1ST GROUP MEETING / CITY RESEARCH.
LIVERPOOL.
FIRST MEETING
Today we met up to discuss the different direction we could look to go in in regards to the DBA / Capital North brief. We were all a little overwhelmed when trying to think of a concept that could relate an combine so much. We had to think about how all the cities could be conjoined however, in that process, we had to be sure that we weren't white washing the different cities and loosing their undivided identities. This would not be a realistic or viable option.
Because we event making good initial progress, we decided that we should set each other tasks that could help us gain insight and knowledge about the areas and cities we had been asked to represent through this scheme.
We each chose a city, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Hull.
I decided to research Liverpool as I already had a little bit go knowledge regarding the city and its heritage as my family is from the Merseyside area.
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CITY / LIVERPOOL / RESEARCH
Liverpool is a city based in Merseyside on the eastern side of the estuary. it is in the county of lancashire and is one of the largest cities in England.
Due to its situation on the estuary which reaches out to the sea close by, Liverpool one of England's major ports as it sees cargo distributed and received from all over the world.
It has also been the port of registry for many famous ships such as the Titanic and the Queen Mary.
Due to Liverpool being a port city, it has become home to many different cultures and people of origin over the last century. Most notably being the Irish as well as African and Chinese and is actually home to the oldest chinese community in Europe.
Today, liverpool is seen as a cultural hub and was voted the capital of culture in 2007. It is also seen as the Capital of pop and music due to its connections in the music industry such as the Beatles.
Many places inside the city are classed as World heritage sites such as the Albert dock and the Liver buildings. It is also home to some of the countries most successful football clubs, Everton FC and Liverpool FC as well as being home to the word famous Grand National at Aintree racecourse.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was actually the first ever commercial railway back in the 1830.
THE SECOND EMPIRE.
For periods during the 19th century the wealth of Liverpool exceeded that of London itself, and Liverpool's Custom Housewas the single largest contributor to the British Exchequer. Liverpool's status can be judged from the fact that it was the only British city ever to have its own Whitehall office.
The first United States consul anywhere in the world, James Maury, was appointed to Liverpool in 1790, and remained in office for 39 years.
In the field of public health, the first lifeboat station, public baths and wash-houses, sanitary act, medical officer for health,district nurse, slum clearance, purpose-built ambulance, X-ray medical diagnosis, school of tropical medicine, motorised municipal fire-engine, free school milk and school meals, cancer research centre, and zoonosis research centre all originated in Liverpool. The first British Nobel Prize was awarded in 1902 to Ronald Ross, professor at the School of Tropical Medicine, the first school of its kind in the world. Orthopaedic surgery was pioneered in Liverpool by Hugh Owen Thomas, and modern medical anaesthetics by Thomas Cecil Gray.
The world's first integrated sewer system was constructed in Liverpool by James Newlands, appointed the UK's first borough engineer in 1847.
In finance, Liverpool founded the UK's first Underwriters' Association and the first Institute of Accountants. The Western world's first financial derivatives (cotton futures) were traded on the Liverpool Cotton Exchange in the late 1700s.
In the arts, Liverpool was home to the first lending library, athenaeum society, arts centre and public art conservation centre. Liverpool is also home to the UK's oldest surviving classical orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the oldest surviving repertory theatre, the Liverpool Playhouse.
In 1864, Peter Ellis built the world's first iron-framed, curtain-walled office building, Oriel Chambers, the prototype of the skyscraper. The UK's first purpose-built department store was Compton House, completed in 1867 for the retailer J.R. Jeffrey; it was the largest store in the world at the time.
Between 1862 and 1867, Liverpool held an annual Grand Olympic Festival. Devised by John Hulley and Charles Melly, these games were the first to be wholly amateur in nature and international in outlook. The programme of the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896 was almost identical to that of the Liverpool Olympics. In 1865 Hulley co-founded the National Olympian Association in Liverpool, a forerunner of the British Olympic Association. Its articles of foundation provided the framework for the International Olympic Charter.
Shipowner Sir Alfred Lewis Jones introduced the banana to Great Britain in 1884.
In 1889, borough engineer John Alexander Brodie invented the football goal-net, and was a pioneer in the use of pre-fabricated housing. He was also vice-president of the Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic Association which was a precursor, and later a constituent member, of the Royal Automobile Club. Brodie oversaw the construction of the UK's first ring road, the UK's first intercity highway as well as the Queensway Tunnel, linking Liverpool andBirkenhead. Described as "the eighth wonder of the world", at the time of its construction it was the longest underwater tunnel in the world, a title it held for 24 years.
In 1897, the Lumière brothers filmed Liverpool, including what is believed to be the world's first tracking shot, taken from the Liverpool Overhead Railway – the world's first elevated electrified railway.
Liverpool inventor Frank Hornby was a visionary in toy development and manufacture and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the 20th century:Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys.
The British Interplanetary Society, founded in Liverpool in 1933 by Phillip Ellaby Cleator, is the world's oldest existing organisation devoted to the promotion of spaceflight, and its journal the longest running astronautical publication in the world.
In 1999, Liverpool was the first city outside the capital to be awarded blue plaques by English Heritage in recognition of the "significant contribution made by its sons and daughters in all walks of life."
All these inventions and introductions have really leant a hand in the development of England on a whole and are all very important implementations in todays society as well as its further evolution into the future.
CREST: On a Wreath of the Colours a Cormorant the wings elevated in the beak a Branch of Laver proper.
SUPPORTERS: On the dexter Neptune with his Sea-Green Mantle flowing the waist wreathed with Laver on his head an Eastern Crown Gold in the right hand his Trident Sable the left supporting a Banner of the Arms of Liverpool on the sinister a Triton wreathed as the dexter and blowing his Shell the right hand supporting a Banner thereon a Ship under sail in perspective all proper the Banner Staves Or.
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