Liverpool Performs 2006 - City In Transition - Programme of Events
City WALKS
Liverpool Blue and Green Badge Guided Walks
Suitable footware and clothing recommended.
Regeneration Walks
Liverpool City Centre is all change. Two regeneration walks delivered throughout the summer offer an opportunity to see the developments up close, speak to people involved in the schemes and get behind-the-scene views of the regeneration as it really happens.
City Walk One - City Centre and Paradise Street development.
Dates: 29 June, 27 July, 31 August
Time: 14:00 – walk will last approx 1 hour
Meeting point: O8 place, Whitechapel
City Walk Two – Ropewalks and the Culture Quarter
Dates: 8 June, 6 July, 3 August
Time: 14:00 – walk will last approx 1.1/2 hours
Meeting point: Meet at RENEW Rooms, 82 Wood Street
All walks are FREE, but will have to be booked in advance as places are limited to 25 per walk.
To book your place please contact the 08 Place 0151 233 2459 or visit the 08 Place Centre, Whitechapel, City Centre.
Special Interest walks and tours
Public Monuments & Civic Pride
Dates: 21 June (Architecture week event) 19 July, 23 August
Time: 14:00 – walk will last approx 2hrs
Meeting point: 08 place, Whitechapel
Liverpool has the most public and civic monuments outside of London . This city walk takes an appreciative look at our civic realm and the history behind it.
Public Monuments & Civic Pride - St. Johns garden and around St Georges Plateau.
Engineering - Ships and Steam and Trains and things!
Date: Saturday 30 September
Time: 14:00 – walk will last approx 2hrs
Meeting point: Pier Head Ferry Terminal
This engineering walk led by a qualified Blue Badge Guide Paul Crossey will take a look at Liverpool ’s unique engineering at the heart of its travel and commerce.
All walks are FREE, but will have to be booked in advance as places are limited to 25 per walk.
To book your place please contact the 08 Place 0151 233 2459 or visit the 08 Place Centre, Whitechapel, City Centre.
Unfamiliar Journeys: Artist Walk
Date: Sunday 18 June – (Architecture Week event)
Time: 11:00 – 12:30 . The Gallery will be open from 10:00
Meeting point: University Art Gallery , 3 Abercromby Square
Free admission, up to 25 persons, booking essential
To compliment the current exhibition by Liverpool photographer Alan KcKernan this artist led walk takes in Liverpool ’s Ropewalks, the changing area that has inspired much of Alan ’s work.
Booking information:
University of Liverpool Art Gallery
6 Abercromby Square
T0151 7694 2348
F0151 794 2343
North West 20 th Century Society.
These three walks devised and led by the North West group looks at Liverpool ’s Twentieth Century architectural contributions.
Liverpool Between the Wars
Date: Saturday 12 August 2006
Time: 10:30 . Walk will last around 3 hours with a short break for refreshments
Meeting point: Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street
This walk looks at some of the best buildings in Liverpool city centre built between the two World Wars, focussing especially on the architect Herbert Rowse. Highlights will include the Philharmonic Hall, India Buildings and the above ground buildings for the Mersey Tunnel.
University Precinct Walk
Date: Saturday 19 August
Time: 10:30 . Walk will last around 2 1/2 hours with a break for refreshments
The University of Liverpool has seen a prolonged and fruitful expansion since it’s founding in 1881. This walk will look at notable C20th architects as Basil Spence, Maxwell Fry, Denys Lasdun and Tom Mellor.
Post War Liverpool Walk
Date: Saturday 26 August
Time: 10:30 Walk will last around 3 hours with a break for refreshments.
Meeting point: The Visitor Centre, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
The 1950’s and 1960’s are not considered by many to be a ‘Golden Age’ for architecture. It was a time for bold ideas and one with a strong sense of style.
Booking details:
All walks are FREE, but booking is essential as there are a limited 30 places per walk.
Eddy Rhead
Twentieth Century Society – North West Group
Telephone: 0161 448 9349
Email: eddyrhead@hotmail.com
Web: www.c20society.org.uk
Sunday City Walks 2006 – City in Transition
Led by Liverpool ’s Green and Blue Badge Guides.
What and where are St. Peter’s Stone?
A look at some aspects of life a century
ago and how they have changed with time.
Date: Sunday 11June
Time: 14:00
Meet: Rice Lane Station.
A Revolution in Retail.
One man’s impact on the world of shopping.
Date: Sunday 9 July
Time: 14:00
Meeting point: Lewis’s store entrance, Ranelagh Place . Corner Renshaw St. opposite the Adelphi Hotel.
Albert Dock is 160 yrs old today!
A justifiable celebration of the life and times of the Albert Dock
Date: Sunday 30 July
Time: 14:00
Meeting point: Hillside station (Mersey Rail Northern Line)
The Liverpool that never was, part 3.
A look at some city centre planning proposals that never come to fruition.
Date: Sunday 17 September
Time: 14:00
Meeting point: The 08 Place, Whitechapel.
A ring around Liverpool , episode 4.
The area around Queens Drive ’s southern extremity.
Date: Sunday 22 Oct
Time: 14:00
Meeting point: Corner of Aigburgh Rd/Jericho Lane . Bus routes 20,82,168,60,61 & 4A
Give a street a good name, part 2.
Continuing our search for stories about people places in the City.
Date: Sunday 4 the Nov
Time: 14:00
Meeting point: The 08 Place, Whitechapel.
Contact Merseytravel Info Line: 0151 236 7676
Cost: £3.50 per person/concession: £2.50 payable to Guide
Meeting points and start time vary, please check the programme or contact Liverpool Tourist Information Centre 0906 680 6886 (calls cost 25p per minute)
Pool Project presents:
ELEMENTAL (secret) JOURNEYS,
The Elemental Journey’s throughout the city centre provide the participant to see Liverpool from different perspectives and go to places you may not have thought of visiting. All locations and meeting points are secret. When booking your place you will be given details of where to meet to go on your sensuous journey. All events are in the city centre booking is essential as places are limited.
For Free Tickets and secret meeting points for all events ring Unity Box office. 0151 709 4988
PICNIC IN THE FORCEFIELD :
A shared understanding of survival and home in a Liverpool of change
Date Wednesday 17 May
Time 17:30 prompt
This is event is also organised by the Duncan Society 0151 794 2986/ 794 2986
EARTH
We journey deep into the cities bones, history and anatomy and picnic in paradise.
Date Thursday 15 June
Time 12:30
A BAPTISM OF FIRE
Invoke the sun, barbeque and say goodbye to our smallest iconic building in appropriate ways
Date Thursday 6 July
Time 17:30
TIDAL DREAMS
An elemental journey into watery futures as the sun sets
Date Thursday 3 August
Time 17:30
THE BREATH OF LIFE
The highs and lows of a breathable city
Date Thursday 21 September
Time 15:30
The Pink Walls
Date: Thursday 9 November
Time: Leaves 17:00 prompt
Meeting Point: Bar Du Fay, Stanley Street
Booking required, places limited to 25
Homotopia presents a Tales From Yester-Queer event as part of City In Transition..
The Pink Walks will take us on a magical and enchanted tour of hidden gay Liverpool .
Join us for a guided tour around the city…
Booking Details:
Gary Everett
Tel: 0151 233 6753