Birkenhead Reference Library
Birkenhead Reference Library will be closed on Saturday 3 October.
The main lending library will be open as usual.
The reference library will reopen on Monday 5 October. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Visiting Wirral Archives
Opening hours
| Monday to Friday | 10am to 4:30pm |
| Saturday and Sunday | Closed |
Wirral Archives is now an appointment only service. Please contact us below at least 24 hours in advance to make your appointment.
- ring the buzzer for Wirral Archives and we will open the door for you (it opens towards you) - follow the red squares to the Search Room
- we operate a Reader Card system. When you come for the first time please bring ID with your photograph and also your current address - your driving licence has both
- you will be asked to sign our visitors' book
- lockers are available to store your bags
- please bring a pencil with you to make notes as pens are not allowed in the search room
- the search room is accessible for wheelchair users
- there may be a reduced service over lunchtime for photocopying and retrieving records from the Strong Room
- food and drink is not allowed in the Search Room but there is a small area next to it where you may have lunch. There is also a café near Hamilton Square station.
Contact us
Please remember to contact us before you visit so we can prepare for you. Let us know what you think of our service by filling in a feedback form.
Telephone: 0151 606 2929
Email: archives@wirral.gov.uk
Address
Wirral Archives
Lower Ground Floor
Cheshire Lines Building
Canning Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1ND
Access to Wirral Archives is via Shore Road, Birkenhead.
There are metal steps leading down from Canning Street to the entrance of the Lower Ground Floor of the Cheshire Lines Building. For safety reasons, we do not promote the steps for our users. However if you wish, we could bring you down from Canning Street in the lift (the lobby is to the right of the metal steps).
Please ring 0151 606 2929 and let us know when you will be there to be collected. A sign on the lobby also shows this number for mobile phone users.
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Parking
Visitors to Wirral Archives can park for free in the car park on Shore Road, next to Cheshire Lines Building. You can park in the numbered spaces in front of the big stone wall. There are two disabled spaces. The first three unnumbered spaces (just past space 50) can also be used.
Visitors parking in these spaces will need a permit, which we will give them. Visitors cannot park in any other spaces as they do not belong to the council. Anyone who parks in these spaces may be fined.
There are other car parks:
- on Bridge Street opposite the Cheshire Lines Building. The first 45 minutes are free.
- on Elgin Way
- on Cleveland Street