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List of Best Things to do in Birkenhead, United KIngdom (UK)
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Birkenhead Park
Tam O'Shanter Urban Farm
Wirral Transport Museum & Heritage Tramway
Birkenhead Priory
Beatles statue
Pier Head
Western Approaches Museum
Museum of Liverpool
The Black Pearl New Brighton
Riding the Birkenhead Tram - UK
The Wirral Heritage Tramway operates two Hong Kong trams specially built for the tramway in 1992.
[080525] UK - Hong Kong made tram on Birkenhead Heritage Tramway
On 25th May 2008, One of the imported double decker tram from Hong Kong, #70, leaving Woodside Ferry Terminal for Wirral Transport Museum on the Birkenhead Heritage Tramway, Liverpool.
2008年5月25日，位於利物浦的Birkenhead Heritage Tramway，其中一架從香港進口的仿戰後式雙層電車，正從Woodside碼頭前往Wirral Transport Museum。
This video taken outside Woodside Ferry Terminal, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
攝於英國利物浦Woodside碼頭。
This video was recorded by Canon S3 IS.
本片以Canon S3 IS拍攝。
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Places to see in ( Birkenhead - UK )
Places to see in ( Birkenhead - UK )
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Historically in Cheshire, Birkenhead is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool.
The recorded history of Birkenhead began with the establishment of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the 12th century. During the 19th century Birkenhead expanded greatly, becoming a town as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, with Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square being examples of the era. Around the same time, Birkenhead gained the first street tramway in Britain. Later, the Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary.
Birkenhead is perhaps best known for the shipbuilding of Cammell Laird, and for the town's seaport. In the second half of the 20th century, the town suffered a significant period of decline, with containerisation causing a reduction in port activity. During the first half of the 21st century, the Wirral Waters development is planned to regenerate much of the dockland.
Birkenhead had the first street tramway in Britain. Opened on 29 August 1860 the first line ran from Woodside (adjoining the terminal of the Mersey Ferry) to Birkenhead Park. The system was later electrified and operated from 1901 as Birkenhead Corporation Tramways. Two replica trams, imported from Hong Kong, have been brought into service as part of a heritage tramway between Woodside and Wirral Transport Museum, and Birkenhead Corporation Tramways Car No.20 is preserved on this line. Present-day services are run by operators including Arriva, Stagecoach and Avon Buses, and coordinated by Merseytravel. Birkenhead bus station opened in 1996. National Express provides long-distance coach services to other UK cities, with direct routes including London, Glasgow, Bangor and Newcastle.
The town has one operational railway depot, Birkenhead North TMD; one disused, Birkenhead Central TMD; and two demolished, Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD and a further depot adjacent to Birkenhead Park station. The remains of the Birkenhead Dock Branch are still extant in a cutting through the centre of the town, which was used primarily for freight services. Much of the peripheral railway infrastructure, around the docks, has been removed since the 1980s. Birkenhead's dock system is part of the Port of Liverpool, operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company under the ownership of The Peel Group.
Alot to see in ( Birkenhead - UK ) such as :
Wirral Transport Museum
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
Birkenhead Priory
Dee Estuary
Birkenhead Park
U-boat Story
New Ferry Butterfly Park
Eastham Country Park
Royden Park
Church of Christ the King, Birkenhead
Arrowe Country Park and Golf Course
Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve
( Birkenhead - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Birkenhead . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Birkenhead - UK
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Birkenhead Corporation Buses and Mersey Electric Railcars 1967
Scenes of Birkenhead Corporation Buses and Mersey Electric Railcars from 1967
Taken by Mike Reynolds
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Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead.
Video of Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead. Here's what Wiki says about it
Birkenhead Park is a public park in the centre of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It was designed by Joseph Paxton and opened on 5 April 1847. It is generally acknowledged as the first publicly funded civic park in Britain.
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Wirral Heritage Tramway, Birkenhead - Liverpool 762
A look at the Wirral Heritage Tramway in Birkenhead on the afternoon of Saturday 18th July 2015.
The Wirral Heritage Tramway is a mile long tramway which runs from Woodside Quay to the Wirral Transport Museum, Birkenhead.
The trams are run by the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society which started back in 1960 by students from Liverpool University, who wanted to save one of the city's famous Green Goddesses then operating in Glasgow.
Since then the organisation has grown and has a collection of over 10 trams from Liverpool, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Warrington and Lisbon!
In this video, Liverpool number 762 is seen arriving and leaving Woodside Quay. One of 12 bogie cars built in 1931/2 at Edge Lane Works, 70 seat car 762 was originally fitted with English Electric bogies and concealing valances. It was rebuilt in 1939 with EMB lightweight bogies and painted in a green livery.
When it was withdrawn in 1955, the lower saloon became a bowling green clubhouse at Newsham Park.
By 1977 it had become derelict but was rescued by Society members. Restoration began at Green Lane depot two years later, but due to lack of accommodation it had to be stored in the open for 18 months. Work was continued at Speke and Princes Dock, but was suspended at Lairds while Birkenhead 20 was finished. On February 6 2000, 762 was placed on the rails at Pacific Road, and in 2001, 762 was running in service on the heritage line, looking just as it did in the 1930s.
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The Queensway Tunnel (4K POV) Birkenhead to Liverpool
The Mersey Tunnels connect Liverpool with the Wirral Peninsula, under the River Mersey. There are three tunnels: the Mersey Railway Tunnel (opened 1886), and two road tunnels, the Queensway Tunnel (opened 1934) and the Kingsway Tunnel (opened 1971). The railway tunnel and Queensway Tunnel connect Liverpool with Birkenhead, while the Kingsway Tunnel runs to Wallasey.
The road tunnels are owned and operated by Merseytravel, and have their own police force, the Mersey Tunnels Police. In 1967 it was announced that the Mersey Tunnel Scheme was now operational. The scheme comprised what was claimed to be the largest closed circuit television system for traffic control outside North America, and featured a bank of 22 CRT monitors.
The Birkenhead Tunnel was used to film scenes for the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). This provided Claire House children's hospice in Wirral with a £20,000 windfall, the money being paid to Merseytravel by Warner Brothers, the makers of the film, for use of the Tunnel as a location.
In November 2012 scenes for the film Fast & Furious 6 (2013) were filmed in Queensway tunnel, Liverpool.
Birkenhead 69
Short film of Birkenhead 69. One of two trams built by the Hong Kong Tramways Company for the Wirral Heritage Line.
Birkenhead (UK) City Travel Guide
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Movie Palaces #98 - The GAUMONT BIRKENHEAD Merseyside - 1938
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First Tram To Run In Britain (1927)
Item title reads: First Tram To Run In Britain. Brought out to make another trip to demonstrate progress in transport - feature of Birkenhead's Jubilee celebrations.
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People stand by a tram, which has 1860 - 1877 on it. Next there is a shot of a stationary 1927 motorbus. People in crinolines and hooped skirts get onto a tram, marked '1902'. It has been decorated with flowers for the celebrations. By contrast a motor bus is washed in a big shed. A washing frame has been set up with hoses directed at all sides of the bus.
Note: The bus looks as if it's in a very basic form of car wash.
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Remembering 60 years since the last Liverpool Tram
A recreation of a traffic scene from the late 50s along with a parade of different types of vehicles from the 50,s, to celebrate 60 years of the Last Liverpool tram to be in service, Set up by Wirral Transport Museum & Heritage Tramway and Merseyside Transport Trust
Wirral Tramway
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Birkenhead Heritage Tramway no.69 part 1
The Hong Kong built tram on the heritage tramway of Birkenhead! That's amazing!
Birkenhead - Hamilton Square in Postcards
Birkenhead began with the establishment of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the 12th century. During the 19th century Birkenhead expanded greatly, becoming a town as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, with Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square being examples of the era. Around the same time, Birkenhead gained the first street tramway in Britain. Later, the Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary. Birkenhead is perhaps best known for the shipbuilding of Cammell Laird, and for the town's seaport
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Forgotten Stations - Birkenhead Woodside Station
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Birkenhead Woodside was a railway station at Woodside, in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire.
Birkenhead Woodside railway station was opened on 31 March 1878 to replace the increasingly inadequate passenger facilities provided at Birkenhead Monks Ferry station. The terminus was built further inland than originally conceived, in order to avoid demolition of the Mersey ferries workshop, situated on the bank of the river. The station was built on an east–west axis with the lines servicing the station coming from the south. The station was accessed via a half mile tunnel from the south which curved to the east into the station. This fell in line with the Liverpool termini, with only Liverpool Exchange lacking tunnel access.
In order to join up with the existing track of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, the half mile-long tunnel from Woodside to alongside the existing Monks Ferry tunnel entrance, near Grange Lane, was constructed using the cut-and-cover method, with most of its length running under Chester Street.
The station was cramped, with Platform 1 being 537 ft (164 m) in length, and longer coaching stock was not allowed to be stabled on the curved part of No.3 siding.
The station was a grandiose building, with two semi cylindrical roofs covering much of the platforms. However, the size of the station made it have only five short (but wide) platforms, as much of the space was taken up by middle tracks and a roadway.
The station building was known to local rail users as the wrong way round; for the majority of the station's life, its original rear entrance was used as the main booking hall, and Woodside's 'front' entrance was mainly for handling parcels. The lattee entrance, covered in a porte-cochere to allow travelling gentry to avoid inclement weather, faced the graving dock on the south side of the station. It had been intended that passengers disembarking from the nearby ferry terminal of the same name would use this entrance. Unfortunately, the ferry companies were slow at co-operating and when the tram terminus opened in front of the ferry terminal in the early 1900s, the decision was made to keep the small 'back' entrance a permanent fixture. That was very unfortunate, as passengers arriving at the station never got to see the huge sandstone fireplaces, decorative brick work and massive timber roof trusses holding up the roof of the intended booking hall, which has been described by Marcus Binney of SAVE Britain's Heritage as a station of truly baronial proportions and being worthy of any London terminus.
A ride on Liverpool Tram 245 Wirral Tram & Bus Show 2019
A tram vid now from the 2019 Wirral Bus & Tram Show held at their museum in Birkenhead. We first take a ride in Liverpool car 245 from the museum to Woodside Ferry. Once there we see some of the trams arriving and departing. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!