Liverpool City Council is lining up a contractor for the multi-million pound renovation of the city’s former Andrew Carnegie Library. Cabinet members are expected to progress with the appointment of a firm to help transform the vacant Grade II-listed building on Lister Drive into a ‘community hub’. Said to currently be in ... Read More...
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Work to transform Liverpool's Calderstones Mansion into The International Centre for Shared Reading is underway. Literary charity The Reader, which has been based at the Calderstones Park site since September 2014, is behind the project to refurbish the Grade II-listed building. Phase one of the project has already resulted in improvements to The ... Read More...
Bluecoat has received a £210,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to bankroll an ongoing celebration of its heritage. ‘My Bluecoat’ is a programme of special exhibitions, engagement activities and events to tie in with the historic building’s 300th birthday in 2017. At the centre of the project will be a new ... Read More...
Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre is to receive a 1940s makeover as part of a project celebrating its history. Heritage Lottery Funded initiative ‘Celebrating the Epstein’ will see the Hanover Street arts venue take a step back in time to become the original Cranes Theatre which occupied the site decades ago. The Epstein will ... Read More...
Works by Yoko Ono and Turner Prize winners Jeremy Deller and Mark Leckey will feature in a celebratory arts programme to mark Bluecoat’s 300th anniversary next year. Details of a 300-day programme of exhibitions and events have been revealed ahead of the milestone year for the site, which is the oldest ... Read More...
A project to restore Huyton’s historic Bowring Park will receive almost £2 million of National Lottery funding. Knowsley Council, in partnership with The Friends of Bowring Park and site leaseholders Mack Trading Ltd, has successfully been awarded a £1,848,500 grant after putting forward a bid. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big ... Read More...
Liverpool’s Bluecoat will today (3 May) celebrate the 300th anniversary of the laying of the building’s foundation stone. Construction began on the city centre’s oldest building, which is now a Grade I-listed cultural attraction, on the same date in 1716. To mark the occasion guests including the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor ... Read More...
Sefton Park’s Grade II*-listed Palm House has received Heritage Lottery Funding to help support its future. The Sefton Park Palm House Preservation Trust, which has operated the iconic glasshouse since 2001, will use the £69,000 grant in a variety of ways including helping to maintain the venue’s significant plant collection. The trust ... Read More...
The Reader Organisation could benefit from a £2.1 million funding boost to deliver an International Centre for Reading at the historic Calderstones Mansion House. Based in Calderstones Park, the ‘Reader at Calderstones’ project will restore the Grade II-listed mansion house, which it took over from Liverpool City Council in 2013. Having secured ... Read More...
Two exciting new discoveries of Roman treasure will go on public display for the first time at the Museum of Liverpool tomorrow [13 February]. Roman Treasures of Cheshire presents the Cheshire Hoards artefacts recently discovered by local metal detectorists, and will give an insight into people's lifestyles in the region’s early Roman ... Read More...