A report on the history of tide measuremant by the Proudman Instute, and a look at the original tide calculation machines from Bidston.Observatory at Liverpool Museum.
And I was walking there today, and met a man who told me about the flags, and pointed me to the flag-pole holes drilled into the rock by the observatory. Lots to marvel at. Lots that all the schools of Merseyside should be teaching about the region's world-leading expertise of past generations .