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I WAS walking past the Town Hall about an hour ago and noticed workmen on the roof. By the time I got back to my desk this press release with great news about the building's bell being restored was in my inbox...
LIVERPOOL'S Town Hall bell will soon be ringing after falling silent for 100 years.
Engineers have already started work on repairs to the clock and bell which will be completed by the end of the week.
A brief test will take place tomorrow and the bell will then be silenced until midnight New Years Eve when the newly refurbished bell will ring out across the city.
I'VE just been sent this press release about an event taking place tonight so am printing it in full to get it out there as quickly as possible...
A new lease of life for a special building, the Lyceum, in Port Sunlight Village which has undergone a part major internal refurbishment, will be celebrated with an evening lecture on Thursday 17th September at 7pm, doors open 6pm.
The Lyceum building was built originally as the village school and Church, Lionel Bolland Chief Executive of the Port Sunlight Village Trust said, "It is always difficult to find a sustainable future of buildings for a specific purpose. We are pleased to see the Lyceum fully occupied with the Social Club making a real effort to establish itself in one area of the building".
ST MICHAEL'S in the Hamlet, is opening its doors to the public on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
Built in 1815 by the entrepreneur builder John Cragg, the building was designed as a prototype for churches which could be easily erected on difficult terrain - a sort of flat pack church for the Empire.
It was also the place where Arthur Askey got married.
Guides will be on hand to explain the history of the building but plans are afoot to have a range of activities there including music, poetry, guest celebrity speakers and a fashion show.
The church, on the corner of St Michaels Road and St Michaels Church Road, is open from 10am to 4pm.
THE Queensway Mersey Tunnel celebrated its 75th anniversary on Sunday when it was opened up for the public to walk through.
A slideshow of Flickr photos from the commemorative event
Daily Post feature writer Peter Elson wrote this feature to mark the occasion...
IT WAS built without any of the technical aids taken for granted today. Yet the Queensway, or Birkenhead Mersey Tunnel, which celebrates its 75th anniversary on Sunday, was superbly engineered.
So much so, that when the two tunnel bores from either side of the river met, they were only an inch out of alignment.
LAST week I wrote about how 30 Eccleston Street in Prescot has been restored to its former glory.
Lisa from Knowsley Council's press office has sent in a couple of photos of the completed work. Enjoy...
IT'S always great to learn of historic archicecture being giving the care they deserve so I was pleased to receive an email from Knowsley Council announcing the restoration of a Tudor building in Prescot.
The building at 30 Eccleston Street is thought to date back to the 17th century and has a date of 1614 carved into the timberwork.
Skilled craftsmen have been working on the Grade II-listed, timber framed building for several weeks. Under cover of scaffolding and polythene, the decorative timber work has been repaired and the wattle and daub plasterwork washed in lime.
The oak pegs that hold the mortar and tenon joints together have been replaced and the existing timbers recoated with Scandinavian tar.
Before work could begin, the plans had to be agreed by English Heritage, the owner, the architects, Knowsley Council and the current tenant.
I've asked for some photos of the completed work and I'll post them on here as soon as I receive them.
ANOTHER great guest post from Kev Keegan of Yo! Liverpool, this time on the structures and buildings that used to stand on the site of the Liverpool One shopping zone...
THE arrival of the 42-acre, £1bn Liverpool One shopping development has catapulted the city back of the shopping league tables and, along with smaller retail developments around the city centre, has restored Liverpool's reputation as one of the UK's premier shopping destinations.
Custom House in the background. Both images courtesy of Liverpool Records Office.
In addition, the redevelopment has also brought back into use a hugely historically significant part of Liverpool City Centre that has largely remained neglected for many decades, mainly Paradise Street (named by Thomas Steers, who lived in Paradise Street, London) and Hanover Street (named after the Hanover family and is close to the Ropewalks area).
LIVERPOOL has more listed buildings than any other British city outside London, but that's a fact that's sometimes hard to visualise.
I've created a Google map of160-plus listed buildings in the city centre and seeing them marked like this shows how concentrated they are. So far I've only flagged them up, but I will add images and more details about each one in due course. This is a work in progress - there are still more buildings to add!
Bells recast arrive at the Liverpool Parish Church, Our lady and St Nicolas from Loughborough, on August 1, 1952.
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HISTORIAN Joseph Sharples is giving a talk on his exhibition of architectural drawings from the Culshaw & Sumners archive tomorrow.
It's at Liverpool's Central Library from 3-4pm.
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Laura Davis - Laura Davis is the Liverpool Daily Post's Arts Editor and 02 Digital Journalist of the Year 2009, which is in a large part due to this blog. She has a long-standing interest in local history and is keen to learn more about your own memories or discoveries about the history of Liverpool and the surrounding area.
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