Liverpool-based property firm EW Developments has started work on the redevelopment of Jamaica House in Toxteth. The building on Upper Parliament Street, which was originally a key part of the Liverpool 8 community but now lies derelict, will be transformed into 25 luxury apartments. Opened by Leonard Airborne in the 1970s, Jamaica ... Read More...
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VideOdyssey’s Movie of the Month - 'The Big Lebowski' Andy Johnson, owner of Toxteth’s VideOdyssey, revisits the Coen Brothers’ cult classic. “That rug really tied the room together, did it not?” WONDERING WHAT TO WATCH on a wet and windy winter evening? We’re going to explore a movie which has inspired its own ... Read More...
The Unity Youth Centre - based in Toxteth - feeds hundreds of local children and families during both school term time and the school holidays. Following the latest announcement that the majority of government voted against providing free school meals during the school holidays that will leave many children to go ... Read More...
The role of a slavery defending Liverpool MP has been acknowledged in the heart of the Toxteth community - almost 40 years after his statue was removed following the infamous riots. The new inscription at the plinth for William Huskisson, who gained notoriety as the world’s first train fatality in 1830 ... Read More...
Work gets under way next week on a £1.3 million scheme to improve a key route in Toxteth as part of Liverpool City Council’s Better Roads programme. The improvements on Kingsley Road – which links Upper Parliament Street and Princes Avenue - will see resurfacing, new drainage, kerbs and pavements, the ... Read More...
Toxteth's VideOdyssey is offering to deliver 'SOS nostalgia packs' to cheer people up in isolation across Merseyside featuring classic movies and retro snacks. The arts venue, which was dubbed 'the UK's last video shop' by BBC Radio 4, has amassed a vast VHS archive of more than 10,000 tapes. Owner Andy Johnson ... Read More...
VideOdyssey’s Movie of the Month - 'Ghostbusters' Andy Johnson, owner of Toxteth’s VideOdyssey – dubbed ‘the UK’s last video shop’, trawls through his extensive VHS archive to pick out your must-watch classic movie this March. BEING ASKED BY YM LIVERPOOL to dig through the crates of classic movies at VideOdyssey, filled me ... Read More...
Work has started on Liverpool’s first shipping container retail scheme on Lodge Lane in Toxteth – and local people will see their poetry and stories adorn its walls. Developer CanCo is promising a "funky, urban development" that takes its lead from similar schemes in Shoreditch and Brixton in London. CanCo says it ... Read More...
The £2.2 million transformation of a Toxteth church into 16 affordable homes is complete, thanks to 10,000 hours of ‘sweat equity’. Residents will be moving into the properties this month after each completing 500 hours of work on the development - their 'sweat equity' contribution included everything from painting to website ... Read More...
The project to transform 400 terraced homes in Toxteth's Welsh Streets has been named the UK's top residential scheme at the prestigious RICS Awards Grand Final. The annual contest – hosted by Samira Ahmed, journalist and BBC broadcaster, and held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Friday 4 October – ... Read More...