Local history of the Wirral spanning over 5000 years of history. Including photographs, maps, articles, videos, geneaology, events and discussion forums.

History of The Wirral Peninsula. Pages of info and images Primarily the North Wirral Region. any maps or parts of maps from The National Library of Scotland are printed under licence and marked accordingly, for non commercial use, and should not be downloaded without permission from them. CONTACT: Dockland

Discuss issues and facts relating to the Wirral during WW2. A forum dedicated to Wirrals illustrious maritime history. Post pictures, discuss the history and discover the past. Researching WW2 bomb damage around the Peninsula. Looking for links to your past? Use the forums to help research your family tree.

Wirral was inhabited by the earliest group of humans (Homo antecessor) to ever have lived in the British Isles. These tools date to the Lower Palaeolithic c.900,000-450,000 years ago. This puts Wirral on a par with Happisburgh in Norfolk, where the oldest footprints outside of Africa were discovered in 2013, dating to the end of the Early ...

2012年12月9日 · Wirral in old photographs is a group dedicated to Wirral's past. The vast bulk of posts are old photographs of the Wirral, although from time to time a new photograph is posted to compare the view today or for some other reason.

There is a rich history on the Wirral Peninsular, dating back 10,000 years to the end of the last Ice Age and covers the period of prehistoric and ancient history, through the roman occupation and the invasions of vikings, saxons and normans, and onto medieval and modern history.

The Wirral Peninsula (/ ˈ w ɪr əl /), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north.

Little is known of Wirral in the early post Roman years. At Landican a possible early Christian site is suggested by the place name ‘Llan-tegan’, the church of St Decan, while the circular...

Local history of the Wirral spanning over 5000 years of history. Including photographs, maps, articles, videos, geneaology, events and discussion forums.

Another old building in the village is Bebingtons thatched cottage, known locally as the thatch. The cottage was built in 1656 and was one of Wirrals oldest private dwellings until it was sold some years