A History of Wirral

A History of Wirral
Author: Stephen J. Roberts
Publisher: Phillimore
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007
Genre: Wirral (England)
ISBN: 9781860775123

The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva, then settled by Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. Its growing medieval population mainly lived by farming and fishing, but the 19th century brought dramatic changes-colonisation by wealthy Liverpudlians, then the rapid growth of the great urban and industrial centres of Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Every aspect of the past lives of its people is explored, and how they moulded today's Wirral.

Secret Wirral

Secret Wirral
Author: Les Jones
Publisher: Secret
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781445653419

Explore the Wirral's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Ingimund's Saga

Ingimund's Saga
Author: Stephen Harding
Publisher: University of Chester
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1908258446

Around 1,100 years ago a group of Vikings arrived in Wirral from Ireland which began an influx of Vikings into the area. These settlers established their own community and this comprehensively updated book explores the history of these people and their legacy.

Viking DNA

Viking DNA
Author: Stephen Harding
Publisher: Nottingham University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 190728494X

Focusing on men from old families in England’s Wirral and West Lancashire regions, this survey traces the DNA of the local populace back to their Viking ancestors in order to determine the impact of past societies on their genetic make-up. Arguing that the areas exhibit many archaeological and historical features proving them to have had a clear Viking presence, this account provides background information on Viking settlements as well as conclusions drawn from the DNA testing. An illustrated example of how DNA methods can be used to learn about the past is also included.

Moreton Wirral

Moreton Wirral
Author: Frank Biddle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1992
Genre: Moreton (Cheshire, England)
ISBN: 9781901231229

The second in the series providing a pictorial history of Moreton and its people.

Wirral Walks

Wirral Walks
Author: Anthony Annakin-Smith
Publisher: Sigma Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781850588238

Presenting over 20 walks in Wirral, this title discovers the best of the local landscape, with sights spanning thousands of years of history, from ancient tracks to remnants of industrial past - from woodland heath to an expansive saltmarsh.

Lost Wirral

Lost Wirral
Author: Les Jones
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 144569154X

Fully illustrated description of the Wirral’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.

Criminal Wirral

Criminal Wirral
Author: Daniel K Longman
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2006-06-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0750953292

Criminal Wirral is an intriguing and entertaining collection of some of the strangest, most despicable and comical crimes that took place on the Wirral peninsula from the Victorian era up until the early twentieth century. Daniel K. Longman's painstaking research has uncovered many fascinating cases that have been long forgotten, and he sheds new light on local causes celebres. The tales are supported by a number of maps with many contemporary and modern photographs, which help to bring these events and the people featured in them to life. Criminal Wirral will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the darker side of Wirral's history.

The Wirral in 50 Buildings

The Wirral in 50 Buildings
Author: Les Jones
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1445687518

Explore the rich history of the Wirral in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Haunted Wirral

Haunted Wirral
Author: Tom Slemen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515169826

The Wirral which Tom Slemen writes about in this fascinating book is a peninsula of ghosts, phantoms, spectres, doppelgangers, premonitions, reincarnations, astral voyages to another world and timeslips. The cases in Haunted Wirral confirm the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction. Most ghost story books about Wirral include the same old weathered yarns about Mother Redcap's ghost and the spectres of smugglers, but the mysterious peninsula proved to be a stranger place than even Tom Slemen took it to be, with 51 tales weirder than anything found within the books of Stephen King, or Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. This edition includes a lost Wirral tale of Tom's that was recently found by the author concerning the "Thin Man" of Telegraph Road...