Coloured postcard of Birkenhead Town Hall, seen from across Hamilton Square, showing the Queen Victoria monument and flower beds. Pencil: [personal message] [address in Clapton supplied]. Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, was planned by William Laird in 1824; he hired Gillespie Graham to design a square and district on the model of Edinburgh New Town. The town hall was built in 1883-87 on the site left for it in the original plan. A monument to Queen Victoria in the form of an Eleanor cross was erected in 1905