Wirral History – People, Places & Events
Topics range from the Civil War to the 1932 Means Test Riots, from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu, from the two world wars to the Victorian leisure haunts on Wirral. Individual biographies spread across the course include Joseph Paxton (Birkenhead Park), Emma Lyon (Lady Hamilton), Sir Philip Toosey (River Kwai), Lock ah Tam (killer of three), Albert Laver (Cockleshell Heroes) and Norman Thelwell (artist). Add to this the startling stories of Wirral’s workhouses, the bravado of its Vikings and the fortitude of Mallory and Irving on Everest nearly 100 years ago.
Topics range from the Civil War to the 1932 Means Test Riots, from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu, from the two world wars to the Victorian leisure haunts on Wirral. Individual biographies spread across the course include Joseph Paxton (Birkenhead Park), Emma Lyon (Lady Hamilton), Sir Philip Toosey (River Kwai), Lock ah Tam (killer of three), Albert Laver (Cockleshell Heroes) and Norman Thelwell (artist). Add to this the startling stories of Wirral’s workhouses, the bravado of its Vikings and the fortitude of Mallory and Irving on Everest nearly 100 years ago.
Chris Thompson
- Mon 27 Apr – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 4 May – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 11 May – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 18 May – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 8 Jun – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 15 Jun – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 22 Jun – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 29 Jun – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 6 Jul – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre
- Mon 13 Jul – 10:00am 12:00pm | Bebington Civic Centre