is the oldest swimming pool in the Wirral, with the first swimming club being founded in the 1890s. It was originally filled with sea water, being so close to the River Mersey. The nearest school to Seacombe Ferry is Riverside Primary School. The school has over 200 pupils and over 25 staff. The school's Latin motto is Da Totem Habes!, translated as Give it all you've got! Claims to fame The area was immortalised in the title of "Party Seacombe", an instrumental by George Harrison on his Wonderwall Music album. Falkland Road in Seacombe, which runs from Brighton Street to Liscard Road, is the birthplace of the writer, peace campaigner and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, (1886 - 1950), author of Last and First Men and Star Maker. Stapledon's birth certificate gives his place of birth as "Poolton (sic) - cum - Seacombe". The prominent Welsh dramatist, literary critic and politician, Saunders Lewis, was born in 61 Falkland Road on 15 October 1893. Marjorie Cottle, pioneer female motorcyclist was born in the town in 1900. Michael Portillo lived briefly in Seacombe in 2003 for the BBC TV programme When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum, which saw the former Conservative MP experience life as a single parent (he also worked in the Asda superstore in Wallasey). References Sources Further reading External links Short film of passengers at Seacombe Ferry in 1901 Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Wallasey