5 historical things you might not know about Liverpool

Liverpool is another northern city with a rich history. But away from the main plot points about music, sport and other generic culture, many interesting side stories exist. Did Liverpool really pioneer the way in tropical medicine research? Did it really lead Britain in the fight to protect children's rights? Why does the local accent sound so distinct from other in England? Did Adolf Hitler really wander the streets looking for a purpose in life? And what the hell is a Liver Bird?
While many proud Liverpudlians (or 'Scousers') will know many of these facts, some may still be unknown to outsiders. Either way, it makes a fascinating tale to unravel!
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01:05 - The Hitlers in Liverpool
04:08 - The Scouse Accent
06:16 - Chinatown!
08:24 - The First Child Protection Society
10:45 - World's Oldest Tropical Medicine School
12:18 - The Liver Birds

[@johnburns4017]

You missed out the Hirohito family. Besides the Hitler family, there was also the Hirohito family in LIverpool. Kanso Yoshida (1895-1973), was the cousin of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, known in Liverpool as Paddy Murphy - he called himself that. No kidding. Kanso lived in Liverpool most of his life, in Liverpool L1. Members of the Hitler family lived in Upper Stanhope St in Liverpool 8. So the top man of Japan and the top man of Germany had relatives living in Liverpool at the same time, probably only half a mile from each other. William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool L8. Paddy Hitler joined the allied side in WW2, serving in the US Navy. Paddy Murphy was also with the Allied side in the British Merchant navy. Haile Selasse lived off Lark Lane in Liverpool. Also Napoleon III also lived in Liverpool in exile.

[@jas20per]

Just a few firsts you did leave out about Liverpool; The first steam railway in the world and the first ever railway death William Huskisson. you came close but you never said that the RSPCA was started in Liverpool. The first X ray of a person was a Liverpool first, also the Atom was split first at Liverpool University. Liverpool had the first Public wash houses. Just to mention a few.

[@mikeclarke3882]

Hi Ollie...the Bloopers at the end made me laugh, thanks mate. Interesting, educational, and entertaining as usual. My next door neighbours here in Oz are Scousers...good fun and great neighbours.

[@mardicole2534]

Your accents cracked me up. I was born in Canada but now live in Florida the past 40 yrs. I met a Liverpudlian in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, years ago and we re-connected about 7 years ago. He really does not have a thick accent - more like the California scouse accent you did. However, his son and his friends have completely different accents and when they get rolling I have a hard time understanding them. Enjoyed your video very much.

[@adamkeam7913]

Don’t forget the Williamson tunnels and Churchill’s bunker! Great video though 👍🏻

[@johnburns4017]

No Churchill's bunker is in Liverpool. The below ground control room of the U-Boat war is in Derby House. It can be visited.

[@adamkeam7913]

@@johnburns4017 it’s a war bunker.

[@johnburns4017]

@@adamkeam7913 It is not. It is an operations room.

[@johnburns4017]

@@adamkeam7913 Definitions say they are wrong: _a reinforced underground shelter, typically for use in wartime._ It is not a _shelter,_ it is an *_operations room._* It was also not made for Churchill to stay in.

[@adamkeam7913]

@@johnburns4017 so the Führerbunker wasn’t a bunker either? Interesting.

[@pkjlr77]

Brilliant Ollie, your videos are very interesting and deserve many more views on you tube. Keep up the great work and more views are sure to follow 👍

[@sergeykuzmichev8064]

Banger as usual cheers

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

Great UK KZbin content.

[@MrPaulfrazer]

There is a brass cross in the pavement in Church Street. It used to be a kerb stone outside Woolworths before Church St was pedestrianised. It has since been moved but is still in the original granite (to withstand the wheels of horse drawn carts) kerb stone. It marked the position of St Peter's church and was made from melted down brass from the altar rails of the church. I was told as a child that it marked the position of the altar but I don't think that is correct. St Peters was used as the Anglican Cathedral before the current one was sufficiently built to take services in the 1920s (it wasn't actually completed until the late 1970s). Once the new cathedral was in use St Peters was sold to provide funds to continue to build the cathedral.

[@dougieadamson7028]

Keep educating us, we need it.

[@heatherwarden2689]

Also matey, You missed out the bombed out church (st lukes), the radio city tower, the bloody steepness of Hardman street, the total student dive legend that is the blue angel AKA the Raz!! The classiest street inbtween the Uni of Liverpool and Liverpool Royal Hossy, Crown Street. Where the ladies of the night would ply their trade and the Ald women n fellas up on the wards in the Hospital would watch on down and go " locccchhh there Beryl! Looccchhh dare's anotheeerrr one!! Looccchhh at 'er!! The diiirty bitch!" I did my Bachelors of nursing at the UofL and God that hospital was entertaining! Many many cracking tales I could tell,

[@user-qy3zl1wp9w]

Love your videos ! ❤

[@jas20per]

Now I will give you a bonus fact. There is a copy of the Liver Buildings less the Birds in Shanghigh.

[@niceviewoverthere4463]

You're a natural film maker.

[@mal_752]

Great vlog as always. Well done. ✔️

[@heatherwarden2689]

I never understand why Liverpool's China town is rubbish though? It's one street with like 5 restaurants; with no bakeries, cafes or shops. I'm a Manc so obviously compair it to ours, but I went to Uni in the Pool and loved it. I've been allm over the world a and lived a good few places, but the Pool has never been beaten from my P.O.V

[@Andrewjg_89]

I like to go to Liverpool. My mum has been to Liverpool as she’s a massive Beatles fan.

[@garyrigby21]

Welcome

[@TroyTempest0]

Hi Ollie - great one and really enjoyed the video I learnt a lot and found the scouse really funny... I was born in Mill Rd myself like!

[@merseydave1]

Mill Road Hospital (closed in the 1980s) or just Mill Road ?

[@MrSychnant]

Not forgetting the forced deportation in 1945 of over 2000 chinese sailors who had served in the merchant navy during WW2 and some married local women and had families, but the home office decided to just round them up and ship them back to China. A very sad thing for Britain to have done.

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

Ollie, definitely information about the city that I never knew of. My mother was born in Liverpool, and I bet that she didn't know any of these facts. A marvellous video indeed, and many thanks for bringing it to us all.

[@generalsharkey]

The actual tale of the Liverbirds is that the female looks out to sea worrying for the sailors, the male looks inland looking out for their families while they are away...the whole watching the pubs, seeing if the pubs open, is a cringey joke told by Mersyferries tourist aimed recorded tour.

[@johnburns4017]

It is quite disrespectful what Merseyferries say.

[@islaws4589]

Ta Laa, great video! Am long overdue another visit there. We turned an appointment at the passport office there into a day out a few years ago and loved it 😊

[@mal_752]

Go there very often to listen and watch the ships on the Mersey. Thanks for another entertaining and informative vlog. 👍 😊

[@hyperballadbradx6486]

Those outtakes (those intakes!!) haha 😅 I am still yet to do the tour of the old dock under Liverpool One. Only recently saw that old CH4 Tony Robinson docu on KZbin and it's SO COOL

[@Hitngan]

Didn't know about Bella and Bertie thks

[@pietweety7020]

Great vid pal

[@glenfordburrell1076]

There is no mention of its ancient free African inhabitants nor its world famous "pools" lottery!

[@merseydave1]

Top Man from Manchester!

[@ellacoble5694]

Not from Liverpool 🌷 but just wanted to know alittle more about it . I'm from the USA could listen to you all night 😊

[@merseydave1]

@@ellacoble5694 Bee is from Manchester, 30 odd miles down the road from Liverpool ... he is a great supporter/educator of Northern English Industial/Economic/Social history ... He has a Manchester (Mancunian) accent.

[@Mateus-sz4je]

Great stuff la

[@Rlea67]

Loved this 👍

[@Hitngan]

Knew them all thanks. We also had the first commercial dock

[@paulhargreaves9103]

Brilliant…… thanks chief…..

[@craig559]

Have you been to the Williamson tunnels in Liverpool they are great and the tour is quality. I’ve just discovered your channel so if have I’m sure to discover it soon. 😂

[@wrichard11]

Me and my darling beloved spent a weekend in Liverpool and loved it. We wanted to return but that sadly never happened.

[@npe1]

When I visited Shanghai in 2009 and saw 'The Bund' which was the centre of commerce before the 2nd World War, I thought I was looking at a replica of The Pier Head.

[@jetsons101]

Question: What would the world be like today if hitler didn't failed the entrance exam of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and became an artist and not a crazy dictator. As always, a fine watch from Bee Here Now. Like the out takes.

[@Evemeister12]

The reichstag would've been populated with some really awful art.

[@jetsons101]

@@Evemeister12 It would be better than hunter bidens garbage..... lol

[@Mateus-sz4je]

When he was in liverpool he must have had the piss taken out of him so bad by the locals that it turned him into a fascist dictator and then he bombed the place!

[@PabloLFCX]

Great video. I did my degree in the LSTM and now I work in the old Royal Infirmary next door. Have you ever been in the old infirmary?? There is defo a difference between the accent in the north and south of the city. I'm from the South end and my mrs is from the North end. South is more melodic like you said, and the North is harsher and more guttural. I looked in to this a while ago and it's partly due to immigration and the more Scottish and Irish influences in the north end of the city.

[@tonyp011]

I’m quite surprised that you didn’t mention Liverpool has the longest brick building in the world and that it’s now a listed building

[@tolletstalesandtrails6051]

That’s the Tobacco Warehouse.

[@Mateus-sz4je]

The anglican cathedral was built mostly with brick, the sandstone is mainly facia, it's tiny!!

[@johnburns4017]

It is also the largest, with 27 million bricks.

[@anthonymolloy9953]

That arch was there before 1999

[@bobsmith3291]

Not that fucking arch

[@petersmith4202]

And the best part is it's not in England

[@ianp7661]

Really curious to know if anyone can tell me what the large round thing is in the background of the photo at 7:35

[@samhwilson]

It’s a barrage balloon. The photo was taken during the Blitz

[@MartinAhlman]

Scousinavian? Fair enough. I don't even like football, but I love both Liverpool and Manchester.

[@tolletstalesandtrails6051]

I was just looking and took photos of that Chinese arch.

[@Evemeister12]

I've always felt that the scouse accent sounds most like the Welsh ones.

[@radman8321]

The scouse accent is mainly a mixture of Irish and Lancastrian, other influences are tiny.

[@johnburns4017]

The Scandinavian and German mix in the accent is strong. When Liverpolitans learn German they fall right into the accent. Few Germans survived living in the city post WW1. BTW, the Irish accent is so varied, that Northern Irish sounds nothing like parts of southern Ireland.

[@martinhughes2549]

There is a big influence from North Wales Welsh.

[@studio-flash]

Welsh

[@grahamross6397]

Sound.

[@pauldavid22212]

Arrr ey, nice one arr kid

[@garyrigby21]

First ever train set off from Liverpool Edge Hill station going east bound

[@studio-flash]

First inter city passenger paying train you mean.

[@FanUtd535]

When doing the accent I thought he was having a stroke.

[@BeeHereNowuk]

Lol

[@petersmith4202]

Bet you like a bit of a stroke eh manc

[@sarahcockayne1735]

Do you know about the third Liver bird? #scousersknow

[@BeeHereNowuk]

No I don't think so!!

[@sarahcockayne1735]

@BeeHereNowuk it's hidden in the city, I thought it might have made your list with the the two most famous birds being mentioned 🙂

[@bigdunc1313]

Good scouse accent dat Lid

[@BeeHereNowuk]

Ta mate 😄

[@studio-flash]

Lid????😂

[@bigdunc1313]

@@studio-flash alright Lid 😃

[@firepowerg]

FIRST!

[@jetsons101]

I was number nine..... lol

[@zapre2284]

0.17 ...as a Scouser and an artist. That line is totally false sorry. This city has died. It is little more than a student accommodation and cheap piss up for southern tourists

[@petersmith4202]

Ah the inglish how we despise them

[@hamshackleton]

Street view at 7.35, that looks like a part inflated barrage balloon in the background. The School for Tropical Medicines came about through treating a now well-known sailor's disease! You totally overlooked that Liverpool was built on the slave-trade, and that the name comes from the old English word for mud - lyver or liver - the pule bit is self-explanatory. I had to laugh at your pathetic (sorry!) attempts at the two main accents - the mud, of course, comes from the river Maerzee!