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The first of the Birkenhead docks opened 1847. Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton was opened on the same day, according to the first municipal funded park in the world. Images from Illustrated London News.

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2023-04-05

For British Impressionism Week here is Birkenhead-born Philip Wilson Steer whose exquisite watercolours are often overlooked.

This view of Whitstable Sands is from the collection of Christchurch Mansion

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https://t.co/XWSnhItuQQ

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2023-03-16

Painting at ry with Cathy. What a view! I could see my old cottage, but I didn’t paint it in the scene.

View from The Birkenhead
Oil on cradled plywood
33 x 20 cm
Available. DM me for more info.

https://t.co/VMjzDpZgNU

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2023-01-07

I faved Alexander & Alex Birkenhead! Their designs stick out to me easily & I subbed to your TH. Thanks for the chance ^^

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2022-08-21

Four August shows with James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The SecondHand Orchestra:

18th Aug – Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy (warm-up show)

19th Aug – Edinburgh Summerhall

20th Aug – Birkenhead Liverpool Future Yard

21st Aug – Greenman Festival

Links etc https://t.co/MaUfzqmEbG

♥️

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2022-07-28

The Wolf and The Seven Little Kids 🐐 CLASSIC! Here's two different illustrated versions of the same book from the the earlier print is much creepier 😏 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

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2022-07-14

Four August shows with James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The SecondHand Orchestra:

18th Aug – Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy (warm-up show)

19th Aug – Edinburgh Summerhall

20th Aug – Birkenhead Liverpool Future Yard

21st Aug – Greenman Festival

Links etc https://t.co/MaUfzqmEbG

♥️

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2022-07-08

Here's a nice wee thing, the folk who made The Wide, Wide River with me are heading over for a show in Birkenhead: James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra, Future Yard on Saturday 20th August.

https://t.co/vbn9LmvVST

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2022-06-24

The first of the Birkenhead docks opened 1847. Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton was also opened. Images from Illustrated London News.

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2022-04-05

We're delighted to announce new plans for the BOAM on Merseyside today. Following a successful bid the Naval Club in London is awarding us £1.25m to create a national memorial to the BOA in Liverpool and Birkenhead honouring the 100,000 who died in battle https://t.co/e4QkYyobl8

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2022-03-24

New artwork for sale! - "Birkenhead England Skyline - https://t.co/IbjRRLqIf4

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2022-02-05

and this is the Oberon class conventional HMS Oracle

Oracle was built by camel lairds Birkenhead between 1960-61 and commissioned in 1963 she was decommissioned in 1993 and scrapped

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2021-10-22

Revd E Evans, Birkenhead (W), John Thomas, https://t.co/tHqhMCy0aV (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2021-07-22

Love the work of Birkenhead artist Geoff 'the Rust' Yeomans (1934 -2021) so am grateful to the splendid for these two crackers featuring Geoff’s gift for bridges and a view of Birkenhead Docks in the late 50s … would never have seen them otherwise 😍👍😍👍😍

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2021-07-17

...Red Rum is associated with this neck of the woods, training on the sands at Southport, plus winning the Grand National itself three times.

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2021-04-10

This picture of Liverpool to Birkenhead Tunnel comes from a short lived British magazine 'Wonders of World Engineering'. It appeared in the second edition published in March 1937.

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2021-03-11

Suffer the Children to Come unto Me by Charles Alfred Morris (1898–1983)
Formerly this painting was in St Winifred's Church, Westbourne Road, Birkenhead and was transferred by the Diocese of Chester in 2007

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2021-03-08

Another painting of a ship built by Cammell Laird.
The Wreck of the 'Birkenhead' by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy (1852–1937) 'Women and children first' orders were first given on this occasion and became known as 'The Birkenhead Drill'.

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2021-02-03

Young Historians Project volunteer Kaitlene Koranteng discusses some of the objects in our collection and what they tell us about the histories surrounding the slave trade: https://t.co/AZsorTtP33



Image: The 'Ann' off Birkenhead

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2020-08-19