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Off Lodge Lane along Astbridge Street.
Beginning one of the many interweaving conversations we’ll have while walking along. This one about
how streets work, how they need to lead to others, and why cul de sacs are said by some to be items of social and even military control.
We reach Granby 4 Streets, Beaconsfield here.
Then Jane gets a shortened version of the history of the place in Cairns Street.
Who’s doing what.
The Community Land Trust houses are lovingly pointed out.
Jayne’s involved in a community land trust herself, through Homebaked up in Anfield.
And we leave the Four Streets through Ducie Street.
Next we go into Princes Park, where I suspect the snowdrops will be out. This parish contains great riches.
And here they are. The clumps bigger this year than last.
Achingly perfect. A promise of springtime.
All clustered around the headstone of a donkey who worked here in the park many years ago.
Next it’s the story and the still suspended future of the
Welsh Streets.
The former cowhouse on Gwydir Street.
And the desolation of Powis Street.
Left looking like this after two series of Peaky Blinders. We walk on, through to the Dingle.
Streets much like the Welsh Streets.
But these mercifully escaped the attentions of the ‘Housing Market Renewal Initiative’ and so are still full and popular.
Down the
Dockers’ Steps to pay our respects to Alan Murray’s great work.
Then it’s a quick walk along Mill Street to town.
We’ve got people to meet.
Down Bold Street.
The people from Leeds I mentioned.
This is sort of a return visit from one
I made to Leeds last summer. We all meet up in Bold Street Coffee.
And then come next door to
Maray to eat and talk.
Phil Kirby from Leeds, Culture Vultures.
Emma Bearman from Leeds, Culture Vultures.
David Lloyd, Liverpool, SevenStreets.
Elaine Cresswell, Liverpool, landscape architect.
Marie Millward, Leeds, community projects manager.
Jayne Lawless, Liverpool, artist.
And me of course, getting everyone to do much more multi-faceted introductions of themselves than photo captions can encompass.
And we talked. For two hours of being patiently looked after and thoughtfully fed by Maray. About Leeds and Liverpool, our similarities and differences, what works and doesn’t, the meanwhile use of empty buildings, the power of art coming from the place it’s about. And the potential power of co-operation, between and across the towns and cities of Northern England. From Liverpool to Newcastle, we would be better together and have so much to learn from each other.
We had a great time and will definitely be meeting again.
And before our Leeds guests left? Time to inspect the parish.
And discuss more pros and cons of cross-city collaboration and international opportunities.
A good day and Jayne and I will resume our walking in a couple of weeks time by walking around the Everton and Anfield parish where she was born.
Thank you all for a lovely day.
Recommended article: Chomsky: We Are All – Fill in the Blank.
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