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63 unusual facts about Liverpool


Adelphi Whisky

The distillery was operated by the Gray family until 1880, when it was acquired by Messrs A. Walker and Co, a company who already owned large distilleries in Limerick and Liverpool.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

The hospital is currently being rebuilt in neighbouring Springfield Park in a £237 million pound scheme.

Alistair Ferguson Ritchie

He trained for Holy Orders at Bishop’s Hostel, Liverpool and was ordained deacon in 1912, and priest in 1913 .

Anthony Ogogo

A 1,000-plus capacity crowd watched the bout at the St George's Hall in Liverpool.

Arthur Bywater

On 22 February 1944 there was an accident at an arms factory in West Kirby in Liverpool.

Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson

After his wife's death in 1916, Richardson returned to Liverpool and died there in 1932.

Audrey Fildes

Audrey Fildes (24 November 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire – 13 September 1997, Canada) was a British actress whose first film credit was the 1947 production While I Live.

Bankstown Line

The line serves two major centres in Western Sydney, namely Bankstown and Liverpool.

Bradbury Robinson

:One of the first-cabin passengers who arrived yesterday from Liverpool...on the White Star liner Adriatic was Dr. Bradbury N. Robinson of the United States Public Health Service, who has been in England for two years assisting British officials at Liverpool and other ports in the examination of emigrants.

Convoy SL 140/MKS 31

SL 140 and MKS 31 continued their passage without further incident, arriving at Liverpool on 26 November 1943.

Coral Hull

Born with Autism, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Coral Hull was raised under disadvantaged circumstances in the working class suburb of Liverpool in Sydney's west.

Crosby railway station

When the line closed, a group of lads from Merseyside removed the station nameboard and to this day it is believed to hang on the wall of the scout headquarters in the Liverpool suburb that shares its name.

Dad's Dead

Ian Hart plays the narrator, an urban storyteller who relives his youth in 1970s and 80s Liverpool.

Darwin Mobile Force

The force came into being on 14 November 1938, concentrating at Liverpool, New South Wales where equipment was issued and training undertaken.

Dorothy Peto

In 1917 she succeeded Flora Joseph as director of the school and in 1918 also became director of the Federated Training Schools for Policewomen and Patrols, which also included the schools in Liverpool and Glasgow.

Evaristo Conrado Engelberg

Some time between 1957 and 1971, the company name was shortened to Engelberg, Inc. and by 1971 the name was amended, to Sundstrand-Engelberg, Inc. of Liverpool, New York.

Frederick Augustus Forbes

Forbes was born in 30 September 1818 in Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales to Francis Ewen, a merchant and his wife Mary Ann Taboweur.

Frederick Rodgers

After Santee captured her second blockade runner – the hermaphrodite brig Delta carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England – on 27 October 1861, Rodgers was placed aboard Delta in command of her prize crew.

George Albert Hartland

He was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool.

George Edward Ellis

His brother, Rufus Ellis (born in Boston, 14 September 1819; died in Liverpool, 23 September 1885), was also a Unitarian clergyman.

Green Dragons

In the game against Liverpool a large number of fans was gathered again, a bit over one thousand, and completely overtook the eight hundred English ones.

Groovy Train

The video for the single features a cameo from actor Bill Dean, who at the time was in Liverpool soap opera Brookside.

Herman Baar

In 1857 Baar received the ministerial appointment in the Seel street synagogue, Liverpool, in which office he spent ten years.

International Garden Festival

The garden festival was held on a 950,000 square metre derelict industrial site south of Herculaneum Dock, near the Dingle and overlooking the River Mersey.

Iron Door Club

The Iron Door Club was a music venue at 13 Temple Street, Liverpool founded by Geoff Hogarth and Harry Ormesher.

James A. Patten

He also operated his business in Liverpool where in 1911 on a trip to the Manchester Exchange his appearance caused a riot.

Janet Webb

Born as Janet Patricia Webster in Liverpool, she was most famous for her appearances on BBC television's The Morecambe & Wise Show where was, anonymously, "the lady who comes on at the end".

Jewish Telegraph

The Jewish Telegraph has its own editorial staff in Liverpool, based in offices at Harold House, the Liverpool Jewish Community Centre.

John Tunnicliff

At Liverpool he purchased a vessel fully manned, and with a considerable number of passengers on board (several families of which we shall have occasion to notice in this work), he sailed again for Philadelphia, where he arrived in the summer of 1758.

José Agripino Barnet

He was named the Cuban Consul in Paris, France and in 1908 was transferred as the Cuban Consul in Liverpool, England.

Katharine Brettargh

When she was about twenty she was married to William Brettargh or Brettergh, of 'Brellerghoult' - Brettargh Holt - near Liverpool, who shared her puritan sentiments.

Lancashire Hussars

At the start of the Second World War, the hussars comprised 423rd and 424th Batteries, based in Liverpool.

Lord Street

Lord Street, Liverpool, one of the streets in Liverpool, England, that forms the city's main shopping district

Malcolm Lowry

In May 1927 his parents drove him to the Liverpool waterfront and, while the local press watched, waved goodbye as he set sail on the freighter S.S. Pyrrhus.

Marjorie Lewty

Marjorie Lobb was born on 8 April 1906 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK, daughter of James, a sailor in the Merchant Navy, and Mabel, was the manager of the Queen's Cinema in Liverpool.

Maurice Denis

A similar exhibition took place in 1995 at the UK's Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Mersey Chambers

It fronts St. Nicholas' churchyard, which was laid out as a public garden in 1891 in memory of James Harrison, a partner in the company.

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass was the winner of the 2003 Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, when ridden by Barry Geraghty, trained by Jimmy Mangan and running in the colours of the Dee Racing Syndicate, a group of owners based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and led by Blackpool born bingo hall owner Mike Futter.

Music for Aliens

Originally available at their Unity Theatre gig in January 2002, but was finally available for download 4 November the same year.

Nathan Cleverly

In October 2008, Cleverly landed a shot at the vacant Commonwealth light heavyweight title topping the bill for the first time in his career at the Everton Park Sports Centre in Liverpool.

Norval Marley

He travelled to England where he joined the British Army in August 1916 at Liverpool, enlisting in the non-combatant Labour Corps (serving in the United Kingdom); he had previously been employed as a ferro-concreter in Cuba.

Norwich, Connecticut

Simeon Perkins (1735-1812), a Nova Scotia merchant, diarist, and politician, who outfitted Loyalist privateers during the American War for Independence, born and raised in this city until moving to Liverpool, Nova Scotia with the New England Planters.

Orange Grove affair

In March 2002, Frank Mosca, an architect working on behalf of Sydney businessman Nabil Gazal, applied to change an existing development consent for a property in a light industrial area on Orange Grove Road in the Sydney suburb of Warwick Farm, just north of central Liverpool to change the permitted use of the site from "bulky goods/ warehousing" to "warehouse clearance outlet".

R v Wallace

The address given was in Mossley Hill, a district of Liverpool several miles from Wallace's home in Anfield.

Rejects Revenge Theatre Company

Their training consisted mainly of partaking in the numerous free workshops given by theatre practitioners at Hope Street in the late 80's/ early 90's, organised by Peter Ward.

Royal Australian Engineers

In 1939 the School of Military Engineering was re-established at Steele Barracks in Liverpool, New South Wales, where it remains today.

Sharpe's Devil

George Blair; surly Liverpool merchant acting as British Consul in the port of Valdivia who welcomes Sharpe and Harper to Chile.

Shoot a Crooked Arrow

Alfred was known as "the William Tell of Liverpool," and is an expert with the long-, short-, and crossbow.

Soviet Weekly

The comedian and writer Alexei Sayle has described how this was the newspaper his Communist parents read during his upbringing in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s.

SS Minnedosa

She was used on the Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick run and called at all the major transatlantic ports.

St Michaels railway station

It is situated near, but not on St Michael's Road, Aigburth, a short distance to the south of the Lark Lane and Sefton Park neighbourhoods.

Sterling submachine gun

Sterling built them for the British armed forces and for overseas sales, whilst the Royal Ordnance Factories at Fazakerley near Liverpool constructed them exclusively for the British military.

Straw Bear

His first notable win came in April 2006 at Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Liverpool, England where he won the John Smith's Imagine Appeal Top Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 National Hunt race.

Terence Davies

Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool to working-class Catholic parents, the youngest child in a family of ten children.

Thomas Mellard Reade

Thomas Mellard Reade FGS (1832-1909) was an English geologist, architect and civil engineer, laying out the Blundellsands Estate in Liverpool in 1868.

Vatersay

One of the saddest events to befall the island happened when the Annie Jane, a three-masted immigrant ship out of Liverpool bound for Montreal, Canada, struck rocks off West Beach during a storm in September 1853.

Viper Recordings

Viper Recordings is a Liverpool drum and bass record label created by Futurebound and Jaquan in 2003.

Weaveworld

Calhoun "Cal" Mooney: A bored young man whose life alternates between his job at an insurance company in Liverpool and caring for his father until he encounters the mysterious rug that instantly strikes him as something peculiar.

Wends of Texas

After negotiating and waiting for news to come back, their would-be ship line had found and transported them to their requested ship among the White Star Line's line of packet ships, the Ben Nevis in Liverpool.

William John Dakin

Studying at the University of Liverpool he attained his BSc with first class honours in Zoology in 1905, his MSc in 1907 and his DSc in 1911 on osmotic pressure and the blood of fishes.

William Lassell

When Queen Victoria visited Liverpool in 1851, Lassell was the only local she specifically requested to meet.

William Mackergo Taylor

He was pastor of churches in Britain till 1872 (for 17 years one in Liverpool).

Wolf pack Pfadfinder

At 00:18 hours on 27 May the unescorted 6,269 ton Dutch merchantman Polyphemus, en route from Halifax to Liverpool, was hit by two torpedoes from U-578 about 340 miles north of Bermuda and sank within 45 minutes, with the loss of 15 of the crew.


1965 FA Cup Final

Liverpool, on the other hand, were always forcing their way forward, with St. John and Hunt showing tremendous bursts of energy in particular.

1971 FA Cup Final

Within a minute, a move which began with Larry Lloyd deep within Liverpool's half found Heighway in space on the left flank.

1995 Football League Cup Final

Steve McManaman was awarded man of the match and this match was dubbed by Liverpool fans as "The McManaman Final" due to the nature of his performance, earning plaudits from special guest, Sir Stanley Matthews.

Archibald Salvidge

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton).

Batalha dos Aflitos

Both substitutes that entered the match in the second half are currently playing in English football: Anderson with the nickname "Andershow" at Porto of Portugal, and currently at Manchester United and Lucas at Liverpool.

Butler Cole Aspinall

The son of the Reverend James Aspinall, he was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England in 1830, educated for the law, and was called to the Bar in 1853.

Catherine Earnshaw

They are separated when Hindley becomes jealous of his father's affection towards Heathcliff and reduces him to servant-boy status after the death of Mr Earnshaw, who took Heathcliff in as a Liverpool foundling.

Clwydian Range

The summits of these hills provide extensive views across north Wales, to the high peaks of Snowdonia, eastwards across the Cheshire Plain, Peak District and towards Manchester and Liverpool to the northeast.

Craig Phillips

He was one of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool's chosen charity ambassadors (alongside footballer Kenny Dalglish and musician Gerry Marsden) assisting at events throughout Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008.

Deeside College

From 1974, the North East Wales Institute expanded under the vision of another prominent educator, Professor Glyn O Phillips, who took the institution forward and made it into a significant research based and practice based technological organisation which had a financial turnover equalling a great many universities close by, like Liverpool, Manchester and Bangor.

District nurse

In 1858 Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone employed a nurse, Mary Robinson, to take care of his wife at home during her final illness.

Elizabeth Inchbald

In 1776 they moved to Liverpool and Inchbald met actors Sarah Siddons and her brother John Philip Kemble, both of whom became important friends.

Florence Mills

Mills became well-known as a result of her role in the successful Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (barely on Broadway), one of the events credited with beginning the Harlem Renaissance, as well acclaimed reviews in London, Paris, Ostend, Liverpool, and other European venues.

Gary Mawson

During the tournament, Mawson became popular with British fans due to his resemblance to Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez.

Halton Curve

Merseytravel proposed upgrading the Halton Curve so it can be worked bidirectionally (which would need a new crossover at Halton Junction), providing a second rail route between Liverpool and Chester.

Harry Storer

Harry Storer, Sr. (1870–1908), football (soccer) goalkeeper for Woolwich Arsenal and Liverpool

Hed Kandi

Two stores were operated by the brand, one in the Liverpool One in Liverpool, England and one in the Bluewater in Greenhithe, Kent, England.

Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd

On the voyage from Liverpool to Osaka, the engines suffered several breakdowns, and was off-hire for a total of five weeks, undergoing repairs.

James Street railway station, Hyderabad

:For the station in Liverpool in England, see Liverpool James Street railway station.

John Bramley-Moore

He died at Brighton on 19 November 1886, aged 86, and was buried at St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

John Brekell

Joshua Toulmin prints a letter (dated Liverpool, 3 Dec. 1730) from Brekell to Rev. Thomas Pickard of Birmingham, showing that Brekell had been asked to Birmingham, but had 'handsome encouragement to continue' where he was.

John W. F. Bennett

During this time, he supervised the construction of the Ritz Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel, the Morning Post Building, three London Underground stations, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Lancaster Town Hall.

Jon Otsemobor

He became the third player to join Rovers on that day on loan with Blackburn Rovers defender Ryan Edwards and Liverpool winger Kristoffer Peterson.

Liverpool One

Jungle Rumble is an indoor adventure golf centre that opened in Liverpool ONE in December 2010.

ODL

Ordnance Datum Liverpool, an ordnance datum recorded at Victoria Dock in Liverpool, England

Omagh

Sean McDermott - American Football manager and alumni of University of Liverpool Law School

Orrisdale North

The musician Jake Drake-Brockman, a former member with the Liverpool group Echo & the Bunnymen, was involved in a fatal road traffic accident at Orrisdale North on 1 September 2009 while visiting the Isle of Man for the Manx Grand Prix when the vintage BSA motor-cycle he was riding was in collision with a converted ambulance.

Penyffordd railway station

The station is served by an hourly service southbound to Wrexham General and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Lines.

Pete Price

Shortly after, Price made his first appearance on the comedy scene at Liverpool's 'The Shakespeare', working at various venues which include The Palladium and the QE2.

Peter Shaw

Peter Stapleton Shaw (1888–1953), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree, 1935–1945

Piper aduncum

It was introduced into the profession of medicine in the United States and Europe by a Liverpool physician in 1839 as a styptic and astringent for wounds.

Point Lynas Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is considered to be important for its association with Jesse Hartley, the engineer responsible for the world's first great floating-dock system at Liverpool

Redburn

Unable to find employment at home and deciding to go to sea, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City and bound for Liverpool, England.

Robert Steel

Robert Walter Steel (1915–1997), Professor of Geography at Liverpool University and Principal of the University College of Swansea

Rodewald Concert Society

The Society has also a record of commissioning new works, including works by Hugh Wood, to celebrate Liverpool as European Capital of Culture in 2008, and John McCabe, its President.

Ronald Yates

Ron Yeats (pronounced Yates, born 1937), Scottish footballer for Liverpool F.C.

Sheppard-Worlock Statue

The statue was commissioned in 2005 by The Liverpool Echo Newspaper and paid for by the people of Liverpool, to mark the life and work of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock.

Statue of John Laird

He was born in Greenock, Scotland, and moved with his family as a child, first to Liverpool, then in 1824 to Birkenhead, where his father, William, founded a shipbuilding business.

The Boot Room

The Liverpool Boot Room was a room at Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C., during the 1960s - early 1990s where the coaching staff would sit, drink whisky and discuss the team, tactics and ways of defeating the next opposing side.

The Continental

Hook Continental, a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkestone Quay

Unite Grand Central

Unite Grand Central (also known as Grand Central or Grand Central Halls) is a large complex of privately owned student housing located next to Lime Street station in the centre of Liverpool, England.

Wavertree Botanic Gardens

It incorporates an earlier walled botanic garden, founded by William Roscoe as Liverpool Botanic Garden and relocated from land near Mount Pleasant in the 1830s.

William Gaillard

Trouble occurred at the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final after thousands of ticketless Liverpool supporters stormed the turnstiles to the stadium; and about two thousand fans who were holding genuine tickets were denied entry as a result.

William Rathbone IV

William Rathbone IV (10 June 1757 – 11 February 1809) was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool, England.

Willie McFaul

A battling 2–2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur seemed to have been the start for McFaul, but no wins in the next four matches saw his Newcastle side under severe pressure, but they pulled off a great win at champions Liverpool 2–1 with Mirandinha and Hendrie scoring.