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61 unusual facts about Liverpool


371st Engineer Construction Battalion

The unit left Boston on the 13 May 1944 bound for Liverpool, England with a convoy of several ships including USAT Brazil, carrying the 371st.

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.

Anthony Ogogo

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

Arriva Trains Northern

The long distance regional services connecting Sunderland, Newcastle, Scarborough and Hull with Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool were operated under the TransPennine Express banner, the rest as Arriva Trains Northern.

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.

Arthur Nickson

Arthur Thomas Nickson (b. 4 February 1902 in Liverpool, England – d. 5 January 1974), was a British western fiction writer as Arthur Nickson, Matt Winstan, John Saunders, Arthur Hodson and Roy Peters, from 1956 to 1968.

Charles Avery Dunning

Upon completion of the railway and port facilities in 1931, Churchill became the closest Canadian port to Liverpool.

Church of St Luke, Liverpool

It stands on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street, looking down the length of Bold Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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.

Convoy SL 138/MKS 28

SL 138 and MKS 28 continued with no further incident and arrived at Liverpool on 5 November 1943.

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.

Francis Chavasse

The diocese, founded in 1880, had a "pro-cathedral" in the form of the parish church of St Peter's, Church Street.

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.

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.

Groovy Train

"Groovy Train" was the second single released by Liverpool-based pop group The Farm.

Herman Baar

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

International Literacy Foundation

Abdulmagid Taufik - based in Liverpool, primarily responsible for establishing the strategic direction of the organisation as well as sourcing literacy-based projects worldwide, specifically in Europe.

James Iredell Waddell

By then the Civil War had been effectively over for more than two months and, when he received confirmation of this fact in early August, Waddell disarmed his ship and took her back to Liverpool in England.

John Buxton Marsden

Born at Liverpool, he was admitted sizar of St John's College, Cambridge, on 10 April 1823; and graduated B.A. in 1827, M.A. in 1830.

John Szczerbanik

He was born in Liverpool, Sydney, and worked as a registered nurse before entering politics.

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.

Landing craft tank

She was decommissioned in 1948, and presented to the Master Mariners' Club of Liverpool to be used as their club ship and renamed Landfall.

Liverpool hospitalité

The Liverpool Hospitalité is a voluntary organisation associated with the annual Liverpool Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Liverpool St James railway station

The station is located at the Parliament Street and St. James' Place junction, opposite St James' Church.

Lord Street

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

Manchester Jewish Museum

Although it is far from being the largest or most magnificent of the world's many Moorish revival synagogues, which include the opulent Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool, it is considered by architectural historian H.A. Meeks to be a "jewel".

Maurice Denis

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

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.

MS European Endeavour

The ship was built in 2000 for Merchant Ferries as Midnight Merchant for a planned service between Liverpool and Belfast, however the ship was chartered to Norfolkline for their new service between Dover and Dunkirk and remained on that route until July 2006 when she was replaced by one of three new ships for the service.

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She remained in Dunkerque until early February 2011 when she sailed for Liverpool in preparation for returning to service on the Liverpool-Dublin service replacing the M/V Norcape.

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.

Northern Circuit

The Northern Circuit stretches from Carlisle in Cumbria at its northernmost point, running through Lakeland to the port of Whitehaven in the West, on through Preston and Burnley in Lancashire to Manchester, Liverpool and Chester.

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".

Palliser Expedition

Unable to find passes to the Pacific north of the 49th Parallel they reunited with Hector in Fort Colvile, and traveled 598 miles downstream on the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver and the Pacific Coast, then onto Fort Victoria, then returned by ship through San Francisco and Panama, then to Montreal and back to Liverpool.

Peter Christian

Peter Christian (born 14 August 1947 in Dingle, Liverpool) is an English actor best known for his roles on UK Television.

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.

Precast concrete

In the modern world, precast panelled buildings were pioneered in Liverpool, England, in 1905.

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

Ann and David met on a community theatre course at Hope Street; Tim met Ann when she joined The Network, an agit prop socialist theatre company based at the Trade Union Centre on Hardman Street.

ROC Post Speke

ROC Post Speke is a nuclear monitoring post in Speke, Liverpool built during the Cold War.

Sharpe's Devil

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

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.

SSC Yugal

Yugal, formerly called Dalmatinac, came into being in 1956 when several young Yugoslav immigrants got together to kick a football around a park in Liverpool.

State Insurance Building

:For the building with the same name in Liverpool, England, see State Insurance Building, Liverpool

Ted Peterson

He took 6 for 33 in two spells against England in 1937 at Stanley Greyhound Stadium, Liverpool, and was also the top Welsh batsman, with scores of 10 and 4, but it was not enough to help Wales avoid an innings defeat.

The Maybes?

All the members of the band are from the Anfield and Kensington districts of Liverpool, and were close friends before the band started.

Thomas Shelmerdine

In 1896 he designed Everton Library in Heyworth Street, in grimshell and redbrick, on a triangular site.

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.

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 Endrass

Five ships of Convoy HG 84, assembled at Gibraltar for passage to Liverpool, were sunk, all by the U-boat U-552 in the early hours of 15 June.


1984 European Cup Final

An ill-tempered first leg, which saw Liverpool captain Graeme Souness break the jaw of Dinamo midfielder Lică Movilă, was won 1–0 by Liverpool.

1991–92 Football League First Division

The previous season’s runners-up Liverpool slipped to 6th in their first full season under the management of Graeme Souness.

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps

The Liverpool painting was commissioned by Arthur George, Third Earl of Onslow, after Delaroche and George reportedly visited the Louvre in Paris, where they saw David's version of the famous event.

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.

Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester

Lord Grantchester is the grandson of John Moores and his mother is nominal head of the Moores family, founders of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses.

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Crouse-Hinds Company

Not long after, Cooper sold the traffic products division to Traffic Control Technologies of Liverpool, New York, who then sold the division to Peek Traffic Transit of Tallahassee, Florida.

Damien Comolli

Comolli made an instant impact at Liverpool as he was responsible for the signings of two players, Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll, on January 2011's transfer deadline day, with Carroll's signing breaking the record for most expensive British player ever and eighth most expensive player in history, overtaking David Villa and Wayne Rooney.

Disgorge Mexico

The instruments were recorded from the 6th to the 17th of August 2007 at Liverpool Court Studios in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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.

Elton Welsby

It was the task of future BBC Director-General Greg Dyke to oversee the coverage and he entrusted Welsby as presenter of The Match, anchoring numerous dramatic matches over the next four years-most notably Arsenal's 2-0 win against Liverpool in the last game of the season which saw the Gunners snatch a last minute winner at Anfield.

Ferranti Computer Systems

It owes its name to its original founder Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, an electrical engineer, born in Liverpool in 1864, who, at the age of 13, invented the arc light for street lighting and, when 16, built and patented an electrical generator (the Ferranti dynamo).

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.

Genigraphics

Shortly after the divestiture, the headquarters of Genigraphics was moved from Liverpool, New York to Saddle Brook, New Jersey.

Groovy Train

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

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.

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".

Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley

She was educated at Notre Dame High School in Liverpool, before attending Liverpool University from where she graduated with a BSc in Biology in 1966, and later completed a PGCE at Manchester Polytechnic in 1979.

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 Graham Davies

In Spring 2009, Graham-Davies' play 'Beating Berlusconi', based on Liverpool FC's remarkable 2005 UEFA Champions League victory over AC Milan began touring across venues on Merseyside including the Unity Theatre in Liverpool, and has subsequently toured internationally, with a Norwegian production opening in the autumn of 2011.

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.

Kent Riley

is an English actor, born in Fazakerley, Liverpool, & brought up in Lydiate, where he attended St Gregory's Junior School, where he caught the bug for acting, starring in many of the schools performing arts projects.

Khendjer

Another stela once in Liverpool (destroyed in World War II), provides the name of the king's son "Khedjer".

Lajos Kű

Lajos Kü (born 5 July 1948 in Székesfehérvár, Fejér) was a Hungarian football midfielder, who played for Videoton, Ferencvárosi TC, Club Brugge K.V.(notably in the European Cup Final 1978 against Liverpool) and SC Eisenstadt.

Leone Levi

Born to a Jewish family in Ancona, Italy, he worked in commerce there before emigrating to Liverpool in 1844.

Listed buildings in Brereton, Cheshire

It is in cast iron and consists of a cylindrical post with a curved plate inscribed with the distances in miles to Church Lawton, Newcastle, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Warrington, and Liverpool.

Lita Roza

On 14 March 2001, the Liverpool Wall of Fame was inaugurated opposite the Cavern Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool with Roza presiding at the ceremony.

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.

Mersey Beat

Harry asked a local singer, Priscilla White, to contribute a fashion column after writing an article called "Swinging Cilla", in which he wrote, "Cilla Black is a Liverpool girl who is starting out on the road to fame."

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

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

Randy Scouse Git

The phrase "Randy Scouse Git" came from the 1960s British BBC-TV sit-com Till Death Us Do Part, in which the loudmouthed main character Alf Garnett, played by Cockney actor Warren Mitchell, regularly insulted his Liverpudlian ("Scouse") son-in-law, played by Tony Booth.

Richard and Judy

It first aired in October 1988 and was broadcast from the Albert Dock in Liverpool, although production moved to London in 1996.

Robert Steel

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

Sarah Mytton Maury

Sarah graduated from school in Liverpool in 1821 and later married William Morris Maury, the eldest son of "Consul" James Maury (son of the Reverend James Maury and an uncle of Matthew Fontaine Maury.)

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.

Stan Bowles

He was also the personal favourite player of Liverpool legend John Barnes.

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

The Smiths Indeed

The musicians are from various well-known Liverpool-based bands such as The Christians, Pete Wylie and Maudlin Rich.

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 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.