Liverpool One [Paradise Street] Shopping Area [Under Construction]

[Kev]

23rd May 2007

[iain]

23rd May 2007

I know they've left the hole in the glazed part for the bridge across to the car park, but I can't figure out why they've not done the end wall of the "terracotta" bit yet - the rest of the exterior looks finished.

[phredd]

Here's how the new entrance linking Church Street into the Paradise Project will look,I can't wait to see this when it's finished.

I do not believe it is going to be called 'Church Yard'.
Who in the name of The Almighty thought that one up ?

Phredd

[Paul D]

South John Street



Paradise Place

It's hard to imagine from Kevs pictures that all of that will become something like this.

[Squirrel]

I do not believe it is going to be called 'Church Yard'.
Who in the name of The Almighty thought that one up ?

Phredd

I don't think it was the big guy himself. But, what's the problem?

It's on the site of old St Peter's church yard. It's a good name.

[Ged]

Why not St. Peter's arcade then or something a bit more exotic than yard?

[phredd]

Squirell
I know it is on the site of St Peters Church.
As Ged says. What is so wrong in calling it St Peters Arcade/Mal/Precinct:- anything than yard.
Will the next one be called 'The Back Entry' ?
The person that thought of 'yard' gets £65000 + pa for drivel.

Phredd

[lindylou]

Sorry, I have to agree with Squirrel here.


I like the name Church Yard.


It reminds me of 'Neals Yard Covent Gdn.

It doesn't remind me at all of yards as in back entries !

I think it sounds good.

Arcade - no - sounds too much like something you would find in Llandudno or Southport.

Mall - definately no, no, no ! ( too common !!)

[PhilipG]

I still like 'Woolie's Walk', but I suppoe that's advertising (and a little too common perhaps for The Paradise Project!).

Seriously, I think it should be called 'Bluecoat' something-or-other.
It's going to lead to the Bluecoat, and 'Bluecoat' has never been used to name a street.

[Ged]

Good shout.

[Ged]

Bluecoat way or Bluecoat View.

[PhilipG]

Bluecoat way or Bluecoat View.

I like Bluecoat View, but seeing as it's going to be an arcade, why not Bluecoat Arcade?

[phredd]

I'll go along with 'Bluecoat Arcade' or 'Way'. It has an educated ring about it.

Phredd

[Squirrel]

Phredd, It called Church Yard, because it's on the site of a bleedin' church yard; not the church but its grave yard.

I can't think of a reason to name a new street any better than that it alludes to the history of its location. Church Arcade, etc., wouldn't do this so much, perhaps only giving the impression that the name came from the street off which it runs. Now, you and I know that Church Street gets its name from the demolished St Peter's, but how many others know this? In addition to this new street name. an information plaque along this new side street explaining the history of the site also would be great.

For this reason, St Peter's Church Yard, although a mouthful, would have been even better a name for this alley.

For once, this is an occasion when the a name is quite clearly not a consultant's 65k-a-year, or whatever, bull**** creation but a sensible and appropriate name for a new street that is rooted in the history and heritage of its location. Go around old towns and cities around the country and you'll find the squares and streets adjacent to old churches named Church Yard, Old Church Yard, etc., often when the church is long demolished.

In Liverpool, we have St James' Mount, Old Church Yard around St Nicks, and so on. The old square around St Peter's would probably be called Church Yard. So it's not even a new name, it's a revival of the old name for this site.

Now, Bluecoat Cloisters or whatever is being suggested above, that sounds like PR agency tripe if I ever heard it. Pretentious, inaccurate and inappropriate - the Bluecoat Chambers complete the view down Church Alley not this new street.

When you're walking through Church Yard in 18 months time, reflect for a moment that you're in the grave yard of one of Liverpool's lost churches, and our cathedral for a period - there are previous generations beneath you, history is all around.

I know I will.

[chippie]

Bluecoat Bazaar