Lwhat is your opinion of liverpool?

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Corneilius

Liverpool has its problems, no one is denying that, every city has its problems, but none are as castigated as much as Liverpool, especially by people who never come here.

Liverpool has a really big job to change the negative image held by the rest of the country, and this is strange because foreigners have a much more positive image of Liverpool, and visit in their droves.

After years of neglect stretching back to the end of the 2nd world war, Liverpool is starting to use its many assets to project itself as the vibrant, cultured, and thrilling city that those who live here know it is.

Many who live here take it for granted but there is so much going on in Liverpool that just doesn't happen anywhere else.

Example, most people who have been to see friends or family off at Lime St may have had a pint in the Crown pub on the corner. Itâ€™s always looked ornate if a little run down, with an unbelievable plaster roof painted a sickly yellow inside. Went there Saturday night, and it has been restored to its former glory with the plaster ceiling repainted and figures in the plasterwork picked out in gold leaf, beautiful wood paneling,and stained windows. Absolutely stunning.

One of the great gin palaces The Crown, along with The Grapes (the Big house) and The Philharmonic pub just do not exist anywhere else in the country. What other city has a pub that gives tourists a tour of its toilets?

Things are getting better and the opening of Liverpool 1, One Park West and the rest of the buildings can only help to change British people's attitudes.

Prawn is one of several people who in recent weeks have said Liverpool has nothing architecturally. Liverpool City Centre, (not just the Pier Head) is a United Nations world heritage site because of the architecture in the city. Honestly we do have buildings that are the envy of cities across the country. If it wasn't for Oriel Chambers in Liverpool City Centre there would be no Skyscrapers in the world, thatâ€™s how important some of our buildings are.

chowbaby

Liverpool is a great city to live in .it has a heart and it beats unless you live there you will never no.

RAINBOW

its great,people ,places to go ,sights to see and we are the capital of culture

Hugo Fitch

It is like no other city.

It is both beguiling and infuriating.

I couldn't live anywhere else.

Its critics are usually English people who have never been here or they came for a footy match or something similarly doltish and were determined to dislike the place before they even arrived. Foreigners love the place, but then they are more cultured and open-minded than the English.

As for poorly-travelled Prawn's comments about architecture, I'll just repeat the oft-stated facts that:-

1. Liverpool has more listed buildings than anywhere in Britain outside London,
2. Liverpool has more Georgian buildings than Bath; the Canning Street area is a popular location for film and television companies from Britain and abroad and has been for over thirty years,
3. the Albert Dock and its adjacent complex is the largest group of listed buildings in Europe
4. Liverpool has more trees per head of population than any other European city.

Of course we still suffer from moronic city councils who keep wanting to knock everything down, and sadly they still succeed. It is also often stated that the council has over the years done far greater damage to the city than Hitler's Luftwaffe.

emmamac

Library is brilliant

Joe C

just like 2 add the cathedral is the largest in europe and something like the 3rd largest in the world !!!

Little One

I agree with Neil and in fact I am moving there from London because I love it so much.

Tony C

I thought it was a great place with great people with a great sense of humour. Superb football team named after the city and its capital of culture 2008, one of the greatest bands ever came from there and i was reading somewhere the other day that Liverpool has had more hit records than any other city but I am sure there will be a few people who will knock it.

jessie

liverpool is like their people , bloody brilliant no city like it

Scouse

Yes we all who live in Liverpool know the problems which are mainly one of perception. I do not think we have any more scales etc than any other major city. It is true that many of our best buildings date back to Victorian times and as a port much of it's history will naturally be round the docks which to the south end are no longer even recognisable as docks due to redevelopment. Depending upon where you are you will find little gratuitous volence around.

It should be remembered that if a news item of something bad happening and it is in Liverpool the headlines will always say Liverpool but if it happens in the surrounding area it is Merseyside which of course in peoples minds is equal to Liverpool. if it is good the correct location is given which is not Liverpool it may be a district of Liverpool but no one knows that . Sounds like a scouse moan but sadly what I say is simply true

fafandloo

Allot of people on hear think and do give Liverpool a bad name , thay think that were all shell suit robbers and drug dealer and we all spend are days doing these things , most of the people saying that id bet thay have never been to Liverpool in there lives .

Saying that yes these things do happen most and nearly every day , stealing cars ,drugs being sold and robbing people but its not just Liverpool its EVERY WERE ,all over the world , so before these people start to judge Liverpool and the people who are from there thay need to take a good look closer to home before thay start slating Liverpool and the scousers off .

simonmoffit

its a pit

ukok

Im well travelled but havent actually been. It dosent look a particularly attractive City, history mainly victorian and based around docks. So perhaps lacking in historic buildings. I always think of scallys, scousers, car theft and LFC. But beyond that I guess its not unlike birmingham, newcastle and other big uk cities.

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