 | The city of Liverpool is well known around the world for its connection to the Beatles, the Albert Dock and its top class football team, but this city in the north west of England has plenty of other interesting things worth knowing about it.
Liverpool's was recently crowned City of Culture 2008, beating off competition from Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and the Welsh capital Cardiff for the prestigious honour. Winning has meant billions of pounds worth of investment for Liverpool as well as the creation of thousands of new jobs. Postcodes for Liverpool begin with the letter L and as well as Liverpool itself the L postcode includes Bootle, Prescot and Ormskirk, which should all gain some benefit from the win.
Aside from being City of Culture 2008 there are also some other facts about Liverpool you may find interesting, for example, did you know that outside London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city? It has featured on the big screen in The Hunt for Red October (1990), In the Name of the Father (1993), 51st State (2001) and Backbeat (1994). However you may not recognise it in all its screen performances as Liverpool has featured as a city double for Moscow, Dublin, Paris and even Venice.
There are interesting facts to be found all over Liverpool including Liverpool University, for example did you know that it is the original 'red brick' university? In addition, it is one of the largest employers in Merseyside and has links with more than 400 industry partners yet it continues with notable firsts i.e. being the first UK university to deliver an entire e-learning programme and the first UK university to establish academic e-business expertise.
Other interesting Liverpool facts include:
Six million people live within an hour of the city
Outside of London, Liverpool has the largest number of Grade II listed buildings
Merseyside has seven championship golf courses and more than 40 golf courses in total
The city has World Heritage city status
More than 60 languages are spoken in Liverpool every day
If you want to find out more about Liverpool and what it has to offer, the City Visitor directory can help with topics as diverse as childcare in Bootle and emergency electricians in Liverpool, and everything in between.. |
