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Love the seagull atop the statue, with St John's Beacon as a backdrop.
I visited Liverpool in July, and it wasn't until I got home and looked more closely at my photos that I noticed that every memorial and statue I had captured (bar none) had a seagull adornment!
Frank F | 05.09.17 - 7:25 a.m. | #
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Great city, very interesting read but boy are there some ugly buildings in the skyline pic on Flickr - yikes!
Kevin | 05.09.17 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Well I for one am glad that the Tobacco Warehouse is finally going to be rebuilt. It's such awesome building it would be a great shame if it just rotted away.
Michael | 05.09.17 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the Lulu warning. I'll make suitable preparations.
Scott | Homepage | 05.09.17 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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"One day full-blown cafe culture may come to Stanley Dock, like some ghastly echo of London's blandest waterfront"
As opposed to a derelict, wrecked, empty warehouse. Not ghastly at all.
Fight your inner curmudgeon!
David | 05.09.17 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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I was referring to the characterless scenes on the linked 'cafe culture' photo...
RESTAURANT / FASHION / SHOPPING / MARKET / SHOPPING / RESTAURANT / FASHION / MARKET / CAFE / CAFE / CAFE
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.09.17 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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As a general point, not just about the Tobacco Warehouse. Criticizing a planned development should not be answered by setting up a false opposition to "doing nothing at all". The choice should be made between doing what is planned (sometimes a bit dreadful) and doing something better. Arguably the Battersea power station "renewal" now happening is a case study for this sort of discussion.
Malcolm | 05.09.17 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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Why did Liverpool have to spoil the waterfront with that awful ferry terminal building? If the "Sandcastle" on New Quay was not bad enough, the wretched ferry terminal and the museum of Liverpool monstrosity complete the horror show. No wonder UNESCO want to strip the site of world heritage status.
I would say "come friendly bombs", but these examples of the worst of modern architecture seem oddly appropriate for the new era which Britain is embarking on.
Paul | 05.09.17 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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As a sometime resident of Liverpool in the 1990's, and a visitor to the Tobacco Warehouse this Easter, I was most pleased to see this set of pictures. I view the development north of Pier Head with positivity (though that is proof of nothing, and previous high hopes for other places have been shattered). Is no development better than bad development, or is that comforting mantra the preserve of tourists who don't have to live with the economic realities? There's always a chance to play 'fantasy railway stations' with "Tobacco Warehouse" a new stop at the end of the Leeds-Liverpool canal to complement the redeveloped docks with their permanently busy cafes. ;)
Huw B | 05.09.17 - 2:05 p.m. | #
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As I understand it, UNESCO are not so much worried about finding new used for existing empty buildings as about inappropriate and intrusive tall new buildings.
How long has the Tobacco Warehouse stood empty, and what is the "better" alternative to the current proposal?
(If you really want a downer, just think how many tons of tobacco must have passed through the warehouse, and how much misery it must have caused in terms of respiratory, circulatory and cardiac problems, cancers, harm to unborn children, etc.)
Andrew | 05.09.17 - 3:20 p.m. | #
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In 1988, as a film student, I worked as a sound recordist on a documentary about New Brighton directed by a fellow student. This was just a couple of years after Martin Parr published "The Last Resort", so its glory days were well and truly over. We even spent a beautiful sunny afternoon shooting footage in the outdoor pool (including a beauty contest!). I knew the pool had since closed and been demolished, but I didn't realise it was so soon after our visit.
The other thing New Brighton was once famous for was its tower - taller than that at Blackpool, and also with a strong Beatles connection.
Richard M | 05.09.17 - 8:16 p.m. | #
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