Originally Posted by
Ged
Dave. I remember seeing those Eldon Grove shots of yours first time round, brilliant. That model was partly an inspiration for my one too. Hopefully it will be housed in the new museum of liverpool life when it's built.
Gerard, I don't know if Ron Formby is up to date with what's happening with these. I know the original plan was for mock tudor style houses to be built in front of them too on the old playground, to compliment the restored blocks. It seemed that the developer was waiting for the show houses to be sold on the first finished block before he had the money to restore the rest but perhaps Dave can clarify that if he speaks with his mate.
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Our Joe also lived in 'ghost town' - the local name for Gt Richmond street flats as they were so quiet. It was a scandal that the council let these and other tennies go to wrack and ruin and withold healthy development of them. You can see by what has happened with the bullring with uniformity of the walls all being painted the same colour and each landing having brightly colour coded front doors how aesthetically pleasing they are to the eye - they even have coke (that's coca cola by the way) machines at ground level, mind you, the security gate and 'no children' policy also probably lends to the fact they are not now graffitied to death.
I don't think you'll ever get that energy and activity that the square generated a few decades ago with students only though, nor probably the community spirit so if these types of accommodation have to go to students or yuppies to survive, better that, and the new housing is built for families, than them being demolished altogether. If something was going to be done to keep those squares as they were, it had to be done back then, the time has lapsed now,the moment has gone - hey is that a Pink Floyd line.
I dont want them knocked down Ged..Surely something could have been done though mate to do them up and put Local people in them..
Obviously local people are not a priority...Wheres all this Local regeneration funding gone..the likes of what was supposed to go to Kensington..
Ive got family and friends up there and all they got was New doors and Windows..
Somebody somewhere has pocketed a lot of money out of all this and its Scandalous mate..
MP's and the Like !!..start out on the Shop floor with the gift of the gab and are gonna do this that and the other...I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them.
I have become..Comfortably numb..by the way !!
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