Liverpool Preservation Trust: We Have The Tacky Phone Advert On The Town Hall Removed-Is This A Success? Or A Sad State Of Affairs?

Liverpool Preservation Trust: We Have The Tacky Phone Advert On The Town Hall Removed-Is This A Success? Or A Sad State Of Affairs?

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Joe Anderson-The Property Developers Friend

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Joe Anderson-The Property Developers Friend

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Littlewoods Edge Lane-Rotting Away, This Building Needs Help.

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Littlewoods Edge Lane-Rotting Away, This Building Needs Help.

Where are the 20,000 jobs that Joe Anderson and Peel Holdings promised

While Joe Anderson is telling all who will listen that we need to build new houses, on Liverpools parklands to meet public demand, he seems to have forgotten that he was elected (by 18% of the votable electorate) on a Peel Holdings ticket to create 20,000 jobs and 10,000 new dwellings.
How can the local press not challenge him on this.
Three years after plans were passed, that placed Liverpool on the UNESCO World Heritage In Danger List not a single brick has been laid.
Neither has any start been made on Wirral Waters.

While those campaigners for Liverpools Parklands such as Woolton Woods and Sefton Meadows http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/save-woolton-woods-from-mayor-joe.html        are arguing with Joe "Il Duce" Anderson,s dictatorship, it would be worth them considering that if Peel Holdings had built any dwellings at all this would ease the strain on the housing crisis................but would Joe Anderson's Property Developing Mates be happy about that?

http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/joe-anderson-in-private-eye-over-cunard.html


Meanwhile Peel are trying to farm another load of grants from the public purse

http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2622&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sstar+%28Salford+Star%29

PEEL HOLDINGS SEEKS £1BILLION FOR MEDIACITYUK SALFORD

Star date: 16th February 2015 ANYONE WITH A SPARE £1BILLION TO HELP OUT PEEL HOLDINGS? Peel Holdings, already subsidised with £millions from public funds, is currently enlisting the Government to hold out the cap and play the sad violin, as it looks for £1billion of investment for its next phase of MediaCity UK. The Government's Regeneration Investment Organisation website is currently pushing the `opportunity for investors' with `local government incentives'. Meanwhile the lack of jobs for Salford people at the BBC is continuing, according to Freedom of Information figures obtained by the Salford Star. Full details here...

English Heritage List The Wrong Building And Do The Former Midland Bank On Dale Street Instead.

You know how long and hard we have fought to get buildings listed.
We have had some knock backs by English Heritage only now to see those much loved buildings demolished and gone forever.
Then the goon squad come to town and list a giant egg crate on Dale Street right next to the town hall.

You have to despair its a One Stop Shop.
Is there a worse looking building that sat uncomfortably in its setting than this eyesore?
They are even claiming it resembles Oriel Chambers.
 Dont know what sort of rose tinted glasses the clown who listed it was wearing but they need cleaning.
There are rubbish sixties blocks all over the city that they could have listed and they have to list this one next to the Town Hall, and now we have to put up with it forever.
Bradshaw, Rowse Harker has its origins in the practice of Herbert J Rowse, who was one of the most influential architects of the inter-war period.

English Heritage said: “The Former Midland Bank showcases the firm’s experimental approach to sculptural form and design evident in their later work.”

Herbert Rowse must be turning in his grave

English Heritage said: “Office buildings shape the face of our cities and today’s listings have ensured that this area of architectural achievement is recognised for future generations.
“Listing helps the nation acknowledge and understand its shared history. It marks and celebrates a building’s special architectural and historic interest, and also brings it under the consideration of the planning system, so that some thought will be given to its future when change is underway.”


We chipped in to save the other side of the street from becoming a bookies.
Sometimes you wonder why you bother.

English Heritage in the North’s Nick Bridgland, said: “The startlingly modern frontage and oversized windows in mirrored-glass echo one of Liverpool’s most famous buildings, Peter Ellis’ Oriel Chambers, built in 1864 and Grade I listed, and make up a key part of the character of Liverpool’s commercial area.”

Constructed to the designs of local architects Bradshaw, Rowse and Harker, English Heritage said the former Midland is a key example of a post-war bank, unusually employing a high-quality Modernist design – a form of late 1960s pop architecture, which brought “fun and diversity” to the street.

http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1419347

Fun and Diversity? What a clown.

Paul Dooley Sells His Fathers Liverpool Legacy-To The Highest Bidder-Shame On You Mr Dooley.

Does Paul Dooley give a damn really about the legacy that was left in his fathers Seel St studio

. It seems as soon as was possible he got in there and grabbed what he could.

It could be said that he owns it. But was it not held by a trust so that the Legacy of Arthur Dooley could have been kept alive.

It now seems it is at the mercy of speculators of which it looks like his son Paul, is one. He has been knocking out a load of......finished off stuff on Ebay since Alan Johnstons death, when there was nobody around to keep the collection together. 

When we say collection, what we really mean is a load of rejected stuff that was shoved into the studio/workshop when Arthur died in 1994.

The basement space had remained in tact since his death and it was hoped that something could be done to open it up to the public, as what happened in 2008 when The Liverpool Acadamy of Arts(sic) were awarded a £50,000 plus grant to further the memory of one of Liverpool's sons by opening it up to limited numbers of interested visitors.

They also made a packet by staging a selling exhibition of his work.

Although this exhibition did bring together an assemblage of his work so it could be seen, they were more than well paid for it.

We had tried to alert the public to the need to get together to do something about the threats from property developers who give Dooley junior access as soon as they could to alleviate themselves of the burden of the works.

So they could get in there and turn it into an apartment, no hold on a luxury apartment.

The whole of Liverpool is going to turn into a giant sterile flat with no character just shops and coffee bars selling frothy cappuccino's to snotty nosed kids who don't know the meaning of struggle or strife or hard work, that think that money just comes out of a hole in the wall, that will never understand what Liverpool was like in the post war blitz society who couldn't just pop to the nearest Tesco to buy food, because the shops didn't have any. We don't want to return to that time but this is an era that spawned Arthur Dooley, a tough working class hard drinking, hard punching Communist catholic of Irish decent.

That didn't disown the city like the others that buggered off to make their name, he stayed here and sweated it out.

 He was able to articulate his Liverpool language on a higher stage as he was often featured on the BBC, talking affectionately about how the city made him tick, how it was part of his soul. 

He hoped that his soul would be part of the city and he would leave behind something. It is said he was once short and asked the city council to take a sculpture in loo of unpaid rates at his workshop near Woolton and they refused.

So now his son Paul has got his grubby hands on a load of works, mostly half finished and rejected commissions, some of which that should not be sold as individual sculptures, but mostly rejected pieces that have now been polished up by Paul who it is said is a stonemason.

He is giving them attributions such as Hillsborough memorial that are not being questioned, but enhanced by middlemen auctioneer Adam Partridge who are only interested in the commission money.

Has he donated any work to any local institution? No.

Did he bugger off out of Liverpool at the earliest opinion? Yes.

Does he care about his fathers name? No, in our opinion.

Is all he is interested in money........well you decide.

Will Arthur be turning in his grave.

Paul Dooley J'accuse.  

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Tom Murphy-Dumping Bad Sculpture On The Streets Of Liverpool.

Liverpool Preservation Trust: Tom Murphy-Dumping Bad Sculpture On The Streets Of Liverpool.