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Lady Lever Art Gallery

Port Sunlight · 1.2 miles

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.

War Memorial

Port Sunlight · 1.2 miles

Set within the model village of Port Sunlight on the Wirral, the war memorial occupies the most prominent position at the junction of The Causeway and The Diamond, the two broadest avenues in the settlement. Conceived by the village’s founder, William Lever, the monument was intended to commemorate the employees of Lever Brothers who fell in the First World War. Lever commissioned the sculptor Goscombe John as early as 1916; the finished work was unveiled on 3 December 1921 by Sergeant E. G. Eames, blinded at the Somme, and Private R. E. Cruickshank, a Victoria Cross recipient, both former Lever workers. The stone is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building and bears the names of staff who died in both World Wars. Constructed from granite, the monument centres on a runic cross set upon an octagonal plinth that supports eleven bronze figures, including three soldiers, a wounded man attended by a nurse, a seated woman with infants, a girl with her brother and a Boy Scout. The surrounding enclosure features a circular parapet broken by four stepped approaches, each flanked by distinct reliefs of children holding wreaths and additional reliefs depicting the Naval, Military, Anti-Aircraft and Red Cross services. Four seating areas and flower beds lie between the steps, while the overall height reaches approximately 11.6 metres and the diameter spans about 22.4 metres, providing a substantial focal point for reflection within the village’s public space.

U-Boat Story

Birkenhead · 1.9 miles

A sectioned German Type IXC/40 submarine forms the core of the U-Boat Story museum, situated at Woodside Ferry in Birkenhead. The vessel, U-534, was built in 1942 in Hamburg, launched later that year and never recorded a wartime sinking. After being bombed and sunk in the Kattegat on 5 May 1945, the wreck was raised on 23 August 1993 and transferred to the Birkenhead site, where it was displayed as a museum attraction from 10 February 2009. The submarine remains one of only four World War II German U-boats preserved worldwide, although it is presented in cut-away sections rather than as a complete hull. Inside the exhibition, the split-apart hull reveals the internal layout and fittings of a wartime U-boat, including a restored torpedo that was recovered from the 1993 salvage and placed alongside the vessel. The display also highlights the rare twin 3.7 cm Flakzwilling M43U anti-aircraft mount and the anti-sonar decoy system known as Bold, illustrating the technical adaptations made during the boat’s service. Ownership passed to the heritage organisation Big Heritage in October 2021, linking the site with the nearby Western Approaches Museum. The museum is listed under the name U-Boat Story on OpenStreetMap, with Birkenhead identified as the nearest town and opening times published on the attraction’s listing. No further admission or facility details are supplied in the source material.

Birkenhead Park

Claughton · 2.5 miles

Birkenhead Park is a major public park located in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It was designed by Joseph Paxton and opened on 5 April 1847.

M&S Bank Arena

Waterfront · 2.5 miles

A multi-purpose indoor arena in Liverpool’s city centre draws audiences for music, comedy and sport, and is recorded on OpenStreetMap as a landmark close to the Waterfront. Forming part of the ACC Liverpool event campus, the venue offers flexible layouts, with 7,513 permanent seats around three sides of a central floor and a maximum capacity of 11 000 when standing. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre architects and Sport Concepts, the arena includes corporate boxes, six dressing rooms, five team locker rooms and two promoter offices, and carries a BREEAM rating of “very good”. The arena opened on 12 January 2008 under the name Echo Arena, coinciding with the Capital of Culture celebrations that marked a decade of regeneration in the city. A sponsorship agreement with M&S Bank led to the current name from 7 January 2019, with a full rebrand completed later that month. Since opening it has hosted events such as the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards, the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, and regular Premier League Darts fixtures. Sporting highlights include former home games for the Mersey Tigers basketball team, the Liverpool International Horse Show, the British Gymnastics Championships, and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2022, with further world championships scheduled for 2030. The arena also accommodates professional wrestling, with All Elite Wrestling’s Dynasty PPV slated for 7 February 2027. Access is provided by direct bus services, and James Street railway station lies a short walk away, offering Merseyrail connections to Liverpool Lime Street. The site sits opposite the portal of the disused Wapping Tunnel, for which proposals exist to create a new station serving the arena and surrounding docks.

Wallasey Dock

Seacombe · 2.5 miles

The former Wallasey Dock, now a water-filled site beside Seacombe, marks a piece of Birkenhead’s maritime heritage on the Wirral Peninsula. Built between 1874 and 1877, the dock replaced the earlier Great Low Water Basin of 1863 and lay between Alfred Dock to the north and Morpeth Dock to the south, with river access to the west via East Float. Its sheds originally stored grain before being repurposed for imported livestock, and a pumping station added in 1890 on the adjoining river wall contributed to gradual silting. By the 1960s the basin was largely silted, leading to dereliction by 1992. In the early 2000s the dock was filled, creating space for a vehicle park that serves the nearby Twelve Quays roll-on/roll-off ferry terminal. The resulting landscape includes a lake-type water feature recognised by OpenStreetMap, with Seacombe identified as the closest settlement. While the site no longer functions as a working dock, the surrounding area provides access to the ferry terminal’s transport facilities. No specific admission charges or visitor amenities are recorded for the former dock itself; access is via the existing road network serving the vehicle park. The location therefore offers a glimpse of industrial change, set within a water-adjacent environment that reflects the evolution of the local docklands.