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28-50 Argyle Street, Birkenhead
Terraces of flats and shops built c1840-50. Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.04 miles
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Argyle Street
Looking towards Hamilton Square.
This was originally the centre of the commercial/retail heart of Birkenhead - the renowned Birkenhead Market was a couple of blocks to the right, but the retail centre gradually migrated to the south west with the development of Grange Road and latterly the Grange Centre.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.04 miles
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19-34 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead
This remarkably grand and complete Georgian composition is like an alien intrusion into the cityscape. Take one step outside in pretty much any direction and one is brought down to earth with a bump. The rest of William Laird's scheme never got off the ground. The square was laid out by James Gillespie Graham and construction took almost twenty years. The west side, pictured here, was built in 1839-44. Grade I listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.05 miles
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29-33 Argyle Street, Birkenhead
Probably c1840. The rounded corners and parapet lift it up a notch or two.
Shops at the time were Birkenhead Computer Repairs and Argyle News.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.06 miles
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Market Street, Birkenhead
This was transformed some years ago from one of Birkenhead's most run down streets to one which is attractive and bustling. As the name suggests, the road originally led to the old market which was fire damaged in 1969 and 1974, see http://www.birkenheadmarket.co.uk/index.asp?page=3
However, the first market was actually in the space where the Wirral Museum (old town hall) is.
Image: © Peter Craine
Taken: 6 Oct 2006
0.06 miles
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Stork Hotel, Price Street, Birkenhead
An early Victorian pub distinguished by an excellent ground floor of c1903 (
Image]). Grade II listed.
Behind is the 1960s Hordan House, currently offices of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.07 miles
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Detail of Stork Hotel, Price Street, Birkenhead
Very fine decorative scheme, dated c1903, Art Nouveau in character.
Wider view:
Image
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.07 miles
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Market Street
Just one street away from Hamilton square the architecture is no longer grandiose, no longer standardised; simply as built by the developers to make money quickly from their investment.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.07 miles
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Birkenhead: Hamilton Square
These fine town houses were built on the north-east side of Hamilton Square between 1826 and 1844.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 17 Jun 2007
0.08 miles
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Birkenhead Town Hall, Hamilton Square
Wirral Museum, formerly Birkenhead Town Hall, taken from beside the Cenotaph.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 11 Oct 2008
0.08 miles