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In the 19th century, poorer people in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Bootle and Wallasey commonly ate scouse as it was a cheap dish and familiar to the families of seafarers. Outsiders tended to call these people "scousers". [21]
Liverpool Scousers (from the stew known as scouse), [33] [34] Plastic Scousers or Plazzies (a person who falsely claims to be from Liverpool), [35] Woolybacks or Wools (a person from the surrounding areas of Liverpool, especially St Helens, Warrington, Widnes, or the Wirral) [36] [37] Llanelli Turks [38] London
A 2011 report, Liverpool City Region – Building on its Strengths, by Lord Heseltine and Terry Leahy, stated that "what is now called Liverpool City Region has a population of around 1.5 million", but also referred to "an urban region that spreads from Wrexham and Flintshire to Chester, Warrington, West Lancashire and across to Southport ...
Coined in the 1830s from the Napoleonic Wars 20 years previously. The people of Hartlepool captured a French ship off the North East coast of England, and finding the only survivor on the ship was a monkey, hanged it thinking it was a spy. Hartlepool United F.C, have a mascot called H'Angus the Monkey Moonrakers (UK) Natives of the county of ...
In the poorest areas of Liverpool, when funds ran too low for the purchase of even the cheapest cuts of meat, "blind scouse" would be made, using only vegetables. [11] The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that "scouse" is a shortened form of "lobscouse" [12] a sailors dish from the 18th century.
Expansions of Liverpool boundaries in 1835, 1895, 1902, 1905 and 1913. The history of Liverpool can be traced back to 1190 when the place was known as 'Liuerpul', possibly meaning a pool or creek with muddy water, though other origins of the name have been suggested.
So-called amber traffic warnings have been issued by the AA for all three days. ... London Liverpool Street station will be closed from Christmas Day until January 2, and no trains will call at ...
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman).