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Liverpool has been my home for over 50 years and my mother and father before them.Then the link stops as my grandfather was born in County Down N Irelandin the middle of the 19th century.He came over and settled in Liverpool where he quickly became established as a haulage contractor on the busy Liverpool Docks.At that time Liverpool was the second port in the Empire only being outstripped by London.Many Irish imigrants came to England and never left the port in which they landed.Liverpool was only really a dormitory town for much of its existence and only really became important in its own right pre industrial revolution and post industrial revolution.The citys wealth was built through the port with goods going out and coming in from all corners of the Empire.

With its great wealth in the Victorian and Edwardian era the city really expanded outwards from the Port and in time swallowed up the villages of Garston, Wavertree, Knotty Ash,Woolton, Walton,West Derby (the seat of the earls of derby the famous Stanley family)and Gateacre.

With its growth came its problems.Swift increases in population and poor living conditions for Dockers and Labourers resulted in a serious health problems with mass overcrowding in and around the city centre.Liverpool had workhouses for the poor and orphanages for the parentless children.Great philanthropists like Lord Lever, famous for the construction of Port Sunlight in the Wirral, came to the fore in the Victorian era.Liverpool had the very first officer dedicated to health in Andrew Semple.The first steam locomotive left the Rocket for Manchester. A famous politician of the time Huskisson was killed as he was run over by the engine on its way to Rainhill Stoops! In the eighteenth century the first running of the Derby was as a direct result of the then Earl of Derby whoose seat was at Knowsley Hall just outside the city boundaries.The cith has produced many famous people and is reknowned the world over for its football fanaticism having two Premier League teams in Liverpool and Everton.In fact the city has a habit of doing things in twos.We have two Cathedrals as well. The Roman Catholic metropolitan Cathedral in Brownlow hill was only finshed in the 1960s whilst the Anglican although started a lot earlier was still under construction in the 60s too.Football has been a major part of the cities culture since the 19th Century.Liverpool has two Premier League teams Everton FC and Liverpool FC both with well over 100 years of history.In fact Liverpool FC were born out of Everton FC as Liverpool were formed after Everton FC left Anfield becasue the owner of Anfield put the rent up!In the sixties the City was synonymous with the pop culture of the era.Liverpools traditional anthem "you`ll never walk alone" was a hit for Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Kop adopted the song as their own.The Mersey sound filled the terraces of the Gladys St end at Everton and the Kop at Anfield.The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Cilla Black, The Tremeloes all sang the Merseybeat along with Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas and the iconic Billy Fury and of course we cant forget Frankie Vaughn who came form the "cast iron shore" as it was known in the Dingle area of the City.Football and pop music fitted together naturally like a hand in a glove.