AudaTours Birkenhead Audio Tour: Hammers, Hulls and the Means Test

Follow a self-guided audio walk through Birkenhead, using headphones and the route in the app as you make your way from Birkenhead Priory to the shipyard gate at Cammell Laird, then back through the town centre and waterfront.

The tour has 15 stops and runs to about 1 hour of audio, or around 3 hours in total with walking. Along the way you pass Priory Street, Hamilton Square, the Town Hall, the market, the former tramway route, the tunnel memorial, Woodside, Egerton Dock and the transport museum. This Birkenhead version focuses on the ordinary working lives that shaped the place: monks running the ferry crossing, navvies digging docks, shipwrights hammering iron hulls, dockers handling grain, early tramway pioneers, tunnel grafters and unemployed men who organised against the Means Test. It is a walk through streets and buildings that still carry those histories in plain view.

Timings

Available anytime

Location & directions

Birkenhead Priory, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 6AY

Directions:

Starts at Birkenhead Priory, Priory Street, Birkenhead, visits 15 stops, and finishes at Wirral Transport Museum, Shore Road, Birkenhead.

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Book on day

Booking conditions:

Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.

Booking email:

[email protected]

Booking website:

https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/birkenhead/p-3734-working-lives

Accessibility details

This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Additional information

You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.

Estimated duration:

2 hour(s)

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