The University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Medicine was opened in 1904 at a time when there were only 5 Veterinary colleges in the UK. Initially accommodated in the Medical School it moved, in 1908-1909, to a modest location in Brownlow Street. The School grew steadily under the leadership of John Share Jones, being transferred in the 1920s to Bedford Street North with a small animal hospital being erected in 1929 in Pembroke Place. Share Jones was succeeded in 1941 by Prof J G Wright. The School has continued to grow through the Leahurst Field Station and further developments to the Liverpool School.

The establishement of a Veterinary Field Station on the Wirral was strongly recommended in the Loveday Report on Veterinary Education (1938) and the Government was recommended to make a grant for this. This grant was delayed by the start of the second world war but in 1941-1943, with assistance from J Bibby and Sons and some increase in annual grant from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the University was able to establish a Field Station and a small student hostel in at Leahurst, near Neston. Two of Bibby's experimental farms were made available for student training and farm buildings were converted to an animal hospital and animal husbandry unit. In 1969 a major extension was completed at Leahurst.