High Rise

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High Rise

Those empty city centre flats we used to hear about are empty no longer, due to an unexpected rental boom. Robin Brown looks at whether this is good news for Liverpool or not.

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You think we worship superstar DJs too much? How about if we put them on an altar, in one of the world’s most important religious buildings? Stephanie Heneghan talks to Freeze: the team behind the city’s most curious new clubbing venue…

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Save and Prosper

It would be hard to plan a route across town that didn’t take in architectural gems hidden amongst the everyday and the identikit. Our city’s curious history, mapped out in Georgian townhouses, Doric columns and portico windows. Caroline Bunford takes a tour of our Conservation Areas.

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Forest Swords

We all breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when the Government’s hair-brained suggestion to sell off our woodlands was felled. Time, then, to enjoy some of the fine specimens on our doorstep - not all public spaces, but all free for us to enjoy.

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Reclaiming the Streets?

Is the city’s charity mugging landscape about to change? And if so, at what cost? SevenStreets discovers moves are afoot to make the city centre obstacle course a touch smoother in the coming months…

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Ghost Writers In The Sky

Focus only on the preservation of our city’s listed buildings and it’s amazing how fast the recent past, the everyday and the esoteric disappears. Thankfully, we know someone who’s on the case…

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All This Useless Beauty

We have, in Hamilton Square and others, some of the country’s finest public squares. So why have we abandoned them while other cities are rediscovering theirs?

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Tunnel Vision

After three quarters of a century, the Queensway Tunnel is starting to reveal its secrets - and not just to Harry Potter fans. SevenStreets slaps on a hard hat and heads down..

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Liverpool’s Ghost Streets: Bevington Bush

In a hidden corner off Scotland Road, SevenStreets finds they’ve paved paradise, and put in a parking lot…

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Telling Tales

A new site aims to preserve the most fragile, and vital, part of our heritage: our shared experiences. An online museum of the mind, Peoples’ Stories aims to catalogue the tales other museums leave behind.

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