[citation needed] In 1953, electronic chimes were installed to serve as a memorial to the members of the Royal Liver Friendly Society who died during the two World Wars.

[8] In February 2017, Luxembourg-based investment group, Corestate Capital, bought the building for £48 million along with Everton F.C.

Moshiri planned to run Everton's affairs from the building and have his own office to include a view of the new stadium on Bramley Moore Dock.

[citation needed] The building is crowned by a pair of clock towers: as a ship passed along the river, mariners could tell the time from these.

[13] Atop each tower stand the mythical Liver Birds, designed by Carl Bernard Bartels.

[14] Bella may possibly be named for Isabella of Angoulême, the queen consort of King John, when Liverpool was granted its royal charter.

Alternatively, local legend states one Liver Bird is male, looking inland to see if the pubs are open, whilst the other is female, looking out to sea to see if there are any handsome sailors coming up the river.

[citation needed] As a result, both birds are chained to the domes upon which they stand; although this could simply be because the originally gilded Liver birds, of a moulded and hammered copper construction (that is itself fixed onto a rolled-steel armature) are eighteen feet high, ten feet long and themselves carry in their beaks an intricately cast sprig of seaweed.

[citation needed] The two birds – officially cormorants – have identical and almost traditional poses, standing upright with half-raised wings.