The Ingleborough Road Memorial Playing Fields were part of the now defunct Birkenhead Institute school from 1925 and opened for use the following year.

The fields and pavilion were created as a memorial to the former students of the school killed in action in World War I, which included the poet Wilfred Owen.

By 1904, the ferry service had ceased and Tranmere Pool was enclosed as Cammell Laird Dock as part of an extension of the shipyard.

[21] The shelter consists of a series of tunnels stretching to a total length of 6,500 ft (2 km), and was designed to house up to 6,000 people; many of them workers at the strategically important Cammell Laird shipyard.

The tunnels were later used by the Ministry of Food for storage, and were considered as a nuclear fallout shelter during the Cold War era.

Tranmere is made up of industrial buildings and Victorian terraced houses, although it has seen a significant amount of property development recently.

Mersey Park hosts one of several annual Bonfire Night municipal firework displays put on by Wirral Borough Council.

Victoria Park was originally the gardens of a large property called The Towers, built in the 1860s as a French-style chateau by Victor Poutz,[28][page needed] a French cotton merchant.

The structure is a designated Grade II listed building that was put on the present site in 1937[29][30] and which once marked the entrance to Tranmere on Church Road.

Services operate northbound to Liverpool, via Birkenhead town centre and southbound to Chester and Ellesmere Port.

First World War poet Wilfred Owen lived at three successive homes in Tranmere during the time his father was Stationmaster at Woodside from 1898 to 1907 and was a pupil at the nearby Birkenhead Institute School, now defunct.

[31] Mersey Park Primary School has several famous former pupils including Jason McAteer (footballer) and Patricia Routledge[32] (Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC TV sitcom Keeping up Appearances).

As a teen during the Second World War, he made parts for Sten guns in the workshops of the gunmaker W.C. Carswell in Liverpool and also served in the Irby branch of the Home Guard.