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	Birkenhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Birkenhead is a town on Wirral Peninsula, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool.
		Birkenhead, with the rest of the Wirral Peninsula, was (prior to 1974) part of the county of Cheshire.
		Birkenhead was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1877, and became a county borough with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birkenhead (1402 words)

	The History of Birkenhead
		Birkenhead's history can be traced back to an ancient building, the Priory, which was founded between 1154 and 1199 and stood on a lonely headland of birch trees.
		Birkenhead Park was laid out in 1847 by Joseph Paxton and involved vast amounts of landscaping and the creation of artificial lakes, cricket and football pitches and driveways.
		Birkenhead not only shared in the general trade of the Mersey but developed an individual trade in exporting and importing.
	www.birkenhead.net /history/history01.html (564 words)

	Birkenhead Docks, 1847
		Birkenhead may now be said to have entered into competition, or rather into articles of partnership, with Liverpool, the great north outlet and inlet of our foreign and transatlantic trade.
		Birkenhead may fairly be looked upon as of Liverpool lineage and alliance, and as having been literally called into life by that leviathan of trade itself in its effort towards finding an ampler field for the accommodation and convenience of its over-grown trade.
		Birkenhead will now become a sort of chapel of ease for the redundant commerce of the mother port, and probably there is no port in the kingdom, not excepting Liverpool itself, that presents such grand natural facilities.
	www.theshipslist.com /pictures/birkenhead.htm (498 words)

	Scuba Diving: Birkenhead: South Africa: Submerged Productions
		The Birkenhead was an iron paddle steamer of 1400 tons, and was launched in December 1845.
		The Birkenhead made an uneventful passage to Simonstown where she took on fresh supplies of water, food, coal and also loaded aboard horses for the Army officers.
		As the Birkenhead writhed in her death throes it became obvious that the ship would have to be abandoned.
	www.submerged.co.uk /birkenhead.php (1146 words)

	Birkenhead
		The town of Birkenhead started it's existence when the Priory was built in the late 1100's.
		It is from the time of John Laird that the population of the town exploded, and in 1833 Birkenhead was given the right to govern itself.
		Birkenhead lost it's Boroughship in 1974 when it was incorporated into the new County of Merseyside.
	members.tripod.com /wirral_rf/places/birkenhead.htm (587 words)

	Birkenhead - Place of Beauty and Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birkenhead lies on the Wirral, opposite side of the River Mersey to Liverpool and next to Wallasey.
		The industrialization of Birkenhead (and, subsequently, most of the East side of The Wirral) began in 1824 when William Laird established a boiler works and a shipbuilding yard on the banks of Wallasey Pool and laid out the beginnings of the town at Hamilton Square.
		Birkenhead Park is acknowledged to be the first publicly funded park in Britain.
	www.mikekemble.com /mside/Birkenhead.html (2769 words)

	BIRKENHEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The borough of Birkenhead was founded in 1877 after the merger of Birkenhead, Claughton-cum-Grange, Oxton and Tranmere.
		The new borough received its arms on August 28, 1878, and the symbols in the new arms were taken from the seals of the former towns.
		The crosier and the lion were taken from the old Birkenhead seal and represent the Benedictine monastery in Birkenhead.
	members.tripod.com /wirral_rf/Arms/birkenhead.htm (126 words)

	Birkenhead
		Birkenhead is a town in the county Borough of Wirral[?], Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool.
		The area was later used for as a sea port and for ship building as it was close to the naval activity of Liverpool.
		Birkenhead, a suburb in North shore, Auckland, New Zealand.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Birkenhead.html (161 words)

	Birkenhead Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birkenhead Park Cricket Club was officially started in 1846, a year before the park was opened.
		In 1845, on Paxton's recommendation, he was awarded the post of Park Superintendent at an annual salary of £150, accommodation in the Italian Lodge and a budget of £1,000 per year to maintain the Park.
		Sir William Jackson was Chairman of the Birkenhead Commissioners from 1842-1846.
	www.wirral.gov.uk /er/birkpark.htm (568 words)

	Birkenhead
		Birkenhead was still a small village when William Laird established a boilermaking and shipbuilding yard in the town in 1824, the forerunner of the immense Cammell Laird yards, and in 1829 the first iron vessel in the UK was built here.
		However, the shipbuilding industry declined in the 20th century, resulting in the closure of the last Cammell Laird shipyard in 1993.
		The Scout Movement was inaugurated in Birkenhead by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000363.html (492 words)

	Birkenhead House
		Birkenhead House in Hermanus is the unrivalled setting for intimate weddings at the coast from brunches and gorgeous lunch parties to inviting small dinners.
		Birkenhead House is named after a British troop ship that sank in Walker Bay in 1852.
		The first Birkenhead hotel was renowned in the 50’s and 60’s for wonderful Sunday lunches and jazz band soirées.
	www.showcook.com /birkenhead_house.htm (1038 words)

	Birkenhead District Explorer Scouts
		Birkenhead District is located in the Scouting County of Merseyside.
		Birkenhead is the World's oldest Scouting District, as it was in the Birkenhead YMCA that the first ever Scout Group (1st Birkenhead) was opened by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908.
		Explorer Scouts in Birkenhead are registered only with the District, meaning they can be members of more than one Unit, which is particularly important with the Young Leaders Unit who do not meet as often as the other Units.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /birkenhead_explorers/about_us.htm (426 words)

	Birkenhead - its world famous park, Lady Lever's Gallery, the raider Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birkenhead Priory was established on the West bank of the Mersey c1150 AD.
		By 1800 AD the Birkenhead population was still only 110, and the church a ruin after its dissolution by Henry VIII.
		Birkenhead Park was laid out over the period 1843-47 under architect Joseph Paxton.
	www.cavendish.demon.co.uk /birkenhead (837 words)

	BC Rivers - Birkenhead River - BritishColumbia.com
		The clear Birkenhead River melds with the murky green waters of the Lillooet River just as the two empty into the north end of Lillooet Lake.
		Beginning in August, successive runs of sockeye salmon enter the Birkenhead from the lake, having made their way this far from the Pacific via the Fraser River and Harrison Lake.
		Birkenhead Lake is a popular fishing spot (even in winter), particularly at the mouth of Sockeye Creek.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /LakesAndRivers/Rivers/details/?ID=125 (266 words)

	Birkenhead Returned Services Association - Birkenhead RSA - New Zealand
		The Birkenhead Returned Services' Association was first conceived at a meeting of interested people in the rooms of Dr J.W. Craven at Highbury in 1929.
		This led to the formation of the Birkenhead Returned Services' Club which had its first AGM on 30 August 1930 in what was then the RAOB Hall at Highbury.
		After lots of negotiation, the upshot was that the Birkenhead Returned Services' Club site was sold to the developer and the hall, which was not wanted by the developer, was sold separately for a peppercorn sum so as to provide a cleared site.
	www.birkenheadrsa.com (495 words)

	Birkenhead Squash Club
		Map 1: Locates Birkenhead on the Wirral peninsula with a view of the motorway network in relation to Liverpool, Chester and North Wales.
		The club is less than a mile away from Birkenhead town centre and from the Birkenhead entrance to the Mersey tunnel.
		Birkenhead Park railway station is also highlighted by a red marker.
	www.jeffhampson.plus.com /squash/findus.htm (358 words)

	Ministry of Environment - Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park
		Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park was first established in 1963 to provide lakeside camping and other recreation experiences for travellers between Whistler and Lillooet.
		Birkenhead Lake Trail: The 8-kilometre trail to Birkenhead Lake Estates at the south end of the lake joins up with Birkenhead Road and Tenas Valley logging road.
		Birkenhead Lake Trail: The 8-kilometre gravel trail to Birkenhead Lake Estates at the south end of the lake joins up with Birkenhead Road and Tenas Valley logging road.
	www.env.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/birkenhe.html (1455 words)

	HMS Birkenhead (1845) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was built in 1845 at John Laird's shipyard at Birkenhead as a frigate and named Vulcan, but the Admiralty renamed her Birkenhead and had her converted into a troopship in 1848.
		Three placenames in the Canadian province of British Columbia were conferred in honour of the Birkenhead disaster by Hudson's Bay Company explorer Alexander Caulfield Anderson, a boyhood friend and classmate of Lt Col Seton of the 74th foot, on a traverse of uncharted country between the Fraser Canyon and the coastal Lower Mainland in 1846.
		A few miles further on to the southwest from the head of Anderson Lake is Mount Birkenhead, standing on the north side of the low pass connecting the valley of those lakes to that of the Birkenhead River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Birkenhead_(1845) (1084 words)

	Birkenhead Poor Law Union and Workhouse
		Birkenhead and its neighbouring parishes at the north of the Wirral peninsula originally formed part of the Wirral Poor Law Union.
		A new Birkenhead Union workhouse was built in 1861-3 at the west side of Church Road in Birkenhead.
		Birkenhead mortuary and hospital block from the north-west, 2001.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/Birkenhead/Birkenhead.shtml (317 words)

	Birkenhead Tramway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birkenhead is the historic home of the first street tramway in Europe.
		This vehicle, Birkenhead 20 is a fine example of an Edwardian tram.
		The design is a 1948 pattern and the vehicles approximate to the type common on the streets of Britain in the Forties and Fifties.
	www.wirral.gov.uk /ed/birkenhead_tramway.htm (422 words)

	Birkenhead UK - news, sport, weather, classifieds, shops and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BIRKENHEAD'S premier non-league club are about to enter their centenary year after enjoying the most successful 12 m...
		The Gills had never won in Birkenhead, and after just six minutes it looked for all the world that the run would go on...
		Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders, of Birkenhead, is expected to carry out the work during the Hjaltland and H...
	www.birkenheaduk.com (194 words)

	HMS Birkenhead
		A large troopship, HM Troopship Birkenhead, with about 638 men women and children on board, was sailing off the coast of Africa on a clear night on 26th February 1852 carrying reinforcements for the troops engaged in the Kaffir War.
		Off Cape Danger the vessel suddenly struck a sunken rock with such force that within 20 minutes she was a wreck.
		It is generally thought that the survivors comprised 113 Army personnel (all ranks), 6 Royal Marines, 54 seamen (all ranks), 7 women and 13 children but these numbers cannot be substantiated as muster rolls and books were lost with the ship.
	www.btinternet.com /~palmiped/Birkenhead.htm (989 words)

	:: Birkenhead Market one of Britain's premier Markets. Fresh farm foods, fashion clothing, collectables, fabrics, ...
		Birkenhead Market nestles in the centre of the town and offers the very best of both worlds with its spacious modern indoor market hall and the friendly bustling traditional outdoor market offering bargains and variety.
		Although the traders have retained the essence of a market, a great deal of attention has been paid to the appearance and service being offered, resulting in a constant improvement programme which is clear to see.
		Birkenhead Market is easily accessed with the main bus station right next door, railway stations nearby and parking in the town for 2,600 cars.
	www.birkenheadmarket.co.uk (180 words)

	Birkenhead Library - North Shore Libraries
		Birkenhead Library is currently based at the Birkenhead Leisure Centre, Mahara Ave., Birkenhead.
		The new Birkenhead Library and Civic Building is to be built on the corner of Hinemoa St and Rawene St, next to the Nell Fisher Reserve.
		Birkenhead Library was first opened in 1949 and housed the Birkenhead Area Office and Citizens Advice Bureau.
	www.shorelibraries.govt.nz /Locations/Birkenhead (312 words)

	2nd Birkenhead Scout Group - 68 North Rd Birkenhead Merseyside
		The 2nd Birkenhead Scout Group have a strong claim to being the first independant group in the world.
		One was the 1st Birkenhead (YMCA) and the other was the 2nd Birkenhead.
		The 1st Birkenhead group has long since closed, but the 2nd Birkenhead group is still going strong.
	www.freewebs.com /2ndbirkenhead (309 words)

	SueWarwick Birkenhead Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		Recently Birkenhead, the largest town in Wirral, was picked as one of the North West's most important historic towns.
		Birkenhead was a small, quiet village until the Cammel Laird shipyard opened in 1824 and turned it into a busy Victorian town.
		Birkenhead is also home to the famous Mersey Ferries which still cross the Mersey on its triangular route between Birkenhead, Seacombe and Liverpool
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/6df07/4d5fb (523 words)

	Birkenhead Brewery Beers Of Distinction
		This reloaded lager is no stranger to the Birkenhead.
		So you as a Birkenhead drinker can purchase more without the fear of going off.
		The Birkenhead brewery recently exposed two new beers to inhabitants of Witand.
	www.birkenhead.co.za (452 words)

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