Welcome To Wirral

We can provide records for those interested in family history, local history, and maritime and industrial history.

Wirral Archives Service was founded in 1974 upon the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, a borough of Merseyside. Previously the Wirral peninsula had been a subdivision (or ‘hundred’) of the County of Cheshire.

In 2008 Wirral Archives Service moved to a state of the art facility in the Cheshire Lines building on Canning Street in Birkenhead, not far from Hamilton Square station.

Wirral Archive Service will provide a series of monthy Saturday morning workshops - more information can be found on the Workshops page.

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours 2009-2010:

• Monday 21st December 09:30 – 16:30
• Tuesday 22nd December 09:30 – 16:30
• Wednesday 23rd December 09:30 – 16:30
• Thursday 24th December 09:30 – 15:00
• Friday 25th December Closed
• Saturday 26th December Closed 

 

• Monday 28th December Closed
• Tuesday 29th December 09:30 – 16:30
• Wednesday 30th December 09:30 – 16:30
• Thursday 31st December 09:30 – 16:00
• Friday 1st January Closed
• Saturday 2nd January Closed 

Would you like to be a Friend of Wirral Archives Service?

The Friends Group will provide opportunities to meet other local and family historians from Wirral; to attend workshops, talks and events; and to work with documents from our holdings on various interesting volunteer projects. It will also be a forum for our users to let us know what they want from Wirral Archives Service, and an opportunity for them to help us to achieve it! If you are interested please just send an e-mail to archives@wirral.gov.uk and someone will contact you with more information