They’re liver birds, a mythical bird that resembles a cormorant and the symbol of Liverpool. The city was founded in 1207 by John Plantagenet, the King of England from 1199 until 1216.
The city’s official seal was an eagle with a sprig, the symbol of House Plantagenet, in its mouth. By the 1600s the people of Liverpool had decided the bird was a cormorant (a common bird in the area) with a piece of laver seaweed in its mouth. You can find small statues of the bird across the city, usually on top of lamps.
The two on top of that building (the Liver Building) were put there in 1911, and are called Bertie and Bella; Bella looks out over the River Mersey and to the Irish Sea to look after our sailors and the source of our prosperity, and Bertie looks over the city to look after the sailor’s families/our people.
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