1970s Speaking Platform - Pier Head by Arthur Dooley

[fortinian]

Hello,

I'm wondering if any of you lovely intelligent people. Have pictures or memories of this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26821918@N00/3597529635/

http://www.speakerscornertrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Platform-Web.jpg

It was designed by famous sculptor Arthur Dooley and was apparently ripped out in the late 1980/90s.

I'd love any pictures or memories you have of it.

[collegepudding]

A bit of info for you fortinian ...
Liverpool had its Speakers’ Corner on the Pier Head. It was commissioned by the Transport & General Workers Union and designed in 1973 by the architect Jim Hunter and the sculptor Arthur Dooley. It won a RIBA design award in 1975 but disappeared when the City Council redeveloped the Pier Head in the 1990s.


collegepudding

[scouse smurf]

I must have seen it, but don't remember it.

That's the sort of thing that should have been kept

[wsteve55]

It's probably in storage.......somewhere?

[Oudeis]

Yes, CP. If these guys are clueless who else would know what happened...

http://www.speakerscornertrust.org/library/about-free-speech/other-speakers-corners-in-the-uk/

[gregs dad]

It would most probably have rusted away by now. The Merchant navy memorial was used at various times