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Rock Park, Rock Ferry, Cheshire
Rock Ferry is a suburb of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 36 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". [1] The area is residential, and developed originally as a private estate by Jonathan Bennison in 1836–1837 (188 years ago). Most of the listed buildings are large houses and associated structures built in this development. The other listed buildings A pair of ashlar-faced houses with a Welsh slate roof in Neoclassical style. They have two storeys, and each house has a three-bay front, the outer bays having hipped gables. In the centre of each house is a two-storey porch with a pyramidal roof, and a lean-to verandah. The windows are sashes. At the rear are canted bay windows and balconies on cast iron columns. The gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps are included in the listing. [13]
are a slipway into the River Mersey, a sea wall, a swimming baths and two churches.
16 and 17 Rock Park Rock Ferry, Cheshire c. 1836
16 and 17 Rock Park Rock Ferry, Cheshire
HMS Conway 1859 – 1974 In the mid-19th century, the demand for a reliable standard of naval officers had grown to the point where ship owners decided to set up an organisation to train, and indeed educate, them properly: the Mercantile Marine Service Associations. One of the first sites chosen for a school ship was Liverpool, in 1857. The ship they chose to accommodate the school, to be provided by the Admiralty and moored in the Sloyne, off Rock Ferry on the River Mersey, was one named HMS Conway. There were to be several Conways over the years, the name being transferred to the new ship each time it was replaced, but the one that housed the school for most of its life was lent by the Royal Navy to the Mercantile Marine Service Association in 1875. This was a small two-decker 92-gun wooden line of battle ship 205 ft (62.5 m) long, 54 ft (16 m) deep, weighing 4,375 long tons and originally equipped with ten 8
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