@@therespectedlex9794 huh? Where did Liverpool all start? It was the vikings that founded it and used it as a hub to go back n forth to Ireland. If I remember right they arrived in Liverpool in 900ad
@@jamesmaddison4546 Meant to have been Romans at least before that. But I mean, even with the Irish, it's like something they invented too much to agitate.
The comment about US Sailors bringing American music over is so wrong. It was British Merchant Seaman known as 'Cunard Yanks' who brough the records back to Liverpool
My grandad was one of the workers on the tunnel, then when the war started he went and volunteered for the Royal Navy and ended up on the battlecruiser HMS Renown
Let's not forget the Mersey waterfront used to have a Fourth Grace the Old Custom's House which was unfortunately gutted by bomb damage in the Liverpool Blitz of 1941 but instead of rebuilding and fixing the damaged building Liverpool Council removed the Old Customs House a decision they would come to regret I'm sure of it. the new Liverpool Museum a new modern architecture on the waterfront next to the remaining Three Graces I'm sorry to say is an eye saw to behold well that's my view anyway.
@@peterwhitaker4038 You’re not wrong there Peter with all the Cruse liners visiting Liverpool , pre and post Pandemic , I have a framed original steel advertising board of the Overhead Railway . But as you said it would be an excellent tourist venture if it was still there or if someone rebuilt a section of it along the Mersey waterfront .
Lets not forget...The Day Churchill sent gunships up the Mersey and aimed them on the city. This day in 1911. The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, also known as the great transport workers' strike, involved dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well people from other trades.
Good documentary but he could of had a segment on say Speke hall, Rodney street or the two football teams instead of going to the Wirral & trying to make out Port Sunlight is in Liverpool its like saying Birkenhead priory is on the pier head
he never said port sunlight was in Liverpool, he said it was on the mersey. we don't have to be so accurate to draw a line because it's all Merseyside with Liverpool at the Hub.
it is more or less a suburb imagine if they had of called the county Greater Liverpool instead of merseyside things would be different now! it should all be Liverpool all inclusive one big city! and if you loved Liverpool as much as me you'd want it to be bigger as well
@@Chris-qn8zu I thin that this was just one of those things that was assumed without any real investigation into it. There’s been a recent amendment made to the exhibition in the museum. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-merseyside-53112355
True. There's no evidence at all that the two are linked. It could have been named after almost anyone, like the developer...or even the cost of an omnibus ride out that far.
All cities have good and bad points but I wouldn't want to be from anywhere else. Scouse and proud of it. We are so welcoming and friendly and all are welcome here so enjoy what we have to offer. But be as friendly and welcoming as us because insulting us for no reason wouldn't be wise as we don't take shit.
Very true.... before these restrictions - we took a 4 night break at the 'Holiday Inn' - Albert dock and everyone we met were so welcoming warm and friendly.. it was a pleasure to be in such a great city.
I think the scenes of the construction of the glass lantern for Christ the King cathedral were from a film called ‘Crown of Glass’ shown by the BBC as a trade test colour film in the 1960s.
A great documentary , I suppose it is hard to include everything , but I was really surprised that one of the biggest success stories and a huge employer ( 2,500 people in a simply massive factory) wasn't even mentioned , yes Frank Hornby and the Binns road "MECCANO" empire . I would have thought The trade marks "meccano , Dinky & Hornby " were some of the best know products Worldwide out of Liverpool .
When I left school my first job was in Paton Calvert's facing the Meccano. In my dinner hour I asked about getting a job in the Meccano but the wages were just the same so I stayed put. But there were thousands of people working in the Edge Lane area at the time. Meccano, Paton Calvert's, Robinson Willey, Plessey's, Lucas motors the fruit market , Crawford's biscuits Pecks, Littlewoods, and Crosville motors. Many thousands all clocking off at almost the same time.
Could have made a feature length easily as you missed so much out... what you did do was excellent, well researched and presented in a way that make my city shine. Come to Liverpool.... it’s Boss 😁😆 I’ll put my spare room on AirB&B
The advert at 44:28 is for a 1961 show aboard the motor vessel 'Royal Iris' with Acker Bilk supported by the Beatles all for 8 shillings and 6 pence (42.5p). Even adding for inflation it only equates to about £9 per ticket.
I love my city of Liverpool, yet we have to recognise Birkenhead and Port Sunlight on the wirral peninsula opposite Liverpool on the other side of The River Mersey.
The Romans may not have reinforced concrete but they certainly understood how it worked. It can be certainly be argued that they understood cement far better than we do today.
I'm not sure you could claim that Paddy's wigwam was actually finished until they managed to stop it from leaking every time it rained.. I don't think buckets were part of the original design. 😉
I know as I was born in Birkenhead and my Auntie Nelly, who worked for Levers all her life, lived in Port Sunlight. Lovely place but I can't understand why it was featured on a programme about Liverpool. Perhaps the presenter wanted to show off about his knowledge of soap.
@@paulrimmer2853 I know most of it was dragged reluctantly into Merseyside in 1974 but I've never heard of the Liverpool City Region. No wish to knock Liverpool, a city I love, but the Wirral aint part of it - ask anyone from Heswall.
@@BurgundySorcerer Manchester has the blessing of Whitehall who have poured a fortune into that rather dowdy city. They were running high-speed rail (HS2) directly into Manchester via an obscene in cost via a 10 mile tunnel, yet ignored Liverpool. Thank the Lord HS2 was ditched. Left to market forces Liverpool will always outdo Manchester.
The rock n roll records were not brought to Liverpool by the ‘American’ sailors - it was by the ‘Cunard Yanks” - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Yanks. The crews on the Cunard ships and other lines that plied back and forth
@@davidsumner4335 I’ve you read it properly it refer’s to the city of liverpool, So Liverpool and Everton. They have 28 titles between them, Manchester has 25 ☺️☺️
Adam Hart-Davis made for documentaries, if ever there was one, a real gentle manner to all his documentaries, and no sniff of bias. Liverpool has always been a thorn in the side of government and all lefties, and why it is that Liverpool is hated by such, honest people, honest living, speak yer mind, r kid
@@samsonwilkinson8090 Left wing. Prove it. The Cavern that is in this feature is not the original. The original is some yards away, down from this one, and is a substation
Would be better with a real scouser historian , who knows the difference between the river mersey portsunlight isn't liverpool its across the river mersey from liverpool xxx
8:17 A presenter that does not know that Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the Queen Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in London. People call the tower Big Ben but that is factually incorrect.
The entrance to Liverpool is soon to be dominated by EVERTON’s Magnificent new football stadium on the banks of THE ROYAL BLUE MERSEY....which will be known as THE FOURTH GRACE....💙
@@kidmohair8151 Social Justice Warriors and their penchant for cancelling things based on fact-less "feelings" and intentional misinterpretations of things, especially disconnected things, of history, about which they refuse to learn.
Penny Lane was NOT named after James Penny. 🙄 That wasn't the original Cavern Club. Liverpool City Council got a backhander to tear it down and build a pile of shite on it and Port Sunlight is over the water on the Wirral. FFS: Get it right will you?
I like lots of cities in England but I can't believe how depressing and ugly most of the areas in Liverpool actually are most of the areas are in the north of Liverpool with a few also in the south of Liverpool. Some articles about deprivation are about either health or low income but doesn't factor in the areas itself more about people's living condition. I can assure you Hackney in East London is miles better than pretty much most of Liverpool's areas and it's not so bland and depressing.
Built on the slave trade , unlike Manchester which was an important part of its abolition. Thanked with a statue from the great American Republic president Lincoln
Yes Liverpool was built on the slave trade but you can't pretend Manchester wasn't too. Manchester was nicknamed 'Cottonopolis', it's profits and prosperity were inextricably linked to slavery and the slave economy. You can't boil it down to just the places that had ships. Also Liverpool had abolitionists too, like William Roscoe to name a prominent figure.
The above comment explains it well. But every affluent and important city in the UK expanded due to the profits of slavery. Few are exempt. It’s a dark part of history but something we must learn to accept.
Slavery is hardly mentioned regarding Liverpool in history. Beatles and soccer. But England doesn't tell the truth when it comes to history. Plundered the world.
While giving a fair society, the rule of law and a democratic infrastructure. Liverpool`s link to slavery was only the ship owners, Slavery was already a worldwide commodity for centuries before, so the UKs role was just normal trade, then the UK was the first to ban slavery and its shipping out slaves from Africa. If you actually visit Liverpool, its part in the slave trade is all documented and on public display in the museum at the Albert Dock, so how is a public display not telling the truth?.