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Birkenhead Tramway
This is the Taylor Street terminus of the restored section of the Birkenhead Tramway, the original of which functioned from 1860 to 1937. The tramlines swinging round to the right lead to the Taylor Street depot.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 17 Jun 2007
0.04 miles
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Lisbon Tram No.730, Taylor Street, Birkenhead
This tram was built in 1930 and serves on the Birkenhead tramway. It is seen parked in the siding, opposite the Taylor Street depot.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 21 Jun 2015
0.06 miles
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Tram No.70, Taylor Street, Birkenhead
No.70 was built in 1992 at Whitty Street Depot in Hong Kong. This is one of two trams which were operational in Blackpool, before transfer to Birkenhead. An OO scale model of this tram is produced by Bachmann.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 21 Jun 2015
0.07 miles
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Liverpool Tram No.245, Taylor Street, Birkenhead
This tram was built in 1938. Kept at Birkenhead since 2006, it was restored to operational use by the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society by 2014, with the help of a £50,000 lottery heritage fund grant in 2010. It is operated on the Wirral Tramway, although owned by National Museums Liverpool.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 21 Jun 2015
0.08 miles
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Brick Buildings, Taylor Street, Birkenhead
In the foreground is the Mersey Equipment Company. In the background, one of the Queensway Road Tunnel ventilation towers. As seen from outside the Wirral Transport Museum.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 8 Aug 2009
0.08 miles
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Vintage Birkenhead Corporation Tram approaching the Wirral Transport Museum
Image: © Ruth Sharville
Taken: 20 Feb 2016
0.08 miles
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Ventilator, Taylor Street, Birkenhead
The Mersey Tunnel ventilator towers are a magnificent set of structures - functional, visually stunning and emblematic of the different eras in which they were built. This one was built c1931. The architect was Herbert Rowse. Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.08 miles
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Tunnel Tyres, Freeman Street, Birkenhead
Just south of the docks.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 16 Mar 2023
0.09 miles
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Taylor St. ventilating station, Birkenhead
The 3rd and last in my series of ventilating stations in Birkenhead for the Kingsway (Mersey) road tunnel. See also
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Image: © Peter Craine
Taken: 28 Dec 2006
0.09 miles
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Freeman Street, Birkenhead
A candidate for the widest single-lane road?
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.09 miles