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Comment on Ringo Starr in decapitation headline horror by Liverpool Culture Blog » Ringo and Liverpool: Saying goodbye to Madryn Street

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:37 +0000

[...] than ever that Starr’s place of birth will be saved from the bulldozers, after his rather ill-conceived remarks about what he missed about the [...]

Comment on Some predictably dumb news from University of Liverpool by Phil Wolstenholme

Phil Wolstenholme — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:32:24 +0000

It’s interesting seeing a scan of the Liverpool Student, I found a filing cabinet full of old editions from around 2003/2004 in the Guild where there are now some Macs for audio/video editing.

It’s such a shame that the University’s students currently have no physical media, Liverpool Student flopped a year or two before I joined the Uni, and Sphinx magazine only lasted a year. The closest thing we have to it at the moment is the website I designed and help run, http://liverpoolstudentmedia.com, but that’s no substitute for something you can pick up and read when you’ve got time to kill on campus.

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by ben

ben — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:52:37 +0000

I think it is such a sad loss to the city, and infact the whole of the North of England that Lewis’s is closing – It already contains lots of local family independent run brands such as F.A.B@Lewis’s on its 1st floor – What will happen to them?

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by Dickie Lewis plans afoot already

Dickie Lewis plans afoot already — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:44:21 +0000

[...] on whether the shop itself will be ‘resurgent’ in the new development, but plenty of comment, so I’ll leave to to pop over to those sites for a [...]

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by Andrew Beattie

Andrew Beattie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:23:46 +0000

Well I’m fairy excited to be honest.

One area, for me at least, that Liverpool lacks is choice and I think developments like this, within reason, show the progress the City Centre is making in terms of offering something a little different even if the different is just a different location within the City Centre.

What it absolutely has to get right is the choice of stores, coffee shops, restaurants it has there for it to compliment what we already have in Liverpool One, et cetera. I’d put good money on there being a massive Tesco in there though regardless of what else is there.

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:53:20 +0000

I don’t mind Liverpool One at all. But this is what Central Village should take note of:

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/22691/jane-jacobs-101/2.html

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by Robin Brown

Robin Brown — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Indeed. I’m not one of those farts that pointlessly decries everything new, but I don’t sense that this is anything other than another generic ‘urban oasis’. And I’m fed up of these indentikit developments.

I only go along with Liverpool One on the balance of probability that its good points outweight the negative.

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:28:12 +0000

‘Village’ not ‘Park’

Comment on Lewis's to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing by david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:25:49 +0000

the only way to compete is to offer something genuinely different – other cities do it by having clearly demarcated zones (low rent areas like MCRs Northern Quarter, or Borough Market in London, rubbing shoulders with the swisher Swarovski-type stores) if Central Park is just another me-too array of chain stores and coffee shops, you can kiss goodbye to the character of Liverpool. Lewis’s, of course, was a shadow of its former self (they should never have got shut of the food hall) but I fear its replacement will be even more soulless. Hope not.

Comment on Terry Pratchett's Nation at FACT by Andrew Beattie

Andrew Beattie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:22:19 +0000

Cheers for the recommendations. I managed to sneak the copy of Nation out so I’ll pop back in this evening to take The Truth out. I’ll let you know next week whether or not I’ll be requiring the beverage but after Nation I very much doubt it.