Birkenhead Through Time
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Birkenhead Through Time
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Author : Ian Collard
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Birkenhead Through Time written by Ian Collard and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Photography categories.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Birkenhead has changed and developed over the last century
The History Of The Hundred Of Wirral
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Author : William Williams Mortimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
The History Of The Hundred Of Wirral written by William Williams Mortimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Cheshire (England) categories.
Birkenhead
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Author : Elizabeth Davey
language : en
Publisher: History Press
Release Date : 2013-10-07
Birkenhead written by Elizabeth Davey and has been published by History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-07 with History categories.
Birkenhead is essentially a 19th-century 'new town', its planned grid of streets still stretching westwards from the Georgian elegance of Hamilton Square. Two hundred years ago it did not exist. The settlement, such as it was, consisted of a mere scatter of farmhouses and cottages, which supported a population in 1801 of just 17 families living in 16 houses.Yet this tiny community lying on the east shore of Wirral was not entirely a backwater. The mid-12th century had seen the foundation of a Benedictine priory, while half a century later, in 1207, the granting of letters patent to Liverpool brought ever-increasing activity to the Mersey. The ferry meant there was plenty of coming and going, and local farmers, fisherfolk and ferrymen lived far from mundane lives. The catalyst for change was the introduction of a steam ferry service, and by the end of Victoria's reign the town numbered over 110,000 inhabitants. It gained its first MP in 1861 and became a borough in its own right in 1877. The docks first opened in 1847 and the great shipbuilding firm of Cammell Laird provided a backdrop to the town's spectacular growth.Birkenhead had the country's first publicly funded park, designed by Joseph Paxton, the first street tramway and, with the Mersey Rail Tunnel, the first underwater railway in Europe. Today, although shipbuilding has ceased and activity in the docks has declined, much of the legacy of this magnificent past has survived. This fully illustrated new account sheds light on Birkenhead's fascinating heritage and traces the town's development from its earliest years. Based on a wide range of local and national sources, it provides a readable and accessible narrative, which will be welcomed by all those keen to know Birkenhead better.
History Of The Birkenhead Literary Scientific Society 1857 1907 Ed By R S Marsden
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Author : Birkenhead literary and scientific society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
History Of The Birkenhead Literary Scientific Society 1857 1907 Ed By R S Marsden written by Birkenhead literary and scientific society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Birkenhead (England) categories.
The History Of Birkenhead And Bidston
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Author : Tony Franks-Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-09-21
The History Of Birkenhead And Bidston written by Tony Franks-Buckley and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-21 with History categories.
The History of Birkenhead & Bidston is a historical introduction in to the industrial town of Birkenhead and the village of Bidston. Birkenhead is Wirral's best known industrial area, famed for centuries for its maritime trade and commercial activity. The name Birkenhead derives from the Old English 'birchen' which translated into' birch trees on a headland'. This of course refers to the area known today as Woodside which in ancient times was a large piece of land filled with Birch trees that jutted out into the river Mersey. Although today many people consider Birkenhead the centre of Wirral's economy, it is only in recent years that this area has become heavily populated and the hub of Wirral industry. Prior to the 1800's there was very little in Birkenhead to talk about other than the old priory, a ferry house and a sparce population. Birkenhead had a meagre population of 110 people in 1801 suggesting that very little trade or activity went on in this area. Within the short period of 50 years and thanks to some very clever town planners, the population had rocketed to over 8000 residents sparking the boom which transformed Birkenhead in to a busy industrial town. Bidston is a suburb of Birkenhead, situated on the Wirral Peninsula. Bidston also holds many treasures such as the hidden tunnels beneath Bidston Hill, the Bidston Observatory and the Tam O'Shanters farm. In modern days it is a mixture of the well-preserved Bidston Village, Bidston Hill, the industrial estate Bidston Moss and a modern housing estate. This book will give an insight in to the historical areas of Birkenhead & Bidston and will bring back memories of those who were born and lived in the town that is home to the first public park in the world. The town of Cammell Laird ship builders that was second to none. Step back in time and remember the great areas of Birkenhead & Bidston
A History Of Wirral
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Author : Stephen J. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Phillimore
Release Date : 2007
A History Of Wirral written by Stephen J. Roberts and has been published by Phillimore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Wirral (England) categories.
The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva, then settled by Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. Its growing medieval population mainly lived by farming and fishing, but the 19th century brought dramatic changes-colonisation by wealthy Liverpudlians, then the rapid growth of the great urban and industrial centres of Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Every aspect of the past lives of its people is explored, and how they moulded today's Wirral.
The Headland With The Birches
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Author : Agnes L. McCulloch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-01-01
The Headland With The Birches written by Agnes L. McCulloch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Birkenhead (England) categories.
Birkenhead
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Author : Ralph T. Brocklebank
language : en
Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Birkenhead written by Ralph T. Brocklebank and has been published by Breedon Books Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Birkenhead (England) categories.
The story of Birkenhead is vividly retold in this lively new history of the town, illustrated by over 200 maps, engravings and photographs from the superb archive at Birkenhead library.Ralph T. Brocklebank recalls Birkenhead's origins as a tiny fishing community in a sheltered cove on the Cheshire coast, its medieval importance as a Benedictine priory and crossing point on the Mersey, and its swift, troubled development as a commercial and industrial rival to Liverpool during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Larger-than-life characters like industrial entrepreneur William Laird, architect Joseph Paxton, and philanthropist Charles Thompson all feature in the story, as do famous residents like the poet Wilfred Owen.
The Wirral Through Time
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Author : Daniel K. Longman
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2018-05-15
The Wirral Through Time written by Daniel K. Longman and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Photography categories.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Wirral has changed and developed over the last century.
History Of The Birkenhead Literary And Scientific Society 1857 1907 Edited By R Sydney Marsden With Portraits
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Author : Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society (BIRKENHEAD)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
History Of The Birkenhead Literary And Scientific Society 1857 1907 Edited By R Sydney Marsden With Portraits written by Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society (BIRKENHEAD) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.