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56 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Blackburne House

Blackburne House stands on the east side of Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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.

Clare Imrie

In 1910 she funded the building and interior decorating of St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, which is known as "the Vatican outside of Rome", because of the splendid artistry displayed in its interior.

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.

Dad's Dead

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

Edvīns Bārda

Edvīns Bārda (6 April 1900 in Riga - 28 September 1947 in Liverpool) was a Latvian footballer and manager, the elder and most popular of four football playing Bārda brothers.

Edwin Henry Mason Smith

Private Edwin Smith embarked on Troop Ship Number 93 from Wellington on 13 October 1917 and disembarked in Liverpool, England on 8 December.

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.

Genigraphics

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

George Edward Ellis

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

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".

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.

John R. Goldsborough

On 1 June 1861, Union captured a Confederate blockade runner, the schooner C. W. Johnson with a cargo of railroad iron, off the coast of North Carolina; she also captured the blockade runner Amelia, carrying a cargo of contraband from Liverpool, England, off Charleston, South Carolina, on 18 June 1861.

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.

Khendjer

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

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 Blitz

Today one of the most vivid symbols of the Liverpool Blitz is the burnt outer shell of St Luke's Church, located in the city centre, which was destroyed by an incendiary bomb on 5 May 1941.

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

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.

Mitch Vogel

He participated in both the 2005 Bonanza Convention and the 2010 Bonanza Weekend in Liverpool, England.

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.

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.

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

Immediately following the end of the comment period on 15 December, an officer of Liverpool City Council approved the development application, apparently satisfied that "warehouse clearance outlets" were not forbidden by the LEP.

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".

Pamela Ditchoff

Ditchoff is married to Paul Ditchoff and lives in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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.

ROC Post Speke

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

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.

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.

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.

State Insurance Building

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

Terence Davies

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

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.

Ulverston Canal

A passenger ferry to Liverpool thus commenced from Ulverston canal in 1835, which was later complemented by a service from Barrow-in-Furness to Fleetwood.

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.

William Lassell

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

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.

1974 FA Charity Shield

The match finished 1–1, Phil Boersma had opened the scoring for Liverpool in the 20th minute, but Trevor Cherry headed home Leeds equaliser in the 70th.

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.

Apollon XI

She was chartered by Burns & Laird Lines Ltd. for the service between Belfast and Liverpool, also from Cork to Fishguard, Dublin to Liverpool and for the service Glasgow - Dublin - Liverpool.

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.

Brighton United F.C.

Maurice Parry played for Brighton United in the 1899–00 season, before having a long career with Liverpool and making 16 appearances for Wales.

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.

Convoy SL 125

Convoy SL 125 was the 125th of the numbered series of World War II convoys of merchant ships from Sierra Leone to Liverpool.

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.

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.

Douglas Lucas

Some major venues performed throughout the years include; The Viper Room in Hollywood, California, Mercury Lounge in New York, New York, The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England (made world famous by The Beatles) and The Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany (where The Beatles played first).

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 Maybrick

Few residents had any knowledge of Florence's true identity and the lady who had once charmed Victorian Liverpool died alone and penniless on 23 October 1941, and was buried in the grounds of South Kent School.

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.

Harry Storer

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

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.

Joaquín Sánchez

In the following campaign's UEFA Champions League, Joaquín appeared in all six group stage games for Betis, including the 1–0 triumph over Chelsea and a 0–0 draw against Liverpool, at Anfield (third-place finish, UEFA Cup "demotion").

Jocelyn Barrow

She was instrumental in the establishment of the North Atlantic Slavery Gallery and the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.

Juergen Sommer

In 1998 he made the jump back home to sign with the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer, as a replacement for Brad Friedel, who had signed for Liverpool the previous year.

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.

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.

Liao Zilan

In 2008, the duo presented compositions for guzheng and harp by the Welsh composer Bill Connor at Liverpool University, as part of the Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 programme.

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.

Maria Altmann

Traveling by way of Liverpool, England, they reached the United States and settled first in Fall River, Massachusetts, and eventually in Los Angeles, California.

Matilda Hays

Charlotte's sister Susan Webb Cushman who played Juliet to Charlotte's Romeo left the stage to marry a successful Liverpool scientist, James Sheridan Muspratt.

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."

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

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.

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

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.

Russell Rea

Rea was the third son of Daniel Key Rea from Eskdale in Cumberland and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Liverpool shipbuilder Joseph Russell.

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.)

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.

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.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

Walter Sugg

Sugg and his brother Frank opened a sports shop at 32 Lord Street, Liverpool, with a branch at 10 North Street, Liverpool, and for twelve years from 1894 to 1905 issued Sugg's Cricket Annual.

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.

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.