Me and my Mrs spend hours just walking and looking at real history in the cities Billy. I reckon as we get older we start to appreciate the things and people that got us to where we are rather than the B/S on the news etc. Top video mate.
Went to the blind date auditions in the Adelphi and the interviewers asked if I could be one building what would it be and why I said the liver building they said why and I said well I wouldn’t mind two birds sitting on me face they said NEXT…………
Another banger Billy.. Darren seems a great guy. Never been to Liverpool ( southerner ).. Some great historical buildings, and that boozer looked sound.. I can see 👻 Billy. Love to go in there. Landlord was a sound fella. Thx for sharing Billy 👊🏽
Certainly ..it would be really good to do a ghost tour at Christmas...I'm from Liverpool allways get so homesick when I see anything like this...great history..love my old city..❤❤
Your channel is superb Billy , it's real day to day life stuff and most people love that stuff. It's humourous and you put the hard work into your vids. Good to see your channel growing so fast ,I'm not surprised because I watch your channel every day. Keep the good work going please Billy we appreciate it. Hello from the Highlands
Im a Geordie and worked on the Albert dock for 2years and your video brought back good memories. Liverpool is a lovely place with friendly scousers. Darren is so funny. When is the podcast with him you and the other funny fella on
Liverpool is very similar to Birmingham in its Victorian architecture lad. Always loved liverpool & my dad was a Union man, he never had a bad word to say about the folks of Liverpool, in fact he loved there militantcey
The one time i went to Liverpool to get my passport last minute, i was pleasantly surprised at the architecture in the city centre. Lots of history there
Snap I used Chester VRO basically dvla office who were like a iron regime Got told Liverpool see it all and are easier to deal with so went Liverpool by the liver buildings there , first time I’d ever gone as a adult and you can’t not admire the buildings it’s like London but with smack heads and rough arses around
Darren talking about his dad working in Guinness Exports in Norfolk Street. His dad was a great man loved by everyone Terry Smith. His grandad Charlie used to come into Guinness too..he was a funny little man.
That was great billy , you got some great shots of the city in there, thought I knew Liverpool like the back of my hand but that was proper opening the curtain on old Liverpool, great job 👍
Well done Billy and Darren , top scousers ! Great Filming Bill, loved seeing Billy Fury at the dock in all his Glory, ( talented south ender ) sure one of the liver birds winked at Darren ! Second Bigest port in the British Empire she was, and watching this.... you can see why ! again well done Lads.
I really enjoyed this vlog, for me it was the best yet, next to the one you did with Margi Clark. I live on the Wirral, dont get over to Liverpool that often but i really want to explore for myself this area you and Darren showed us, especially that museum. I think it was all one area, where the Liver birds are? Thank you for doing this, really found it fascinating
Back in the early 1970's remember Ye Hole in Ye wall being an all male pub selling lovely food and beer and also Bill don't forget Ma Boyles Oyster Bar which is near St Nicks Church and dates back to 1870s selling a pint pot of prawns and delicious beef or ham off the bone butties. pea wack soup etc - 12.30 Friday linch time you couldn't get in - jam packed with people. - happy days
I've only been on nights out in Liverpool and I'd definitely recommend a weekender there to anyone who's not been , but this is another side of Liverpool that we never get to see.Brilliant Video Billy .Be good to see more like this 👍
Good stuff Bill and Daz. I've only been to Liverpool once and really enjoyed it, greatly historic place. I went to The World Museum when i was there which i really enjoyed. If you aint been Bill have a look down.
I really enjoyed that Bill and Darren cheers 👍 we do have a great city. My mum told me my very distant relative was on the board of directors for the Mersey dock and harbour company. He must have been very wealthy! Anyway he left his wife and family for a Catholic tart 😂 and left his fortune to the catholic church. That wasn't done back then 😂. There used to be a gun club off Dale street that my uncle was a member of. They had a Chinese restaurant next door and the club was that old the steel plates at the back of the range were almost destroyed. You could peep through the holes and see the Chinese chefs cooking away dodging bullets 😂. At the back of the town hall by the red phone boxes if you look over the "moat" as it's known you can see the tunnels Darren mentions. They run across the back of the town hall and under Martin's bank building and another old bank on the other side of exchange flags. Allegedly when Barclays was still there the vaults were burgled through one of these tunnels. It's also been hit by Tommy C years ago. They had a key to the front door. The command centre under exchange flags is something else. Me and a mate did the tour around VJ day. It was the day they blew up the 3 sisters chimneys on the docks. It's incredible place that and if you can get a chance to go inside underground it's worth a look. Amazing how it was kept secret for sinking considering how big it is inside. The shop doesn't reflect how big it is. The roof is 20ft thick reinforced concrete with 7ft thick walls
The way things are going the seaman's church - Our Lady And Saint Nicholas - will end up as a mosque. The scale of white flight from L6, 7 and 8 is staggering. BTW, Billy, there's a fourth Liver Bird on the old Post and Echo building in Fleet Street, London.
proper enjoyed that lad. i always enjoy your videos, but this is probably the best one. You and Darren are great together and i would love to see more historic walks around parts of our city. Really enjpyed that. I liked it when u norticed that reaally old gate near the end of the video. my dad was an iron moulder in fishers in liverpool for years, and worked on lots of big gates and fences around the city from just after the war. Do more of this style vidio mate please.
Absolutely love Liverpool, ny dads a scouser, great people salt of the earth. Love the The architecture and the general vibe of Liverpool city just has something different fron any other ciry I've visited.
Martins Bank Bill, where they kept all of Britain's gold reserve during the WW2 for safe keeping. (I know choosing Liverpool, right lol). The story was told in a film called The Bullion Boys, starring David Jason filmed in 1993. I used to work in Exchange flags from 81 to 90. And used to go down in the war rooms which were left to rack and ruin for many years. When I went down there were no lights and the place looked like the same as if the staff had just left it in 1945 then it was cleaned up for the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. Also back in the day Sweeting Street was famous for the sex shop at the far end. Ask Darren he was never out of there. lol Good vid mate.
Darren should have taken you to Standish st of Crosshall st to show you st Patricks plaque and Tabernackle ,St Patrick preached there in the year 432 before leaving for Ireland ,great video by the way.
It was through the city being a rich shipping port that all those great buildings exist, a lot of those large buildings down by the liver buildings were banks 🏦 that ended up in the city because it was geographically perfectly located as a seaport back in the day.
Liverpool was the hub for slavery Yehh it’s well touchy but it made that much doe the gaffers running it spent it on grand buildings and had road names called after them , the most famous one was Penny Lane named after the slave trader called James Penny . Speke Hall was another, it’s a national trust stately home now but it belonged to a slave trader who gave a huge amount of land away , they were the Norris’s and the land they gave away became Norris Green which is well funny because you’ve got people from where they sold slaves living there
Unfortunately that was one of the trades of empire of that time in history and every major port city was financially involved London,Glasgow,Bristol and Manchester down the road was built on Cotton from slavery hence the nickname Cottonopolis!
I get the train in from Maghull North to Moorfields regularly then walk to work in Vauxhall. Always said the same thing, brought up in the city and we don't appreciate the architecture and thriving city we live in. Also, to see history whilst walking around Liverpool look up! Unless you're outside Lewis's, where you'll just see a big set of balls.
Hiya Bill, love checking in am in Vietnam at the min Cambodia next, I'm from from Southend Park Road, Darren's hilarious love his scouse girls video he had it down to a tee😅😅😅
If you look a from certain angle towards the Queen Victoria monument it looks as though she is doing a duty that every man craves for. If anyone remembers the old tenners with the other Queen on when you could fold it you'll know what Iam on about .
It’s incredible the amount of history I didn’t even know about the third Liver Bird, am I correct in thinking when them Liver Birds fly off Liverpool no longer is a port?
13:10 The building next to the Pig and Whistle took a direct hit from a bomb in WWII and was never rebuilt. Part of the front remains and the rest is a car park.
4th liver bird ??Up on the Walker art gallery.Surprised you both never went into Ma Bowles,was once a good spot for a bowl of scouse. (Tucked away behind St Nic’s.)Cheers,to you and all.
The grandeur of the buildings in liverpool is something else. That victorian water tower (im presuming victorian) in everton 😮, imagine them building a water tower like that now it wouldn't happen
Liverpool pioneered the world when it comes to the railways and the architecture the docks the lot they have cut a section of the old dock wall out for the Everton stadium gates and it been cut out to big so it's got to be rebuilt ether side and over the top its going to be interesting how they get on with that because that wall is an engineering marvel how it was built back then the gunner be scratching there heads and arses thinking how the fk we gunner do this a reckon it will be jacked pallanced big time it will stick out like a sore thumb
Wikipedia. The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain their city as the second port of the country and the chief one for American trade. The increase in the size of ships and the gradual silting of the River Avon had made Liverpool an increasingly attractive port, and with a Liverpool to London rail line under construction in the 1830s Bristol's status was threatened. The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own; a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to out-perform the lines being constructed to the North West of England.[4]
Those buildings an streets are why Liverpool is the most used filming location in the UK outside of London. When the new film studios open in the arl littlewoods building we could overtake London
Big up our beautiful Northen City's. The history is fascinating. Great episode. 👍
Me and my Mrs spend hours just walking and looking at real history in the cities Billy. I reckon as we get older we start to appreciate the things and people that got us to where we are rather than the B/S on the news etc. Top video mate.
You might be interested in Frank Carlyle channel on youtube especially his history podcasts!
Frank Carlyle knows his stuff about Liverpool and he tells it in a great way! Very interesting to listen to him.
@@tonyceltic8009I’m going to take a look at him. x
Went to the blind date auditions in the Adelphi and the interviewers asked if I could be one building what would it be and why I said the liver building they said why and I said well I wouldn’t mind two birds sitting on me face they said NEXT…………
Fkn brilliant
Another banger Billy..
Darren seems a great guy. Never been to Liverpool ( southerner ).. Some great historical buildings, and that boozer looked sound.. I can see 👻 Billy.
Love to go in there.
Landlord was a sound fella.
Thx for sharing Billy 👊🏽
Billy just a idea mate you should do a late night ghost Hunt in that pub lad with Darren and judder, it would be hilarious and great content
Certainly ..it would be really good to do a ghost tour at Christmas...I'm from Liverpool allways get so homesick when I see anything like this...great history..love my old city..❤❤
Yeah that would be funny 😂
Always good to see this city the Buildings are wonderful some absolute hidden gems there lovely to Brilliant to watch you both some good knowledge
Love the architecture of city’s . Newcastle has got some excellent buildings too
Your channel is superb Billy , it's real day to day life stuff and most people love that stuff. It's humourous and you put the hard work into your vids. Good to see your channel growing so fast ,I'm not surprised because I watch your channel every day. Keep the good work going please Billy we appreciate it. Hello from the Highlands
Im a Geordie and worked on the Albert dock for 2years and your video brought back good memories. Liverpool is a lovely place with friendly scousers. Darren is so funny. When is the podcast with him you and the other funny fella on
Liverpool is very similar to Birmingham in its Victorian architecture lad. Always loved liverpool & my dad was a Union man, he never had a bad word to say about the folks of Liverpool, in fact he loved there militantcey
The one time i went to Liverpool to get my passport last minute, i was pleasantly surprised at the architecture in the city centre. Lots of history there
Snap I used Chester VRO basically dvla office who were like a iron regime
Got told Liverpool see it all and are easier to deal with so went Liverpool by the liver buildings there , first time I’d ever gone as a adult and you can’t not admire the buildings it’s like London but with smack heads and rough arses around
@@chiefrocka8604 zz Oh there's no smack heads on London is there?😅
These video make me crave Liverpool and it's awesome buildings. I feel a visit coming on next week👌🏻
Was thinking the same. Go ahead bill liverpool tourism department should be sponsoring you.
Wow such a beautiful city the architecture is simply amazing.
there is another Liver Bird in William Brown street if you look up opposite Wellington's Column. you should do a Tour like this with Frank Carlyle
Franks podcast is great too!!
Some boss buildings in our city ✌️
Superb video lads. More videos of Darren talking history in Liverpool pubs please 🙏
Darren talking about his dad working in Guinness Exports in Norfolk Street. His dad was a great man loved by everyone Terry Smith. His grandad Charlie used to come into Guinness too..he was a funny little man.
That was great billy , you got some great shots of the city in there, thought I knew Liverpool like the back of my hand but that was proper opening the curtain on old Liverpool, great job 👍
Well done Billy and Darren , top scousers ! Great Filming Bill, loved seeing Billy Fury at the dock in all his Glory, ( talented south ender ) sure one of the liver birds winked at Darren ! Second Bigest port in the British Empire she was, and watching this.... you can see why ! again well done Lads.
I really enjoyed this vlog, for me it was the best yet, next to the one you did with Margi Clark. I live on the Wirral, dont get over to Liverpool that often but i really want to explore for myself this area you and Darren showed us, especially that museum. I think it was all one area, where the Liver birds are?
Thank you for doing this, really found it fascinating
I was only in Liverpool once the best city in England because of the people their like Australian and Irish they love a laugh
That Jack the Ripper street is a hidden gem of Liverpool and it’s amazing architecture
Back in the early 1970's remember Ye Hole in Ye wall being an all male pub selling lovely food and beer and also Bill don't forget Ma Boyles Oyster Bar which is near St Nicks Church and dates back to 1870s selling a pint pot of prawns and delicious beef or ham off the bone butties. pea wack soup etc - 12.30 Friday linch time you couldn't get in - jam packed with people. - happy days
Thanks for that Billy,just the ticket after a full day.Some history,some great sights,interesting stories & the great banter between friends.
I've only been on nights out in Liverpool and I'd definitely recommend a weekender there to anyone who's not been , but this is another side of Liverpool that we never get to see.Brilliant Video Billy .Be good to see more like this 👍
Not surprising film makers use Liverpool to film ,we don't realise how fantastic it is .
Nice to see Darren...
These video’s are the best thing to come out of Liverpool since Anthony Gordon!
Great video bill not been to Liverpool for years think its time i visited this great city again
Good stuff Bill and Daz. I've only been to Liverpool once and really enjoyed it, greatly historic place. I went to The World Museum when i was there which i really enjoyed. If you aint been Bill have a look down.
Nice to see you making positive videos of the City Billy 👍
Great video Billy and it's brill to see Darren again, glad he's well
I really enjoyed that Bill and Darren cheers 👍 we do have a great city. My mum told me my very distant relative was on the board of directors for the Mersey dock and harbour company. He must have been very wealthy! Anyway he left his wife and family for a Catholic tart 😂 and left his fortune to the catholic church. That wasn't done back then 😂. There used to be a gun club off Dale street that my uncle was a member of. They had a Chinese restaurant next door and the club was that old the steel plates at the back of the range were almost destroyed. You could peep through the holes and see the Chinese chefs cooking away dodging bullets 😂. At the back of the town hall by the red phone boxes if you look over the "moat" as it's known you can see the tunnels Darren mentions. They run across the back of the town hall and under Martin's bank building and another old bank on the other side of exchange flags. Allegedly when Barclays was still there the vaults were burgled through one of these tunnels. It's also been hit by Tommy C years ago. They had a key to the front door. The command centre under exchange flags is something else. Me and a mate did the tour around VJ day. It was the day they blew up the 3 sisters chimneys on the docks. It's incredible place that and if you can get a chance to go inside underground it's worth a look. Amazing how it was kept secret for sinking considering how big it is inside. The shop doesn't reflect how big it is. The roof is 20ft thick reinforced concrete with 7ft thick walls
Great video Bill thanks for sharing
I used to work in the pub next door! Steve is a lovely man! Big respect to Steve
Thanks ,very informative 👍
I was working in a building in the Albert Dock and the conference rooms are all the walls are laid out with mahogany sheets, stunning
Liverpool great city good people. 🇮🇪
Loved this lads
The way things are going the seaman's church - Our Lady And Saint Nicholas - will end up as a mosque.
The scale of white flight from L6, 7 and 8 is staggering.
BTW, Billy, there's a fourth Liver Bird on the old Post and Echo building in Fleet Street, London.
proper enjoyed that lad. i always enjoy your videos, but this is probably the best one. You and Darren are great together and i would love to see more historic walks around parts of our city. Really enjpyed that. I liked it when u norticed that reaally old gate near the end of the video. my dad was an iron moulder in fishers in liverpool for years, and worked on lots of big gates and fences around the city from just after the war. Do more of this style vidio mate please.
Absolutely love Liverpool, ny dads a scouser, great people salt of the earth. Love the The architecture and the general vibe of Liverpool city just has something different fron any other ciry I've visited.
Love your Vids Bill keep em coming, i was from dingle now in New brighton thanks
Proper boss this ,our city has got Proper history, nice one Billy darren 💯🙏
Martins Bank Bill, where they kept all of Britain's gold reserve during the WW2 for safe keeping. (I know choosing Liverpool, right lol). The story was told in a film called The Bullion Boys, starring David Jason filmed in 1993. I used to work in Exchange flags from 81 to 90. And used to go down in the war rooms which were left to rack and ruin for many years. When I went down there were no lights and the place looked like the same as if the staff had just left it in 1945 then it was cleaned up for the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. Also back in the day Sweeting Street was famous for the sex shop at the far end. Ask Darren he was never out of there. lol Good vid mate.
I remember that shop 😂
I always wondered where I recognised darren from, now I know 😄
They were going to ship out all the gold to Canada if Germany invaded. I remember going in when it was Barclays Bank in the 2000's.
Bet you Gentleman didn't know there used to be a Shooting Club below the platforms of the Exchange Railway station back in the late 1970’s 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hi bill lived here all my live did not no all these little sid streets xceeded amazing must try
What a beautiful old pub that is
At 8 mins 45 secs in,…Liverpool docks, it reminds me of Richard & Judy…….& that wrongen Fred “The Weatherman”
I always remember Mark Robbo streaking on his weather map in the dock. 😂
His ex husband dean sullivan died last week
@@joeexotic5831 didn’t know Dean Sullivan was even gay?! Jeez
@@Eleventhearlofmars check it out, he married fred the weatherman
@@joeexotic5831 now you mention it I vaguely recall him being linked to Fred the nonce.
Darren should have taken you to Standish st of Crosshall st to show you st Patricks plaque and Tabernackle ,St Patrick preached there in the year 432 before leaving for Ireland ,great video by the way.
Enjoyed that fellas, thanks
Boss video Billy, nice one Darren. 👍
Great vid,love the hole in the wall, slaughterhouse one of my faves too, there's so much history to see just walking around and having a mooch!!
The architecture in Liverpool is amazing how did they do that back in the day?
It was through the city being a rich shipping port that all those great buildings exist, a lot of those large buildings down by the liver buildings were banks 🏦 that ended up in the city because it was geographically perfectly located as a seaport back in the day.
Liverpool was the hub for slavery
Yehh it’s well touchy but it made that much doe the gaffers running it spent it on grand buildings and had road names called after them , the most famous one was Penny Lane named after the slave trader called James Penny .
Speke Hall was another, it’s a national trust stately home now but it belonged to a slave trader who gave a huge amount of land away , they were the Norris’s and the land they gave away became Norris Green which is well funny because you’ve got people from where they sold slaves living there
Slavetrade.
@@user-gb2qo4my8y that was something that blights the history of Liverpool but the port was used to bring slave trade into Britain.
Unfortunately that was one of the trades of empire of that time in history and every major port city was financially involved London,Glasgow,Bristol and Manchester down the road was built on Cotton from slavery hence the nickname Cottonopolis!
I get the train in from Maghull North to Moorfields regularly then walk to work in Vauxhall. Always said the same thing, brought up in the city and we don't appreciate the architecture and thriving city we live in. Also, to see history whilst walking around Liverpool look up! Unless you're outside Lewis's, where you'll just see a big set of balls.
Alright Billy! Had many good times in Liverpool! Beautiful city beautiful people! Shout out to John McMahon from his mate in Glasgow!
Liverpool has a beautiful city centre! Very interesting place.
The sessions in the irish center in mount pleasant back in the day.
Thanks for more content Billy Boswell 👍🏽
Hiya Bill, love checking in am in Vietnam at the min Cambodia next, I'm from from Southend Park Road, Darren's hilarious love his scouse girls video he had it down to a tee😅😅😅
Great video that brother Billy 👍
Darren’s voice makes me want to have a cup of tea for some reason
According to the sign on Crown Steet Park the first EVER passenger train in the world used to stop there
Brilliant ❤❤❤ #MHLivingHistory
All those fabulous buildings built in all our cities paid for by the tax payers for no benefit to the taxpayer, great history liverpool 👏
Very interesting 👌
All the Banks, damn. Liverpool was a proper wealthy Mercantile hub back in the Day.
Great this. Thankyou.
Great video Billy...get up in the Liver building... would be a great watch
Thank you for your guided tour of Liverpool but it would be nice if you filmed another city elsewhere ?
Why?
If you look a from certain angle towards the Queen Victoria monument it looks as though she is doing a duty that every man craves for. If anyone remembers the old tenners with the other Queen on when you could fold it you'll know what Iam on about .
I enjoyed this Billy, nice one Kidder 👍
Tell Darren I knew Larry Fitz he was class Billy mate YNWA
It’s incredible the amount of history I didn’t even know about the third Liver Bird, am I correct in thinking when them Liver Birds fly off Liverpool no longer is a port?
13:10 The building next to the Pig and Whistle took a direct hit from a bomb in WWII and was never rebuilt. Part of the front remains and the rest is a car park.
4th liver bird ??Up on the Walker art gallery.Surprised you both never went into Ma Bowles,was once a good spot for a bowl of scouse. (Tucked away behind St Nic’s.)Cheers,to you and all.
Darren looking like a young,unshaven Ricky Tomlinson
God elp im.
Brilliant
The grandeur of the buildings in liverpool is something else.
That victorian water tower (im presuming victorian) in everton 😮, imagine them building a water tower like that now it wouldn't happen
Brilliant walk about around our beautiful city ….great humour from the lads …”The £ucking Scouse Elvis “ funny as hell .
New York were do think thy gt it from. Us the Brits like everything else!!!!!😂
Liverpool pioneered the world when it comes to the railways and the architecture the docks the lot they have cut a section of the old dock wall out for the Everton stadium gates and it been cut out to big so it's got to be rebuilt ether side and over the top its going to be interesting how they get on with that because that wall is an engineering marvel how it was built back then the gunner be scratching there heads and arses thinking how the fk we gunner do this a reckon it will be jacked pallanced big time it will stick out like a sore thumb
Lmfao 🤣 that gadgey is on the phone to his mrs, been trying to get a word in for 50 years now. 🤣🤣💯🔥
Belter bill...great seeing you out and about with Darren
You two should become tour guilds would be interesting and learn loads plus have a boss laugh at the same time I'd pay 😄 😉 😆
Darren should do stand up he's funnier than that Paul Smith
? no
@@paulmcdonough1093 not on this one, watch him on a podcast with Billy
Darren's a proper comedian , I hear the other fella ain't😉😂
Wikipedia.
The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain their city as the second port of the country and the chief one for American trade. The increase in the size of ships and the gradual silting of the River Avon had made Liverpool an increasingly attractive port, and with a Liverpool to London rail line under construction in the 1830s Bristol's status was threatened. The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own; a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to out-perform the lines being constructed to the North West of England.[4]
Darren loves Them Ghosts 👻 😂😂😂💯👌🏻✌🏻
Great vid mate
Darren's a gas owl chap so he is, I've laughed my Bollox off listening to him many times 😂
At the Pierhead, They’re called the 3 Graces, not the 3 Sisters.🙄
The 3 Sisters were the Old Power station Chimneys on Regent Road
(AKA Dock Road) 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Those buildings an streets are why Liverpool is the most used filming location in the UK outside of London. When the new film studios open in the arl littlewoods building we could overtake London
Big shout out to KR couriers
Srry bill but who is darren smith luv 2 know more about him a very interesting intelligent guy ?
He helped make this channel watch the shows they did couple of years ago
In the 80s i watched Southampton play Liverpool is the Angel pub still there
Clock the birds face at 1:18 😂😂😂
I thought the nook was the oldest pub (Chinatown )
The national bank looks like money to me , restaurant , nightclub, flats anything!!
Billy fucked off and left darren to chat shit with the girl in the war Museum . 😂 Great stories and video
The calderstones in wooltin pre date stone henge