Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Wirral Transport Museum is a museum situated approximately 0.5 miles (800 m) from the Mersey Ferry service at Woodside, Birkenhead, England. A vintage tram service links the museum and the ferry at certain times. Admission into the museum is free with a broad selection of vintage and classic vehicles, including trams, buses, cars, motorcycles ...
The art gallery and museum opened on 1 December 1928, the single-storey building is Neo-Georgian in style, and was deliberately designed to blend in with the local surroundings. Financial support for its establishment was primarily provided by John Williamson, a Director of the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. and his son Patrick Williamson.
Shore Road Pumping Station was granted Grade II listed status in 1992 [1] and eventually became part of the Wirral Museum, with a period 1901 Birkenhead street scene reconstructed in the yard. [4] In 2009, as part of its Strategic Asset Review, owners Wirral Borough Council planned to sell the museum. [5]
This list of museums in Merseyside, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
Birkenhead Town Hall is a civic building and former town hall in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England. The building was the former administrative headquarters of the County Borough of Birkenhead, and more recently, council offices for the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral .
A preserved LMS Wirral and Mersey unit at the Electric Railway Museum, Coventry. Between 1936 and 1938, The London, Midland and Scottish Railway electrified the lines from Birkenhead Park to West Kirby and New Brighton using a 650 V DC third rail to match the system of the Mersey Railway.
Egerton Bridge. Egerton Bridge is situated between Egerton Dock and Morpeth Dock and is a working example of a bascule bridge.It was built between 1928 and 1931, as one of four similar bascule bridges in the Merseyside docks, replacing an earlier swing bridge.
Oxton is a suburb of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 28 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.