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Liverpool Leasing

Did You Know?

Liverpool is a maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. A key trade and migration port from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, it's also, famously, the hometown of The Beatles.

Liverpool is known as home to Europe’s longest established Chinese community, as well as boasting the largest Chinese Arch in Europe, but it’s also home to the oldest black community in the entire UK.

You’ll find the greatest variety of historic paintings, specimens, objects, and over 80,000 artefacts – from a Titanic lifejacket to Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections – held under single ownership in the entire country at National Museums Liverpool.

In September 1830, the world’s first ever passenger railway line connected Liverpool’s Crown Street to Manchester’s Liverpool Road, influencing the development of major railway systems across Britain. Built by George Stephenson, it was the first to rely on locomotives powered by steam, and the first to be entirely double-tracked, use a signalling system, have a timetable and carry mail.

2,500 listed buildings and 250 public monuments in the city make it the largest collection of Grade One listed properties, with more national museums and galleries than any city outside London!. And in 1999, Liverpool was the first city outside London to receive English Heritage blue plaques for the “significant contribution made by its sons and daughters in all walks of life.

As Liverpool Film Office celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2019, it broke records for the fourth year running with 324 film and TV projects, adding up to 1,750 production days – 363 more days than in 2018, which is what makes us the city that spends the most time on film outside London.

Since 2002, the Williams BMW Liverpool International Tennis Tournament is an four-day tennis exhibition held at Aigburth Cricket Ground, which has become the largest and longest-running tennis exhibition in the whole of Europe, bringing both emerging and established WTA and ATP players to Liverpool ahead of Wimbledon

Founded in November 1898 by shipping magnate, Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, Liverpool’s overseas trade resulted in the outbreak of tropical diseases. Sir Alfred donated £350 to establish the world’s first School of Tropical Medicine to research these outbreaks, and LSTM has led cutting-edge research and teaching ever since, including finding the link between malaria and mosquito bites.

The United States Consulate was established in Liverpool 1790 as the USA’s first overseas consulate. During this time, the city was a vital trading partner for transatlantic commerce.

Home to both Liverpool and Everton FC, Liverpool is the most successful footballing city in England, winning 27 League championships, six European Cups, three Uefa Cups, one Cup Winners cup, 12 FA Cups, 8 League Cups and a FIFA club world cup.