until 1937; Wallasey's operated from 1902 to 1933.

Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.

This photograph was taken on the outskirts of Birkenhead in Prenton.

At one time there were, ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.

The large building across the square is Birkenhead Town Hall. The white block in front of it is the town's war memorial.

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

Birkenhead is a surprisingly large and sprawling town, and has taken in its outlying villages to become suburbs.

Arrowe Park is quite a few miles from the centre of Birkenhead. The estate was bought by Birkenhead Corporation in 1927 from the Leverhulme (Port Sunlight) family.

The ship pictured here is one of their successors, built by the famous Lairds Shipyard in Birkenhead in the 1890s.

The park is a pleasant interlude between Birkenhead Road and Meols Parade on the seafront.

The original 'ferry across the Mersey' was operated by monks from Birkenhead Priory, a little way to the south of the present terminus.

Though the Morpeth and Egerton Docks were completed in the 1840s, work on the Great Float was not started until Birkenhead and Liverpool Docks were merged under the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.

Birkenhead has spread out and almost overtaken the village today, but at the time of our photograph it still retained some of its independence.

The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool. Its foundation stone was laid in 1883, and the building opened in 1887.

With the building of the railway in 1866, prosperous businessmen from Birkenhead and Liverpool moved to this part of the north Wirral coast.

As she was being returned to Birkenhead towed by two tugs, she ran aground near Menai Bridge on 14 April 1955.

The signpost pictured here reminds us that Little Sutton straddles the main road linking Chester with Birkenhead.

Some 200,000 people gathered to watch the event - and 80,000 of those celebrated with a 'tunnel walk' through from Liverpool to Birkenhead. Presumably they also walked back.

Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.

From 1945, the number of people employed by the shipbuilding yards in Wallasey and Birkenhead declined and a number of associated industries closed.

steam-paddle driven vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.The ship pictured here is probably one of their successors, built by the famous Lairds yard at Birkenhead