Information about the cost of standard household items in Birkenhead in 1914 (before the First World War) and in 1920. The list includes prices for items of food, clothing, laundry and crockery, together with the percentage by which prices had increased over six years.

This item is one of a series of documents on the contemporary cost of living collected by the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland as part of their evidence for the 1920 Court of Inquiry into Wages, Rates and Conditions of Men Engaged in Dock and Waterside Labour (also known as the Shaw Inquiry).