13 Facts About Liverpool: A Comprehensive List Of Liverpudlian Achievements & World And UK Firsts

Peter Eric Lang
Sep 18
2 min read

13 Facts About Liverpool: A List Of Scouse Achievements

The Pier Head in Liverpool (Credit: The Liverpudlian/Peter Eric Lang).

Here's some fantastic facts about the Liverpool City Region that you may not have known otherwise. There may be some of them you may be aware of, however, others that you had no clue about.

The Titanic was registered at the Port of Liverpool.
Liverpool has the largest Chinese Arch in the world outside of China, located in the China Town district of Liverpool City Centre.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was the first of its kind in the UK.
James Street Station and Hamilton Square Station are the oldest deep level train stations in the world. Cities underground rail like the London Underground was just below surface level, unlike the groundbreaking Liverpool innovations. The City still has the first and oldest deep-level underground train system in the world, the network links from James Street Station and Hamilton Square Station.
The Royal Liver Building, the icon for the Liverpool City Region, stands at 98.2 m (322 ft) tall.
The Royal Liver Building was the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1911 to 1934 and was the tallest building in the UK from 1911 to 1961.
Beetham Tower west is currently the tallest skyscraper in Liverpool, standing at 134 m (440 ft), it has locally been nicknamed 'The Bullet'.
Liverpool has the oldest Chinese community in Europe.
Birkenhead Park, located in the Borough of Wirral of the Liverpool City Region, was the first public park in the world that anyone could access without having to pay to enter. The first Region to have a public park. On a visit to Liverpool, an American architect visited Birkenhead Park
Liverpool was home to the first skyscraper in the world, Oriel Chambers. It was the first building to use a metal-framed glass curtain wall, which revolutionised construction. Oriel Chambers on Water Street in Liverpool City Centre is the first skyscraper in the world. With out the Liverpudlian innovations taking place in Liverpool, American cities like Chicago and New York would look very different.
The Liverpool Bay Area has the largest wind turbine farm in Europe.
The River Mersey is one of the most powerful rivers in the UK.
The Liverpool City Region was the first city in the world to introduce trams.