I've heard work has already started, just not at The Pier Head end.
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I've heard work has already started, just not at The Pier Head end.
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. :rolleyes:
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Work to start on new city museum
Apr 21 2006
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
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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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Quick Draw Howie :celb (23): By By Porche garage - Hello Liverpool Life!!
Did anyone else notice the lack of media coverage of this on the news?
Interesting:
THE new museum will provide 5,000 square metres of exhibition space with regularly changing exhibitions.
It will be divided into four sections - Port City,, Global City, My Liverpool and Expressive City.
The main gallery will explore stories about the people living and working underneath the rails of the Overhead Railway and will feature an original third class Overhead Railway carriage, suspended above the gallery at its working height.
Also located on the ground floor will be the 200-capacity Liverpool Theatre showcasing productions by local film makers, writers and artists.
Plans for the first floor include the History Hub, a resource centre housing more than 10,000 objects from the NML collections.
On the second floor, in the People's City gallery the centrepiece will be the model of the proposed Liverpool Catholic Cathedral by architect Edwin Lutyens which was never built.
The city's footballing history will also get its own exhibition.
Also....feature the famous Lion steam locomotive as its centrepiece. The Lion is famous for being the last surviving steam locomotive which followed the success of The Rocket on the Liverpool to Manchester line.
What happens next
APRIL: An application to the Treasury will be made asking for permission for NML to accept the NWDA grant. It is a rubber stamping procedure.
MAY: Public sector funding of £7.5m from the European Regional Development Fund has been reserved for the project but NML must now go back to ask for the decision to be confirmed.
JUNE: A second bid for the £11.4m (15% of the overall project) will be submitted to the HLF in July but a decision will not be made until next January.
SEPTEMBER: Building work starts on the Mann Island Site.
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I made up we've got the funding sorted which will build the exterior of the building and the lottery money we are reapplying for will fit it out,so hopefully we wont have a problem getting the heritage lottery fund this time now the NWDA have showed so much confidence in the scheme.We need to bring the Waterfront back to life and this is a great start.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
I'm sure that the area will deffo be the place to be in the next few years, for everyone, will become part of a day trip into town. Its been detactched for too long, that plus The Albert Dock.
Would you try to live there one day Kev?:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
Yes, i will set up a two man tent next to the liver birds for me and......u perhaps? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Max
Canal link to cities' birthdaysQuote:
Originally Posted by Howie
May 8 2006
By Catherine Jones Culture Reporter, Liverpool Echo
THE Liverpool to Leeds canal will join two cities celebrating their 800th anniversary next year.
The Civic Trust is liaising with waterways organisations and groups at both ends of the waterway to mark the dual anniversaries during 2007.
At 127 miles, the canal is the longest in Britain, linking two of the north's most historic cities which both gained their royal charters from King John in 1207.
There are proposals to extend the canal through to the Albert Dock with new navigable channels excavated through the currently infilled Trafalgar Dock and across the Pier Head.
Now there are plans to use the whole canal as a focal point for a series of events both in Liverpool and Leeds and in towns and villages along the route during 2007.
Meetings have been held between the Civic Trust, British Waterways, the Waterways Trust, Scarman Trust and Culture Company to develop ideas.
They include an education programme, time traveller's guide to the canal, heritage book project, songs of the sea festival, a green space restoration, a football celebration aimed at youngsters, music, illustrated talks and walks and textile heritage.
The Civic Trust also celebrates its 50th anniversary next year.
Ian Harvey, from the Trust's Liverpool office, said: "The project would offer a unique opportunity to unite Leeds and Liverpool to celebrate 2007 in a joint partnership and encourage local ownership of the canal.
"It's quite a complex project. There are 15 Civic Trusts and 14 local authorities along the route and they've all expressed an interest in taking part."
But the full programme of events could cost around £300,000 to put on and funding is still to be secured.
Clare Riches, of the Waterways Trust, said: "They want to raise awareness between the two cities that they're both celebrating their 800th birthday and looking at what could potentially be done.
"We would need a canal boat which can be used on the canal, so we'd be asking if there's a keen boater out there who would like to get involved."
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through Burscough, Rufford, Wigan, Blackburn, Burnley, Skipton and Shipley.
Source: icLiverpool
LIVERPOOL'S most high-profile modern philanthropist last night revealed he has withdrawn his financial support from National Museums Liverpool over the controversial X-museum plans. more
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:disgust: I like this development but it just seems destined not to be built.Quote:
Originally Posted by kev
THE planned extension of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal into the Albert Dock is set to move forward.
Councillors are being asked to grant British Waterways a long-term lease for land in front of the Three Graces at the Pier Head, so work can start on the £16m project this summer.
The extension, which will join the Canal up to the Albert Dock, is expected to attract thousands more tourists into the city.
A report to the city's executive board stresses there will be little public space lost as the majority of the canal will be in a culvert with only two open spaces opposite the Liver Building and Port of Liverpool Building.
Negotiations between British Waterways, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and National Museums Liverpool are being held about other stretches of land required to extend the canal.
"This is a very exciting development which will bring life and animation back to the Pier Head," said Cllr Keith Turner, executive member for resources.
"As well as leasing the land for the Canal, we are also going to improve the look and condition of the Pier Head.
"Work is planned for the public areas in time for Capital of Culture year.
"During the construction of the Canal, the public will still be able to get access to the waterfront and the ferries," he added.
"We want the Pier Head to be full of life and a real asset to the city. The waterfront is one of the most famous in the world and the canal extension will focus even more attention on it."
It is intended that construction work will start in summer of this year, and be completed by the end of next year.
The report will be considered by the Board on June 2.
* A 200-TON, 80-metre long steel truss which will form the main structural spine of the Kings Dock arena and convention centre roof will be lifted into position this afternoon.
Bob Prattey, chief executive of the Kings Dock, will use the occasion to reveal the names of some of the first bookings for the new centre, which is due to open in 2008.
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LIVERPOOL museum bosses will submit anew bid for Heritage Lottery funding this week for their £67m flagship Museum of Liverpool development.
But they will press ahead and start work on the Mann Island site this September - even though the lottery funding decision won't be known until next January.
The lottery fund turned down an £11.4m bid earlier this year on the grounds that insufficient information was available on the new museum's content.
However, the scheme was boosted when regeneration body the North West Development Agency pledged £32.7m.
National Museums Liverpool director Dr David Fleming revealed afresh lottery bid is to be lodged: "We are putting the finishing touches to anew Heritage Lottery Fund bid this week. We won't know whether we will get this money until January, but we will start building anyway.
"There are still a few hurdles to overcome. There is an important decision on European funding coming up and if that goes well we will start in September.
"We are 97.5% close to making this happen. This is prettymuch **** certainly going to happen," he insisted.
Archeologists will go on site in September and, barring any significant finds that could disrupt schedules, construction work will begin in October, Mr Fleming told guests at last night's official closure of the Museum of Liverpool Life which occupies part of the new development's site. (that answers why they closed it then)
The Museum of Liverpool will be completed in 2008 but will not open to the public for another 18 months, subject to fitting out.
In the meantime the museum will go out "on the road" with exhibitions on the city's history and music planned during 2008.
Mr Fleming said the new X-shaped development, dubbed the deck chair, will be one of the top half dozen city museums in the world: "It will put the city on adifferent scale and adifferent stage."
Surely it won't be demolished??!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul D
I can't see how they'd accomodate it in the new development if it occupies part of the site so that looks likely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
They should build around it or rebuild it as they did with the old houses outside of The Radisson
They might yet I don't know enough about it,here's a shot of the interior.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
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and an alternative view.
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To view the new museum Click on English,then projects and the Museum of Liverpool(jan 05) and watch the fly through of the new museum,it's excellent.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
LIVERPOOL'S new waterfront canal has been redesigned because the original would have been boarded-up for three months a year. more
'Now British Waterways have launched their search for a contractor to build the canal link, which will give barges access to the Mersey for the first time.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
I thought this would have already been done? The Pier Head should be left as a complete open space in my opinion.
Why is it now do they realise these flaws? :rolleyes:
@Dave - an open space with the canal link or without?
Hope it will be finished by 2008.
Not sure Kev, but the Pier Head is one of my favourite places in Liverpool. I'll not be happy if the spoil it by building a canal link that few people end up using!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
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If the project ever sees the light of day, I think the canal could look quite SMART. :celb (23):
(please don't read 'smart' backwards, it could be an omen!):celb (6):
@SM, did u get my pm's mate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scousemouse
smart ... trams ... ha hah .. very good Scousemouse :) :)
I think a canal would look smart too. I'm all for it.
.... but now it's been mentioned, it got me thinking .. would it actually be used by many people ??
I never thought of that.
I think it would be well used. There's 127 miles of the Leeds and Liverpool canal with plenty of traffic to visit Liverpool. I hope it comes off and that we eventually see the narrowboats arrive in the city centre. I also think that it would also act as a catalyst to regeneration along the canals route thru' the north end of the city.
See pics @ http://penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll84.htm.
Wouln't mind sitting on a canal and having my notepad for inspiration.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
The Pier Head route is mainly in a tunnel isnt it?
Some great pics in there Howie, no doubt the cleanup operation will be needed. Regeneration will hopefully be kickstarted along that route. Where else in the country can you sail leisurely along the waterway and see the magnificently huge Stanley Dock?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
I love the prospect of seeing a suitable end to the canal around the Albert dock area but I think its a shame they have to fill in a dock in the process. At least if they declare a dock as home to barges they cant fill it in!
Hi Liver, thanks for your post and support. Welcome aboard the good ship Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by liver
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The future is a slow boat to Bootle
Jun 21 2006
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is one of our city's most neglected assets. Now there are plans to change that with boat trips for tourists and shoppers. David Charters reports
Daily Post
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THOUSANDS of people come to Liverpool to take a short boat trip. That sentence immediately suggests the famous ferries across the Mersey between the Pier Head, Birkenhead and Seacombe.
But imagine tourists sitting in rows and licking ice cream cornets on that other great stretch of water in the city, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Is that just a dream, some fanciful vision of a new Venice?
"It need not be," says Ron Formby, the tireless community campaigner, as he watches swans glide along the canal, where once coloured barges chugged with cargoes of cotton and slate cut in North Wales going eastward, returning with coal and woollen goods.
His idea is for a canal boat to carry shoppers the four miles from Vauxhall in the heart of old Liverpool to the Strand shopping centre, Bootle. It is a modest enough start, but his ambition stretches into the future.
A £20m British Waterways project is already under way to extend the canal from the Stanley Dock to the Albert Dock with a cut across the Pier Head. It is hoped that it will be completed by 2008 when, as the whole world knows, Liverpool will be the European Capital of Culture.
This could be the opportunity for the city to benefit from one of its most neglected assets, as the boats would pass by the old Scotland Road area. Italians, Poles, Germans, Irish people fleeing the famine, Jews, Russians and refugees from many other countries, came here.
Some stayed. Others sailed away to make new lives for themselves in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.
It is appropriate that his scheme should have a Venetian feel. It was in Circus, Gerard, Lionel, Whale and Christian streets that Vauxhall's Little Italy was formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
"The tourist potential is there for everyone to see," says Ron. "People from all over the world have connections with this part of Liverpool. We could call the boat the Spirit of Vauxhall."
And the Canal Boat Project has the backing of Louise Ellman, the MP for Liverpool Riverside. She has been working on it with Ron, the Vauxhall-based Liverpool Boat Company, British Waterways, Liverpool City Council, youth leaders and PC Les Harvey, the dedicated officer (community bobby) based at Stanley Road police station in Kirkdale, who is representing Merseyside Police.
A team of young offenders, under the guidance of Tony Forshaw, the youth restorative justice officer at the community justice centre on Boundary Street, Kirkdale, is renovating a small fibreglass river cruiser, which seats about 12 people. But the ambition is to raise money through fares and grants to buy one of the large barges made by the Liverpool Boat Company.
"We build about 350 canal boats a year," says Terry Woods, its finance manager. "They are steel boats used for leisure or for people to live on. They can be fully fitted ones or DIY ones for people to fit out themselves."
Terry says that they could supply a 42 horsepower, 50ft boat for about £20,000 with the engine, gearbox and ballast, but the team would have to furnish the interior.
Ron, from the Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council, hopes that they will eventually be able to buy a steel boat.
But the Boat Company will be able to help with the cruiser. "The knowledge we have with any technical details will be on hand for Ron. We will help him in any way we can."
"The youths are working with power tools and materials, so that we can restore the boat. Then we will hand it over to the community," says Les Harvey. "In this way, the young people are giving something back to the community."
The work is being carried out on the boat at an undisclosed location near the canal to avoid any possibility of vandalism. "She needs a complete refit inside," Les adds.
It is anticipated that the trip from Vauxhall to Bootle will take about 45 minutes.
"I have spoken to people and they think that the idea of travelling to the shops in such a leisurely way, away from the hustle and bustle, is lovely," says Jack Brotherton, an 86-year-old retired carpenter, helping with the project, who has been working on ships since 1934. "There is a bank on the canal with a good open space for passengers to get off near the shopping centre," adds Jack, who built his own house in Crosby.
He thinks that the service would be ideal for residents of the Eldonian Village on the site of the old Tate and Lyle sugar refinery which closed 25 years ago.
With the group discussing the project is Steve Higham, economic and social development officer with British Waterways. "It will be popular, but it needs establishing," he says. "Half the problem with the canal in Liverpool is that people don't know it's there. But finance is not something we have really addressed yet."
An application for the Canal Bird Life project, incorporating the boat scheme, has already been submitted to the Big Lottery Fund People's Millions competition, in which ITV viewers will choose 90 projects to receive £50,000 each.
The idea is to have the canal boat service running by 2008. It has grown from the successful Bird Life Project, which is turning part of the canal into a wildlife sanctuary, and the Tourism in Vauxhall campaign, which draws the attention of visitors to attractions such as the Tobacco warehouse on the world's largest brick building on Great Howard Street.
It is 14 storeys tall and has 27m bricks.
Canal clean-up programmes are held on the canal on the final Wednesday of every month.
Parish records are stored on computers in St Anthony's Parish Church, Scotland Road, which celebrated its bicentenary in 2004. This has become an attraction for overseas visitors whose families have Liverpool roots.
"A canal barge could operate for sight-seeing and shopping excursions up to the Bootle Strand," says Ron, who edits the Scottie Press community paper.
"Then, when the link is made to the Albert Dock, we will be able to go through the locks and into the Sandon and Collingwood docks.
"It would be an interesting trip which would open up the canal for tourism. Obviously there would be people coming down in their own boats, but we would have scope for trips for schools, pensioners and local history groups.
"With the Capital of Culture coming up, this would be an ideal way to promote the canal, highlighting the Vauxhall area. The more good things happen here, the greater the chance of us attracting investment."
By coincidence, next year is the 800th anniversary of Liverpool being granted its Royal Charter by King John and Leeds being its granted its Charter by Maurice Paynel, the Lord of the Manor.
To mark the occasion, the Inland Waterways Association has announced that the World Canals Conference is to be held on Liverpool on June 13, 14, and 15, 2007.
"The annual conference brings together hundreds of canal enthusiasts, professionals and scholars from around the world," says an IWA spokesman.
"Topics to be discussed include the protection of historic canals or features, revitalisation of canal systems, harbour sites, canal trails and amenities. The conference will immediately precede the Mersey River Festival (June 15 to 18).
"That the conference should be held in Liverpool is particularly appropriate given the transfer of ownership and operation of Liverpool's historic South Docks from English Partnerships to British Waterways, the largest navigation authority in the UK."
Louise Ellman has given the project her full support. "It is a really exciting idea. It is part of local regeneration," she says, "making the waterway available to more people as part of environmental improvements.
"It is good that young people are working on it as part of their restorative programme because that is also to do with community service. I will do what I can to help with the finance. There is funding around for projects.
"It is locating the money and focusing on something like this. Too often, they think only of the big schemes. This is a very imaginative scheme and practical as well."
davidcharters@dailypost.co.uk
Canal history
* BACK in 1770, an Act of Parliament allowed digging on the canal to start simultaneously in Leeds and Liverpool.
* By 1777, stretches of the canal had been opened between Liverpool and Wigan and from Leeds to Gargrave.
* Money ran out, halting the project during the American War of Independence (1776-1783).
* Work resumed in 1790 and the 127-mile canal was opened in 1816.
* The canal is still navigable. It climbs 411ft through 92 locks. There are eight aqueducts. One embankment is two thirds of a mile long.
Source: icLiverpool
Cheers Howie, enjoyed that :PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
Further information about British Waterway's plan for the Liverpool Link can be found in an article in May's Waterways Magazine - click here for a PDF version.
Navy team plan to row the distance for hospice
Jun 22 2006
Liverpool Echo
A TEAM of Royal Navy sailors is taking part in a charity event, to paddle the length of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in a canoe.
They hope to raise £5,000 for Claire House Children's Hospice in Bebington, Wirral, which cares for children with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses.
The eight-strong-team will consist of six men in the canoe, one in a support vehicle and a Royal Marine running along side them.
The expedition will start next Tuesday, June 27, and will finish in Liverpool on July 1, the first day of the All Aboard maritime festival, featuring the assault ship HMS Albion, which also supports Claire House.
Source: icLiverpool
LIVERPOOL'S multi-million pound waterfront canal could be re-routed at the last minute, leading to West Waterloo dock being filled in.* Click here to see Nick Coligan discuss the controversial plans in a video report
An extension to the Leeds-Liverpool has been planned for more than two years.Quote:
West Waterloo Dock is a dock, on the River Mersey and part of the Port of Liverpool it is situated in the northern end of the dock system, connected to Victoria Dock to the north and Princes Half Tide Dock to the south. It opened in 1834, the dock was named after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
But weeks before work was due to start, British Waterways wants to change the route. :shock:
They say the flagship 2008 scheme would go ahead even if their request was rejected by the council.
Residents fear filling in the dock would provide potential new building sites.
Work is due to start this summer on the link between the Leeds-Liverpool canal and the Albert dock via the Pier Head.
But if British Waterways plans are allowed, the route would be shifted several metres inland at Trafalgar dock, allowing more attractive landscaping.
West Waterloo dock would then be filled in with rubble dug up from the Pier Head to create a flat area.
Residents have reacted angrily to the proposal - while the ECHO understands council planners are also unhappy with the dock being filled.
British Waterways has already shelved one re-design following council talks.
A spokesman said: "We are just looking at a slightly different, improved route and it does not affect the entire scheme."
Residents at the Waterloo Quay apartments, which overlook West Waterloo dock, pledged to fight the plans.
Tony O'Leary, chairman of the residents association, said: "These docks are part of Liverpool's heritage and they need to be preserved.
"When we bought these apartments, one of the attractions was the environment, overlooking water.
"We supported British Waterways' initial application wholeheartedly because there was never any indication thatWest Waterloo dock would be filled in.
"Filling in the dock would create a valuable piece of land. But it might take 20 years for that land to settle, and for all that time it would be a derelict mess in an historic dock area."
Kirkdale councillor Malcolm Kennedy said: "We have had no indication of what might eventually be built on the infilled dock, and I find that dishonest.
"The canal project will be wonderful for the whole city and I am also concerned that making changes now could delay it unnecessarily."
nick.coligan@liverpool.com