[4] In 1845 George Turnbull was the civil engineer who designed and built the Seacombe Wall sea defence that helped drain the marshes behind the town.

The ferry travels in a triangular route between the Seacombe, Woodside and Liverpool Pier Head terminals.

The third is a building housing some of the ventilation systems for the Kingsway Tunnel, a colossal structure which faces the river.

It consists of two huge grilles which resemble stereo speakers, and a central concrete flue-like structure.

The area was immortalised in the title of "Party Seacombe", an instrumental by George Harrison on his Wonderwall Music album.

Michael Portillo lived briefly in Seacombe in 2003 for the BBC TV programme When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum, which saw the former Conservative MP experience life as a single parent (he also worked in the Asda superstore in Wallasey).

The prominent Welsh dramatist, literary critic and politician, Saunders Lewis, was born in 61 Falkland Road on 15 October 1893.