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The Rock Ferry Waterfront Trust have bought the slipway in front of the Refreshment Rooms and are putting an action plan into play to get it fully restored A PLAN to restore a much-loved Wirral water entrance to its former glory is underway, but the organisers need around £500,000 to make it happen. Rock Ferry Slipway, a Grade 2 listed structure on the banks of the River Mersey in Birkenhead, is of special interest because it is considered to be the oldest surviving structure to be built into the Mersey in 1820 by Thomas Morecroft, a ferry owner and operator. It was developed to improve facilities on the Rock Ferry to Liverpool ferry service and in later times, it was used by cadets to board HMS Conway, which was moored at Rock Ferry and to enable wealthy residents living in the Rock Park estate to live on the Wirral and work in Liverpool. ....