to add an item to your Itinerary basket..Wirral Archives Workshops
Canning Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1ND
Tel: 0151 606 2929
Fax: 0151 606 2928
Type: Workshop
Wirral Archives Service presents a series of workshops to be held on the first Thursday of the month, from 2 to 4 p.m. These free workshops cover a variety of family and local history topics, illustrated by documents drawn from our holdings. Everyone interested in family and local history is welcome!
5 January An Introduction to Family History
2 February Family History – Taking it Further
1 March Cammell Laird Shipbuilders
5 April Wirral and the Titanic
3 May Prehistoric Wirral
7 June Roman Wirral
5 July Anglo-Saxon Wirral (5th–8th centuries)
2 August Viking Wirral (9th–11th centuries)
6 September Medieval Wirral
4 October Tudor and Stuart Wirral
1 November Changing Wirral
6 December Modern Wirral
For further information, or to book a place on any of these workshops, please contact the Archivist, William Meredith, on 0151 606 2922, or e-mail on williammeredith@wirral.gov.uk.
Road Directions
Before you travel to Wirral Archives Service, please consider if you really need to use your car.
Via the M53 from North Wales / Chester / Ellesmere Port to the Cheshire Lines building, Canning Street, Birkenhead
Leave the M53 at the Wallasey Docks exit after junction 1, and follow the signposted A5139 (the Dock Road). Follow the A5139 Dock Road for approximately 1¾ miles through the traffic lights, and at the roundabout take the third exit onto the A554 (Four Bridges, later Tower Road), signposted Birkenhead.
At the next roundabout take the second exit onto the A554 (signposted Birkenhead). At the next roundabout take the second exit onto the A554 (signposted Hamilton Square), which leads to Canning Street.
Pass the Twelve Quays campus on your left. Just before the Cheshire Lines Building turn right up Argyle Street on your left, and then take the first left on to Bridge Street. Bridge Street car park is on the left.
On foot turn left onto Bridge Street, turn left again onto Hamilton Street, and follow the instructions above.
Via the Wallasey (Kingsway) Tunnel to the Cheshire Lines building, Canning Street, Birkenhead
From the Wallasey Tunnel Westbound branch left, and then at the roundabout take the first exit onto the A5027, signposted to Birkenhead. At the traffic signals turn left onto the A5139 (Dock Road).
At the roundabout take the third exit onto the A554 (Four Bridges, later Tower Road), signposted Birkenhead. At the next roundabout take the second exit onto the A554 (signposted Birkenhead). At the next roundabout take the second exit onto the A554 (signposted Hamilton Square), which leads to Canning Street.
Pass the Twelve Quays campus on your left. Just before the Cheshire Lines Building turn right up Argyle Street on your left, and then take the first left on to Bridge Street. Bridge Street car park is on the left.
On foot turn left onto Bridge Street, turn left again onto Hamilton Street, and follow the instructions above.
Parking
There is no external parking available at Cheshire Lines (apart from disabled parking).
In addition to the Bridge Street car park car users may use the pay and display public car parks available near Conway Park Station and on Cleveland Street.
Disabled Parking
If you require disabled parking at Cheshire Lines, please let us know in advance and we will be happy to arrange this for you.
Public Transport Directions
For further public transport information, please contact Merseytravel on:
Tel: 0871 200 22 33
Web: www.merseytravel.gov.uk
Location
Birkenhead
Opening Times
05/01/2012 to 06/12/2012
Facilities
Provider Preferences
- In town/city centre
