"Bidston Observatory: The Place and the People", by Joyce Scoffield, pub. Countyvise Limited, 2006. ISBN 1-901231-68-2.
"Auld-lang-syne: recollections and rural records of Old Claughton, Birkenhead and Bidston with other reminiscences", by Harry B. Neilson, Wilmer Bros, 1935.
"Bidston Hill Preserved: A Great Boon to the Populations on the Mersey", by Edward Quaile, D. Marples & Co., Liverpool, 1894.
"A Study of Bidston Observatory", by J. C. Sheridan, Dissertation presented to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1976.
"An anatomy of storm surge science at Liverpool Tidal Institute 1919-1959: forecasting, practices of calculation and patronage", by Anna Carlsson-Hislop, University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, PhD Thesis, 306pp. Available to download from the NERC Open Research Archive.
In film and on TV
Coast, Series 2, Episode 2: "Holyhead to Liverpool", featuring the Holyhead to Liverpool optical telegraph.
Coast, Series 7, Episode 5: "The Riddle of the Tides", featuring the Doodson tide predicting machine.
Episode of Inside Out featuring Hilbre Island and Bidston Observatory.
One O'Clock – A Liverpool Cameo, 1932 footage featuring Bidston Observatory and the firing of the one o'clock gun, from British Pathé.
Tide and Time – a history of tidal science in Liverpool, a short film made for the Time & Tide exhibition at the National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool.
Time & Tide – exhibition showcasing tide predicting machines
"From Astronomy to Oceanography – A brief history of Bidston Observatory", by J. Eric Jones (download pdf from the history section of the National Oceanography Centre's web site)
About tides – The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine, article by the National Oceanography Centre.
An inventory of tide prediction machines, by P.L. Woodworth, 2016. National Oceanography Centre, 71pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 56)
Voices of Science Interview with David Cartwright, mathematician and oceanographer.
Voices of Science Interview with Philip Woodworth, oceanographer.
William Hutchinson, Privateer and Liverpool Dockmaster, article on the Brock University website.
William Hutchinson, biography on the NOC web site.
Bidston Hill Heritage Trail, by the Friends of Bidston Hill.
Articles mentioning Bidston Observatory on the Bidston Lighthouse website.
Oceans Wormley – A website about Bidston's sister laboratory at Wormley in Surrey (Bidston, Wormley and Taunton were collectively the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences)