American Reacts to Why Liverpool is Different From the Rest of England - Scouse Not English
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In this video I react to Liverpool and why it's different from the rest of England. I was surprised to find out citizens of Liverpool call themselves Scousers and use the phrase Scouse not English in order to separate themselves. At first I didn't understand why that was, but after seeing how the government of England supposedly treated the people of Liverpool for decades it began to make sense.
Liverpool seems to be a beautiful city of art, music, football and friendly people. I loved learning about the culture of the people and the history of the city, but I'd like to check out another video sometime soon to explore more of the architecture and things to do in Liverpool.
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I’m from Liverpool. Liverpool is not anti England or British. It’s anti bad press towards the city - led by historical governments and sections of the media. Plenty of scousers are proud Brits, for example the families of those who have served and in some cases died for our country. It is a shining example of values and determination.
This ^^
100%. Every word.
I'm English and Scousers were always lovely and friendly to me, in fact I've never heard of the "Scouse not English" movement until now. But it's very understandable they way they were treated by The S*n and the government, while decent people are on your side. I'm glad Liverpool can see the the difference, many can learn from your example.
Liverpool is a stopping off point for half of the Eastern European and Russian immigrant refugees from pograms and other forms of nastiness on the way to New York. The Hull to Liverpool rail link was an essential part of the trip from Hamburg to NY from about 1840 to 1940; so a lot of Americans have Liverpool in their family history, especi,ally those coming from Eastern EUROPE and beyond.
okay but liverpool players always had more pride in playing for liverpool than they did england but a chelsea or arsenal player would have more pride playing for england than their club
Liverpool gets too much hate from people who have never actually been to the city!
I've never heard anyone dissing Scousers, and booing is usual with fans of opposing teams. I don't know why they should boo the National anthem when it was the government that oppressed them, not the Monarchy. This is all news to me, and I would be interested to know what year this football match was filmed.
I've never known any hate for any citizens of Liverpool myself. This is news to me, and I am amazed.
As a scouser we do get hate a lot of it… during the 80’s the government and press showed the rest of the country it was ok to say what they wanted about us mostly lies (Hillsborough as the main example) and as most do they take the word of government and media as gospel so we batten down the hatches and clubbed together… you still get the whole thieves comments and scum comments mostly from southerners who like mentioned have never stepped foot near here
I live in the middle of manchester and liverpool in a town called wigan , but ive never known what the narrater says about liverpool about a divide
The city is a fab place great for days out and the people there are very proud people
There will always be that love hate or a hate, hate relationship between Manchester and Liverpool.
Born and bred Londoner here, I bloody love Liverpool! It reminds me of how London used to be, full of friendly people and community spirit. I'd move there in a heartbeat!
Anyone is welcome in Liverpool
Except Mancunians.
Mancs and Scousers are ancient enemies, and shall remain nemesis in perpetuity.
@@ginacable5376funnily enough me and my wife go to London very often and we have found that the average Londoner is lovely, I don't know if the stereotype of Londoners being cold and stand off ish and scousers being criminals is just something that exists in the minds of idiots and the newspapers but our experience has been when a cockney hears our accents they strike up a conversation and tell us their life stories, the last time we were there the cab driver added me on Facebook because we ended up putting the world to rights while stuck in traffick.....as a Scouser I love London and cockneys
@kevinduggan201 Well said. True Londoners are just as friendly as our northern cousins. I'm quite happy to have a conversation with a stranger on the Tube (and often have!) or bus. Sadly it's often those who move here for work after they leave university that give us a bad name as they only seem to want to exist in their own little bubbles while they're busy climbing the corporate ladder.
Born and bred in Edinburgh ,but love the Glaswegians the Geordies and of course the Scousers...one of my hometowns best exports was Graeme Souness...a "gentle " laddie..
I remember after that famous 5-1 win in Germany, (I was in Germany at the time), The German commentator interviewed Owen, Gerrard and the manager, the Swede Sven Goran Eriksson,..... he could only understand what Eriksson said.
I was born in Nottingham and moved to Liverpool in 2006, best thing I ever did. The people are amazing, friendly and have a fantastic sense of humour. The day after moving, I went to the city centre and got lost, I was looking for the bank (before Google Maps was a thing), I asked a guy for directions, he asked me to wait a couple of minutes. I waited while he finished what he was doing and instead of telling me the directions he walked me there, that will always stay with me. I remember my mum coming to visit, I met her at the train station and saw she had the Sun newspaper, I told her to get rid of it. She got rid and asked why, since then she’s never bought the Sun.
There’s a divide between the North and the South. The North doesn’t get as much funding from the government, but when you visit places like Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire etc you can see their pride, independence and uniqueness.
I’ve since moved to a small town called Wigan, which is in between Liverpool and Manchester. A vibrant small town, currently going through a refurbishment, not too far from L’pool and Manchester, but with stunning countryside. Best of both worlds. Still work in Liverpool, and miss living there.
Recently been tracing my family tree, and found out a lot of the family came from Ireland about 200yrs ago and moved to Liverpool, presumably to find work. Moving north feels like I’ve gone back to my roots ☺️
Im a fellow Notts person and have adored Liverpool since my first visit in 1981. Brought my son up to love it too. I have encouraged many friends and acquaintances to visit and give them my lists of where to stay, what to do and what to see. I jokingly say I should get commission.😅
I'm originally a Londoner and looked into buying a property near Liverpool's docks area with the intention of turning it into a guesthouse, but alas, far too expensive. I chose Liverpool initially because I love the city, the people, their culture, the Scouse accent and their history. I have always found it incredibly clean and never felt unsafe - even late at night walking past the Bombed-Out-Church (it has little notes, poems, and pictures attached to the outside which no one vandalises and the grounds are litter-free) and park on my way to the station, stopping to speak with the homeless individuals who were so polite and mindful - when I say 'mindful', I am talking in terms of them appreciating the fact I was a lady on my own and they didn't want to behave in any way that could be perceived as intimidating in any way. I felt much safer in Liverpool than I ever did living in London.
I had an Italian friend visiting me and I decided to take her to Liverpool for the day, we walked our feet off to work up an appetite for a late breakfast, I wanted to eat in a local cafe, one that was independent and not part of a chain and we found one in the docks area. My friend had already eaten a sandwich on the way they'd brought with them so it was just me for breakfast. We walked in, were seated, I ordered and we sat drinking our coffees while waiting. The waitress came out with two plates of food, one for my friend, I explained that an error had been made and the chef appeared, saying, "We can't have you eating on your own, so I made toast with avocado and poached eggs for your friend, on the house, please enjoy." We were taken aback and despite not being hungry, my friend ate it all. We thanked them profusely and left, but also had left a tip which would cover the cost of the additional breakfast as well. That was hospitality you rarely ever encounter and I'll never forget it.
The Mersey ferry is quite something, truly lovely river which flows into the Irish Sea. Being of half Irish descent, I can see the Irish influence in the Scouse culture.
Made me tear up a bit this ... thank you so much for saying this about us
A native of Limavady now an adopted son of Birkenhead...a great place...best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...❤❤😊😊..
@@eamonnclabby7067 oh ay a fellow Birkenheader !! Nice too see your comment !
Thank you for sharing that lovely story. I’m not surprised x
@@GeekyC You mean a Jerkinbedder...😉😝
I married a scouser and have lived here for 50 plus years. I have never regretted living here. The people are terrific. I can’t think of living anywhere else.I was born in Scotland and I have met lots of Scot’s here.
I've lived in both and back that they have a similar vibe. Citywise anyway
That's awesome! Love to hear it :)
I’m a Scot who lived on the Wirral from the age of nine until I was forty two, I loved Liverpool, Johnny Kennedy (whom I bet you know of) made me an honorary Scouser, even gave me a Scouse passport 😊 I feel that Glasgow and Liverpool are twin cities because of the people.
@@reactingtomyrootsI married a scouser too...Mrs C used to look after the Liverpool players of Mr Shankly's side as well as Mr Paisley...😊😊...am a Tranmere Rovers fan, the only English football club with a Hiberno Norse name...😊😊😊
@@jennigee51this is indeed true...best wishes from deepest Prenton
I'm from Liverpool.. it wasn't the press said Scouse not English, it was scouses themselves who used the phrase. Liverpool is a lovely city and I'm so proud of the place. Great video
Liverpool is a patriotic proud city. In first world War Liverpool men were first to enlist to fight for their country. In the second world war Liverpool was the centre of the battle of the Atlantic and was the second most bombed city in the UK. Do not out our loyalty either to our country and our city.
The city of Liverpool was the second most powerful city of the empire and generated incredible wealth. Sadly the decline of the port and lack of govt support has led to this situation-but Liverpool is back on the up and for scousees has always been the greatest place on earth to live.
Scouse accent sound like Scottish accent. Are they Sibling?
A few it said it the press jumped on it jumped on it, liverpool men manned the merchant navy ,longest line of docks in the world 9 mile long 13 mile of quays battle of the Atlantic run from Liverpool famous regiment liverpool kings liverpool pals were irish, b, great uncle won MM battle of Arrass anti establishment not roaylist ,plenty are as. My mothers northern Ireland , most of these idiot football fans did not even know there was.more than one verse in the national anthem ,for a monarch not a country, Thatcher hated Liverpool because we would not dance to her tune we do not boo the flag as our fathers fought behind that flag, they boo the national anthem and the establishment,
We just visited Liverpool. It is a lovely city. I went to University there in the 1980s so lived there for 3 years. It is a proud city with wonderful people and fantastic architecture. I never heard "Scousers not English". That's new to me.
You've not heard it because it's a steaming pile of cow poo, of course we're English.
It's new to me too...and I've lived here since I was born, 70 years ago. These aren't Scousers, they're self-pitying Grousers. True, there are some ignorati in the country who actually believe the press stereotypes, but most people dismiss them with some expletive or other and get on with life...which, with more disposable income than many in the overpriced SE, is generally pretty good.
I'm a complete Beatles fan have been since 1962 at the age of 15,and I've never heard of Scousers are not British, I come from Essex so we have a bad lable Essex Girls, but it's not to be believed, I love the Beatles accent, but Quote me if Im wrong, I've heard 2vthetes 2 different times of Liverpool accent, maybe like Essex there's the one who live near London have a different accent to the country folk, I grew up in the Country in a place called Ashingdon, nr Rochford
It came after the 80s, when Government after Government after Government. Especially Conservative ones, effectively let the city crumble. Its anti-establishment, Especially given that the country is typically against Liverpool.
@@dianasullivan3285lol so you like the Beatles yet know nothing about Liverpool !
I’m born and bread in Liverpool still live here and i’m proud to be a scouser this city has my heart and always will. Great video and always JFT97 YNWA ❤️
Hi Steve, If you drop a pin outside the Cote bistro on Paradise St. and look at Google Street View, you'll see a gilded eagle on the top floor. This is because this building was the very first consulate...anywhere in the world, of the infant United States. It was founded in 1790 and among its many consuls was one Nathaniel Hawthorne. Liverpool was also the place where the last Confederate flag was lowered...six months after Appomattox, when the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah finally sailed up the Mersey and surrendered. Liverpool has so much history...it also has more Georgian buildings than the much-vaunted Bath.
Wow, that's pretty interesting!
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived at Rock Park, Wirral, his house is now derelict and the by-pass was built through the middle of the estate. He visited Eastham and declared it to be: "the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and with altogether a rural and picturesque aspect, unlike anything in America, and yet possessing a familiar look, as if it were something I had dreamed about."
liverpoolmiscellany.blogspot.com/2019/09/hawthorne-diaries-welcome-to-rock-park.html
In fact Liverpool has more Grade 2 listed buildings than any other city outside of London.
Liverpool is an amazing city - brimming with music, arts, history and culture!! Love visiting - the friendliest people outside of our wee island of Ireland, there’s a reason they call it the 33rd county of Ireland! ❤❤ YNWA!
I went to uni in Liverpool from 2008-2012. I got the response of "why you going to Liverpool? It's dangerous!". I loved it and don't regret studying and living there! The people are so lovely and friendly. 🥰
Hey man, I'm the creator of this video! I try to understand the stories, views, and culture of local people in my videos, so it's a little different from the classic travel vlog as you noted. I'm so glad to see you enjoyed it and it was fun watching your reaction!
Scouse English and proud 🏴
Hoping to get the Owain Glyndwr vid passed the doorman but we need a couple more on Wales generally first.
Great video, I enjoyed the more focussed and historical perspective - from a Scouser.
It was a good video. The only thing I know to be wrong was the suggestion that people outside of Liverpool believed the vile stories about 15/04/1989. Maybe a minority believed the Sun for a time, until they were.shown up for the lies.
My forest family were incensed to read the lies, they saw what happened from inside the ground. They knew from the outset that The Sun was spewing the most vile lies.
It's like they were shell shocked when they got home. Dad just kept saying " there was only one ambulance!!!" and for the rest of his life he ,along with my whole family commemorate that day.
7:06 These are the three graces that dominate the waterfront at the Pier Head, the main Mersey ferry terminal. They are from left to right, The Royal Liver Building (know as just the Liver Building, former headquarters of the Royal Liver Assurance company), the Cunard Building (former headquarters of the Cunard Shipping company) and the Port of Liverpool Building. All were built in the early 20th century and are now listed buildings, which means that as far as possible they are to be maintained as they are and very limited alterations are permitted. The Liver Building is the most recognisable by the two domed towers that feature the Liverbirds, symbol of the city. Local legend has it that the one facing out to the river is a female, Bella, and she is watching for the safe return of the city's sons aboard whatever ship they served in, and the one facing the city is male, Bertie, watching for the pubs to open to buy the returning seamen a pint! The clock face on the tower is also the largest clock face in the UK, at 25ft across making it larger than the clock on Queen Elizabeth II tower, aka, Big Ben, which is actually the bell, not the clock.
During the time of Hillsborough and to this day I not once believed it was the fans at fault. It was so obviously bad crowd management. The press do not speak the words of the people. I hope everyone tries to remember that.
I Remember it with horror and Sadness I'm 12 miles from Sheffield with relatives from Liverpool. I never believed the Press or Government of the day .I never Bought the Sun or Mail again.
Well the Sun certainly didn't.
I Read you Brother.
Liverpool has a fantastic history. Much of the architecture in the city centre is magnificent (despite the fact that it was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in the Second World War). And down by the water there are many memorials to various people who died during the war, such as merchant mariners of various nations, as well as naval and military personnel. There is also a memorial to the engine room staff of the Titanic.
There are fantastic museums and art galleries, too. The operations room from where the Battle of the Atlantic was directed has been preserved, and you can visit it (it's in the basement of one of the large buildings in the centre, under a thick slab of bomb-proof concrete).
It's really worth a visit.
I will keep that in mind! Sounds like a fascinating place :)
The city planers in the 60s did more damage than hitler
We also have 2 cathedrals, the Anglican (the big red sandstone building you can see towering over the city) and the Catholic cathedral which is known as Paddy's wigwam.
Yes! I have been watching your channel for quite a while now and was elated when I saw this video featured! I am from Liverpool and have lived here for all my life. Oh, I've travelled but have always been relieved and gratified to return to Scouseland, as we call it. As Frank Carlyle explained, this city has been so unfairly treated by other English people and foreigners and nobody seems to know why - we are only trying to be ourselves. O.K. we talk and maybe act somewhat differently from the norm - whatever the norm is - but we are a proud people, and we love what we are! I think that because we do not conform to this 'norm', there is a little bit of jealousy from lots of others. Scousers do not like this. They need to be accepted for what they are and that is a unique people who have been scorned through the ages for no comprehensible reason. Anyway, thank you for discovering what you have about our little city. I would hope that when you do eventually come to the U.K. you will take at least one day to see our home for yourself.
Bless you, Steve and have a wonderful life. Best wishes to you and yours.
Na La we talk proper it's everyone else that's different
What do we English say about you, don't genralize.
Happy to hear that and glad to have you following along on the journey :). Blessings to you and yours as well. We'll definitely try to have Liverpool on our itinerary when we make it across the pond!
@@johnhill8819 Ooohh! English others say some insulting, disheartening, incorrect and alarming things about Scousers, some of which can be accepted because, let's be honest, there are good and bad everywhere and it's the very few whose words and actions spoil the image for those who do not know us that are accepted as general Scousers.
@@reactingtomyroots If you do manage to make it here, you will find that you are welcomed with open arms! Thanks for your reply!
Greetings from the People's Republic of Liverpool.
I have lived and worked in many places/countries on this planet (including yours) but Liverpool is the only place I was upset about leaving. Seriously, as in tears upset.
About 20 or so years ago, I moved to Liverpool for work and was here for several years. I had to leave for a couple of years, again, work related and was absolutely gutted. I was so happy to find myself inthis great city, as since I was a teenager in the early 1970s, I wanted to be Beryl from "The Liver Birds", a sit com, set in Liverpool. Approaching my 60s, I had the opportunity to return and couldn't say no. I will live here till I stop breathing.
This is the most genuine city you could find. It's populated by the finest souls, the most generous and kind people you could ever wish to meet. I have never come across a nasty person here in all that time. I can't understand why people bad mouth here, other than they're jealous. My dad was Scottish, my mum was Cornish and I decided that I belonged in the middle (although I was born in that cesspool, London, where noone will give you the time of day and will step over you should you fall on the ground).
Liverpool truly is an unbeatable place to be. It's about the collective here. It's not the wealthiest city in the country, infact there is quite a lotof hardship in places, but people pull together in strong neighbourhood communities, such as Croxteth, Anfield, Toxteth. Don't believe the negative hype, it's utter crap mostly put about by the right wing press.
A large percentage of students never leave after completing their degrees at one of the three universities.
That kind of says a lot.
As for Scouse: well this is a word derived from a kind of stew brought by Scandinavian sea farers and I guess it became attached to the population. Apart from being a stew, which you can have with meat or without (Blind Scouse), Scouse is also what people speak. A Scouser is a person born in Liverpool.
And to all you Scousers who might read this, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being so welcoming and making people feel that they too, belong and have a place in the community. I am not the first person from my family to settle in this city as I recently found out from a cousin who does our family history. We must be drawn here.
YNWA says it all, really ❤. ( sorry Toffees, 😉)
Hi Steve, i come from the South of England a place called Portsmouth, i was in the merchant navy and visited Liverpool on many occasions, it's a great city very friendly people, I was always sad when we had to sail away from there, i would recommend you visit there when you come to the UK also visit Portsmouth with it's navy history.
I can certainly recommend Portsmouth Naval Base as a place to visit. It's open to the public and you can go onboard HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship that won the Battle of Trafalgar in the Napoleonic wars, very immersive. There's also half of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's 16th C flagship raised from the seabed in the 1980's after sinking on her maiden voyage.
Thanks! Appreciate the recommendation. :)
@@TimeyWimeyLimeyI'd recommend staying off hasler island. I remember turning up on the last train, and a fella with a speed boat took me across, cos the ferry had stopped for the night.
Checked into the navy base, filthy! Woke up next day and had an appointment as the hospital nextdoor, as I left the base I realized it was one of the roughest places I've been.
I come from a big council estate just outside liverpool that is rough, and that island was the only (up until that point) that put me on edge. At the time a was a 20 year old marine, so didn't lack conferences, so that says a lot about Hasler. Named after a great fella.
Ffs a few years, the only other place in the UK that had me on edge, was merthyr tidfyl (just north of Cardiff). That was rought in the late 90s. Went into a Chinese to ask for directions, thought it was the safest bet, given my English accent.
Bloody Hasler, great guy, one of the forefathers of what became Special forces.
Liverpool has its northern west English influence plus that of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The real part of England that could be a separate Country like Wales and Scotland though would be Cornwall. Its own language and some differences in ethnicity, the history and the fact that it's in its own corner. Be strange though because the Welsh Dragon on the Union Jack is one thing but the Black and White of Cornwall would be crazy
I work in Liverpol, am there now in fact and I cant understand a bloody word
As an Irish person I love Liverpool, i visit regularly.. have always felt welcomed and many a night in s pib. I've had pints bought just because im Irish. Im actually going back over 13/12/23 for three days. Its my 5th visit this year. Im Old enough to remember Hillsborough. Ireland mourned the victims too.. may they get justice. 3 of the Beatles had Irish heritage.. McCartney's family cam over from thr famine ( genocide) Lennon's grandparents were Irish.. Harrisons mum came from Dublin and would regularly go back and visit his Irish family. YNWA
The Beatles were all English not Irish . As for the famine it’s got nothing to do with anyone who’s alive today so why the need to bleed on about every 2 seconds on the internet everyone is sick of hearing it & btw nobody cares the world had moved on accept for the Irish who want to be Victims.
I'm a Liverpudlian, born and bred. No Scouse accent though. My sister recently made me take a DNA test (she's into all that Heritage stuff) and I was a little surprised to discover that I'm only 18% English. It was utterly dwarfed by the Scottish, Irish and Welsh percentage (entirely expected); and even the broader NW European DNA. We're a mongrel lot. 😊
Mentioning parts of the beatles' ethnicity is pointless. John Lennons mum was english, His english dad of part Irish ancestry abandoned him. George's mum was not irish. None of them went and lived in Ireland or went back to liverpool😂. They are all english and nothing else.
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AGREED English and proud 🏴
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekLennon was obsessed with his Irish side, he bought an Island over there.....Paul has home there , and George's Mother was Irish...They even got involved politically ..." Give Ireland back to the Irish"" song got banned....so if they acknowledged and proud of their heritage ...." Let it be..!!!!" Why would you even question that not like uncommon heritage there..💚☘️
I was in Liverpool last November for a couple of days and honestly, from the streets and the architecture it felt like I was in Glasgow, it had such a familiar feel, I've always thought the two cities were like siblings. Glasgow also has a long history of maritime trade, as well, no iconic band like the Beatles, but we do have a rich shipbuilding heritage. and for a while Glasgow was also the Empire's second city...
liverpool was second city of empire real fact i am a scouser it was a major port glasgow is nothing compared to this place just look at liverpool its on another level
Same here...from the opposite direction. Although it probably helps that I've got really strong Scottish roots. The Big Yin has pointed out the same thing on several occasions. 👍
Glasgow can claim fame by being the home town of Billy Connolly. As alfrsco mentioned above.
Birmingham is the 2nd city, though Manchester also claims it.
@@alfresco8442But you had the best artistic and innovative band between 1979-82...Simple Minds who for the first 5 Albums were the best band in Britain by far....but then they sold out, but we have the Beatles the greatest of all time, and another Liverpool band with Glasgow connections are a band called "Shack" with Mick and John Head who have family in Glasgow and spent their holidays in Glasgow when they were growing up, they are the second best band to come out of our city.
I was born in Liverpool, raised in Wales and raised my own family in Ireland and I'm proud of all of it.
Full circle 😂
I left Liverpool in the mid-eighties and made my home in South Wales. I am proud to be a Scouser and am definitely Scouse, not English.
In Ireland they called it the 33rd county as soooooooio many Irish moved over........ fabulous people
If you get a chance, do look further into the Hillsborough Disaster. It was a terrible tragedy at the time- but as the truth and lies eventually came out- that was equally shocking! Its unbelievable that the truth was never established legally until about 2016, nerly 30 years after the event.
Hey Steve. I'm a Liverpool FC fan so although not from Liverpool I have many friends there, have visited dozens of times and am part of a Liverpool online community. You are right the booing of the national anthem is not specifically aimed at King Charles or the Queen before him but an anti establishment movement. Even today Scousers get mocked and sung about as thieves and mostly about stealing your hub caps!
I have always found the people warm, witty and friendly.
Everton is an area of Liverpool. FYI - Everton FC stadium (at the moment before they move into a new stadium) is 350 yards from Anfield stadium where Liverpool FC play. It's the closest football stadium where both teams play in the top division.
That’s it 100%.
When Dundee and Dundee united are both in the top division ; they are the closest in proximity on one street Tannadice Street
@@therealdeal9698thats true and genuinely unique 👍
Yeah it’s only a small section at Anfield that boo the national anthem, the rest like my farther who’s a season ticket holder are embarrassed by it, wonder out of those who boo, how many are from Liverpool, how many do it because those around are doing it, and how many actually believe and support it ?
The British state has turned on its own a few times. Look up the Peterloo Massacre.
Yes, I was taught history in school, but actually learnt so much more from family, community & random people I came across. I especially enjoy social history. When studying for my history "O" Level, we mainly covered the agricultural revolution & the industrial revolution, etc. That was hard going! I studied many other topics because of detentions & "punishment homework". I ended up learning about many other interesting eras & topics. Plus being of East end stock, I was told about the Battle of Cable Street & the Sidney Street siege, the Chartists, the Matchgirls strike & Jarrow Marchers, etc. I found it all quite fascinating, so I have never stopped learning & researching history! 😊👍
@@mossygreen2790 And just to prove your point, you've now taught me about the Sidney Street siege! Much obliged!
@@medeamedusa42 oh good, Thx. I find there is always something new to hear about & learn From?! 😊👍
I'm now 76 years old and in the 1980's this Managed Decline was brutal. The population fell dramatically because there were no decently paid new jobs to be had, if you wanted to improve at all you had to move away, usually down south. I remember being in Liverpool when there was no money for anything around the city like cleaning, litter collection, even cutting the grass. If you went across the boundary into the neighbouring towns, it was like going into a different world. they had the money, they were clean and well looked after by comparison, we were in Managed Decline.
When Thatcher died years later, some people had parties. It was like Guy Fawkes Night or your Fourth of July.
There has always been poverty in the south , you only need to think of the slums during the victorian times , there are lots of working class in the south that still struggle just as much as you in the north .
True… maggies passing was a celebration😁
Same in the mining communities in Yorkshire after what she did in 1984
@@claregale9011and it can in some respects be even more difficult as everything is more expensive!
im from Portsmouth, i been to Liverpool as a kid with my uncle where we was on holiday in Blackpool, but went to Liverpool for a day. the people are friendly and kind, i went to McDonalds and the staff member said good day instead of saying good evening. i would love to go back there again.
Hi Steve the building that you mention is called The Royal Liver Building it has an interesting history check it out ..Best Wishes Good Luck.
Liverpool had a reputation for crime - but whereever there's poverty there's crime. People would rather blame the people, rather than solve the problems that led them to that situation.
Spot on.
Every town has its good and bad.
The man city fans use to chant at anfield "where's our car stereos"
There’s more crime in hull, Manchester, the north east and London …
Least that was Better than what some of them chant now.
Liverpool is my home city although I live 'over the water' on the Wirral peninsula. There is so much history, culture, music, fun and love in Liverpool. The Royal Liver Building is the one you liked. Together with the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building it makes up one of 'The Three Graces', the iconic Liverpool waterfront. There is a huge maritime history and it has some stunning architecture. Liverpool played a huge part in WWII and the Battle of the Atlantic.
Liverpool is a great place to go for a night out. It did used to have a bad reputation but the police cracked down really hard in the 80s/90s I think it was. They had a huge presence, but not aggressive, they were there to help and everyone appreciated it and made them a part of their night out, chatting and taking selfies etc It's now a safe and vibrant nightlife.
We have two cathedrals (at either end of Hope Street), three universities, two football teams. Several hospitals, Loads of parks...
There are Tunnels built under the city for no apparent reason other than to give unemployed men a new trade and something to do during the depression.
The past tensions still exist, but it's more like friendly banter now, or sibling rivalry.
I could go on and on, but no holiday in the UK should be without a few days in Liverpool; there's so much to see and do for all the family - and all that's without even mentioning the music.... I could be here all day ...
Yeah, sounds like we'll definitely have to add it to our itinerary when we make the trip! :)
@@reactingtomyroots Give me a shout, I'll show you round lad.
Elloo fellow Wirral neighbour lol also same for me :) We also have Birkenhead park here that was the insparation for Centrel park in New york ! i hate that i was never taught more history in school about Liverpool and the whole of Merseyside .. there is so much there a lot people my age dont know about.
@reactingtomyroots The Main Museum,Maritime Museum and Liverpool life Museum are all free as is the Art Gallery and Central Library which all have amazing architecture inside. The Museum,Library and Art Gallery are all next to each other just across the road from St.Georges Hall and Lime Street Railway station. We also have 2 Road Tunnels under the River Mersey and 2 Bridges that go over the River Mersey further up the River.
There's also an Underground 🚇 railway or Subway under the Mersey..
There's expensive restaurants Pub's and Clubs but also more reasonably priced place's if you shop around or ask people. ❤👍👍👍.
I always thought the Irish got our accent from Liverpool.
I remember the Hillsborough Disaster happening. I was out playing football with my friends and some more friends came up to us and told us that there was riots happening. I went home to get a drink and saw it on the news, but over the next few hours/days the real horror of what was happening came to light.
Whenever I hear You'll Never Walk Alone since that happened I just see the pitch covered in wreaths, flowers, flags, scarves, jerseys, etc plus the people crushed up against the fence. YNWA has a whole new meaning after that day
The beauty of Liverpool is "no matter where you roam." Liverpool will always be the place I come back to, the place I call home. "Scouse Not English" will forever be tattooed on my heart.
Being of East end (Cockney) stock, I have may be a my own views, of Liverpool. Visited in late 70's & 80's. It was through having Welsh extended family, who would visit Liverpool quite regularly & friends from Manchester, Blackpool & the pool itself that the connection was formed. We had a positive view, it was no different from anywhere else in the UK to us. But it was Hillsborough, that totally ruined things?! Us East-enders, were on the side of the Scousers, we knew cops will lie through their teeth, as a means to an end. From then on we didn't by the "scum" aka "The sun" newspaper, especially after Liverpool boycott of the Murdoch press, ( a native Australian, now has American citizenship & a media empire). Murdoch media has very dirty hands, not just with Liverpool. Look what they did to Milly Dowler & her poor family, many others? Yes Murdoch press has damaged many innocent & vulnerable people, all for massive profits! So many east end & Essex stock supported the Scousers, we know to look at cops, governments & the powers that be with the side eye! Always question things & don't believe everything you read. After Hillsborough it took 30 years to clear the name & reputation Liverpool supporters & the city. I remember it very well, as we watched it "live" on the TV & the only people who were helping to save people were the Fans. No one else was doing anything, in facts officials & cops tried to hinder them. Duckenfield has a lot to answer for!! Scousers know that there has always been working class folk from the south who know you were shafted. RIP the 98 & peace & posterity for the grieving city.
From a scouser to a cockney ❤. I've always known massive parts of the south east have had our back. The general public will disagree! But I know this as fact👍
@@jeffreymonks8507 actually, being a Boomer, I clearly remember my boyfriend, (who became my husband) saying at the time when Thatcher got voted in the 70's, "she is going to give the police massive pay rises, perks & benefits. Then do more recruiting to fill the ranks, etc. Then, he said to me something I couldn't quite believe (at that time)! He said, "Thatcher, wants a quasi militant police force, because there is going to be a lot of civil unrest leading to Riots". I thought no, surely it won't ever get that bad? This is not going to be a repeat of "Paris" & other areas of France of the 1960's? Yes, I was naive, especially to how the police & governments "really" operate! Then came the fruitition of the "Thatcherite policies" which totally destroyed much of the country. Endless riots, massive strikes everywhere & the total destruction of the manufacturing sectors. Even ex Tory leader, Ted Heath, denounced her policies, saying, "how is the country going earn a living, as the newly devised (dreamed up) "service industry" is not going to be able to replace it. Is everyone going to end up having to take in each other's washing to get by". = end quote. (not "exact" verbatim). She caused huge unease even in her own party & called those who questioned or criticised her as, "The Wets". Glad she ended up all alone, not even visited by her own children, who she also sacrificed for her political ambitions. Even the late Queen didn't like her. Her favourite prime minister was Harold Wilson (Labour) a typical down-to-earth, straight talking Northerner. It was amusing to see the cheering & smiles when maggie passed away. People jeered & booed etc, during her funeral processions. It was a case of good riddance!
Through bribery, she sold off, (or gave away) millions of council houses & did Not carry out the promise of replacing all them with new builds. This resulting in the acute shortage of decent affordable housing for the poorer pworking classes. She also sold off the nationalised industries, like the power, transport, water companies. Now we, & especially the younger generations have to pay the heavy price & carry that burden, brought by that awful, cruel woman. On the lighter side,.. we used to love watching "Spitting Image" the TV series that lampooned them all. 👍
Sorry for my massive rant, I couldn't stop myself. It came pouring out, so please bare with me!! 😊😁
@@mossygreen2790 thanks for the reply. Agree with everything you said. I've had my rants in the past as well. On a lighter note: will your rant be coming out in a paper back, or hard back? 🤣
@@jeffreymonks8507 ha, ha, oh gosh, that can be a rather weary subject? But life experiences with friends, family, travelling, etc is a minefield of more interesting & entertaining perspectives, to portray? I will think about it? Lol 🤔😊
@@mossygreen2790 I left Liverpool in 1980 after just finishing my Electrical Engineering Apprenticeship because the Company I worked for was put out of business by the stupid Thatcher government, moved 200 miles south to work for an Aerospace company only to be made redundant just after the Falklands war due again to Thatcher closing down the factory I then went to work for British Telecom and same again sold off and privatised with massive redundancies.😡😡.
Hope she rots in hell.
The way the Government and Police handled Hillsborough was disgusting, a dark stain on our country's history.
HEYSEL?
Why mention Heysel?
The club was punished, the fans/hooligans were arrested and even jailed. @@uppyraptor49
@@uppyraptor49The kiddie fiddler is back. Anything about Liverpool the nonce as something to say.
He's well known on FB for being a nonce.
Lives in a bedsit watching kiddie porn.
His jealousy of liverpool is unreal.
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@@uppyraptor49yeah the government did do something about that. They started treating football firms as criminal gangs, arrested people in dawn raids, prison sentences, banning orders ect. Outside of that I don't know what you expected the British government to do as it wasn't on British soil and it was against an Italian team. Unless you're suggesting that because some fans did something bad that that means that the government should help a corrupt police force who battered miners and covered up one of Britain's biggest paedophile rings cover up killing a different group of fans (because the ones responsible for 85 were did 15 years so wouldn't have even been half way through their sentences at the time and one would have only been 4 or 5 years old) but you couldn't have meant that because no homosapien is that void of intellect.
I think maybe it’s down to us being a bit more…socialist, possibly? Than most places in the country. We have a large Irish and Welsh population historically, and the sad events and managed decline of the 1980’s have coloured the city base more towards looking after each other, looking out for people who need help etc. It can be a great place to live, obviously we have crime and social issues just as other cities do, but that’s just how everywhere is now I suppose. If you ever came over you would be guaranteed a very warm welcome and as the song goes, “we don’t care what you’re name is boy, we’ll never turn you away” 😊 have a great day sir!
Love that! :)
Our Northern English accents are much viewed like with your Southern accents. There is a North, South divide fueled by a lack of fair distribution development funds from the government. More funds seem to go to rural affluent communities rather than impoverished cities.
Yes, and yet more and more Northerners voted Conservative ... I'll never understand that myself.
@@martinwebb1681Because they voted to leave the EU and then Labour, a champagne socialist, pissed all over their democratic victory by saying they'd reverse it.... It's not hard to understand unless you're a spoiled brat champagne socialist.
And by some coincidence, the MP's, bankers, stockbrokers and industrialists just happen to live in those Southern rural villages in the London commuter belt where all that development dough seems to end up.
Not just northern accents and people. Anyone with a cockney type accent also get the mantle of being stupid etc. I think it is a class thing not geographical. I was born and brought up in south London and when I started work had to suppress my cockney accent and speak something closer to RP but I have retained my nasal twang! Ordinary people are not against scousers that comes from the political class and scummy newspapers but they don't speak for all of us. I had a weeks holiday in Liverpool with friends we wanted to see the Gormley installation on the beach the Cathedrals and the street statuary. We had a tour round the docks and we saw all the lovely buildings. We had a great time and there is such a buzzy vibe in Liverpool that energises you. Fabulous. And my favourite comedian is John Bishop!
My Dad is from Liverpool, but moved away due his job. Visiting Liverpool as kid, I always felt I belonged and always want to live here. Little did I know I would meet a scouser and move up here. I loved it here, I still have family and yes it’s the a very welcoming and friendly place. YNWA
Just remember successive governments in the USA have been managing the decline in places like Detroit and Gary Indiana for years..
Yeah, definitely isn't a localized phenomenon.
@@reactingtomyrootsAnd Liverpool has 70% Irish descent like both sides of my family, it is the only Roman Catholic city in England which is predominantly church of England, although religion isn't the big factor in the city as it is a huge multicultural city being a port, it also has the oldest Chinese Community in Europe, the greatest football team in England ( Liverpool fc) and the greatest rock band The Beatles.
@@reactingtomyrootsAnd I have heard the American civil war officially ended in the American consulate in Liverpool when a confederate warship sailed up the river Mersey into Liverpool...although you need to confirm this yourself. Adolf Hitler lived in Liverpool with his relatives between October 1911- March 1912.
@@James-hd6ez religion is a massive part of Liverpool. Also outside of London it has the second biggest Chinese community. And the original football team who played first and won the league title first at anfield are Everton, the people's club who do more for the community of Liverpool than most clubs in this country. But you were right about the city being multicultural, it always has been for a thousand years.
@@James-hd6ez it's a myth that Hitler lived in Liverpool, he never did. His brother did with his wife who was Irish if I'm not mistaken. And the last surrender of the American civil war was made on the Confederate ship on the river Mersey
I'm from London and am from Irish descent but I would never boo the English national anthem, in fact my full name couldn't be more Irish but I love and respect England as I do the rest of the UK and I had a mate from Liverpool who said to me the Irish aren't the same as us, you don't get many scousers in London now but I have always found them friendly enough tbf. I don't like booing the anthem though.
Maybe you would if Thatcher had let London wither and die in a “managed decline”. Or if the authorities had called innocent Liverpudlians thugs to cover up their own mistakes in causing 97 deaths. Maybe you’d have less affection for the anthem then.
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Behave, Thatcher is long gone, it’s not the 80s , and the city has moved on, it seems some haven’t.
@@mrjinks5641 Behave? Thatcher’s legacy is still there in the low paid jobs and sh1thole estates. Her progeny are still sh1tting all over the north of England with their laughable “levelling up”.
You can’t move on from the now no matter how inconvenient it might be.
I think it's stupid but it's honestly hard to explain. There's a culture in Liverpool, almost like the Spartans in 300 in that scousers will wear being a scouser as a badge of honour. A common insult for example is to call someone a "wool" which is short for "woolyback" which originally derived from the dock workers who brought wool in on their backs but as these were mainly immigrants, the term wool became to mean outsider and now refers to people in and around Merseyside who aren't from Liverpool (think Johnny Vegas). So when you say that to someone, you're stripping away their scouseness so to speak. There's certain things that go with this. So you'd never wear white socks for example. You'd never wear Burberry. You wouldn't gel your hair even in the mid 2000s. You wouldn't drive around in a little hatchback and then put a massive spoiler and stickers all over it. At the most you'd tint your windows. The reason I'm saying this is because a lot of that booing really comes from the younger lads who heard about Liverpool fans doing it in the 80's and then did it because they think it makes them Scouse if that makes sense? Then when they do it, the entire country cries. Literally bursts into tears. So what are British male football fans going to do if they get a bite from all their rivals? Well they're going to do it again. Honestly if everyone just ignored them then they wouldn't have made it a thing.
My husband is from Liverpool. We still have lots of family that live there! It’s a lovely city. Lots of 60s bands are from Liverpool!
I live across the river Mersey from Liverpool, in The Wirral. Liverpool is an amazing city and so are the people. Spent many a weekend either shopping or in the bars. Liverpool night life is brilliant.
Best thing on a cold winters night is making a big pan of scouse for tea, "sticks to your ribs" as my mum used to say
Growing up scouse was our family's comfort food, and even now I cook it for my son and I each Winter.
Liverpool has more museums and art galleries than anywhere else in the UK,except London
I came to work in Liverpool for about 5years great set of people to work with and very loyal. Three things you dont do, if you go out on stike never be a scab, never admit you vote tory or read the sun newspaper. And to this day the sun newspaper cant sell papers in Liverpool.
It's not that Liverpool is different, its that EVERYWHERE is different!
Scouse is a type of stew and is particularly associated with Liverpool and its people
We call the dish "Skipperlabskovs" in Denmark. "Labskaus" was an old word for stewing. The 'Skipper-' part, for us, comes from the use of salted meats that would hold on the long sea journeys up to the icy fishing waters.
Liverpool will always be my home, there's nowhere like it anywhere else. We do have a bit of 'sibling rivalry' with Manchester... but I do remember the last bombing that happened in Manchester... Scousers opened their doors for strangers to stay safe and taxi drivers all went to help people get away from the blast site. We're looked down on by other places but when bad stuff goes down we step up and help.
Really worth knowning that all of the negative attitutes towards scousers does not exist at all in nothern ireland. We love liverpool, a significant portion of people in liverpool are from nothern ireland escaping the famine, the wars, the troubles etc. My mum likes to call it other belfast sometimes because of how many relatives and friends we have over there.
We love the Irish .. Im a scouser but me Grandad who raised me is from the south .. got nothing but love for all the Irish and have a lot of people here around my area who are also from Dublin .. everytime they go to visit Dublin or the south they always say it feels like your just going back to catch up with family and friends who are just like you.. Always has a special place in my heart the Irish.
Say here in the south west of Ireland !! We love them for who they are.ps we feel the same as yourselves up there.😊
Native of Limavady now an adopted son of Birkenhead 😊😊😊
I’m from south of england have never had negative thoughts about scousers
Im from Liverpool and i can tell you that we will not be pushed around by government!! We have values and loyalty to our city and each other. We stick together and wont back down.
Liverpool is a beautiful city and all are welcome. You will always find scousers welcoming to all who visit or choose to settle here. Im a very very proud scouser and will be till i die. ❤
Me to, i loved over seas for 24yrs back in my home town of sunny Liverpool lol, you can take the girl out of liverpool BUT you cant take Liverpool out the girl . love Liverpool so much history xx
"Gun boats up the Mersey" is a phrase I've heard since childhood, and though I admit sometimes Liverpool isn't the innocent one, it has always seemed like the first to be blamed.
Still no matter where I've lived, in the end I came home to Liverpool, and plan never to leave her again.
Im from Derbyshire and have Relatives in Liverpool they are the Kindest and Friendliest people you could meet.Alot of my cousins went university all over the country. They all have done well .Mainly because of the Values my Uncle and Auntie installed in them .
Hi Steve very interesting video, I'm scouser born and bred , i know you like your architecture , a lot of TV And Films are done on location here The Batman was filmed at Liver building, Peaky blinders was filmed here to name but a few. Keep up the good work xx
Ah, okay! That's pretty cool
I'm English from the Midlands and I have never heard the phrase Scouse not English.
Their fans fly flags with it written on at football matches.
We have used that term for many Years explain WHY in another comment. And its true, toxeth riots in 80s was due to police brutality of the different racis they fought against Police. IT was huge toxie riots.. all shops where burton out etc. The fought for their rights. Thats WHY we are scouse not english..
Steve. My partner and I went to Liverpool for a weeks break. It was fine. We felt quite safe even at night. Like any big city it can have its bad areas. Lecturer mentioned English press being a bit anti Scouse. The Sun newspaper is hated in the city. Newsagents wont sell it, so I've heard. Most ordinary people in UK do not believe what the SUN said. Most Brits like Scousers. I do.
So, you are from NC Steve. I have visited twice. Been from Outer Banks right through to the Mountains. Loved it.
The main voiceover guy keeps talking of the Mersey River. So he's done this from an American audience angle. In UK we talk of River(s) Thames, Severn, Clyde, Tay etc. Just as Spanish talk of Rio Grande, Rio Plata, Rio Parana.
I grew up in the Westcountry and didn't know anyone there with a negative opinion of Liverpool (and was in a family of Liverpool football fans). It was a shock to me when I went north for uni and found a lot of people from Manchester who did hold very negative views of Liverpool
Actually, everyone in the city calls it the Mersey River rather than the River Mersey. I’m not sure why, but maybe because mostly we just call it the Mersey.
. OH oaky doak. Never knew that. Cheers.
@@fayenettleton8394 Are you sure? People might say the Mersey, but if they're including the river then generally they say the River Mersey, don't recall hearing people say the Mersey River... Maybe I'm wrong?
I was recently in Liverpool and loved the place, a great vibe. Although Liverpool's uniqueness was stressed in this video, there are other parts of the UK and England who put forward a case for being being different, flipping the actual/perceived neglect of London based Government to assert their quest for 'independence'. Cornwall are equally vocal and see themselves as Cornish foremost. Yorkshire notably has many who identify as 'Yorkshiremen' instead of being 'English'. And there are many other counties and regions across the UK where people are equally proud of their identity and history.
We are not Yorkshiremen, we are Tykes.
I still say the capitol should be in the centre of the country.
@@stevebagnall1553a little tyke used to be what my Yorkshire dad called me when I was naughty 😂
@no-oneinparticular7264 that's three miles east of Wakefield in the center of the M1 motorway.
Yeah, great points!
I’m from the Wirral over the Mersey river from liverpool but spent my working career In liverpool.
Like any place it has it’s good and bad.
But most scousers northern people have a heart of gold but mess with a northern woman to your detriment especially if you hurt her kids.
My accent is scouse and been treated with this fear I’m gonna steal from them so has my husband who is from Chester all because of how we sound.
The sense of humour and quick wit of liverpool is the best.
Music has been notorious Merseybeat is still a huge sound cilla black Gerry and the pace makers Beatles zutons echo and the bunny men the farm Omd wombats lightning seeds to name a few.
I’m a blue nose Everton your born one or the other.
The liverpool sense of looking after came when there was a bomb scare at the national (horse race) thousands off people were taken in. By homeowners just to help.
I love liverpool even though I’m classed as a wollyback loves in the outer areas of the region.
But scouse values run through my veins and if anyone takes a pop I’ll stand up and protect it.
A native of Limavady now an adopted son of Birkenhead...a great place...😊😊😊
I live 14 miles from Manchester but it will never hold the place in my heart that Liverpool does.
Amazing city and people ❤
Rock n Roll singer Billy Fury was also from Liverpool. Liverpool like any other big city has its rough parts, but it also has its nice parts, also a lot of regeneration along the river front over recent years has improved the look of the area.
Yeah, that's to be expected. Happy to hear it's being revitalized!
Why did you feel Mr. Wycherley deserved a special mention above all of the other iconic artists that hail from the Pool? Just curious.
@@alanbarker2279 ... Only because he was a personal favourite of mine.
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Everton and Liverpool grounds are less than a mile apart, if you stand on priory road (amongst others) you can see both clearly, they are separated by stanley park. Goodison is by far the most beautiful ground (hugely biased, but its true), there is friendly rivalry but in the face of adversity and tragedy we stand arm in arm, like after Hillsborough, when poor little Rhys Jones was shot (thank you so much Liverpool for playing ZCars at Anfield, it still brings tears to my eyes), during the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and even very recently when our Chairman passed away. Two clubs, one city, one family.
Well said. COYB xx
Depends how define pretty, ours doesn't have bits falling off and we've got some silverware in the cabinet 😂
@@theotherzaphriel488 i definitely said beautiful not pretty! Goodison is beautiful, castle greyskull is not.
@@hayee it's all about the friendly swipes. Glad to see you made your nine points back though!
Not for long 😂 they’ll take more off us today. Im glad you read my comment as tongue in cheek, however I do think Goodison (or as you may prefer, Woodison) is the most attractive stadium, even moreso than bramley moore. Shes just got something special about her.
i lived in liverpool for 6 months with work, and i can say it was the friendliest city i have ever been in, they where more friendly tro me as im from blackpool, which is one of the few places that stood with liverpool during its hard times, but i loved it there. getting more expensive to live there nowadays
The buildings you like on the river front are called collectively the three graces. From left to right looking from the river they are Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool building. The liver building has the unique birds on the roof. They are the liverbirds. If I rember there legends correctly the female looks out to sea, waiting for her husband. The male looks inland to see if the pubs are open. The legends say if they fly away liverpool will fall into the sea.
It was also said by Evertonians that Liverpool would never win the FA Cup until the Liverbirds flew away. In 1965, the Liverbirds were removed for cleaning and Liverpool won the FA Cup for the first time 🤣
The Liver building is pronounced. Live,er, and the Liverbird is pronounced Live,erbird.not Liver as in liver and onions. YNWA, JFT97.
My family moved to the Wirral peninsula, which is across the River Mersey from Liverpool, it’s a wonderful place, Scousers are some of the best people in the world along with Glaswegians ( people from Glasgow) which is where I’m from. I’m an Everton supporter, however if anything happens that affects either team, such as Hillsborough, we become one, the atmosphere was, and still is “we” never “they” we were one! When we’re pitted against each other, it’s definitely a rivalry but people in the same family often support one team against the other, my dad and sister supported Liverpool, me and my brother Everton (which is also in the city of Liverpool) when the teams play against each other in other cities the people in those cities expected violence on an epic scale and there was none! Something which I only discovered today via a subscriber of a couple of lovely ladies who make similar videos to you, is that the final surrender of the confederacy was in Liverpool! And as for Margaret Thatcher, her’s is a hated name in Liverpool, as you might imagine! As for the accent, there’s definitely some Irish mixed in there.
If you ever come to Great Britain Steve you need to visit Liverpool because some of the architecture that you love is the best in the country and hey I'll buy you a pint 😊
Bro if you ever visit englamd you must visit liverpool as a scouser myself i can assurs you the city is beautiful and the people are fantastic and the accent even better haha keep up the good work my man as we say in the pool
Sounds like I'll have to! :) Thanks
I've been to Liverpool on a few occasions, sure there are area's you wouldn't want to go (especially with my southern accent) but that's true of most major city's. I definitely feel safer in Liverpool than London. The Scousers I have come in contact with are good honest people, very friendly and welcoming.
I’m a Scouser and currently live in a different UK city and work for another cities Emergency Services and still get a lot of negative remarks about being a Scouser from within my own organisation!
I would say I feel my identity as a Scouser separates me from the rest of the UK but I am hugely proud to be a Brit and have a lot of love for other regions. Do I feel different of my own accord- yes. Am I made to feel different- yes.
Is it always negative, today no. It’s more thrown at me as a joke but people from other regions do that in ignorance of our history.
I’m a scouser. Beautiful city, with lots going on. The video you watched is not what I think of the city. It’s full of good music and culture, and the most friendly people on earth! Fabulous architecture. It was the centre of the exodus from Ireland during the potato famine so lots of Irish blood. I have Irish origins.
Hi steve. Love watching your videos and reactions, thank you and keep up the good work. I am scouse and there is so much fantastic history, culture and genuinely amazing things to show you and experience about Liverpool.
Sadly this vt just seemed to focus on a lot of negatives and doesnt show it in its best light at all. Generally scousers are great people with a lot of fun. I think you'd really enjoy the rich history, architecture and warmth of such a fabulous city.
I'm nearly 56 and from Warrington which is only 20 miles away from Liverpool. I'd never heard of this until now
Hiya Steve, when I went to Liverpool you couldn't meet nicer people, one of the Scousers gave me directions to John Lennon's former home on Menlove Avenue, John lived there from 1945 to 1963, you wont be dissapointed if you visit Liverpool, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
I’m not too far from Liverpool but went to visit johns house it had been snowing and someone built snow men in the bus shelter waiting for the bus 😂⛄️typical scouse humour 😂
@@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130 You should see what happens to Antony Gormley's "Iron Men" on Crosby beach every Christmas. It looks like a Santa convention.
Love to hear that! :)
I'm born and bred scouser, but travel the UK a lot. We regularly visit Whitehaven. In fact I was there last new year. Absolutely love the people. Remind me of scousers👍
@@reactingtomyrootstry half man half Biscuit...wacky Tranmere Rovers fans...😅😅😅
Do a reaction to other UK cities like Birmingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield n Cardiff.
You chose all the ugly ones. Bath, Canterbury, York and Winchester should be the priority 😅
I think thats the point, these aint beautiful to look at, they are the engine room of the country, that in itself has a beauty of its own.
I've always thought a visitor to these shores could find out more about the UK by visiting Liverpool, Sheffield or Barnsley town centre, getting a sausage roll from Greggs and people watching the people walking by. Much more than those picturesque, gentrified tourist traps such as Bath, Canterbury, York and Winchester.
@@TimeyWimeyLimey you have a very good point there 👍
This is not the react to crime infested shithole channel. React to good things.
Sadly reading some of yhe comments there are plenty on here who are quoting the press stereotypes of Liverpool just a note crime wise t theft burglary etc Liverpool is NOT in top 10 worse cities in uk
It's really sad and bizarre how small minded some people in this country are.
Just watched your video. I am a very proud scouser who love my city. It is an amazing place. Like a lot of places there is good and bad but unfortunately the press does focus on the bad parts about Liverpool. I live in a area that is near to where the beatles grew up. I pass john lennon house daily. If you need any information please ask ❤
@reactingtomyroots really interesting to see your reactions to this video.
I'm a scouser, have lived abroad and elsewhere in England, and am now back in Liverpool. A few points you might find interesting:
1 - Scouse not English - The media did not impose this term on the city or its people. Certain sections of the people refer to themselves this way because they want nothing to do with the English establishment that has maltreated the city and its people for so long.
2 - Architecture in Liverpool - Some of it is stunning, but some of it is also awful. Liverpool was the 2nd most bombed city in the UK during WW2, London being the first, but London is much bigger than Liverpool and most of the bombs that fell in Liverpool destroyed huge swathes of the city centre (downtown) area. This led to gorgeous buildings sitting next to re-built 1950s concrete monstrosities. There's also a derelict church in the centre of the city which the locals refer to as "The Bombed out Church" but is really St. Luke's. It is a shell of a church and hosts art events nowadays.
3 - Football - The two Premier League football clubs are the lifeblood of the city. One is the most successful in English history, and the other, Everton, is something like number 5 on the successful clubs list and has spent more years in the top division of English football than any other club. The clubs were actually the same business in the late 1800s and split apart into 2 clubs in 1892. Both clubs are sold out every single game and both have worldwide fans although Liverpool FC has much more due to being the most successful club in the country. The Everton area is a suburb of Liverpool. Liverpool FC took the name of the city after first trying to call themselves Everton Athletic FC but the Football Association vetoed that name as being too similar to the other club.
4 - Music - The city is indeed very musical. Not quite like a New Orleans or Nashville, but every night you can find live music somewhere and especially on weekends. The nightlife in the city is actually insane. The downtown area is very compact and bars and clubs are everywhere. It is impossible not to have a good time. Scousers will also talk to anyone and are naturally open and curious. We have a reputation for being very friendly.... which is at odds with how the press has portrayed us over the years.
I hope you get to come to England one day and if you do, I strongly recommend a Saturday evening in a few Liverpool bars.
They didn't show anything to do with Everton football club but it was mentioned. Historically, Everton was one of the founding members of our premier league and was formed in 1878. Liverpool FC wasn't formed until 1892.
Everton's present ground is Goodison Park that sits one mile away from Liverpool's Anfield stadium. Interestingly enough Anfield started as Everton's ground, not Liverpool. During Everton's stay at Anfield, the owner's increased the rent so they moved to Goodison Park, down the road. There is divide between reds (Liverpool) and blue's (Everton) in the city and both clubs have found difficulties when trying to expand their stadiums in such hugely popupated areas.. Everton is now having a new stadium built by the docks (which took a very long time to get planning permission for.) Walton Park was rejected by maybe some pressure by the reds in the area?
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I'm so glad you wrote about Everton. COYB xx
You are welcome. @@philippahusain7778 ❤ I understand why they didn't bring Everton in to the story as the main focus was on Liverpool as a whole and why it gets bad press but as Steve asked about football, I felt it was nice to add a little bit of context. Of course, Come On You Blue Girls!
(Which is what Everton ladies fans cheer because there's a woman's league too.)
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The best city in the uk with friendliest people who have the funniest sense of humour you can meet.great architecture,bars,restaurants,live music.people who speak negative about us scousers and our city have probably never visited here.
I've lived in half a dozen different areas of Merseyside in my adult life. I'm now retired and I would never live anywhere else. You should visit us, I guarantee you would love it.
We sometimes joke here in Wales that we need a wall between us and the English. Then we sit and try to work out where the wall will go. Liverpool is always welcome to be on our side of the wall. Because us (Gogs) and Scousers have more in common with each other than either of us have with the English establishment.
Wouldn't bother me, can abolish the Barnett payments too 😂
Not true, lots of Welsh people in England, and I’ve half Welsh cousins. Some of the nicest people I’ve known were Welsh.
The wall could be to keep you Welsh out too! More Welsh in England than Wales- worked with lots of Welsh people who live here so tit for tat eh?! Nothing against you unlike your obvious hate 🏴
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg Did you miss the word JOKE or just having a bad day lovely?
@@littlewoodimpdidn't sound like a joke to me DARLING-
Lots of great films created in Liverpool and one of my favourite is "51st state" staring Samuel L. Jackson. You should give it a watch 👍
Good film, bit of black comedy, also starring Meatloaf 😁
For anyone in the States who's interested in watching it, I believe they changed the name to "Formula 51" for the US release
and of all the chemists they filmed at the one at the bottom of Hatton Hill road in Litherland
The New Bat Man movie staring Robert Pattinson was Filmed in Liverpool, The Beatles, Lilly Savage / Paul O'Grady, Cilla Black were all famous Scousers
Liverpool was devastated during WW2 bombed which I saw personally saw the absolute devastation and when I started to work down there in 1951 there was still bomb damaged to be. Everton is an area of Liverpool. I started working in Liverpool in 1951 and was still working in Liverpool up until "lockdown".
I'm from the West Country and we get mocked for our accent too. People see us as backwards and simple country folk. A common thing people say to impersonate the accent is "ooh arr!"
I don't naturally have the Westcountry accent unfortunately, growing up in Exeter, we tended to be closer to a plain English accent... with the occasional person who had very strong 'R's 😅 But I love the accent and take every opportunity to crack out the "drivin' me tra'or" when I'm in a group of friends who appreciate it
@@Draiscor I'm a Grecian too, me bey. I have a bit of an accent, but I don't think it's too strong, tho my American friends disagree lol
I have videos of me speaking if you're curious
@wallythewondercorncake8657 just watched your vids, you definitely have a stronger devonian accent than I do 😅 I have friends from a bunch of areas in the UK who have confirmed to me that I definitely don't have a clear devonian accent when talking normally. But it's considerably easier for me to slip into it when I want to than it is for any of them
@@Draiscor Coincidentally, I found this history channel through a reaction video and one of the guys that runs the channel is also from Exeter, he's got videos on the Old Exe Bridge and The House That Moved. Anyway, I actually met him a few months back and he says I "sound like his uncle Mike" lol
Are you a cider drinker? Do you drinks it all of the day?
You gave a very cogent appraisal of the film you watched/shared, and hope it has further piqued your interest in the City. I enjoy your un-biased breakdowns on the UK and UK-isms in all of its diversity
Appreciate the kind words!
@@reactingtomyroots Please checkout his (tieran freedman) videos on the troubles and irish folklore.His troubles video has 1.1million views with good reason its excellent
I from Wales and it’s my favourite city to visit. That’s because of the friendly and helpful people living there.
There is political tension between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales-but general people outside politics tend to get on from my experience!
One of my best friends was born in Liverpool and I've met her family from there a few times. They're so friendly and always a good laugh. I love their accents too.
If you can find a series to watch called 'boys from the blackstuff' it's set in Liverpool in the 1980s gave a very accurate account of Liverpool in those days
Gizza job
I' ve never been to Liverpool i would definately love to go and i certinly don' t look down on them at all i love their accents and music culture
Well worth a visit a great city with a real buzzy vibe. Great nightlife not that I partook because I'm a bit on the wrinkley side. Lovely buildings and the regeneration of the docks is great. Have fun!
It wasn't just Liverpool that suffered but really the whole of the North of England & still the North & South divide exists especially among the older generation that had to survive through the 80's. London & the south prospered while the north & Scotland were left to decline what London wanted they got & still do.
Tell that to the people of Camden, Tower hamlets and other London boroughs that are below the poverty rate .
@@claregale9011 When he said "London" I think he meant the ruling elites and rich bankers who sold all the family silver in the 80s to the detriment of the working classes.
@@claregale9011 I've just been reading that London of all places, ironically, has the highest rate of poverty in UK for the last 20 years consistently.
im talking about the 80's ship building steel industry coal mining potteries clothing industry docks whole communities decimated 3million unemployed & Norman Tebbit get on yer bike plenty of work down south!@@claregale9011
I think people who are not from here underestimate just /how/ deeply the class-system is embedded here. It is as pervasive and hard to reform as the race-based divide that the Americas experience.
Liverpool is a city in England and have a dialect as we in Yorkshire have our own dialect.
On the 15th April every year one stand at the Liverpool stadium (anfield) is a large stretch behind a goal. Every fan gets a card either white or red. If you zoom out, it says 97
I’m from Manchester and we love Liverpool here. The people are so friendly. When I was younger and didn’t know my way around, people would always help me. It’s a great night out too.
I work in Manchester... have done for most of my working life (there is a token scouser in most firms around the country... I guess there must be some government quota)... anyway, all my Manc mates love the nights out in Liverpool we have had over the years, traipsing back and forth from Mathew street to concert square and all around the city. I know they struggle with some strong scouse accents sometimes but they all say its an easier night out than Manchester mainly because it's all within walking distance... lets be honest it's a bit of a trek getting from place to place in Manchester centre. We have ended up getting taxis sometimes... don't need to do that in Liverpool LOL
There was a huge Irish influence on Liverpool.
Which would explain a few things.
For example? I'm not from Liverpool but have Irish ancestry.
Well I could be wrong but the Liverpool accent has Irish characteristics due to the fact of a huge amount of Irish people immigrated to Liverpool as its the closest UK city to Ireland.
Plus it was one of the major routes to America.
Liverpool has one of the strongest Irish heritage of any city in the UK.
Especially since the famine in 1845 where Liverpool was a key immigration point.
That's one of the reasons why Liverpool people would distance and distinguish themselves from the English.
My best friend is from Liverpool he’s English loves England goes to nearly every England match so they are definitely English 100%
I agree with you . Liverpool people are English. Obviously. 🙂
you referring to an innate mistrust of the London establishment?
Haha tht pub Berni mays is at the end of my road ! So cool !