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Winter Scene in Birkenhead
The middle of the heavy snowfall which caused travel chaos later at rush hour!
Image: © mezmrz
Taken: 5 Jan 2010
0.06 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
0.07 miles
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Cenotaph, Hamilton Square
This commemorates specifically the dead of the First World War. The other monument is based on medieval Eleanor Crosses.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.07 miles
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Detail of ventilator, Sidney Street, Birkenhead
One of the surprisingly decorative doors to this hulking great brick monster
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Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.07 miles
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Doorway, Mersey Tunnel
At the Sidney Street ventilation plant. A fine example of art deco which is being carefully preserved. These doors had been very recently repainted, in the original colours, to highlight the decorative detail; the modern trend would now be to paint everything one colour to get the cheapest result.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.07 miles
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Railings in Hamilton Square
A forest of gilded spikes on the north side of the square.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.08 miles
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Ventilator, Sidney 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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Sidney Street Ventilating Station
View from the west.
See Peter Craine's picture
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Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: Unknown
0.09 miles
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Sidney Street ventilation tower
One of the pair of towers of the Sidney Street ventilation building of the Mersey Tunnel (Queensway). A superb example of Art Deco brickwork.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 5 Oct 2008
0.10 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
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