tarboat's photos with the keyword: wirral

The Star Hotel at Rock Ferry has fallen on hard times. It was clearly once a fine building with the glazed terracotta faience to the ground floor frontage incorporating the pub and brewery names and the name of their Blue Label beer.

This grade II listed building was designed by the Borough Surveyor, Lionel St. George Wilkinson and constructed between 1930 and 1933. It was a ferry and omnibus (horse-drawn bus) terminus. It is also important as the first commercial shore-based Radar station in the world for the navigation of ships. The radar station was installed in 1947.

A quarter of the wind turbines on the 2017 Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm. The Wirral coast fills the background. The Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm is a 348 MW offshore wind farm located on the Burbo Flats in Liverpool Bay on the west coast of the UK in the Irish Sea. It consists of an original 90 MW wind farm commissioned in 2007 and a 258 MW extension completed in 2017. The wind farm was developed in the 2000s by SeaScape Energy, which was acquired by DONG Energy (now Ørsted) in 2005. A 25 turbine installation using Siemens Wind Power 3.6 MW turbines was constructed from 2005, and officially opened in 2007. A further 32 8 MW turbines were constructed in 2016-17. It has a planned operational life of 25 years.

Tanks at the oil refinery operated by Eastham Refinery Limited, a joint operation between Nynas and Shell. The site operates a distillation unit established in 1966 and designed to run on heavy naphthenic crude. In 1989 the unit was expanded to provide a capacity of 1.2m tonnes per year. The main product is bitumen, both penetration and blown grades, and a range of distillates is also produced. These find outlets as gas oil, marine diesel, lubricating base stocks and in a broad spectrum of process industries. A separate blown bitumen unit completed in early 1990 provides additional capacity. It is the largest producer of bitumen in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year.

The scene at West Kirby on Monday last. The walk is actually between the marine lake and the Dee estuary. If it gets choppy out there you get really wet.

Seacombe floating pier on the Wallasey side of the Mersey. Ferries run from here daily to Birkenhead and Liverpool, a service that has run for many centuries.

One of two pillboxes guarding the ends of the bridge over Bromborough Pool next to the Port Sunlight works.

Somebody's former pride and joy lies sunk and abandoned in the mud at New Ferry against a backdrop of the Liverpool Waterfront and also Rock Ferry jetty to the left.

Mersey Ferry Royal Iris has just a few passengers for this trip to see the sights along the river. Seen from the mudflats below the derelict promenade at Rock Ferry. The serried ranks of terraced houses on the far shore ar at Dingle.

Duke Street Wharf on West Float, Birkenhead. A good day out but rather windy.