I just can't be bothered commenting on this or the antics at the Town Hall. I think I'll go to W.H.Smith tomorrow to buy a copy of Learn Yourself Geordie and a map of Newcastle and Gateshead.
I just can't be bothered commenting on this or the antics at the Town Hall. I think I'll go to W.H.Smith tomorrow to buy a copy of Learn Yourself Geordie and a map of Newcastle and Gateshead.
Okay, maybe I'll stay and get a job as a sales assistant in a designer store (I could always supplement the low wages by cleaning luxury apartments). That is, of course, if there is anywhere affordable left to live once the inner city has been demolished. Capital of Culture - my arse!
THE director of National Museums Liverpool will attempt to build his new museum on the city's waterfront by 2008 - despite being refused crucial Lottery millions yesterday. more
* had a feeling this would turn out like this Once they were going to close the Museum of Liverpool Life that was it for me. Someone wants a casino on that site, I'm tellin ya
Update: POLITICIANS today rallied to back the waterfront Museum of Liverpool after the multi-million pound lottery bid failed. more
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NATIONAL Museums Liverpool is pressing ahead with plans for its new riverside museum despite last week's funding blow. more
1,000 tonnes of tram line rusting away on a dock in Humberside, slabs of marble weathering on Merseyside. Do I detect a theme?
Waterfront museum faces day of destiny
Apr 19 2006
By Deborah James Daily Post Staff
THE fate of contentious plans to build an iconic X-shaped museum on Liverpool's waterfront is to be decided tomorrow.
The board of the North West Development Agency will meet to decide whether National Museums Liverpool will receive a crucial £32m grant.
NML director Dr David Fleming has until then to convince the NWDA board he will find the rest of the funding for the £67m Mann Island scheme, dubbed the "Fifth Grace".
It comes three months after Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced the Heritage Lottery Fund had rejected NML's bid for a key £11.4m to finance the interior of the building.
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About time........
Development chiefs have rubber stamped approval for almost £33m of funding for a new museum on Liverpool's waterfront.
The Museum of Liverpool will be built on the Mann Island site at Pier Head to replace the Museum of Liverpool Life.
The North West Development Agency's (NWDA) £32.7m grant will cover about half of the funding for the £67m Capital of Culture project.
In January, a bid for £11.4m to finance the interior of the building was turned down by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Spectacular addition
The NWDA said the decision on Thursday marked a significant step forward for the scheme.
Steven Broomhead, chief executive of the NWDA, said: "The NWDA is committed to the development of the Mann Island site and believes that the proposed Museum of Liverpool will make a spectacular addition to the Mersey Waterfront as well as significantly boosting the cultural offer in Liverpool.
"This scheme will make an important contribution to the economic development and regeneration of Liverpool, Merseyside and the North West region as a whole."
The futuristic X-shaped building will provide a larger exhibition space to house the urban history collection, currently at the Museum of Liverpool Life.
Exhibits will cover social history and popular culture and will look at Britain and the world through the eyes of Liverpool.
What's happening with the canal link that was going to run under the museum building? I can't find any recent news. Was the funding confirmed?
An economic study identified the following key benefits of the link:
·An estimated 200,000 extra visitors annually to the Liverpool Waterfront who will generate an additional £1.9 million tourism spend each year.
·More than 4,500 boat visits each year.
·An estimated £2.2 million in expenditure annually from boating-related activity.
·Nearly 200 additional local jobs. An increase in property prices in the immediate link area and the wider canal corridor
Good news. Maybe when the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and our local Lib-Dem council have finished demolishing Kensington I'll be able to get a narrowboat to live on.
Work to start on new city museum
Apr 21 2006
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
WORK will start on Liverpool's iconic X-shaped museum within six months, beginning the biggest transformation of the city's historic waterfront for a century.
The controversial Museum of Liverpool project was yesterday given £32.7m by regeneration officials - enough to cover the exterior construction costs.
Museums director David Fleming last night hailed the building as "the city's first 21st-century masterpiece", and said it was time for the city to be "bold and brave."
The museum's future had appeared to be decidedly shaky in recent months after the Government turned down a bid for £11m of Lottery funding to fit out the interior.
But yesterday's crucial support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) means the Mann Island development - an 11th-hour replacement for the doomed Fourth Grace - should be ready by February, 2008.
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