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Stabled, Birkenhead North TMD
Viewed from a train heading into Birkenhead North station, electric multiple unit 508136 is parked in the outermost stabling road at the railway depot. Visible in the background are some of the buildings belonging to Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd. on Wallasey Bridge Road.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 8 Jun 2012
0.17 miles
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Merseyrail Class 507, 507010, departing Birkenhead North
The train is moving away from the camera. To the right-hand side of the train, out-of-shot, is Birkenhead North depot.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 7 Jun 2014
0.17 miles
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Stabling point, Birkenhead North TMD
507027 is parked in one of the stabling roads, next to the railway depot.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 8 Jun 2012
0.18 miles
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Off licence off Hoylake Road
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
0.21 miles
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Hoylake Road (A553)
Heading east.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
0.22 miles
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Wallasey Bridge Road looking north
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 14 Sep 2012
0.22 miles
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Tower of Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
What Edward Hubbard describes as the "overscaled toy fort" tower of Francis Xavier Velarde's now-abandoned 1959
Image presents an almost Mediterranean aspect against the bright blue sky of a bitter winter morning.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.23 miles
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Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
This church at the corner of Hoylake and Worcester Roads was designed by Francis Xavier Velarde and opened in 1959. Pevsner's collaborator Edward Hubbard found the interior with its apsidal sanctuary "not without merit" but was nonplussed by the exterior with its "overscaled toy fort tower". Sadly, in 2006 the Diocese of Shrewsbury decided to close the church and two years later it was put up for auction. Plans to convert the tall nave into a school for trapeze artists were blocked by restrictive covenants forbidding use of the building for non-religious purposes.
Holy Cross is listed Grade II - see Taking Stock https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/birkenhead-holy-cross/
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.23 miles
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Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
A view from Worcester Road showing the apsidal chancel end of the abandoned church, designed by Francis Xavier Velarde, opened in 1959 and closed in 2006.
Holy Cross is listed Grade II - see Taking Stock https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/birkenhead-holy-cross/
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.23 miles
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Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
Now boarded up awaiting alternative use.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
0.24 miles