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The Liverpool Youth orchestra, sporting some fine bobble-hats, conducted by Stanley Gill, serenades passengers boarding SS Devonia, at Princes Landing Stage, prior to the British India liner's last voyage from Liverpool on November 5, 1967. Popular operating cruises for schools, she was previously a Bibby Line troopship. Code: tmc300309lookback.jpg
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AS MARK Rothko's Seagram Murals are enjoying such attention at Tate Liverpool, it seems only fitting to make this week's photograph and image of their last visit in 1988, as part of the gallery's opening exhibitions.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko ARS, NY and DACS, London
THIS is a first in what I hope will be a regular series of guest blogs by history experts at National Museums Liverpool.
Dr Clemency Fisher of the World Museum Liverpool is looking for help from Pool of Life readers...
Lost: Has anyone seen a marble lady with her foot on a water pot?
William Roscoe (1753-1831), who could quite possibly be said to have founded culture in Liverpool, was a man with many hats - politician, solicitor, booklover, supporter of the arts, founder of the now sadly defunct Liverpool Botanic Garden, and poet. He lived in several different houses in central and south Liverpool, one being The Elms, which was on the dog-leg between Park Road and Aigburth Road (the road next to where it stood still bears this name).
THE Bluecoat is currently running an exhibition about the Wirral-born author Malcolm Lowry, who is celebrated worldwide despite barely being remembered here in Merseyside.
His life-story is really fascinating - he drank too much and lived as a hermit for a while in Canada as well as spending some time in Mexico, where his one successful book Under the Volcano is set. It also includes references to Wirral.
While I was writing a feature about the exhibition and the Bluecoat's new book about Lowry, I discovered a local blogger who has become an unofficial expert on the author.
I RECENTLY interviewed Alison Steadman about her memories of acting in Liverpool before she left at the age of 16 to seek her fortune in London.
Here it is...
ALISON STEADMAN doesn't sound like herself. Or at least she doesn't sound like Beverly Moss, from Abigail's Party, or Pride and Prejudice's Mrs Bennet, or any of the other Alison Steadmans we know.
She is posher than Pam in Gavin and Stacey, and for that matter than Wendy in Life is Sweet, the film she will be answering questions about during a special screening at FACT next week.
Being different to the characters she plays is something Liverpool-born Steadman cherishes.
"I like it when people meet me and say 'you're so different to what I expected'," she reveals.
"I have never found it fun playing a version of myself."
The 63-year-old actress chose Life is Sweet to be screened in aid of Liverpool-based youth film project Clapperboard for two reasons - she had good memories of of shooting the 1991 Mike Leigh-directed hit, and she couldn't get hold of Nuts in May.
"I've done a few films and I'm not very proud of any of them really," she announces.
IT TURNS out that 16th century first editions are like buses - you wait years for one to come along and then two appear at once.
Just as St Francis Xavier's Church in Liverpool was preparing to display important artefacts related to Henry VIII's reign - including a 1521 first edition of Henry's Defence of the Seven Sacraments - when they another copy came to light.
The first copy, along with Thomas Moore's gold cross and John Fisher's signet ring, is on loan from Stonyhurst College for display during English Heritage's Heritage Open Days scheme this week.
THIS weekend is the last chance to see the exhibition Sound and Vision: Music and Fashion at the National Conservation Centre.
The selection of fascinating photographs on display were taken by Francesco Mellina from 1978-82 and form a unique visual record of Liverpool's music and fashion scene.
ARE you in the habit of polishing your best china and putting out your finest crockery for visitors? Imagine the dusters you'd get through if you had hundreds of collectables to look after, and your visitors numbered many thousands per year.
This is the responsibility of Caroline Schofield, mansion and collections manager at Tatton Park's Georgian mansion house.
She will be sharing her experiences of taking care of the ceramics, paintings, silverware, furniture, books and other items unique to the Cheshire stately home's collection at a lunchtime lecture today.
HAVE you seen the This Day in Music website? It's a great nostalgia trip for people of all ages and is searchable by artist or date.
Naturally, as the Capital of Pop, Liverpool bands almost always put in an appearance. For today (July 26) it's mainly all Beatles...
A THEATRE production of The Gondoliers by Hoghton Players at Southport Arts Centre in 1974.
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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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