Description

Medal to commemorate the laying of the first stone at Birkenhead Docks. White metal.

Obverse: legend in 11 lines

‘THE FIRST STONE OF THE DOCKS WAS LAID 23RD OCTR 1844 BY SIR PHILIP DE M.G. EGERTON BART M.P. FOR THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. WATER SPACE OF DOCKS 207 ACRES.
J.M. RENDEL ESQR F.R.S. ENGINEER’

Reverse: Legend ‘COMMISSIONERS / OF THE / BIRKENHEAD DOCKS / JOHN LAIRD ESQR CHAIRMAN

JOHN D. CASE       ESQR       JOHN H. HIND   ESQR
WM. JACKSON           ”          RICHARD FRY         ”
JNO. S. JACKSON       ”          JOHN SUDLOW      ”
JNO. H. GREENE        ”          C.A. WATSON          ”
WILLIAM COLE          ”          THOS A. DALE         ”
D MC. NICHOL          ”          WM. ADAMSON      ”
M.F. BROWNRIGG     ”          T. GILBERTSON        ”
S. BENTHAM             ”          ALEXR KERR             ”
D. APPLETON            ”           S. STANSFIELD        ”
J.R. PIM                     ”           WM. HORNER         ”

JOSEPH MALLABY / CLERK’

This medal was collected by Professor Roland Paxton.