Your chance to vote which cities will appear on Liverpool’s worldwide map

Oct 14 2008 by Liza Williams, Liverpool Daily Post

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GLOBAL nominations for our Liverpool Map campaign go to the public vote today.

From 19th century migration patterns to the legacy of The Beatles and both the city’s foot-ball clubs, Liverpool has had a huge worldwide influence and is renowned globally.

The Daily Post has been run-ning the Liverpool Map cam-paign for nearly a year, and we have gathered a wealth of inval-uable feedback from readers to shape the final artwork.

Now we want to know which global locations should be included.

We have created an online survey featuring readers’ nominations for towns and countries across the world and you will have two weeks to vote. The new map will show where the people of Merseyside think Liverpool’s borders are, and it will also highlight Liverpool’s growing national and global influence.

It will be donated to the Muse-um of Liverpool as a legacy of the 2008 culture celebrations.

Glasswork artists Jeffrey Sarmiento and Inge Panneels will create the artwork des-cribed as a “monumental multi-layered glass monolith”.

Dr Kegang Wu, director of ChinaLink in Liverpool, has nominated three Chinese cities to be included in the vote via email: “I would like to recom-mend three Chinese cities.

“Guangzhou, for the histori-cal trade between Liverpool and Canton (Guangzhou) / the Opium War and the origins of the most Chinatown immi-grants. Hong Kong for its colon-ial links and the Nanjing Treaty. And lastly Shanghai – the present day twinned city, which I was personally involved in setting up in 1999.”

Reader Carole Griffiths wants the whole of Germany to be included. She wrote: “I am writ-ing to nominate Germany for the Liverpool’s global map. I particularly nominate Bremen, a northern city. My brother David Heath has lived there since the mid 1980s. He was born in Liverpool’s Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, lived in Huyton until late 1980 where he moved to Germany to a place near Bremen, called Delmenhorst. He got married in 1991 to a German called Gabi Kruztl and has lived there since. They regularly visit Huyton and Liverpool.”

And a British place has also had a nomination.

Sharon McCarthy said: “Ilfra-combe, in Devon, is known as little Liverpool, due to the num-ber of Scousers there. Should this be on the map?”

Tony Howgate wrote from Canada: “I came to Winni-peg, Manitoba, Canada, in the 70s.We visited the museum, and a display there had photos of Liver-pool’s docks and overhead railway from the turn of the 20th century. Winnipeg and the prairies are most-ly made up of immigrants from Europe. Almost all left Europe through Liver-pool, as displayed at the Albert Dock, and came farther west having landed in Halifax.

“I found it very interesting to see pictures of my home town in the museum of a prairie town in the middle of Canada.”

And after reading about the travels of Liverpool man Phil Bimpson to other Liverpools around the world, Neil Dunkin nom-inated more of the city’s little-known namesakes.

He said via email: “There is a Liverpool River in Australia's Arn-hem Land and a Liverpool Bay in Canada’s Arctic. You could include those.”

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lizawilliams@dailypost.co.uk