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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 ...
Lisbon No.730 at Woodside Ferry Terminal. The two four-wheeled Hong Kong trams [15] are numbered 69 and 70 to follow on from the numbering of the original Birkenhead Corporation Tramways, the numbers of which went up to No.68. [4] These are run from the Wirral Transport Museum in Taylor Street.
In 1860, Birkenhead started the first street tramway in Britain, [2] shortly before London. The Birkenhead Corporation Tramway company was formed through the acquisition of the Birkenhead United Tramways, Omnibus and Carriage Company (known as Birkenhead Street Railway Company Limited 1860-1877, Birkenhead Tramways Company 1877-1890) on 31 December 1900, and the Wirral Tramway Company on 8 May ...
This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, 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 public viewing.
The exhibits are “Journey Stories” and “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964.”
The ferry terminal was opened in Summer 2002 at a cost of £25m. [2] It is used for transporting passengers and freight between Merseyside and Belfast , in Northern Ireland and freight to Dublin. Until 2023, [ 3 ] it also served passengers to Dublin , in the Republic of Ireland .
The ferry is the regular boat used on the Manchester Ship Canal cruises, held over most weekends during the summer months. MV Snowdrop in dazzle livery, in May 2015, departing from Seacombe In January 2015, the ferry was selected as a " dazzle ship "; she was given a unique new livery inspired by the First World War dazzle camouflage .
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.