Following two fires at the expanded Birkenhead Market in 1969 and 1974, it was later moved to new premises adjoining the Grange Shopping Precinct development.

The library was situated in Hamilton Street until 1909, when it moved to a new building in Albion Street, near Birkenhead Market.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

However, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, authorised on 12 July 1837, was ; the Eastern Counties Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was ; London and Blackwall Railway, authorised on 28 July 1836, was ; the London and Brighton Railway, authorised on 15 July 1837, was ; the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, authorised on 30 June 1837, was ; the Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was and the Northern and Eastern Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was.

In 1850 he traveled to England to visit public gardens, where he was greatly impressed by Joseph Paxton's Birkenhead Park.

Yehudi Menuhin was also ' meant ' to appear on The Morecambe and Wise Show but could not do so as he was ' opening at the Argyl Theatre, Birkenhead in Old King Cole.

The last time it was definitely read in the United Kingdom was in Birkenhead on 3 August 1919, during the second police strike when large numbers of police officers from Birkenhead, Liverpool and Bootle joined the strike.

On October 4, 2004 a Committee of nine Lords, including both the Senior Law Lord Lord Bingham of Cornhill and Second Senior Law Lord Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, was convened to hear challenges to the indefinite detention of suspects under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and on December 16 it announced an 8-1 ruling against the Government.

In 1925 he was nominated for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, but lost to Viscount Cave in a contest dominated by party political feeling, and despite the support of his former political enemy, the Earl of Birkenhead.

He was a Colonel in the Army and also briefly represented Birkenhead in Parliament.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

Merseyside was designated as a " Special Review " area in the Local Government Act 1958, and the Local Government Commission for England started a review of this area in 1962, based around the core county boroughs of Liverpool / Bootle / Birkenhead / Wallasey.

Merseyside was created on 1 April 1974 from areas previously parts of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and St Helens.

Another difficulty for Palmerston was the raiding ship CSS Alabama, built in Birkenhead in Britain.

Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire where her father was a bricklayer.

The Glenda Jackson Theatre, on the Borough Road campus of Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead, was named after her in 1983.

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

* 1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

* A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.

Norwich lays claims to being the first municipality to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1850 ( which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100, 000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish public libraries — although not to buy books ), but theirs was the eleventh library to open, in 1857, being the eleventh in the country after Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.

Birkenhead Park is acknowledged to be the first publicly funded park in Britain.

Birkenhead had the first street tramway in Europe.

Opened on 29 August 1860 the first line ran from Woodside ( adjoining the terminal of the Mersey Ferry ) to Birkenhead Park.

In 1856, Birkenhead Library was opened as the country's first public library in an unincorporated borough.

The first local Birkenhead Eisteddfod, a precursor of the national events, took place in 1864.

The first meeting of the international Celtic Congress also took place at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod.

In 2001, a blue plaque commemorating Sir Henry was unveiled on the site of his first shop at 42 Hamilton Street, Birkenhead.

Given these improvements dating back to 1728, a case could be made that Boston Common is in fact the world's first public urban park, since these developments precede the establishment of the earliest public urban parks in England — Derby Arboretum ( 1840 ), Peel Park, Salford ( 1846 ), and Birkenhead Park ( 1847 )— which are often considered the first.

For the first three years of the Second War, Lord Birkenhead served with a Territorial Army Anti-Tank unit.

Smith, first Earl of Birkenhead " ( London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1960 ).

The A59 begins in the centre of Liverpool at the mouth of the Birkenhead Tunnel, and heads north out of the city, first as Scotland Road in Vauxhall, then Kirkdale Road, Walton Road and County Road, then as Rice Lane and to Walton Vale.

The company was founded by William Laird, who had established the Birkenhead Iron Works in 1824, when he was joined by his son, John Laird in 1828: their first ship was an iron barge.

Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire ) ( now part of Merseyside ), Taaffe first joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, before joining the Labour Party where he was attracted to the radical element in the Liverpool Labour Party.

He was a councillor on Slough Borough Council from 1965 and first stood for Parliament in 1966 for Birkenhead losing the strongly Labour seat.

* The first Birkenhead was an iron-hulled troopship launched in 1845 and notably wrecked in 1852.

He was first elected to Parliament in the 1990 elections as MP for Birkenhead, defeating the incumbent Jenny Kirk of the Labour Party.

Wycherley first attended a concert in Birkenhead, run by impresario Larry Parnes, in the hope of interesting famous singer Marty Wilde in some of the songs he had written.

In 1150, the Benedictine Priory at Birkenhead was established.

A second inquiry was established in 1928 under the chairmanship of Lord Birkenhead.

The town was established on the farm owned by John Barclay, who survived the HMS Birkenhead shipwreck in 1852.

In the mid 19th century docks were established at Birkenhead and in the Wallasey Pool, and continuing development for a wide range of industry both there and along the banks of the Mersey.

Brassey moved to Birkenhead where their business was established.

In 1824 the Laird family moved to Birkenhead, where William Laird and Daniel Horton established the Birkenhead Iron Works.