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The demolition work is progressing well (at least moving in the right direction...)
Will be interesting to see the X museum and the three graces (granite this time) go up. Enjoy the excellent views of the other three graces from the Albert Dock now while you still can! :eek:
The railway lines near the dock are getting exposed...just look for a couple of workers with dust-brushes (by the area that used to be the entrance to Mann Island Finance).
Yellow sandstone wall and red-brick wall. These are beneath the cobbles at the rear of Mann Island Finance. I don't know what was here prior to the car-park.
interesting find I wonder if anyone knows what the sandstone wall were?
kat:)
Much more of the brickwork has been revealed today. The workers were cleaning up a large curved brick feature (several feet wide).
I don't know how correct this is ? but I have been told that all of that Sandstone (including the stuff to build the Cathedral) came from Quarry Street, off Beaconsfield Road.
(Near Strawberry fields > for our Overseas mates.)
i dunno, but the photos i took looked like red brick to me, but further round where the pontoon is there are lots of sandstone blocks fenced off, no doubt perhaps either for the canal or some kind of feature garden?
kat:)
According to information sheets placed on the fence around Mann Island...the yellow sandstone is part of the Canning Dock wall. Some of the other structures will be of interest to railway buffs...the curved pits are to do with the old Mersey Railway Tunnel ventilation system.
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Mann Island developments video (promotional )
http://www.mannislandapartments.com/flythrough
More here but from a different website to do with the developments
http://www.neptunedevelopments.co.uk/news/news.asphttp://www.neptunedevelopments.co.uk...annisland1.jpg
kat:)
Same photographic position as mine, but in colour if you scroll five messages back up from your post, six if you count this *lol*
lets hope we get some better weather to get some decent photos
kat:)
Great pic!:handclap:
Thanks :PDT11
Anyone know what's happening with that corner of the Port of Liverpool building, with the scaffolding on it?
30th September 2007 (Please view the original FULL sizes) :PDT11
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Seeing these worried me slighty:
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New Liverpool Museum:
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Can anyone tell me why the building on the right in pic five is still standing ??
I thought it would have gone the way of all landfill by now.
From the day my mother took me there I have hated the place.
Looking forward to the new one though.
Phredd
LIVERPOOL’S new museum has won a £1.4m Government grant to pay its running costs for its first year.
The waterfront X-shaped development will benefit from the extra funding in 2010 after a spending review by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Culture Secretary James Purnell pledged an extra £50m to Arts Council England to be invested in the arts over the next three years.
The funding guarantees free public admission to England’s national museums and galleries until at least 2011.
National Museums Liverpool say the extra £1.4m funding will enable them to provide a world-class tourist attraction, displaying popular objects like the Lion steam locomotive and a carriage from Liverpool's historic overhead railway.
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Kev, great pics, that last one is a beaut. showing the meeting of the canal and the museum.
Can I show it over on SSC, please:rolleyes:
The funding guarantees free public admission to England’s national museums and galleries until at least 2011.Quote:
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Wonderful to know! Thanks, Kev, and to you and everyone for the great pics and information. :PDT11 :handclap:
Chris
World legacy lost
Oct 15 2007 by Larry Neild, Liverpool Daily Post
OVER the past few weeks, thousands of people have been intrigued and spellbound as a team of archaeologists uncovered an amazing slice of Liverpool’s maritime legacy.
The team was commissioned to carry out the dig at Mann Island, soon to become home to three granite-faced cheese-shaped blocks.
The developers paid for the dig, though they had to as it was a requirement of the planning consent they won to redevelop the site.
I wrote an article on the dig and it was followed-up by BBC television and beamed around the world on their 24-hour news channel.
I popped along occasionally to watch the work in progress as it revealed old cobbled streets and the remains of long-demolished buildings. One of the most fascinating relics to be uncovered was the original fan-driven smoke extractor system built for the Mersey rail tunnel in the late 1890s. Its aim was to extract smoke from steam trains, but was a failure. So they introduced the world’s first electric train service instead. The archaeologists told me that, when they had finished their exploration, the site would be levelled off with ground-up building debris and then the new wedges would go on top. The only consolation was that, maybe in a century’s time, if the wedges are demolished, the then time-detectives of 2107 would marvel at the hidden gems and turn it into a visitor attraction.
So what happens. Last week, dirty big mechanical diggers were drafted in to completely rip apart the whole site, the old foundations, cobble stones, that quirky old brick-built smoke extractor system. They have left, to be buried, a stretch of old dock wall. But the rest is history.
It brings into sharp focus again the way Liverpool’s World Heritage Site is being cared for, or rather not cared for.
There is talk of setting up a posse of cultural sheriffs on the orders of the World Heritage Committee. As well as the city council, the sheriffs will include so-called cultural guardians such as English Heritage and CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The Liverpool office of CABE is part-funded by the city council and Liverpool Vision, and the recently retired chairman of English Heritage is a trustee of National Museums Liverpool.
I would have felt more comforted had the new “cultural police” been made up entirely of people who had no links at all with developers, developments, funders and planners.
Interestingly, there is no place on the proposed body for those the establishment consider outlaws. People like unsung heroine Florence Gersten and sabre-rattling cultural campaigner Wayne Colquhoun are regarded as nuisances. Yet they and a small band of like-minded people are the last bastions of those attempting to preserve our wonderful heritage.
It is a finger in the dyke operation for them, and far too often their passionate pleas to spare old buildings fall on deaf ears.
It is not about preserving the cultural quarter in aspic, but having a system that prevents developments.
Our World Heritage Site does not belong to developers, politicians or quango kings – it belongs to the world.
It's amazing to see how fast buildings go up these days!:eek: Thanks for the great pic Kev:handclap:
Thank you
The Danish architects of the new museum of Liverpool life at Mann Island have been sacked........
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0...name_page.html
Now we're going to see the materials used on this change from marble to limestone on the exterior because it's cheaper and the inside will no longer be as fancy,was using 3XN just a ploy to get planning permission in such a sensitive location? :disgust:
OMG!
Here we go again.
Hopefully, these things don't just happen in Liverpool.
Sure is getting busy down there Kev. Great photo.
As for the redesign or rather poorer quality materials, well another fiasco, but it could look o.k. to a blind man on a foggy day.
Thankfully, no, they don't just happen in Liverpool, another forum is giving examples of this. Spiraling costs and not being able to meet the deadline are reasons being given but since we'll have to live with it a lot longer than the tourists, I 'd rather see it done properly and overun a few months. I've yet to see either a domestic or business development come in on or under budget or on time without going over budget and I watch enough programmes on them.
This was going to be Liverpools only real new world class building. I can't believe they have done this. Sure to be another fiasco. Liverpool will end up with a watered down second rate building, still over budget and late but now with a someone else to take the blame ie. 3XN.
So disappointing yet again.
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27th December 2007, Hilton Hotel in the foreground:
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Starting to take shape nicely, Kev. Cheers for the picture update.
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Thanks :PDT11
Interestingly this new museum is to be called " Museum of Liverpool" which is different from Liverpool Museum it seems.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/
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Liverpool Museum (William Brown Street) of course was always a world museum based in Liverpool and so the name change to World museum. The new museum of Liverpool is for all things Liverpool only and replaces the Museum of Liverpool life so as not to confuse the two.
I still find "Museum of Liverpool" confusing as a title as most people still refer to the museum on William Brown St as "Liverpool Museum" whatever the managers of the museum have decided to rename it. I suspect the man in the street is equally confused. Liverpool has a history of keeping old names; "Pierhead" being only one example of a modern misnomer.Quote:
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The deal involving the sale of the new apartment blocks at Mann Island is the biggest in the city's history.
Story here:
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