The Hope Street Guide
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The Hope Street Guide
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Hope Street Hotel
Hope Street Hotel is Liverpool’s first boutique hotel. Centrally located in the city’s cultural quarter, between the cathedrals, across the road from the concert hall and surrounded by theatres and restaurants. Built in 1860 in the style of a Venetian palazzo - a delightful privately owned Design Hotel, passionately run with thoughtful service and comfortable contemporary interiors.
www.hopestreethotel.co.uk
Thanks Howie :PDT_Piratz_26: Eek am I looking in the correct place for the areas history? I cannot see it.
60 Hope Street
60 Hope Street restaurant cafe bar is Liverpool's newest venue
for fine dining at the centre of the Georgian heart of the city.
www.60hopestreet.com
There's a bit of history, St.James's Cemetery, etc., in The Hope Street Guide here.Quote:
Originally Posted by kev
Hope Street, Liverpool
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Street,_Liverpool
The Hope Street Association
The Hope Street Association (HOPES) is a voluntary organisation which actively brings together and promotes the arts, business, community, educational and religious interests of the Hope Street Quarter. The Association builds on Livepool's strengths, bringing together physical, cultural and economic regeneration.
www.merseyworld.com/hopest/frames.html
Yeah, you're right Gnomie. It was a good around there in those days - 1970's 80's. I spent a lot of time around there with friends and their families who lived in Hope st, Faulkner st and other streets around there. I never went to the Casablanca club but I knew someone who was a regular.
I remember the Chauffers.
We used to go in the Crack in Rice st. The Caledonian and the Blackburn, and of course the Philharmonic pub. What was the name of the pub that was later called Peter Kavanaghs ? - originally it wasn't called that, it had another name. Was it the Grapes?? It's on Egerton st.
Do you remember the grocers on the corner of Faulkner and Hope st ? (not sure what year it closed tho' - could have been in the 70's). My friend's family used to get the shopping there.
There was a general shop around the corner on canning st. It's still there I think. We'd go there for the Echo, cigs, sweets and stuff.
I used to go to art college in Hope place.
Margaret Simey lived in a lovely old house on the side of Blackburn House(girls school).
Wonder why that school ever closed ?? It was a good school in those days.
Those huge houses are fabulous. What a shame that so many were demolished - I can just about remember those big 3 & 4 storey ones on Parliament st, Grove st, and around about. There are a few surviving thank God ! Imagine how fantastic it would have been if all those grand buildings had been renovated.
Liverpool School of Art & Design, 68 Hope Street
The school is one of the oldest Art Schools in the UK and provides quality relevant programmes of creative and critical study in Art and Design which are accessible to the widest possible range of regional, national and international students and which are appropriate preparation for a broad range of employment opportunities.
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The main building of the
Art School is a Grade II listed
structure dating back to 1883.
www.ljmu.ac.uk/LSA
www.ljmu.ac.uk/artschool
I wasnt there until 1984. i remember The Pilgrim and the Belvedere. The Blackburne was our regular.I knew Margaret Simey, what a great personality she had. My sister went to Blackburne School.
The Casablanca had a room for dancing. just a dark room with a juke box in the corner. but what a great place to go:rolleyes:
The Initiative Factory (inc. The Casa), 29 Hope Street
The Initiative Factory was established in 1998 and its key objectives are to relieve poverty, sickness and hardship and to advance education within Merseyside.
The Initiative Factory operates in Liverpool and one of its founding purposes is to alleviate poverty and hardship amongst dockworkers and their families and dependants on Merseyside and to promote and support educational and training schemes. Those aims and objectives are now being extended to the wider community of Merseyside.
initfactory.gn.apc.org
Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place
The Unity name is one of the last reminders of a national theatre movement that once played an important role in the theatrical and political life of the country. The Unity Theatre movement included 250 groups before the war, loosely linked in the Left Book Club Theatre Guild.
www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Hope Street Ltd, 13a Hope Street
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Since 1988 hope street has been central to the regeneration of Merseyside's creative industries by training a new generation of dynamic, multi-skilled arts practitioners including actors, directors, designers, workshop leaders, community artists and technicians, and providing them with a springboard into the profession.
www.hope-street.org
Everyman Bistro, 5-9 Hope Street
The Everyman Bistro was founded 35 years ago by Paddy Byrne and Dave Scott – later to be joined by Tim Byrne our 3rd partner. In the basement of the old ‘Hope Hall’ with little more than a domestic cooker and a trestle table or two Paddy and Dave turned out food that had never been seen in Liverpool (or anywhere else) before at that time.
www.everyman.co.uk
Liverpool Everyman, 13 Hope Street
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Founded in 1964 in the appropriately named Hope Hall (once a chapel, then a cinema), in an area of Liverpool noted for its bohemian environment and political edge, the Everyman quickly built a reputation for ground-breaking work. A succession of visionary directors, exciting writers, and bold young acting companies kept the theatrical flame alive for decades, and the Everyman was the crucible for an astonishing range of theatrical talent. Julie Walters, Bernard Hill, Antony Sher, Bill Nighy, Alan Bleasdale, Willy Russell, Barbara D!ckson, Matthew Kelly, Cathy Tyson, David Morrissey, several McGanns and the Liverpool Poets all considered the Everyman a formative home in their early years. The intimacy of the Everyman’s thrust space has wrapped itself around the reinterpretation of classics that characterised the sixties; the political drama and theatrical mischief that followed in the early seventies; the rich vein of new writing which bridged the transition to the eighties, and the ambitious theatricality which carried it into the nineties.
Since January 2004, the Everyman has been a producing theatre once again, and the cornerstone of its programme is the living writer. Whether it is the debut of a new Liverpool playwright, a new version of a world classic, or the British première of a major international play, the warmth and dynamism of the Everyman space embraces each of the stories that traverse its stage.
www.everymanplayhouse.com
Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street
Opened on 27th August 1849, Philharmonic Hall has long been an acclaimed and integral part of the artistic life of Liverpool, and was described as ‘the best in Europe’ by Sir Thomas Beecham before being destroyed by fire in 1933. The present hall, designed by architect Herbert Rowse and opened in 1939, quickly established itself as both a concert hall and cinema. The art deco splendour of Philharmonic Hall was restored in 1995 following a £10.3 million refurbishment; parts of the foyer are said to be based on decoration in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
On the back wall of the stage, complementing the auditorium’s wall reliefs of muses, a fascinating piece of gently undulating kinetic art, ADAGIO, represents the convergence of the River Mersey with the human face.
www.liverpoolphil.com
That rocks!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Word!!
Is that what we call a 'candid' pic Dave? If so, I love 'em. Liverpool life.
Don't you think he looks the spitting image of Stereo MC's Rob Birch?
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Dave Bateman's poem following is the title poem in an anthology in which some of my poems about Liverpool and other topics are included. The anthology, Living On Hope Street, edited by local poet and performer Jim Bennett, is expected out before Christmas. Next May, we will have a couple of readings in connection with the anthology at the Everyman (under the auspices of the Dead Good Poets) and at the Albert Dock for which I am looking forward to coming over from the United States to appear.
Living On Hope Street
I’ve been living on Hope Street now
for more years than I can remember,
but that’s partly because I was drunk.
Let’s call it several years or so, rolling
between my end of this not-so-mean street
and the Everyman Bistro at the other,
passing always The Famous Luggage,
port out starboard home, the stacked-up
sculpted and mysterious suitcases of local heroes
with a view of the river and when you count them
they never add up to the same number twice
even though there is a numbered key
just a few drunken steps away,
and the seagulls arc overhead like ghosts of hangovers,
and whenever I try to add up all the drinks
I have drunk on Hope Street – at the Ev, the Belv,
the Casa, the Crack and even the Phil, it always
comes to more than the number I first thought of,
but dauntless and blithely I travel to and fro
along this very nearly straight road,
for say what you like about Hope Street,
it runs pleasantly from south to north
or the opposite if you prefer, and
with one cathedral at each end
it’s certainly pretty hard to get lost on.
David Bateman
I posted a photograph of 'Ye cracke' in Rice Street a few days back. This is a part of Liverpool that I love - the area around Hope Street, The Philharmonic Hall and the cathedrals.
I've got a few more photos that i may post, but I was quite pleased with this one - PILGRIM STREET.
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I once read that 'wherever you go in the Liverpool 8 area, the Anglican Cathedral is looking down on you'. It's true, and it can feel quite eerie.
I'm not much of a photographer, and there are plenty who could do a much better job, but I was quite pleased with this one and I think the black and white suits the image.
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Here's another one. I love this piece of art.
Can someone let me know what the name of this is, I just can't think at the moment and can't seem to find anything about it on the 'net.
I think it is called "A CASE HISTORY" Ross08
i THINK ITS CALLED....A WASTE OF SPACE,TIME & MONEY.:034: