Yes, you are right Chris. The author (name escapes me) made a few bloopers in that book. Research wasn't his best point.
Cliff Hayes "A Century of Birkenhead & Wirral". He also famously mis-identified the Sidney St. ventilation shaft as "Woodside Ventilation Station" A great pity, since the book contains many fine pictures that I haven't seen anywhere else.
Ferry Terminal straight ahead. What's the building behind the station?
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
Unsure of original use. In the useless information section.... I recall one of the offices, before demolition of that building, was a Driving School. (BSM ?)