Bidston Observatory : The Place and the People

This book presents the important history of the Bidston Observatory, its work and the staff.

Joyce Scoffield explores the time before the Observatory moved from Liverpool to Bidston by describing the signaling system using flags to convey shipping information from Holyhead to the ship owners of Liverpool.

He then chronicles the history, the work and the staff over the entire life of the Observatory.

Although the main work was the predicting of tide times, there were many other facets relating to all aspects of weather prediction.

The Observatory played a particularly critical role during the Second World War.