Watch List notes:

The Portland Collection, Commemorative Medals, Transport: Docks, Birkenhead Docks, Opening of the Commissioners Docks, white metal medals (2), 1847, unsigned, ship in full sail to r., SHIPS, COLONIES, AND COMMERCE, with further legend around, rev. legend above shield and oak wreath, FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY SIR PHILIP DE M. EGERTON...WATER SPACE OF DOCKS 207 ACRES. J. M. RENDEL ESQ. F.R.S. ENGINEER, 54mm. (BHM.2286), one dull matt surface, pierced, very fine, second extremely fine; Bilston Waterworks and Technical, Science and Art Schools, opened 1897, copper medal, views of both buildings, 54.5mm. (BHM.3614; JT.228a), very fine (3)
The foundation stone for the docks laid by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton (1806-1881), palaeontologist and MP for Chester, 1835-1868; they were opened on 5 April 1847 by George William Frederick Howard (1802-1864), Viscount Morpeth and later 7th Earl of Carlisle.