Birkenhead
a seaport in Merseyside metropolitan county, in W England, on the Mersey River opposite Liverpool.
Historical Examples
The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
Cheshire Charles E. Kelsey
Cheshire Charles E. Kelsey
Ghostly Phenomena Elliot O’Donnell.
Recollections of a Busy Life William B. Forwood
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) Francis Trevithick
Short Studies in Ethics John Ormsby Miller
Her Benny Silas Kitto Hocking
The Rivers of Great Britain; Rivers of the South and West Coasts Various
The Old Man in the Corner Baroness Orczy
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a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
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Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of, known as F. E. Smith. 1872–1930, British Conservative statesman, lawyer, and orator
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