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![[Linked Image]](https://www.images.wikiwirral.co.uk/forum/5753.jpg) The tram pictured on the right in Laird Street c.1906, is turning into Mallaby Street. The building on the left was the main offices for the Birkenhead Corporation Tramways, opening 28 July 1903. The gate at the entrance to the tram depot can be seen this side of the offices. This was the main car shed and had been built in 1900-01, to house the new electric trams, which had come into operation first on the Rock Ferry route 4 February 1901, taking over from the horse drawn trams. The depot could accomodate forty-two cars initially and was soon extended to take sixty. The depot was futher extended in 1927-28, to provide the needs of the buses only, with an entrance in Plumer Street. This became the bus depot after the trams ceased in 1937. Today the depot and offices are the headquarters of Mersey Bus - Wirral Division. Birkenhead Co-operative Society branch No 7 was built on land to the left.
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Spot On Joe Spot On 
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Are you SoNutz? Forum Master
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Groovy mate 
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Full story of the Birkenhead Tramways can be found at you local library - "The Tramways Of Wallasey & Birkenhead" by T.B Maund & M. Jenkins.
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Visited Laird Street for first time last year. Family living at 141 Laird Street in late 1920's, opposite Co op. Think the sign to the open cafe points to No 141, if memory serves me.
Last edited by anin1; 23rd Mar 2010 1:34pm.
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My dad was born on Laird Street in one of those houses between the shops opposite the depot.
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looking for pictures of laird street when it was a bus depot,having a model made.need pictures of the sheds that housed the buses.
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Not much difference between the pics.
See you in cyberspace!
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Old pubs
by Margymoo4 - 6th May 2026 3:49pm
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Old pubs
by Margymoo4 - 6th May 2026 3:49pm
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