Liverpool and the World

The railway opened between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830. Lime Street became its principal Liverpool passenger terminus in 1836. The 1808 guide also records daily Manchester coaches from the Golden Lion and Angel inns in Dale Street.

French sailors captured during Britain’s wars with France were imprisoned, exchanged, ransomed or released through Liverpool. The reviewed evidence does not support claims that they were sold as enslaved people.

Ninety child evacuees sailed from Liverpool aboard the City of Benares in September 1940, bound for safety in Canada. Only thirteen survived.

The City of Benares was torpedoed in the North Atlantic after leaving Liverpool in September 1940. This marker identifies the wider region, not a claimed wreck position.

Regular shipping routes connected Liverpool with Shanghai. After the Second World War, some Chinese seamen were sent from Liverpool to the Far East and discharged thousands of miles from their Liverpool families.

Liverpool’s shipping links brought Chinese sailors through Hong Kong. Post-war plans included recruiting cheaper replacement crews there while men based in Liverpool were pressured to leave.

Liverpool’s Goree took its name from Gorée Island off Senegal, a place bound up in European competition, West African commerce and the history and memory of the Atlantic slave trade.

A Liverpool newspaper advertisement dated 12 September 1766 offered eleven people said to have arrived from Angola for sale at the Exchange Coffee House.

An 1805 advertisement offered plantations in Demerara and Berbice together with enslaved people, directing enquiries to Jones and Davies at Goree in Liverpool. The marker uses the modern country containing those historical colonies.

Centuries of movement across the Irish Sea brought workers, famine refugees, clergy, reformers, journalists and political organisers to Liverpool, where their descendants became inseparable from the city.

Fraser, Trenholm & Co. linked its Liverpool office in Rumford Place directly with Charleston during the American Civil War.

Titanic was built in Belfast for the Liverpool-rooted White Star Line.

Titanic departed Southampton on her maiden voyage while remaining registered at Liverpool.

Cherbourg was Titanic’s first continental call after leaving Southampton.

Queenstown, now Cobh, was Titanic’s final port of call before the Atlantic crossing.

The 1808 guide lists Chester among the destinations served from the King’s Arms in Water Street via Tranmere Ferry. The 1812 guide also records Tranmere–Chester coaches.

The King’s Arms entry in the 1808 guide names Shrewsbury among coach destinations reached via Tranmere Ferry, connecting Liverpool’s Water Street inns with the Shropshire town.

The 1808 guide names Holyhead among coach destinations served from Liverpool’s King’s Arms via Tranmere Ferry. Travellers crossed the Mersey before continuing overland towards North Wales.

The 1808 guide describes Dublin travellers at Liverpool’s Talbot Hotel and passenger packets to Dublin, sailing when the wind permitted. The 1812 account records Dublin packet offices at Nova Scotia on Liverpool’s waterfront.

The 1808 guide records the mail and other London coaches at the Talbot Hotel, with London stage coaches also leaving the Crown Inn. The 1812 guide still places the London Mail at the Talbot.

The 1808 guide records daily Warrington stage coaches from the Golden Lion and Angel inns in Dale Street, showing how Liverpool’s inns provided transport connections before the railway age.

The 1808 King’s Arms entry names Parkgate among the destinations served via Tranmere Ferry, placing the Wirral village within Liverpool’s coaching network.