Liverpool One Shopping Area [Completed Phases]

[A.D.W]

Nice pics! - What does it cost to park there?

Try The Strand Q-Park website, Howie.

[lindylou]

Do you have to pay to park at the Trafford centre ?

[quincyg]

nipped into the Qpark on the way back from my Nan's. Buses were a pain this morn so didn't get the chance on way out.

[wallasey]

All day £8 isn't bad considering how much you could pay to park in a City Centre. Quite impressed with how cheap they are to be honest!

[quincyg]

All day £8 isn't bad considering how much you could pay to park in a City Centre. Quite impressed with how cheap they are to be honest!

true, especially considering the security in there. you can actually see the security room with the guard sitting in there watching the screens. good deterrent that. plus each level seems to have at least 1 guard wandering about from what I saw and there's CCTV cameras everywhere.

perhaps Q should take over the other city car parks. especially the one on Mount Pleasant. one of my step daughters was quite unnerved using it the other week.

[Kev]

Do you have to pay to park at the Trafford centre ?

No Lindi, but I'd rather spend my money in Liverpool anyway. The trip to the trafford C would cost that and abit in petrol anyway.

[Ged]

It's 90p on the ordinary streets for half an hour, and I wonder how many just put the pound coin in because they have no silver, cos you get no change.

[Cadfael]

Was in the passenger seat of a friends car yesterday and we took a trip from Upper Parly Street along the Dock Road to get to Bootle and I wanted to see what the new Liverpool One building would look like from this side as I've not seen it at that angle.

What a bloody eyesaw. It takes up all of one side of the road and detracts from looking left at the Albert Dock buildings. It's as ugly as sin, doesn't fit in when you are faced with the 3 Graces in the same eye scan and will date terribly in 10 years.

The whole road seems darker as a result and it just looks totally out of place.
I'm sure the inside is very swish but what a monstrosity.

[Howie]

I think the architectural impact on the city is well captured on Ben Johnson's cityscape.



Personally I think those black granite blocks on Mann Island are a bigger monstrosity.

[Ged]

Nice one.

[PhilipG]

Here's a reminder of the view you got when you came out of the old bus station, in May 1996.
Everything in this photo was demolished.

Was the pub called the Criterion?
It was rather rough, and I seem to remember a murder.

Photo courtesy of "Old Liverpool".

[Ged]

The pub was the Triton Philip and was where we had a few, over the road from my wedding reception in the moat house in 1988. We also used to go in it as part of our Paradise street pub crawl now and again which included the Beehive, the Eagle and the hotel bar.

[lindylou]

It was my cousin Ronnie James who was murdered there. He was landlord of the 5th Ave pub (formerly the Triton). He was attacked and killed by a burgler after closing time. My cousin's wife and 3 year old child were upstairs in the living quarters when it happened. The local news was full of it at the time - and for quite a while there were whole pages and double page spreads about the murder - my cousin Ronnie's face seemed to be everywhere you looked. The burgler was eventually arrested and put in prison. I can see his face now - and we won't forget that face.
the Pub was closed for some time while police and forensics were in there.
I remember when a new manager took over and he was interviwed about how it felt to take over a pub where there was such a brutal murder.

My cousin died in a struggle fighting for his life - he was a 6 ft guy and no pushover, he had fought back. He was stabbed numerous times in this vicious attack.


R I P Ronnie James.

[PhilipG]

It was my cousin Ronnie James who was murdered there. He was landlord of the 5th Ave pub (formerly the Triton). He was attacked and killed by a burgler after closing time. My cousin's wife and 3 year old child were upstairs in the living quarters when it happened. The local news was full of it at the time - and for quite a while there were whole pages and double page spreads about the murder - my cousin Ronnie's face seemed to be everywhere you looked. The burgler was eventually arrested and put in prison. I can see his face now - and we won't forget that face.
the Pub was closed for some time while police and forensics were in there.
I remember when a new manager took over and he was interviwed about how it felt to take over a pub where there was such a brutal murder.

My cousin died in a struggle fighting for his life - he was a 6 ft guy and no pushover, he had fought back. He was stabbed numerous times in this vicious attack.

Oh dear, Lindy.
I'm so sorry I've brought back such distressing memories.

[lindylou]

That's ok Philip. In a strange kind of way I feel better for telling the story. I often hear the pub being mentioned and I don't say anything.

I feel it's been an opportunity to talk about it and remember Ronnie.