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Historical notes about the Town of Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is in several respects a miniature Liverpool, with docks and shipyards, a busy town centre and pleasant residential suburbs. Here is west end of Mersey Tunnel, over a mile long and having a roadway 36 feet wide.

Birkenhead was once in the county of Cheshire but now is administered as part of the Unitary Authority of Wirral.

Definitions: Follow this link for an explanation of what is a city, town, village and other community and of the local authority structure of the UK

Historic images from around the Town of Birkenhead

This small selection of historic images of Birkenhead are from our British National Image Library. You may click on the thumbnail pictures to view larger versions and read what information we have regarding the image.

The Mauretania

H.M. Rodney (8th)

H.M.S. Prince of Wales

RMS Mauretania

Fourth Ark Royal

There may be more historic images of Birkenhead here.

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Local Birkenhead Services

Organisations in or about Birkenhead

Some of the organisations that we have included in our Birkenhead pages appear on the map above providing they have a bricks and mortar premises in Birkenhead however others operate entirely on the internet but are based in Birkenhead or their website is entirely about Birkenhead. You can visit those organisations that we have decided to include on our Organisations in or about Birkenhead pages.

Links to local organisations

You may click on the organisation name below for more information (if available) about each of them and a link to their own website.

Argos Birkenhead ASDA (Arrowe Park) Burtons (Grange Precinct) Dorothy Perkins (Grange Rd) Greggs the Bakers (226 Grange Rd) Greggs the Bakers (27 Milton Pavement) Poundland (Birkenhead) Poundland (Borough Pavements Birkenhead) Waterstones (BIRKENHEAD)

Local Visitor Attractions and Event Venues in Birkenhead

Attractions and Event Venues are shown on the map and sidebar at the top of this page and listed alphabetically below but if you would like a list of them ordered by type where you can select the location you require for more information including location map, address, contact details and forthcoming events then follow this link to Visitor Attractions and Event Venues in Birkenhead

Birkenhead Bus and Coach Station Vue Cinema (Birkenhead) Pacific Road Arts Centre Birkenhead Park Prenton Park

Alternatively you may follow this link to see what the attractions in the surrounding area have to offer

Public Events in and around Birkenhead

If you are organising an event in Birkenhead then let us know about it and we will put a link to your event here and what's more we'll do it for FREE. The earlier you do it the better as not only will visitors to this Birkenhead page see details of your event but so will visitors to our Wirral pages and really big events will be displayed at national level too. Follow the link immediately below

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Hotels, Apartments and B&B's in Birkenhead

The visitor accommodation options for Birkenhead listed below are supplied by LATE ROOMS and BOOKING.COM from a selection of over 16,000 hotels located throughout the UK.

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