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The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment who relocated from the Park Road South drill hall in around 1900. [1] This unit evolved to become the 4th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment in 1908. [ 2 ]
The site, on which the station was built, was to the east of Birkenhead's original railway terminus at Grange Lane, which closed in 1844. [1] To the north lay two tunnel entrances; the first, completed in 1844, led to the town's second terminus at Monks Ferry.
Grange was a township in West Kirby parish [3] of the Wirral Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866 and included the hamlets of Caldy Grange and Newton Carr. The civil parish was part of Wirral Rural District , then from 1933 Hoylake Urban District , within the county of Cheshire . [ 4 ]
The Birkenhead Improvement Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. lxviii) set up a body of improvement commissioners covering the chapelry of Birkenhead. [19] The commissioners' district was enlarged by the Birkenhead Extension Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. xiii) to take in the township of Claughton with Grange and part of Oxton. [20]
Claughton with Grange was historically a township in the ancient parish of Bidston, which formed part of the Wirral Hundred of Cheshire. The township was administratively absorbed into Birkenhead in 1843 when it was added to the improvement commissioners' district which covered the town. [ 11 ]
Birkenhead Grange Lane was a railway station in Birkenhead, England. On opening, the station was the northern terminus of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway . The station was opened in 1840, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and closed to passengers in 1844 but the site remained in use for goods until the 1970s.
Birkenhead Woodside railway station was opened on March 31, 1878, to replace the increasingly inadequate passenger facilities provided at Birkenhead Monks Ferry station. [3] [4] The terminus was constructed further inland than originally planned to avoid the demolition of the Mersey ferries workshop situated on the riverbank.
Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station was a railway station in Birkenhead, Wirral, England. It was situated very close to the River Mersey named after the monks at Birkenhead Priory. For most of its life, the station was part of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a joint railway. The station was originally opened without authority in April 1838.