They have official names but Scousers rarely use them
In Liverpool and the wider Merseyside area, a number of place names, buildings and more are known to locals by something other than their "official names."
The renaming of local landmarks comes about for a variety of reasons, whether it's a nod to the location's history or part of the dialect we've come to use so frequently. Sometimes a name just catches on even if it doesn’t really make any sense, the ECHO previously reported.READ MORE: Liverpool used to have two Guinness factories
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