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...
My Bluecoat
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 long-running mystery of who built Liverpool Bluecoat may have been solved as a heritage project continues ahead of the building’s 300th anniversary. Research through the ‘My Bluecoat’ initiative has discovered fresh information about the team of architects and builders behind the city centre’s oldest surviving building, which is now a ... 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...