Liverpool migrants in the frame

A national housing association which has its roots in Liverpool is backing a campaign to promote the city as a great place to live, work, invest, study and visit.

To celebrate the launch of Its Liverpool, Riverside is revisiting its Diverse City exhibition via an online gallery.

Originally launched in 2008 to mark its 80th anniversary in Merseyside and celebrate Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture, the exhibition looked at Liverpool through the eyes of its migrants and well known figures from the city.

Hugh Owen, Riverside’s director of policy and communications, said: “When we started out in 1928 as Liverpool Improved Houses, Liverpool was a city in decline, blighted by slums. Over the last nine decades we have been working hard to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods. Now Liverpool is on its way to becoming a global leader.

“One of the crucial elements of the campaign is the people of Liverpool. They are what make the city memorable, recognisable and different. Their faces, achievements, opinions and words are the most poignant expression of Liverpool’s diverse personality and its renewed self-belief.

“Diverse City looks at the transformation of Liverpool through the experiences of people who were born and bred in the city and have moved away, or those who have come to the city to change their lives and are contributing to the revitalisation.”