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  • As One Door Closes…

    Hands up those who remember the ivy-clad red-brick St Catherine’s Hospital Church Road entrance? The one that looked for all the world like some transplanted...

  • Behind the scenes at World Museum Liverpool

    A nice little video from the Daily Post about some of the display specimens hidden away in the World Museum’s ‘secret’ storerooms. We’re not sure...

  • Economies and false economies

    Every quid spent on Liverpool’s cultural programme generates well over twelve times that amount for the city’s coffers, according to independent research. Vector Research says...

  • Looking up, looking down

    There’s a lot to see around Liverpool, if you only keep your eyes open. Looking up, for example, can reveal a number of elevated walkways...

  • Tom

    Denizens of Aigburth and Sefton Park will no doubt have been driven by geography and circumstance to attend the Tesco’s near the junction with Lark...

  • Overheard at the Parkfield pub quiz

    Quizmaster Che Burnley: “…and the answer is… The Netherlands.” Nearby and consistently annoying drunk: “Wha-? No way! It’s Holland!”

  • New Clinic single and video

    It’s been a while, but Clinic are back with new single, I’m Aware, and it’s accompanied by a wonderful video from Peter Fowler, the chap...

  • Lewis’s receipt

    We found this at the bottom of a coat pocket recently, after Liverpool’s flagship department store, Lewis’s, had closed its doors forever. There’s a longer...

  • Periodicals Pain

    Bah! Liverpool city centre is now officially a (decent) magazine desert. With WH Smith now just a post office with a kiosk attached, Waterstones in...