New Brighton, Merseyside#Black Pearl

File:New Brighton.png

Up to the nineteenth century, the area had a reputation for smuggling and wrecking,{{harvnb|Collard|2009|p=}}{{page needed|date=October 2016}} and secret underground cellars and tunnels are still rumoured to exist. It also had a strategic position at the entrance to the Mersey Estuary.

The Perch Rock battery was completed in 1829.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4790309.stm|title=New Brighton, 'lungs of the Mersey'|work=BBC News|first=Tom|last=Geoghegan|date=19 August 2006|access-date=28 October 2016}} It mounted 18 guns, mostly 32-pounders, and three 6-inch guns installed in 1899.{{cite web|url=http://www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/north_west/perch_rock_fort.html|title=Perch Rock Fort|work=CastlesFortsBattles.co.uk|access-date=28 October 2016}} Originally cut off at high tide, coastal reclamation has since made it fully accessible.

In 1830, a Liverpool merchant, James Atherton, purchased {{convert|170|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of land at Rock Point, which enjoyed views out to sea and across the Mersey and had a good beach.{{cite web|url=http://www.wirral-mbc.gov.uk/history/Hw1_56k/Newbrighton.htm|title=New Brighton|work=The Wirral Learning Grid|access-date=28 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402023746/http://www.wirral-mbc.gov.uk/history/Hw1_56k/Newbrighton.htm|archive-date=2 April 2010|url-status=dead}} His aim was to develop it as a desirable residential and watering place for the gentry, in a similar way to Brighton, one of the most elegant seaside resorts of that Regency period{{spaced ndash}}hence "New Brighton". Substantial development began soon afterwards, and housing began to spread up the hillside overlooking the estuary{{spaced ndash}} a former gunpowder magazine being closed down in 1851.

File:New Brighton Pier, Liverpool, England-LCCN2002696915.jpg

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, New Brighton developed as a very popular seaside resort serving Liverpool and the Lancashire industrial towns, and many of the large houses were converted to inexpensive hotels. Designed by the noted architect of seaside structures Eugenius Birch, the New Brighton Pier opened in 1867{{cite web|url=https://piers.org.uk/pier/new-brighton-pier/|title=New Brighton Pier|work=National Piers Society|date=28 March 2016|access-date=26 February 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/pages/promenade.htm|title=The New Brighton Pier|work=Merseyside.net|access-date=28 October 2016}} and the promenade from Seacombe to New Brighton was completed by 1901.{{cite web|url=http://www.wirralhistory.net/wallasey.html|title=Wallasey|work=Wirral History|access-date=28 October 2016}} This served both as a recreational amenity in its own right, and to link up the developments along the estuary, and was later extended westwards towards Leasowe, making it the longest in the UK.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

The River Mersey and the resort were described by the diarist Francis Kilvert in 1872 as: "crowded with vessels of all sorts moving up and down the river, ships, barques, brigs, brigantines, schooners, cutters, colliers, tugs, steamboats, lighters, "flats", everything from the huge emigrant liner steamship with four masts to the tiny sailing and rowing boat ... At New Brighton there are beautiful sands stretching for miles along the coast and the woods wave green down to the salt water's edge. The sands were covered with middle class Liverpool folks and children out for a holiday."{{cite book |author=McKie, David |title=McKie's Gazetteer – A Local History of Britain |year=2008 |publisher=Atlantic Books |isbn=978-1-84354-654-2}} Retrieved 1 June 2013.

From the 1880s until the First World War, New Brighton was one of the regular destinations for the Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take 8,000–9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

File:New brighton tower.jpg & Ballroom, viewed from the River Mersey, c. 1910]]

The New Brighton Tower, the tallest in the country, was opened in 1900 but closed in 1919, largely due to lack of maintenance during World War I,{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwallasey.co.uk/wallasey/towergrounds/|title=The Tower Grounds|work=History of Wallasey|access-date=27 October 2016}} and had been dismantled by 1921. In 1908 a new Winter Gardens Theatre was opened, initially just for stage plays, but later also screening films.

New Brighton's former open-air swimming pool, of Art Deco architecture, was opened on 13 June 1934 by Viscount Leverhulme.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwallasey.co.uk/wallasey/New_Brighton_Open_Air_Bathing_Pool/index.html|title=New Brighton Open Air Bathing Pool|work=History of Wallasey|access-date=28 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lostlidos.co.uk/2015/05/28/new-brighton-bathing-pool-1934/|title=New Brighton – Wallasey – Merseyside Bathing Pool|work=Lost Lidos|date=28 May 1998|access-date=28 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwallasey.co.uk/wallasey/News_Bulldozers_Set_To_Level_Resort_Pool/index.html|title=Headlines|work=History of Wallasey|access-date=28 October 2016}} When it was built, it was the largest lido in Britain, at a cost of £90,000.{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyside-nostalgia-look-back-liverpools-5096123|title=Merseyside nostalgia: Look back at Liverpool's Lidos and open air swimming pools|work=Liverpool Echo|first=Jade|last=Wright|date=14 July 2013|access-date=28 October 2016}} The saltwater pool survived until 1990, when it was damaged during a storm and later demolished.

Built in 1935, St Peter and St Paul's Church in Atherton Street is still a landmark. In the Second World War, sailors used to recognise they were close to home when they could see the green dome of the church from the Mersey.

After the Second World War, the popularity of New Brighton as a seaside resort declined dramatically. However, the Tower Ballroom continued as a major venue, hosting numerous concerts in the 1950s and 1960s by local Liverpool groups such as the Beatles, and international stars. The Tower Ballroom continued in use until it was destroyed by a fire in 1969.

Ferries across the Mersey to New Brighton ceased in 1971,{{cite web|url=http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/about-us/Pages/100-Interesting-Facts.aspx|title=100 Interesting Facts|work=Mersey Ferries|access-date=28 October 2016}} after which the ferry pier and landing stage were dismantled. By 1977, the promenade pier had suffered the same fate.

In 1986, the area became the subject of Martin Parr's famous photographic book The Last Resort, which became controversial.{{cite news| last=Sherlock | first=Gemma | title=Martin Parr: The 1980s seaside snaps that sparked a controversy | publisher=BBC News | date=26 February 2025 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdx7r4w02o}}

New Brighton is at the northeastern corner, and most northerly point, of the Wirral Peninsula, at the western side of the mouth of the River Mersey. The Irish Sea is to the north. New Brighton lies on quite a steep hillside; the marine lake and lighthouse are at sea level while, less than {{convert|600|m|yd|abbr=on}} away, St Peter and St Paul's Church sits on a promontory at {{convert|48|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level.{{cite web|url=http://www.osola.org.uk/elevations/|title=SRTM & Ordnance Survey Elevation Data in PHP|access-date=26 October 2014}}

The {{convert|4|mi|km|abbr=on|order=flip}}-long North Wirral Coastal Park is between New Brighton and Meols.

{{NSEW|Liverpool Bay|Liscard|Mersey Estuary|Wallasey Village|Liverpool Bay|Liverpool Bay|Wallasey Village|Egremont}}

{{Wallasey}}

File:Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton-by-Tom-Pennington.jpg

{{Main|Fort Perch Rock}}

Fort Perch Rock is a coastal defence battery built between 1825 and 1829, with the foundation stone being laid in 1826.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/pdf/datasheets/perchrock.pdf|title=Fort Perch Rock|work=victorianforts.co.uk|access-date=26 June 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/pages/fort.htm|title=The New Brighton Fort|work=merseyside.net|access-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000603215425/http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/fort.htm|archive-date=3 June 2000|url-status=dead}} It was built to protect the Port of Liverpool and proposed as a fortified lighthouse to replace the old Perch Rock Light, however a separate lighthouse was built. The fort was built on an area known as Black Rock, and was cut off at high tide. However, coastal reclamation has made it fully accessible.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitwirral.com/attractions-and-activities/fort-perch-rock-p44205|title=Fort Perch Rock|work=visitwirral.com|access-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629041949/http://www.visitwirral.com/attractions-and-activities/fort-perch-rock-p44205|archive-date=29 June 2015|url-status=dead}}

It is currently closed.

File:New Brighton Lighthouse 1243656.jpg

{{Main|New Brighton Lighthouse}}

New Brighton Lighthouse was originally known as Perch Rock Lighthouse. Construction of the present structure began in 1827 though a light had been maintained on the rock since 1683. It was designed by John Foster Jr., on the lines of Eddystone, and built by Tomkinson & Company using marble rock from Anglesey.{{cite web|url=http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001022.html |title=New Brighton Lighthouse |publisher=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |access-date=17 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005121/http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001022.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/lighthouse.htm|title=New Brighton Lighthouse|publisher=Merseyside.net|access-date=30 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816075426/http://merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/lighthouse.htm|archive-date=16 August 2007|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1258288|title=Perch Rock Lighthouse|work=Historic England|access-date=26 January 2018}}

File:St Peter and Paul's Church, New Brighton (2).jpg

New Brighton has two recognisable churches dominating the skyline and visible from the River Mersey. On Victoria Road, the Anglican St James Church by Sir George Gilbert Scott notable for its thin broach spire and a polygonal apse. It now incorporates the New Brighton Visitors Centre. St Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic Church at the top of Atherton Street, completed in 1935, is a prominent Grade II listed building in the Roman Gesu style, featuring a large dome on a drum. Nicknamed the "Dome of Home" by returning sailors, the church closed in 2008, before reopening in 2011.{{cite news|url=http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8874260.Wallasey_s_landmark_church_will_re_open/|title=Wallasey's landmark church will re-open|first=Stephanie|last=Cureton|work=Wirral Globe|date=24 February 2011|access-date=30 March 2012}}

The Black Pearl Pirate Ship was a community art installation situated on the beach near Tower Grounds. A replica of a three-masted pirate man-of-war, it is almost entirely constructed from salvaged materials and driftwood found on the beach. Unusually for an artwork it is the focus for many other activities, mainly as a children's play structure, but also as a mock-up vessel for RNLI exercises, wedding ceremonies and as a popular subject for photography.{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/black-pearl-pirate-ship-new-6499285|first=Sean|last=Bradbury|title=In pictures: The Black Pearl at New Brighton one year on|work=Liverpool Echo|date=12 January 2014|access-date=29 October 2015}}

Originally constructed in 2013 by local artists Major Mace and Frank Lund, it has been damaged by both arson and storms and has been continuously maintained and reconstructed by its creators and local volunteers since until it was destroyed again & in March 2023 it was announced it would not be rebuilt. {{cite web | url=http://www.baytvliverpool.com/vod/?vid=LBV519e41ace9202 | title=Sun News }} The 'ship' had become a semi-permanent landmark on the seafront attracting thousands of visitors a year and national media attention.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-25232665|title=Flooding in New Brighton leaves cars and shops under water|work=BBC|date=5 December 2013|access-date=29 October 2015}}

There are brass band concerts every week during the summer months in Vale Park.

New Brighton is part of the Wallasey parliamentary constituency and represented by Angela Eagle MP, of the Labour Party who retained her seat in the 2019 general election.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001010|title= Wallasey Parliamentary constituency

|work=BBC News|access-date=3 November 2015}} New Brighton is an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, which is itself a district of the metropolitan county of Merseyside.{{cite web|url=https://www.wirral.gov.uk/election/results/2014-05-22/NewBrighton.shtm|title=Election Result for New Brighton ward on 22 May 2014|work=Wirral Council|access-date=3 November 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://info.wirral.nhs.uk/document_uploads/Place%20Analytics%20Ward%20Reports/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Summary-Place-Profile-New%20Brighton-Oct-2015-21968.pdf|title=Ward Place Profile|work=GrantThornton|publisher=NHS UK|date=October 2015|access-date=3 November 2015}}

File:New Palace Amusement Arcade, New Brighton.jpg

Typical of a seaside resort, New Brighton has a wide range of visitor attractions and facilities adjoining the beach. These focus on the £60m Marine Point Leisure and Retail development, which opened in 2011.{{cite news|url=https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/marine-point-signs-american-restaurant/|title=Marine Point signs American restaurant|work=Place North West|date=30 November 2011|access-date=26 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.savills.co.uk/_news/article/0/173160-0/2/2014/pizza-express-and-iceland-sign-up-at-marine-point-retail-and-leisure-park--new-brighton|title=Pizza Express and Iceland sign up at Marine Point Retail & Leisure Park, New Brighton|work=Savills|date=7 February 2014|access-date=26 October 2016}} This includes a 66-bedroom Travelodge hotel,{{cite news|url=http://www.northwestcaterer.co.uk/2011/11/10/marine-point-pioneers-us-style-diner/|title=Wirral pioneers US-style diner|work=North West Caterer|date=10 November 2011|access-date=26 October 2016}} a range of cafe bars and restaurants, a Morrisons supermarket{{cite web|url=http://www.dla-design.co.uk/retail/new-brighton.html|title=Morrisons New Brighton|work=DLA Design|access-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027055756/http://www.dla-design.co.uk/retail/new-brighton.html|archive-date=27 October 2016|url-status=dead}} and The Light, an 8-screen digital multiplex cinema.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitwirral.com/attractions-and-activities/the-light-cinema-p305861|title=The Light Cinema|work=Visit Wirral|access-date=26 October 2016}} Other attractions include the Riverside Bowl bowling alley, the LaserQuest centre, the Art Deco New Palace amusement arcade (which includes a small fairground){{cite web|url=http://www.visitwirral.com/attractions-and-activities/new-brighton-p238901|title=New Brighton|work=Visit Wirral|access-date=26 October 2016}} and the Floral Pavilion Theatre, which was rebuilt in 2008 as a first phase of the town's regeneration, and accommodates a conference centre.{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/new-brighton-floral-pavillion-tribute-3464692|title=New Brighton Floral Pavillion tribute from Ken Dodd|work=Liverpool Echo|date=15 December 2008|access-date=26 October 2016}}

Significant investment was made in the public realm, with particular highlights being the model boating lake and promenade.{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/regenerated-new-brighton-seafront-handed-3399243|title=Regenerated New Brighton seafront handed by to Wirral council|first=Liam|last=Murphy|work=Liverpool Echo|date=19 August 2010|access-date=26 October 2016}} Several chain restaurants opened.

The Wirral Show, a free-to-enter annual event, was held on open ground off the King's Parade at New Brighton{{cite web|url=http://www.wirralshow.com/location.htm|title=The Wirral Show|access-date=24 January 2008}} for 33 years until 2009.{{cite news|url=http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/4780873.After_33_years__the_Wirral_Show_is_scrapped/?action=complain&cid=8147997|title=The Wirral Show Scrapped| work =The Wirral Globe| access-date=7 December 2009}} A sailing school, which used the refurbished marine lake, closed in 2015.{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sailing-school-new-brightons-marine-9814907|title=Sailing school at New Brighton's marine lake ceases trading with unpaid bills of £57,000|work=Liverpool Echo|first=Lorna|last=Hughes|date=8 August 2015|access-date=26 October 2016}}

File:Granville Bantock 1868 - 1946.jpg

Musically, New Brighton first came to national prominence when Granville Bantock, later to be knighted as one of Britain's most prolific composers, took over leadership of the New Brighton Tower concert band.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/bantock/buddint.htm#Brighton|title=A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sir Granville Bantock|first=Vincent|last=Budd|work=MusicWeb International|access-date=27 October 2016}} Instead of continuing with the usual populist programme of dances and marches, Bantock set about transforming it into a professional orchestra.{{cite journal|url=http://www.delius.org.uk/journals/uploads/journal80.pdf|title=The Delius Society Journal|journal=The Delius Society|page=5|issue=80|date=October 1983|access-date=27 October 2016}} Unusually for the time, the orchestra performed modern classical music and would champion contemporary composers, even daringly devoting entire programmes to an individual composer's music.{{cite journal|url=http://www.delius.org.uk/journals/uploads/journal80.pdf|title=The Delius Society Journal|journal=The Delius Society|page=6|issue=80|date=October 1983|access-date=27 October 2016}} In return, many leading lights of contemporary British music, including Stanford, Parry, Corder, Mackenzie and Elgar, came to New Brighton to conduct and perform, and the New Brighton orchestra became nationally respected for the remaining period of Bantock's tenure.

The Beatles performed at the Tower Ballroom, at the site of the old New Brighton Tower, 27 times.{{cite web | url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/10/12/live-tower-ballroom-new-brighton-wallasey-23/ | title=The Beatles Bible - Live: Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey | date=12 October 1962 }} Aside from the famous Cavern Club in their native Liverpool, The Beatles played there more frequently than any other location in the United Kingdom.

The pop concert New Brighton Rock was held over two days: 21 and 22 May 1984 at the town's open-air swimming pool and transmitted by Granada Television on 23 June 1984 on ITV.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwallasey.co.uk/wallasey/New_Brighton_Open_Air_Bathing_Pool/index.html|title=New Brighton Open Air Bathing Pool|work=History of Wallasey|access-date=27 October 2016}} It featured many musical artists of the day including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Gloria Gaynor, Madness, Nik Kershaw and Spandau Ballet.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/294269|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015065916/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/294269|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 October 2008|title=Film & TV Database: New Brighton Rock|publisher= British Film Institute |access-date=17 August 2007}} A strain was placed on local police resources due to an ongoing commitment to the 1984–85 miners' strike. Nevertheless, the event was covered by Merseyside Police's Wirral Division.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

A song about New Brighton called "New Brighton" was included on the 1992 album Song by Liverpool-based group It's Immaterial.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Its-Immaterial-Song/master/96679|title= It's Immaterial – Song|work=Discogs|access-date=27 October 2016}} The music video for the 1993 K-Klass single "Let Me Show You" was partly filmed in New Brighton.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} In 1996, Wallasey Brit-pop band the Boo Radleys released the C'mon Kids album. Track 9 on the album was an atmospheric and nostalgic song called "New Brighton Promenade".{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Boo-Radleys-CMon-Kids/master/20468|title=The Boo Radleys – C'Mon Kids|work=Discogs|access-date=27 October 2016}} New Brighton is briefly mentioned in the song "Radio America" by the Libertines and there is also the song "A Day Out in New Brighton" on the "Delivery" CD single by Babyshambles.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Babyshambles-Delivery/release/1074855|title=Babyshambles – Delivery|work=Discogs|access-date=27 October 2016}} Also the band Jegsy Dodd and the sons of Harry Cross had a track on their 1986 Winebars & Werewolves album called "Who Killed New Brighton".{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Jegsy-Dodd-The-Sons-Of-Harry-Cross-Winebars-Werewolves/release/2066753|title=Jegsy Dodd & The Sons of Harry Cross – Winebars & Werewolves|work=Discogs|access-date=27 October 2016}}

The bandstand situated in Vale Park is a popular outdoor music venue, hosting a variety of acts, typically an orchestra or choir every Sunday. In more recent times, the bandstand has hosted music to a much younger generation and popular throughout the summer. It has been an ideal platform for local bands wanting to gain recognition.

New Brighton Tower F.C. were an association football League club based in New Brighton which was disbanded in 1901.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hn8wy|title=New Brighton Tower Football Club|work=BBC Radio 4|date=17 February 2009|access-date=27 October 2016}} Like Liverpool, Chelsea and Thames, New Brighton Tower were formed to play at an already-built stadium, the Tower Athletic Ground, with a capacity of 80,000. The owners of the New Brighton Tower, a seaside attraction built to rival the Blackpool Tower, recognised a need to ensure winter profits, and had built a stadium adjacent to the tower. The football club was formed in 1896 to provide the entertainment, and joined the Lancashire League at the start of the 1897–98 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/NEW-BTOW.HTM|title=New Brighton Tower|work=Football Club History Database|access-date=27 October 2016}} After finishing as champions in their first season, the club were elected to the Second Division of the Football League when the League was expanded by four clubs. The team were very poorly supported, often averaging gates of 1,000.

The club signed a number of new players, including some who had played international football, and was reasonably successful, finishing 5th (out of 18) in its first season, and 4th in their third season. However, the cost of maintaining a professional football club became too high for the Tower's owners, and the club was disbanded in the summer of 1901, and replaced in the League by Doncaster Rovers.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

In 1921, a new club was formed, New Brighton A.F.C., who would also play in the Football League from 1923 until 1951.{{cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/NEW-BRIG.HTM|title=New Brighton|work=Football Club History Database|access-date=27 October 2016}} New Brighton is one of the smallest settlements ever to have a Football League club,{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} although it generally classed as part of the town of Wallasey.

New Brighton Football Club (R.U.) are a rugby union team now based in Moreton.{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/newbrighton/a/history-9129.html|title=New Brighton Football Club (Rugby Union)|work=Pitchero|access-date=27 October 2016}} They currently play in South Lancs/Cheshire 1 in the English rugby union system.{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/newbrighton|title=New Brighton Football Club (R.U)|work=Pitchero|access-date=27 October 2016}} The club was formed in New Brighton in 1875 and has been based at several grounds over the years.

File:Welcome to New Brighton roundabout.jpg Sculpture, on a roundabout on King's Parade, on the A554]]

The main road through New Brighton is the A554. Starting in Bidston, it passes beneath the M53 motorway at junction 1, heads towards the coast and then skirts around it to Birkenhead. The B5143 connects New Brighton with Liscard.

New Brighton railway station is the northern terminus of a branch of the Wirral Line, on the Merseyrail network. The station has a return service to {{rws|Liverpool Central}} every 15 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytimes, which reduces to half-hourly at other times.{{Cite web |title=Timetables |work=Merseyrail |date=12 October 2024 |access-date=24 December 2024 |url= https://www.merseyrail.org/journey-planning/plan-your-journey/timetables/}}

Bus services are operated primarily by Arriva Merseyside and Stagecoach Merseyside; routes connect the area with Birkenhead, Wallasey and Liverpool.{{Cite web |title=New Brighton bus services |website=Bustimes.org |access-date=24 December 2024 |url= https://bustimes.org/localities/new-brighton-wallasey}}

Until 1971, New Brighton had a landing stage for the Mersey Ferry.{{cite web |url=http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/pages/NBferries.htm|title=The New Brighton Ferries |work=Merseyside.net |access-date=26 October 2016}}

{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em|

;Born in New Brighton

• Arthur Bulley, (1861–1942), merchant
• Robert Loraine, (1876–1935), actor
• Jim Dougherty, (1878–1908), footballer
• Vivian Lockett, (1880–1962), Olympian
• Hetty King, (1883–1972), entertainer
• Herbert Rawlinson, (1885–1953), actor
• Bruce Hylton-Stewart, (1891–1972), cricketer
• Miles Dempsey, (1896–1969), soldier
• Malcolm Lowry, (1909–1957), writer
• Wilfrid Lowry. (1900–1974), England rugby player
• John Barrie, (1917–1980), actor
• Graham Stark, (1922–2013), actor and comedian
• Mary Virginia Carey, (1925–1994), writer
• Christopher Greener, (1943–2015), tallest man in the UK
• Annette Ekblom, (1956–), actress
• Gloria Laycock, professor
• Leo Gradwell, (1899–1969), barrister and war hero

;Died in New Brighton

• Thomas Frederick Colby, (1784–1852), geographer
• Edwin Waugh, (1817–1890), poet
• Laurence Connolly, (1833–1908), entrepreneur and politician

;Other

• Thomas Thorp, (1850–1914), scientific instrument manufacturer, participated in the town planning of New Brighton as an architectural apprentice
• Hall Caine, (1853–1931), writer, resident of New Brighton
• James Howson, (1856–1934), former vicar of New Brighton
• Granville Bantock, (1868–1946), composer and conductor, in 1900 lived at 19 Holland Road
• Nigel Walley, (1941–), musician, resident of New Brighton
• Greg Wilson, (1960–), DJ and producer, raised in New Brighton

}}

• List of places in Merseyside
• Listed buildings in New Brighton, Merseyside
• New Brighton Lifeboat William and Kate Johnstone

{{Reflist|30em}}

• {{cite book|first=Ian|last=Collard|title=Wallasey from old photographs|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|year=2009|isbn=9781848682849|oclc=403496622}}

• {{cite book|title=Yesterday's Wirral: Wallasey and New Brighton Including Leasowe No. 4|first=Ian|last=Boumphrey|publisher=Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey|year=1986|isbn=9780950725536}}
• {{cite book|title=Yesterday's Wirral: Wallasey, New Brighton and Moreton No. 5|first=Ian|last=Boumphrey|publisher=Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey|year=1988|isbn=9780950725543|oclc=655904123}}
• {{cite book|title=New Brighton - A Victorian Seaside Resort|first=Tony|last=Franks-Buckley|publisher=Createspace|year=2012|isbn=9781481054003}}
• {{cite book|title=The History of New Brighton Tower & Grounds|first=Roy|last=Dutton|publisher=Infodial Ltd |year=2017 |isbn=9780992826543}}
• {{cite book|title=101 Views of Edwardian Liverpool and New Brighton|first=Trevor|last=Lloyd-Jones|publisher=The Gallery Press|year=1972|isbn=9780900389122|oclc=578365}}
• {{cite book|title=The Inviting Shore: 1830-1939 Pt. 1: Social History of New Brighton|first=Anthony|last=Miller|publisher=Countyvise|location=Birkenhead|year=1996|isbn=978-0907768937|oclc=60149646}}
• {{cite book|title=Around Wallasey and New Brighton|first=Ralph|last=Rimmer|publisher=The History Press|year=1996|isbn=9780752401560|oclc=36760307}}
• {{cite book|title=Looking Back: Liverpool and New Brighton|first=Colin|last=Wilkinson|publisher=The Bluecoat Press|year=1993|isbn=9781872568041|oclc=30916462}}
• {{cite book|title=New Brighton: Our Days Out Remembered|author=Trinity Mirror Media|publisher=Trinity Mirror North West and North Wales|year=2011|isbn=9781906802882}}

{{Commons category|New Brighton, Merseyside}}

{{div col|colwidth=30em}}

• [http://domeofhome.org/ The Dome of Home]
• [http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1429176 An historic record about Perch Rock Battery]
• {{cite web|url=http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/m0bnn/album34.html|title=Welcome to Fort Perch Rock & Military Museum|work=Fort Perch Rock & Military Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930081946/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/m0bnn/album34.html|archive-date=30 September 2007}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001019.html|title=North Wirral Coastal Park|work=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217014319/http://www.wirral.gov.uk/lgcl/100006/200073/670/content_0001019.html|archive-date=17 February 2010}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170211113022/http://y2u.co.uk/%26002_Images/New_Brighton_01.htm Photos of New Brighton]
• [http://www.newbrightonpostcards.org.uk/ Archive of New Brighton postcards]
• [http://www.joylandbooks.com/themagiceye/galleries/oldnewbrighton.htm Images of the former fairground at New Brighton]

{{div col end}}

{{Populated Places in Wirral Borough}}

{{Mersey ferries}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Seaside resorts in England

Category:Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

Category:Tourist attractions in Merseyside

Category:Wallasey

Category:Beaches of Merseyside