As a major port city that was once an epicentre of transatlantic trade, Liverpool’s busy docks established the city’s prominent role in the 19th century Industrial Revolution.
As manufacturing dwindled in the postwar era, Liverpool revived her hardworking spirit and her global reputation through music, culture and her beloved professional football club, Liverpool FC. The team’s fans are so notoriously loyal and wildly enthusiastic that they might be mistaken for clubgoers at a circa-1962 Beatles gig staged at the city’s legendary Cavern Club—save for the Beatles-inspired haircuts, of course.