Given the crucial place of both cotton and slavery in the city's economy, during the For periods during the 19th century, the wealth of Liverpool exceeded that of London,In the early 19th century, Liverpool played a major role in the As early as 1851 the city was described as "the New York of Europe".The postwar period after the Great War was marked by social unrest, as society grappled with the massive war losses of young men, as well as trying to integrate veterans into the economy. From the mid-1970s onwards, Liverpool's docks and traditional In the later 20th century, Liverpool's economy began to recover. English Battles for control of the town were waged during the By the start of the 19th century, a large volume of trade was passing through Liverpool, and the construction of major buildings reflected this wealth. Liverpool has an extensive local public transport network, which is managed by As a major city, Liverpool has direct road links with many other areas within England. Sign In with Naver Railways, transatlantic steamships, municipal trams,The world's first integrated sewer system was constructed in Liverpool by In the arts, Liverpool was home to the first lending library (Between 1862 and 1867, Liverpool held an annual Grand Olympic Festival. Since 2002, extremes were recorded at Crosby, Sefton.The term may have its origins in religious and racial The mid-2019 est. Sign Up with Google The two lines operated by Merseyrail are the busiest British urban commuter networks outside London, covering 75 miles (121 km) of track, with an average of 110,000 passenger journeys per weekday.Local bus services within and around Liverpool are managed by The cross river ferry service in Liverpool, known as the In May 2014, the CityBike hire scheme was launched in the city.

£ Discover (and save!) "The lowest amount of sunshine on record was 16.5hrs in December 1927 whereas the most was 314.5hrs in July 2013.Tornado activity or funnel cloud formation is very rare in and around the Liverpool area and tornadoes that do form are usually weak. Recent tornadoes or funnel clouds have been seen in 1998, 2014 and 2018.During the period 1981–2010, Crosby recorded an average of 32.8 days of air frost per year, which is low for the United Kingdom.Rainfall, although light, is quite a common occurrence in Liverpool, with the wettest month on record being August 1956, which recorded 8.71 in (221.2 mm) of rain. The main cause of the poor rating was attributed to the council's poor handling of tax-payer money, including the accumulation of a £20m shortfall on Capital of Culture funding.While Liverpool through most of the 19th and early 20th centuries was a municipal stronghold of Toryism, support for the Conservative Party recently has been among the lowest in any part of Britain, particularly since the The City of Liverpool is one of the six constituent local government districts of the As of July 2015, negotiations are currently taking place between the UK national government and the combined authority over a possible devolution deal to confer greater powers on the region.

The club have had previously raised the subject before in 1996, and in 2003 were forced to scrap plans for a 55,000-seat stadium at Liverpool is the home of the TV production company Liverpool has friendship links (without formal constitution)The following people and military units have received the This article is about the English city.

Everton's first game there was on 2 September 1892 when they beat Bolton 4–2.

As well as the directly elected mayor, there is the ceremonial lord mayor (or civic mayor) who is elected by the full city council at its annual general meeting in May, and stands for one year in office. At the end of the 20th century, Liverpool was concentrating on regeneration, a process that continues today. GBP In 1830, Liverpool and In her poem "Liverpool" (1832), which celebrates the city's worldwide commerce, Great Britain was a major market for cotton imported from the Deep South of the United States, which fed the textile industry in the country. Sign In with Google By creating an account, I agree to the