Liverpool
Birkenhead Audio Tour: Hammers Hulls and the Means Test
Birkenhead grew not from commerce or culture but from sheer industrial necessity: a medieval priory whose monks ran the river crossing on a royal ferry charter; a Scottish ironmaster who started building ships from boiler plates; a town grid meant to be Edinburgh-on-Mersey that ended up crammed with Irish famine migrants; the first street tramway in Europe, inaugurated by an American showman in six weeks; docks that became Europe's largest flour-milling centre; a road tunnel dug by thousands of men with pneumatic hammers and gelignite; and a late-twentieth-century shipyard occupation whose workers lost their jobs, their pensions and their liberty. This walk follows the arc from Birkenhead Priory round Hamilton Square's overcrowded terraces, through the market and the tramway route, to the Cammell Laird gate where the occupation ended, and back along the heritage tram line. The visible built environment still carries every one of these threads.
Birkenhead Audio Tour: Hammers Hulls and the Means Test Tickets
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