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Post by Kev on Sept 16, 2003 10:04:45 GMT -5
The Lyceum in Bold Street was the first circulating library in Europe!
Liverpool has the first, purpose built library in Britain!
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Post by Kev on Sept 16, 2003 10:15:44 GMT -5
The Beatles....
The first group to have 5 top records in the American Billboard Charts.
The first British pop group to receive MBE's
First pop group to be seen simultaneously on tv by 4 million people.
Seargant Pepper was the first concept album with no breaks between the tracks...
The first pop group to be given the freedom of Liverpool.
Paul McCartney was the first western artist to record an album exclusively for the Soviet Union.
He was also the first Beatle to be knighted...
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Post by Kev on Sept 16, 2003 10:17:38 GMT -5
The Wurlitzer was the brainchild of a Birkenhead man, Robert Hope Jones.  |
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Post by Kev on Sept 16, 2003 10:21:49 GMT -5
Willain Huskisson, was killed on the opening day of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. He was run over by The Rocket (1830) He was....
The first person IN THE WORLD to be killed by a steam passenge engine...
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Post by Kev on Sept 16, 2003 10:24:50 GMT -5
Football Nets...were invented by Liverpool man John Alexander Brodie in 1892!
Golf trollies were invented by Frank T. Copnall (Hoylake)
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Post by Kev on Oct 13, 2003 12:39:34 GMT -5
SOUTH LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB..Garston(Now derelict)
I'm sure was the first ever team to have a floodlit pitch!
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Post by LV on Mar 14, 2004 17:39:57 GMT -5
Some facts about the Mersey River. You are standing at the Pier Head, the head of the pier of Liverpool, overlooking one of the world's most famous rivers, the Mersey. There has not actually been a pier here since 1927, when, on May 7th, a freak storm, measuring 9.3 on the Zeibnowitz Scale, destroyed the Victorian wood and iron structure. Amazingly, although there were some 271 people on the pier at the time, not one was killed nor seriously injured, though several men wet themselves with fright and one woman had a serious attack of the vapours. The river's name comes from the conjunction of the French word 'mer', meaning sea, and the English word 'sea', meaning sea. In the 12th century, the Norman residents would say that the river ran 'a la mer' (into the sea). The Saxons thinking this to be the name of the sea into which the river flowed, called it the Mersea (the river which flows into the Mer Sea). Its spelling has altered over the passage of time. Over many hundreds of years, pollution from the oil and chemical industries upstream and a massive increase of silt left the river devoid of marine life. Fisherman would sit for days and catch only influenza. However, in the past 20-30 years much conservation work has been to decrease the pollutants and gradually the river's fish population has returned. There have been sightings of salmon, fighting their way upriver to spawn, Atlantic grey seals and, in October 2001, a coelacanth was spotted just off Crosby, several miles to the north. Although unconfirmed, if true, this would be the first sighting of a coelacanth in the Mersey in over 3 million years!  |
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