i am new here. i know it is bad manners to ask for things on first post but i am desperate, i need a picture of the old Birkenhead general hospital and the old clatterbridge hospital asap for a poster presentation i am doing. i cannot find these through google can anyone help

You could try emailing the central library assuming there is actually anyone there:
[email protected]

They may have electronic copies of images.

Or try Cheshire Records Office:
http://www.institutions.org.uk/hospitals/england/lancs/birkenhead_hospital.htm


Found this too:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=140-ahh250265&cid=10#10

Photographs A/HH/265 c.1910-30's


These documents are held at Wirral Archives Service


Exterior views of the hospital; incl. 3 duplicates printed on document paper as if for inclusion in a book or brochure. A/HH/265/1-7 c.1930's

Interior views of wards, departments (examination and treatment rooms), ?committee room, and ? Matron's room; incl. 4 duplicates, as in A/HH/265/1-7 above. A/HH/265/8-19 [n.d.]

"James Smith J.P. Trustee and Benefactor, 1881-1909". Framed portrait. A/HH/265/20 c.1910

"Edward Augustine Bell. M.B. Honorary Medical Officer. 1904-1916." Framed and glazed portrait; dressed in the uniform of an Army Medical Officer. A/HH/265/21 1915

Unknown gentleman - a portrait which is seen to be hung in a central position above the mantelpiece in the "committee room" photograph (A/HH/265/8-19 above). No longer framed. A/HH/265/22 [n.d.]

Photographs of a Plaque giving the names of donors of £10 and upwards; incl. 1 duplicate, as in A/HH/265/1-7 above. A/HH/265/23-5 [n.d.]